OBJECTIVE:

Looking for a Project Manager, Project Engineer, DCS Engineer, I&C Manager, Maintenance Manager or Instrumentation & Control Engineer position.

SUMMARY:

• Over (10) years of experience in design, FAT, SAT, Installation, Startup and Support of power plants associated with Oil & Gas facilities primarily using gas and steam turbines
• Over (10) years of SCADA Technology (coordinate SCADA project activities which include conceptual planning, design, development, installation, testing, and commissioning of SCADA related hardware and software systems; parties involved include vendors as well as internal customers, define requirements between operations applications and other real - time, on-line, and batch application processes throughout the company
• Over (20) years of experience a an Instrument Engineer
• Over (15) years specifying, installing, startup and support of analyzers and gas chromatographs
• Over (8) years specifying, installing, startup and supporting Citect products
• Over (2) years experience with Fisher Provox/CHIP computer interface.
• Over (5) years experience with Emerson DeltaV(specifying, detailed engineering, purchasing, FAT & SAT.
• Over (20) years of Commissioning hardware and software systems (participate and assist in the execution of equipment start-up, pre-functional testing, functional testing, and commissioning completion phases of a project, participate in the drafting of commissioning plans, pre-functional test checklists, functional test procedures, final commissioning reports and systems manuals, assist the Project Manager in creating project schedules, specification & system descriptions, problem solving, and conducting commissioning meetings assist the Project Manager in coordination with the Owner, Architect, Other Consultants, Owner's Representative, Construction Manager, General Contractor, and other subcontractors.
• Over (20) years of applications on Confidential TDC3000 including CL, LCN database creation, graphics building, logic configuration, equipment lists, equipment arbitration, virtual/alias names, PHD & Safety Manager. Over (5) years of experience Confidential PKS
• Over (20) years of experience in applying PLCs with a strong background in Allen-Bradley & Triconex
• Over (30) years of experience in process control specializing in batch applications
• Working knowledge of Six Sigma having worked under the direction of a Master Black Belt
• Extensive experience in system validation with emphasis on batch processes under S88, ISA standards in regulated FDA and CGMP compliance environments
• Over (10) years of Project Management for complete project lifecycle including budget justification, conceptual and detailed design, instrumentation specification/selection, programming of PLC/DCS/MMI, integrated system testing, startup/commissioning & final system acceptance
• Over (12) years of experience of applying Plant Data Historians with emphasis on AspenTech IP21/WEB21, Confidential PHD & OSISoft PI (SDK, Server, Datalink, It Monitor, DB Management, Data Interface, Client Displays, VB, VB.Net, Sigmafine)
• Over (5) years of working with Matrikon in developing OPC interfaces and have issued over $500,000 in purchase orders for developing custom software using their development tools.
• Working knowledge of Smart Signal Modeling for predictive failure in equipment. Package is very similar to those being supplied.
• Extensive experience in using Microsoft products including the Windows operating systems, Excel, Access, Project, Visio and SQL
• Experienced in programming in Visual Basic, VB.Net, Visual C & C++ and Pascal
• Strong background in TCPIP, OLE, OPC, ODBC & DDE technologies
• Thorough understanding of Oracle & other relational databases
• Extensive project engineering experience
• Construction management
• Working knowledge of ladder logic/function block
• Working knowledge of Boolean & analog control
• HMI & graphic development
• INTOOLS instrument data management

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, Texas

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Communication/Data Handling primarily OPC (HDA).
• OSISoft PI Historians with approximately 75000 tags.
• Support of all Stakeholders.
• Production reports.
• HMI (RTWebParts).
• SQL and Oracle DBs
• ACE VisualBasic applications.
• For the wells, tag data retrieved primarily from SCADA systems.
• Another application is a Marathon proprietary advanced control application for drilling the wells to minimize the time it takes to complete. The first phase will be on (40) rigs.
• Support the SCADA/DCS systems.
• For offshore, the SCADA is broken into (2) parts, above water and below water.

Confidential

Instrumentation/Controls Commissioning Engineer

Responsibilities:

• My responsibility was for all OSBL work.
• It included Triconex for SIS, Omni for metering, Bentley Nevada for vibration, Siemens for boiler control and compressor control and several other PLC suppliers.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• My contract involves supporting Rockell in their environmental compliance CEMS systems.
• I developed CEMS applications using PI to gather all environmental compliance information.
• The reason that they needed my expertise is because the system was not collecting the correct data in an appropriate time frame.

Confidential, Deer Park, Texas

PI System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• My primary responsibility was to correct the lost production data in PI when the inventory was "closed" at midnight.
• I rebuilt and redeveloped the PI application in order to ensure that the inventory would close out at midnight correctly.
• The network was not reliable and I was hired to resolve this particular issue.

Confidential, Pasadena, Texas

Controls Engineer

Responsibilities:

• My contract was necessitated by temporarily replacing a controls engineer.
• While there I gave support to the facility 24/7 as Controls Engineer For project work I had responsibility for commissioning (3) of their control rooms for an upgrade to Confidential . Work included (22) operators.

Confidential, Pasadena, Texas

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• My task involved replacing six ABB gas chromatographs with four Confidential for their Catalloy facility.
• The controls reside on a Confidential TDC 3000 DCS.
• The control logic required modifying the existing CL procedures to support the new analyzers.
• I was responsible for doing all of the design work and integration of ….OSISoft PI involvement included adding/modifying the existing historian for all of the new data points and their integration into the Advanced Control package.

Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky

Controls Engineer

Responsibilities:

• My role was to replace some failed instrumentation and remove from the controls the fuel oil portion.
• It was a “duel fired” boiler and fuel oil was not being used.
• Responsible for the control philosophy for a project the required some pipelines to reverse their flow.
• This was necessitated due to a very high BTU (ethane) content of a new gas field.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Senior PI Technical Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and wrote technical specifications the OSI PI system schedule and budget
• Installation of large screen monitors for the Gas Traders to monitor performance of the power plants.
• Developed reports on the over/under gas usage on an hourly/daily/monthly gas usage.
• Installed gas metering/totalizers on the gas feeds of the power plants to reconcile gas usage from the suppliers.
• Installed gas chromatographs on the gas feeds to the power plants to reconcile BTU content from the gas suppliers.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all OSI PI design, development and support in addition to start up and acceptance testing.
• This was done for all projects. All projects included a historian, mostly OsiSoft PI interface.
• These projects were on gas turbines such as GE Mark 4, 5, and 6, compressors, and plant-wide.
• Performed a “study” comparing Foundation Fieldbus vs Profibus
• Developed “ITB” specifications for Cabinets, Foundation Fieldbus, Asset Manager, Process Automation System and Basic Process Control System, FAT/SAT testing requirements
• Reviewing Supplier Detailed Design issues for correctness to design criteria.
• Supported all field instrumentation being purchased from the suppliers.
• Reviewing Supplier Detailed Design issues using Intools for missing Instrument Data Sheets. When found, new data sheets are created using Intools.
• Site project/instrument/control engineer.

Confidential, Ferndale, Washington

Control System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work involved supporting the TDC installation moving to Confidential .
• It involved system support for the Aspen Tech historian.
• It also required support for the cogen facility with the plant supplying gas and receiving electricity with a SCADA system “tying” them together.
• VRU controls upgrade.
• Increase effluent system capacity.
• J5/J6 screw pump replacement and load center upgrade for the screw pumps and separator.
• Docks Instrument and Electrical upgrade
• Dock 54A&E rebuild.