PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Canonsburg, PA

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and worked two projects at coal handling facilities: Confidential &E Trimble County, KY and Confidential Nebraska City, NE
• Worked on and corrected CHEC drawing set, about 700 pages for the Chinese
• PLC - AB, Control and Compact Logix

Confidential, Longmont, CO

Sr. Control Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Loaded two new computers with Wonderware and Historian
• Assisted testing new machine after getting network to work on it
• PLC - AB, CompactLogix,

Confidential, Irwin, PA

Control Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Corrected design of CE Vector and observed programming and testing of it
• Designed new style of Vector
• PLC - AB Micrologix, CompactLogix, SIEMENS S7

Confidential, Hazleton, PA

Controls Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Watched machine on 3rd shift
• Trained on machine on 2nd shift

Confidential, McKeesprt, PA

PLC Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, programmed PLC and wrote HMI for a lime system in Curtis Bay, MD
• Helped in changing drawings for other projects
• PLC - AutomationDirect DirectLogix 405,
• HMI - AutomationDirect C-More

Confidential, Meadville, PA

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, programmed PLC and wrote HMI for a 3-robot system
• Wrote HMI for a multistage battery assembly system utilizing 6 PLCs and 4 HMIs
• PLC - AB CompactLogix,
• HMI - AB FactoryTalkView

Confidential, Butler, PA

Automation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Assumed project management of a new automation system for longwall coal mining, mainly to be sold in China, including reworking drawings and MA (China’s MSHA) application
• Worked coal mining show in Beijing, including demonstration operation of the largest longwall shield in the world
• Added new test points to interface of cable tester
• Set up and programmed automatic engraving system
• Performed initial G-code programming on Haas lathe

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Electrical Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Programmed PLC, HMI and Excel and commissioned Bio-Oxidizer Vapor Control system for Kinder Morgan Liquid Terminals (KMLT) Carteret, NJ
• Revised electrical drawings, worked with civil engineering and wrote scopes of work to install 28.8KV Substation and connect the site 4160V system to it in KMLT Carteret
• Revised drawings, wrote scope of work and provided onsite assistance to install new switchgear in KMLT Philadelphia, PA
• Programmed PLC system to interface with Toptech controller and commissioned new ethanol loading bays in KMLT Philadelphia
• Changed PLC and HMI programs and commissioned new barge loading system at Sea-3 Liquid Propane facility in Tampa, FL
• Provided electrical engineering review and assistance to Marsulex Environmental Technologies, including 3 months onsite in Utah
• PLC - AB PLC-5, CompactLogix, ControlLogix, FlexLogix
• HMI - Invensys Wonderware, AB FactoryTalk View; GE iFix

Confidential, Canonsburg, PA

Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assumed project management of First Energy Bay Shore demineralizer retrofit, establishing automatic control for several pumps, changing PLC and HMI programs to meet customer expectations; worked on various RO problems associated with demineralizer
• Reviewed/corrected extensive datatable addition to RSLogix for DCS communication from water plant at PSEG Bethlehem Energy Center; installed and provided operator
• Upgraded RSView screens and installed a new computer with at Alabama Electric
• PLC - AB SLC-500, ControlLogix, FlexLogix
• HMI - AB VersaView, PanelView; Citect Scada

Confidential, Springdale, AR

Controls Designer

Responsibilities:

• Provided drawings, specified instrumentation, wrote electrical scopes, conducted electrical bid walkthroughs for automation and update of controls in several process lines.
• Using AutoCAD Electrical 2004, providing drawings for existing and new equipment for MES project, to include panel layout, wiring schematics and bill of materials
• Produced correct AutoCAD Electrical blocks for Premium and Advantys IO modules
• PLC - AB SLC-500, ControlLogix, CompactLogix; Modicon Premium; Telemecanique Advantys Distributed IO;
• HMI - AB VersaView, PanelView

Confidential, Daleville, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assumed controls and instrumentation management of Bland Correctional Center Water Plant Expansion, installing and programming of 3 networked CompactLogix PLCs, starting and integrating Yokogawa Dual Loop controllers; Endress+Hauser (E+H) flow, pressure, level and pH transmitters; Hach turbidity and chlorine transmitters; and EIM valve actuators
• Assumed control and instrumentation management of Dahlgren Waste Water Treatment Plant Expansion, designing a fiberoptic network of 5 CompactLogix PLCs
• Certified as E+H Factory-Trained Authorized Service Provider, traveling to several customer sites for start-up, maintenance, installation, and calibrations
• Maintained, often by debugging and cleaning viruses off, office computer network
• PLC - AB CompactLogix, SLC-500, MicroLogix
• HMI - AB RSView32; MacroView

Confidential, Warrenton, VA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, built and tested LabView control system for a Triple Strand Burner built for South Korea on a 6-month contract, ending July 2003
• Quoted several strand burner control systems, including LabView control, Siemens PLC controls, and National Instruments data acquisition
• Attended various seminars given by Rockwell Automation and National Instruments
• Helped maintain office computer network
• Assumed management and completed Closed Bomb Project for South Korea
• Modified Visual Basic code for Closed Bomb Project
• Wrote and installed LabView program monitoring annealing oven parameters
• Designed, built and installed LabView control systems for Strand Burners
• Quality Control Manager for ASME projects, including CAD review
• Maintained office computer network
• PLC - Siemens SIMATIC S7-200
• HMI - LabView

Confidential, Radford, VA

Industrial Automation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked several projects which involved programming PLC's and HMI’s
• Provided technical assistance for estimating controls and instrumentation projects
• PLC - Siemens SIMATIC S7-200, S7-300; AB PLC-5, SLC-500, ControlLogix
• HMI - WonderWare, PanelView, PanelMate, Total Control

Confidential, Roanoke, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented industrial automation and control systems
• Provided controls technical supervision in construction and start-up of a wood pelletizing plant from July 1997 through September 1997
• Trained in WonderWare HMI and Steeplechase PC-control software
• PLC - AB PLC-5, SLC-500, MicroLogiX, ControlLogix; GE FANUC Series 90 Micro; Siemens SIMATIC S7-200, S7-300
• HMI - WonderWare, Intellution, TotalControl, PanelView, SteepleChase

Confidential, Salem, VA

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Programmed AB PLC-5's, PLC-2's and a PLC-3 with AB and Rockwell Software
• Wintelligence software including WinLogic, WinView and WinTrend
• Maintained LabTech energy monitoring program and produced custom graphics programs to sort, display and generate color hardcopies of the gathered data
• Converted PLC-3 and PC programs/production line specifications to metric
• Installed programs and PLC-to-scale communications for product specification download, weight reporting and product acceptance/rejection using Toledo scales
• Modified code of 80 PLC-5's and PLC-2's networked with an AB Pyramid Integrator
• PLC - AB PLC-5, PLC-3, PLC-2, SLC-500
• PLC SW - AB, WinLogix
• HMI - WinView, PanelView, LabTech

Confidential, Dublin, VA

Instructor of Instrumentation

Responsibilities:

• Taught DC Electrical Theory and Shop Practices
• Provided technical assistance in Instrumentation class and laboratory
• Established computer communication for the control of instrumentation trainers

Confidential, Fort George Meade, MD

Cryptologic Mathematician

Responsibilities:

• Computer programming experience in C, C++, FORTRAN, BASIC, Lisp and Assembly
• Consulted in the purchase of a 2 Gigahertz data acquisition system
• Computer consultant in the purchase of a Sun workstation system to perform a task previously requiring three different computer systems
• Produced the file transfer protocol for a Confidential - Confidential (HP) 1000 Series networked with several Sun workstations, a Cray and a CDC Cyber 760
• Loaded the IEEE Digital Signals Processing Library on a CDC Cyber 7600, Cray, and a network of Sun workstations
• Wrote a FORTRAN library to facilitate using a Metheus graphics controller
• Various data transfer and conversion, including:

Confidential, Lynchburg, VA

Service Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, repaired and taught the operation of industrial balancing equipment