Engineer Electrical

Resume of Steven O. Knowles

**** ********* ****-*.*. Box 1257

Silver Creek, GA 30173-1257

Phone: 706-***-**** (home) 706-***-**** (cell)

Email: ***********@***.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2000 to 2011: Georgia Power

Plant Bowen

Cartersville, GA

(Controls Specialist within I&C Dept.)

Responsibilities include: Serving as Control Specialist with duties ranging

from system(s) tuning/characterization, troubleshooting, design, migration

and startup of several systems into Foxboro DCS and Operation's primary

contact for control issues. Also, serving as Turbine and Boiler controls

SME (Subject Matter Expert) for departmental training.

Assigned and completed projects are listed below but not limited to:

. All auxiliary turbines' controls migration from Bailey/ETSI into

Foxboro DCS.

. Retrofit of high pressure EH fluid control for final drives of Unit #4

BFPTs.

. Unit #2 Hydrogen Seal Oil controls migration into Foxboro DCS.

. Smaller scale projects including various plant effluent controls

migrations into DCS.

Sept. 1995 to 1999: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.

Rome, GA

E&I Technician and Process Controls Specialist

Responsibilities included:

-Maintenance, troubleshooting, and retrofit design of primarily

Utility Dept. systems.

-Retrofit installations of Woodward 505 steam turbine control

systems.

-Training and supervising operations and maintenance staffs.

May 1988 - Sept. 1995 Delmarva Power

Wilmington, DE (Corporate Office)

June 1994 - Sept. 1995 Project Engineer - Mechanical Engineering Dept.

Responsibilities included:

-Served as Startup Engineer for Hay Road Combined Cycle Power Complex

-Planning/designing, budgeting, and supervising assigned capital

projects.

-Prepared or revised operating procedures for new control systems.

May 1988 to June 1994 Plant Electrical Engineer - Indian River Power

Station

Responsibilities included:

-Planning/designing, budgeting, and supervising assigned maintenance

and capital projects.

-Training and supervising operations and maintenance staffs.

Selected completed projects included:

-Installation and startup of Bailey Network "90" and Infi-Net DCS and

of Bailey OIS (Operator Interface Systems) These systems migrations

included, but not limited to, turbine, BMS, boiler, and associated

BOP.

-Installation and startup of pH Control System to control pH of

boiler waste water effluent into river.

-Prepared or revised operating procedures for new control systems.

August 1979 - May 1988 Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Power Generation Service Division

Atlanta, GA

June 1986 - May 1988 Electrical Field Engineer

Classifications included:

-EH/Turbine Controls Specialist

-Excitation Systems Specialist

-Generator Specialist

Responsibilities included:

-Serving as Project/Test Engineer at power generating stations and

paper mills during the installation/startup, repair, testing, and

troubleshooting of various types of turbine control systems, voltage

regulators, exciters and large generators. Testing and verification of

associated front-line, protective relaying.

May 1984 - June 1986 Southeast Region Instrument Lab Supervisor

August 1979 - July 1984 Southeast Region Instrument Lab Technician

EDUCATION:

Southern Institute of Technology, Marietta, GA

Associates Degree Electrical Engineering Technology - June 1986

Marietta-Cobb Technical Institute

(now Chattahoochee Technical Institute), Marietta, GA

Two-year diploma Electronic Technology

ALSO:

Various vendor training seminars including Foxboro DCS courses,

Bailey DCS courses; Honeywell DCS; Allen-Bradley PLC courses and an Allen-

Bradley Variable Speed Drive course; Westinghouse EH, Excitation Systems

and Generators courses and ORACLE DBM tools courses.

REFERENCES:

References available upon request

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