OBJECTIVE:

Electrical & Instrument engineering position with a focus on Maintenance, Reliability improvement and Capital project commissioning and Start-up of Medium and High Voltage Equipment

QUALIFICATION:

• Knowledgeable of LV, MV & HV (up to 138KV) electrical equipment such as Power transformer, OCB, GCB switchgear, DC motor, large synchronous motor.

• Hand-on and working knowledge of 138kv equipment -Power transformer, OCB (Oil Circuit Breaker), GCB (SF6 Gas Circuit Breaker) Air disconnect, Line equipment

• Hand-on and working knowledge of Low & Medium Voltage equipment (480v, 2400v, 4160v, 15kv, 34 kv) _ Power transformer, ACB, VCB & GCB (SF6 Gas Circuit Breaker) Air disconnect, switchgear, Motor Control Center, induction, dc & synchronous motor, DC & Adjustable Frequency Drive.

• Knowledgeable of pressure, temperature, level & flow instrumentation, Fisher Provox DCS, Triplex and Triconex Safety Instrument System (SIS)

• Familiar with process equipment in petrochemical plant such as heat exchanger, boiler, pump and compressor.

• Industrial maintenance & maintenance management experience

• Experience with development, implementation & improvement of maintenance work process.

• NCCER, Instrument & Electrical Instructor certification (National Center for Construction Education Research)

• Six Sigma Greenbelt

• SAP user.

• Instructor on Electrical subject with electrical engineers as audience

• Microsoft Office Software: Visio, Excel, Word, Power Point

• Working knowledge of NEC, IEEE std 141, OSHA 1910, NFPA 70E & 70B

• Self prioritize work base on on-going condition to handle multi tasks with competing priority.

EXPERIENCE:

Lyondellbasell Industries – La Porte, TX (1995-Present)

Consulting Engineer (2005-Present)

Responsible for the operation and maintenance and reliability of the 138KV substations.

Lead effort to implement maintenance program for Environmental & Safety Critical Equipment

Implementation of the Electrical Long Range Plan; Development, justification, funding and execution of reliability improvement, Maintenance replacement capital, Maintenance Cost Index improvement project.

Provide leadership and guidance to the electrical engineer, specialist, supervisor, I&E craft and process personnel.

Develop and maintain PM and PdM program to insure the reliability of electrical distribution system up to 138KV.

Owner/ approver of the electrical and Instrument maintenance procedures.

Develop, plan, schedule and execute electrical outage and maintenance work for plant turn around.

Insure adherence to IEEE, NEMA, NFPA70B and compliance with NEC, NFPA 70E.

Support the implementation and improvement of MOWP (Maintenance, Operation Work Process)

Collaborate with peers from other department and mentor new engineers on industry standard, best practice.

Lead multifunction team to develop, engineer, plan and execute capital or expense projects.

Participate in Lyondellbasell Industries, annual World Wide Reliability Forum and technical training as instructor, presenter or SME (Subject Matter Expert) on electrical topics.

Participate in outside organization (IEEE, NPRA) conference and technical presentations

Assist maintenance to troubleshoot major electrical equipment such as Synchronous motor control, VFD, DC Drive, UPS.

Support SIS implementation project as plant representation

Technical lead on Electrical capital improvement project

Owner of Power system short circuit, coordination and arc flash study

Champion the Electrical safety procedure and training annually to I&E personnel.

Superintendent Process Control, I&E (2003-2005)

Develop maintain and execution the Long Range Plan for extra ordinary expense and capital projects

Implement maintenance system to meets HSE standards and complies with environmental regulation

Implement the site health and safety plan in area of accountability

Oversee the department variables and controllable budget.

Responsible for ensuring expense, extraordinary expense and capital budgets are prepared, implemented and variances are addressed as needed

Plan and execute scheduled shutdowns in an efficient, cost effective manner

Communicating results (costs, availability, productivity, and other Key Performance Indicators)

Insure that on site contractor’s performance on Safety and Quality is of high quality.

Implement and continuous improve MOWP (Maintenance, Operation Work Process)

Principal Instrument/Electrical Reliability Engineer (1995 – 2003)

Technical lead on work at Main 138KV substation

Technical lead on the negotiation of electrical power contract (65MW capacity) for La Porte Complex in 2002 upon de-regulation.

Technical lead for Millennium/Acetyls to review the price adjustment formula of the Oxygen contract (2002) to reflect power deregulation and the double escalation aspect of the formula. Formulate a pricing structure based on Heat rate, natural gas price and delivered a favorable saving for the company

Revise and contest invoice from Air Product for Oxygen and Nitrogen supply based on 2000 contract, resulting in a $500,000 saving for a 6 month period in 2002

Low Density Reliability Team Captain – Improve unit reliability with a saving of $500M/year by reducing loss reaction and decompression events in tubular and autoclave reactors.

Develop Preventive and Predictive Maintenance procedures to standardize maintenance practices.

Develop Electrical work scope for unit Turn Around.

Participate in incident investigation team as member or lead on electrical related incident

Saline Water Conversion -Saudi Arabia

Electrical Maintenance Department Supervisor (Jun 1988 – Sep 1995)

Manage the Electrical Maintenance Department of 40 technicians and 5 foremen from a variety of background.

Insure the safety of personnel, on-time and on budget for the maintenance of 300MW electrical generation, boilers and desalination units.

Insure spare parts and personnel are available for year round operation.

Initiate short & long term improvement projects

Accomplishment: no electrical outage cause by maintenance work,

Pan Am World Services / NASA - Clear Lake, TX

Operation Engineer (Aug 87 – Jun 88)

(TS Clearance)

Operate and maintained the electrical infrastructure from generation to end user

Manage department asset, work with maintenance and operation staff to coordinate maintenance activities to insure operability and 100% availability.

Coordinate operation and new project activities to minimize impact and improve reliability and availability.

Insure that end users understand and be prepared for activities related to the electrical distribution system.

Implement mitigation action in preparation for maintenance and project installation activities as planned and agreed by end users.

Provide technical support and design for new modifications and maintenance of the electrical distribution system.

Provide training to maintenance personnel

Insure compliance with safety practice, OSHA 1910 and NFPA 70E

Implement improvement project to update electrical and control equipment

Westinghouse Electric Corp - Houston TX

Field Service Engineer

(Jun 1980 – Jul 1987)

• Hand-on troubleshooting and maintenance of electrical distribution equipment manufactured by Westinghouse Electric and its competitor.

• Hand-on and working knowledge of 138kv equipment -Power transformer, OCB (Oil Circuit Breaker), GCB (SF6 Gas Circuit Breaker) Air disconnect, Line equipment

• Hand-on and working knowledge of Low & Medium Voltage equipment (480v, 2400v, 4160v, 15kv, 34 kv) _ Power transformer, ACB, VCB & GCB (SF6 Gas Circuit Breaker) Air disconnect, switchgear, motor control Center, induction, dc & synchronous motor, DC Drive, VFD

• Project startup and commissioning of steel, paper mills and cement plant

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT:

• Lead and successfully implement the effort to insure maintenance program is set up and executed for 1600 pieces Safety Critical Equipment, in one year.

• As Reliability Team captain, improve unit reliability with a saving of $500M/year by reducing loss reaction and decompression events in tubular and autoclave reactors for the Low Density Polymer unit.

• Successfully execute major electrical maintenance during major Turn Around of the Olefin, polymer and Acetyls units. These include equipment from 480v distribution system to 138KV substation.

• Accomplish the development of Electrical and Instrumentation maintenance procedure for all electrical and instrumentation equipment.

• Lead effort to maintain zero injury due to electrical issue through maintenance, continuous training and reinforcement of Electrical Safety through prevention and safeguards

EDUCATION:

• University of Oklahoma - Norman Oklahoma - May 1980 – BSEE

• Fundamental Engineering – FE / ET -24720 – April 1997

• SAP maintenance module user

• Six Sigma - Green Belt

• SKM - Electrical Engineering software

• Train the Trainer for Engineers.

• PHA (Process Hazard Assessment) _ Leadership training

• Apollo Root Cause Analysis _ Facilitator training

• Microsoft Office Software: Visio, Excel, Word, Power Point

• Working knowledge of NEC, IEEE, OSHA 1910, NFPA 70E & 70B, 72, 101

REFERENCES:

• Author & Presenter of technical paper @ NPRA 2008 Reliability Conference May 2008_Transformers, Insulating Oil Testing & Analysis_ RMC-08-22

• Author & Presenter at Lyondell Worldwide Reliability Forum on subjects: Transformer Maintenance & Testing, MV Cable partial discharge testing MV motor testing

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