SUMMARY

My experience covers broad range of expertise in industrial process control systems, instrumentation, advanced process controls and project management supporting petrochemical, water and wastewater and other industrial projects in USA, Canada and Middle East.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Controls System Lead

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Control system design for two new Siemens 3,500 HP VFDs, 2,800 V, Perfect Harmony Series, controlling the hydrogen compressors and a new General Electric MultiLin 369 Digital Motor Protection System - Motor Management Relay.
• Design includes P&ID updates, Smart Plant Instrumentation Loops development, requisitions, communication and system block diagram, control and shutdown narrative describing communication and safety/regulatory controls between VFD and local PLC, Confidential TDC-3000 DCS, Compressor Controls Corporation CCC performance and anti-surge controllers, Confidential Nevada 3500 and Multilin 369.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Control system design to support process and electrical group in overall NOx reduction program at Confidential refinery.
• Design includes, MTO, instrument selection, requisitions, P&ID updates, SPI loops development and control/shutdown philosophy document development.

Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages the team of field technicians, designers, electrical, instrumentation and process engineers and engineering leads providing field verification, plant documents as-builds for the replacement of SCADA system with the Confidential C300 DCS.
• Oversee P&IDs and instrument loops development at the Terminal Island Wastewater Treatment Plants.
• Led the drafting and engineering team at Hyperion treatment plant responsible for P&IDs and instrument loops drafting and QA/QC of project documentation.
• Serves as direct liaison to the Client, Confidential International, conducted weekly progress meetings with Client’s Project and Engineering management personnel.
• Responsible for negotiation of the scope, manpower loading, budget, change orders and estimates.
• Budget monitoring, progress tracking and reviewing and approving Client invoices.
• Developed and managed change orders and scope augmentation and increased total project value.
• LAWINS is a significant capital improvement to integrate the entire wastewater control system for all Los Angeles conveyance systems and its four wastewater treatment plants.

Senior Supervising Controls System Engineer

Confidential, Monrovia CA.

Responsibilities:

• DCS and SIS process and utilities document development for FEED phase of gas processing facility, including separation and metering, compression, acid gas removal and propane refrigeration.
• Documents included controls philosophy, DCS control narrative, SIS shutdown narrative, and C&E matrices.
• Participated in P&ID review and HAZOP, review of vendor proposals.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Part of Project Management Consultant (PMC) Team to support and review I&C design documents from Confidential .
• Participated in P&ID review, HAZOP, review of data sheets, DCS Confidential and Confidential design documents, SIS, radio communication, plant simulation, F&G, and Confidential -Nevada systems.

Confidential, North Slope, Alaska

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for contractor document/drawing review, coordination of contractors for various packages.
• These included metering skid, leak detection software, and Confidential .
• Reviewed data from vendors and POs.

Project Manager

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects ranging in value from $50,000 to $2 million for Confidential oil and gas production facility.
• Prepared proposals and scopes of work, including list of deliverables, estimate, and schedules.
• Met weekly with client’s project management team for project updates and development of new work.
• Allocated resources for projects related to electrical, mechanical, process, piping, and instrumentation and controls system.
• Engineering and design packages development and reviews, including data sheets, loop drawings, I/O list, alarm list, logic diagrams, cause and effect matrix, process controls narrative.
• Supervised team of five to 10 junior, senior, and principal designers and engineers part of instrumentation and controls group.
• Major projects included: Low temperature separation (LTS) 1 and 2 gas plants emergency shutdown system upgrade, including SIS and SI L analysis; Lean oil absorption gas plant (LOAP) instrumentation and controls upgrade; High-pressure flare upgrade project; Compressor stations electrical/instrumentation engineering and design; High pressure injection plant fire and gas (F&G) system upgrade.

Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

Confidential, Aliso Viejo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for engineering packages review for Influent/Effluent water treatment system including low chloride, high chloride system, evaporator and powder slurry filtration.
• Data sheets, controls narratives, cause and effect matrix development and review.
• Responsible for control network design utilizing Modbus and Ethernet TCP/IP communication between Yokogawa DCS and AB ControlLogix PLC as well as Profibus for Siemens MCCs and Fieldbus for field instruments.
• RFQ packages preparation.
• HAZOP and FAT participation and responsible for control system performance and optimization.

Controls Systems Engineer

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Responsibilities:

• Instrumentation and Controls (I&C) design for industrial and municipal projects of various sizes, including water and wastewater treatment facilities, desalination facilities, and dust mitigation.
• Develop plant wide control system philosophies, designed SCADA systems; select I&C instruments, specification review, and written loop descriptions of plant operations.
• Also, provide services during construction that include FAT, ORT and SAT, submittal review, site visits, operations and maintenance (O&M) manuals, subcontractor coordination, and training.
• Responsible for ConDor controllers PID loop tuning, complete SCADA system review, start-up and turnover of project to operations and maintenance.
• Perris Water Filtration Plant, Phase II and Perris Basin Desalination Facility, Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD)
• Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Phases IV and V, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)

Project Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and provide an on-site support of software for alarm management in electricity business.
• Create the rule files for parsing raw messages from Confidential and Confidential, present alarm messages in appropriate form for real-time viewing and archiving data in Oracle database, and provide users and administrator training.
• Provide on-site PLC support in control room and in the field for operation personal.
• This plant utilizes Foxboro DCS in conjunction with AB RSLogix 5000 for process control.
• Modeling and simulation of dynamic systems for new wood product plants using IDEAS and G2 Gensym software (solenoid valves, gates, metal detectors, full voltage no-reversing/reversing motors, medium voltage motors, pumps, fan, analog I/O, etc.).
• Review of electrical drawings and specifications for power distribution, LCP's, MCCs, etc.
• PID control loops simulation and tuning in PLC.
• Site support, RSLogix 5000 PLC and InTouch HMI programs testing in conjunction with simulator.
• MCC's, PowerFlex drives and E3 relays commissioning.
• Flow and temperature PID control. Evaluation of P&ID's and PFD's.
• Data analysis and testing using the Process Monitor, InSQL ODBC connectivity with Process Monitor, raw data manipulation using Rockwell Active Factory, SQL scripting, process and quality variables correlation analysis using statistical modeling.
• PID loops performance assessment (minimum variance), auto correlation, residual test, and impulse and frequency response.

Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Operation/calibration/troubleshooting of medical devices (Datex, Bis, computer-controlled syringe pumps, pressure/heart rate analyzers, digital/mechanical neuro-stimulator) and accompanying electrical (sensors, monitoring devices) and mechanical (force/torque sensors, actuators) equipment and accessories.