Name:

Andrew W. Blankenship

Contact Info:

**** *** ** **** ****** City, TN 37772

865-***-**** cell

acr0nw@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

A Process & Automation Consultant with over 10 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Energy and Biotechnology industries.

Qualifications:

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), Knoxville, TN

B.A., Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), Knoxville, TN

Primary Skills:

Develop business by interfacing with customers, from end-user to sales, and :

ounderstand and document their business needs from process metrics to operator interface

odrafting specification, design and test documents for a solution to fulfill their needs

odevelop marketing capital that targets customer’s pain points and highlights benefits of chosen solution/product line/service

odevelop and present quotes that meet a customer’s needs, budget, and schedule

oact as a trusted advisor by lead them towards a long term, automation vision for their site and enterprise

Designing and implementing automation solutions for both continuous and batch processes for new, “greenfield” plants and “brownfield” migrations (e.g. PROVOX, Bailey Infi90, and Apacs) using the following modern, DCS vendors:

oRockwell Automation’s PlantPAx

oSiemens PCS7

oEmerson’s DeltaV

Additional Skills:

Experience designing and implementing Operator Training Stations (OTS) from low to high fidelity chemical process models using DuPont’s TMODS, Mynah’s MIMIC and Siemens’s SIMIT simulation software

Plant Information Management Systems (PIMS): OSI Pi - Pi Interface, SMT, Pi Server, Pi Batch, Process Book, Pi AF

Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) Experience: AB PowerFlex, Siemens MicroMASTER

Networking Experience: TCP/IP,OPC, DeviceNet, Profibus-DP, MPI, Modbus TCP and Serial

HMI Software: Siemens WinCC, WonderWare, Kepware

Database Software: Microsoft (MS) SQL, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Programming Languages: SQL, Visual Basic, C, C#, Java, Python, Siemens SCL, STL, Ladder Logic, Sequential Function Charts (SFCs)

Certification: Siemens PCS7 Automation Engineer, MS Certified Systems & Database Engineer

Work Experience:

May 14 – Oct 15

EMPLOYER: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION

Title: Sr. Solution Consultant

Develop business in the chemical, mining and energy verticals by constructing and implementing pursuit strategies for new and existing accounts; differentiate offerings from competition; providing technical sales support; and developing proposals for automation solutions based upon Rockwell Automation’s product lines and services.

Develop global, corporate standards for

oProposal estimating and costing models for product and services

oFront End Engineering and Design (FEED) ; requirement, specification, and design documents

Develop and deliver training material to co-workers on industry standards from ISA, estimating labour effort for batch and continuous automation projects, and collaboration techniques for a co-workers spread across the globe.

Jan 14 – Mar 14

EMPLOYER: XPERITEC, INC.

Title: Contractor - Sr. Automation Engineer

WESTLAKE CHEMICAL, KENTUCKY

Automation lead for migrating PROVOX to DeltaV.

Main process was electrolysis to produce Chlorine and Hydrogen gas for PVC pipe production downstream

Assist with Aspen data historian

Jan 13 – Oct 13

EMPLOYER: ZENITH TECHNOLOGIES

Title: Contractor – Automation Consultant/Software Engineer

Project: Janssen, Leiden, The Netherlands

Project manager responsible for upgrading and validating analytical equipment used in production or pharmaceuticals: pH and conductivity meters, filter and pressure integrity meters, weight scales, toxicity meters, and assay equipment.

By upgrading analytical equipment, paper printouts will be replaced with electronic batch records. In order to support this transition, I was also responsible for creating the electronic tags to hold this information.

Provide operational support of analytical equipment and related unit operations during upgrades

Project: B Braun, Irvine California

Platform: Siemens PCS7, Allen Bradley, MES

Develop batch recipe for the production of saline IV bags for the medical industry

Verify MES commands for product specification were being received properly by DCS

Verify batch relevant data from process was successfully uploading from DCS in MES.

Project: Janssen, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

Platform: Siemens PCS7, Allen Bradley, Wonder Ware, SAP

New construction for pill pressing facility

Provided consultation to team for all aspects of automation including but not limited to:

Interface with Janssen team, DCS, instrumentation and skid vendors to gather needed information for a fully integrated automation solution

Review customer requirements defined in Functional Requirement (FR) documents and ensure each one is properly captured and addressed throughout the project life cycle. This included

Functional Specifications (FS), Software Acceptance Tests (SAT), Installation Qualifications (IQ) and Operational Qualifications (OQ) documentation.

Utilized Near-Infrared (NIR) analysers to assay powdered ingredients. The composition and quality was then fed into Process Analytical Technology (PAT) to in real time production to provide Advanced Process Control (APC).

Manage and oversaw team of 8+ electrical contractors during construction

Jan 10 - Nov 12

EMPLOYER: DUPONT INDUSTRIAL BIOSCIENCES, VONORE, TN

Title: Automation & Process Control Engineer

Platform: Primarily Siemens PCS 7, Some Step 7, ABB skid, Allen Bradley skid, OSI Pi for archiving of continuous and batch data from process

Greenfield start-up of demonstration facility to produce ethanol (250,000 GPY) from cellulose material (corn stover and switchgrass) to provide greater independence from fossil fuels under extreme time constraints and budget limitations.

Led integration effort between Siemens PCS7 system and OSI PI data historian for both continuous and batch process data.

Gather and report process data, batch and continuous, for evaluation against Critical Process Parameters (CPP) utilizing reporting tools in OSISoft Pi so management can actively track efficiency of process.

Convey learned lessons from ethanol, demonstration plant to committee for future production plant (27 MMGPY) in Iowa

Develop, program, commission, and support automation logic for:

Batch, process units for front end loading of raw materials, filter presses, anaerobic digester, molecular sieve and biochemical reactions (e.g., scarification and fermentation) using S88 standards.

Continuous, process units distillation columns, evaporators, scrubbers, heat exchangers, vacuum system, boiler

Commission and support Safety Interlock System (SIS) and integrate its feedback into the DCS

Maintain process data integrity from shop floor to MES

Integrate laboratory analytical instrumentation, e.g., Gas Chromatograph (GC), Mass Spectrometer (Mass Spec), Near Infrared (NIR) and Infrared (IR) lasers, with process instrumentation and control

Commission and support instrumentation and drives, both variable speed (VFD) and single (SPD)

Aid in development of a dynamic, process simulation of plant for code evaluation and operator training utilizing fundamental mass and energy balances.

Integrate various skid mounted packages with DCS system using Modbus Serial and TCP

Develop, install and commission data networks for plant and system bus for DCS

Specify, install and troubleshoot

instrumentation – pressure, level, temperature, flow

fiber connections

low-voltage electrical issues

Provide DCS training to operators and fellow engineers

2005 – 2010

EMPLOYER: INNOVATIVE CONTROLS INC., KNOXVILLE, TN

Title: System Integration Engineer

Project: Johnson & Johnson – Athens, GA

Platform: Siemens PCS7, OSI Pi, APACS, WonderWare

Capture and document customer's automation needs in Functional Requirements

Develop the “How to” solutions for customer's requirements and formally document in Functional Specification

Create Software Acceptance Test and Factory Acceptance Test documentation for validation

Develop automation solution using Functional Specification

Validate newly, developed automation project or modification to existing one

Integration

scrubber with DCS using DeviceNet to Profibus DP gateway

Allen Bradley Variable Speed Drive with Profibus DP gateway

Clean-In-Place (CIP) – migrate CIP system from Allen Bradley to PCS7

OSI Pi historian and Siemens PCS7 integration for continuous data using OPC

Automation

Tank Farm – develop solution to route various chemicals to different destinations throughout the plant

Automate centrifuge and dryer in batch process

Support APACs and WonderWare system controlling water treatment plant

Project: Merck. Yukon, Virginia

Platform: Provox, Delta V

Read and translate antiquated PROVOX logic for batch operations into Delta V. Test and qualify migrated logic in Delta V system with operations.

Project: Bayer Crop Science, Georgia

Migrate antiquated PLC packaging system to Siemens Step 7 platform and integrate with Siemens PCS 7

Plan, oversee and validate the migration of several thousand IO from antiquated electrical cabinets to new ones.

Project: Volta River Authority (VRA) in Ghana, Africa

Platform: Siemens PCS7 primary, Siemens Step 5, Allen Bradley skids

Develop, install and commission automated fuel, feed system (oil, gas or crude) for greenfield power plant consisting of a180MWatt GE turbine generator. Power generated was utilized locally for gold mining operations.

Project: General Chemical, Augusta, Georgia

Platform: Siemens PCS 7 primary, APACS and Genesis (HMI)

Migrate APACS system to PCS7 in multistep process

Recreate graphics in WinCC, migrate tags with Siemens DBA utility

Migrate HMI clients to Siemens OS clients

Project: PCS Nitrogen, Augusta, Georgia

Platform: Siemens PCS 7 primary, APACS and WonderWare

Convert hardwired, Safety Interlock Systems (SIS) to modern electronic SIS using Siemens Safety Matrix

Project: University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Platform: Bailey Infi 90, Delta V

Support replacement of boiler system ( three coal fired and one gas) controlled with Bailey Infi 90 system to Delta V with minimal impact to production.

Project: Slovay, Augusta, Georgia

Platform: Delta V, Mimic

Developed process simulation for Software Acceptance Testing (SAT) before installation of a Greenfield, extrusion process.

Developed training materials for customer to utilize simulator for operator training to minimize learning curve of new process for operators.

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