CHARLES L. DICKSON

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Greenville, SC 29681

864-***-****

abh5o0@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

To assume a management position built on a thorough familiarity with the

evolution of projects including quoting/mechanical design/electrical

design/control strategy/purchasing/commissioning/delivery and acceptance of

end product.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Motive Power and Equipment Solutions MPES (4/2009 - 7/2010)

Position - General Manager

Upgrading facility to include new track, renovated buildings and numerous

site projects

Established business practices for increased productivity including multi-

user accounting system and network

Responsible three professional employees and as many as 25 tradesmen

Established employee review program including drug testing protocols

Established safety enforcement resulting in elimination of workman's

compensation claims

Established multi-user purchase requisition protocol to facilitate orders

for projects

Began the process of ISO certification and electronic filing of quality

forms

Established synchronization between new parts numbering system with

inventory and ordering database

Established a safer working environment and brought facility into

compliance with egress for 1st responders

Designed large portion of switcher type locomotives

Hartness Visy (2007 - 2009)

Position - Automation tooling engineer

Designed generic robot gripper used to palletize layers for Coco-Cola,

Pepsi and Budweiser and other associated tooling

Metric Controls and Automation (1996 - 2007)

Position - Owner/Operator

Designed, commissioned, fabricated, wired, programmed and delivered

numerous machines

Experience was gained on the business side of engineering and proper

accounting practices

BMW- (Albert Kahn/Simmons-Eastern/Lockwood-Green) joint design team (1994-

96)

Position: Field Engineer

Supervised contractors performed specification enforcement mechanical,

instrumentation and electrical work on site

Scope of work included substations, cogeneration systems, boilers,

chillers TCP-IP line, hubs, fire protection and HVAC

Piedmont Olsen Inc., (Formerly the Piedmont Group) - (1988 - 94)

Position: Control Systems Engineer

Performed purchasing, installation and start-up of facilities equipment

Programmed and configured distributed control systems

Designed control panels, wiring diagrams and loops for batch-process

control

Specified valves, computer controls, panel instrumentation and software

for process control systems

Interfaced with electrical dept. to size electrical lines and routing

Performed infra-structure programming to speed daily engineering

activities

Assisted with the design of HVAC and plumbing systems as well as

production drawings

Interfaced with clients to access needs and manage controls side of jobs

and edit PID's

Specified and purchased instrumentation on Lime-Kiln job including CEM

system for stack monitoring

Carter & Crawley Engineering Inc. - (1983 - 88)

Position: Electrical Engineer

Designed, oversaw manufacture, installation and startup of PLC panels

Interfaced PLC's were used to control coal handling, pulp handling and

microchip manufacturing systems

Experience was gained sizing MCC's & switch gears. Assisted in the

production of P&ID's for various projects

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PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Transportation - WABCO - designed, manufactured and commissioned test

racks worldwide

Ambatovy - designed large portion of locomotive

Madagascar

Plastic Omnium - Controls for fail safe elevator interlock

Anderson, SC

Tenneco Automotive - Produced several low and high speed

assembly machines Hartwell, GA

Alibert Industries - Designed and commissioned secondary

processing machines for BMW Fountain Inn, SC

BMW- supervised an commissioned mechanical, Electrical and

instrumentation of plant facilities Greer, SC

Prettl electric - produced several low and high speed assembly

machines Greenville, SC

Robert Bosch - Designed and commissioned assembly press with

integral data acquisition and display Anderson, SC

Chemical - Texize Chemical Company - Control Panel

Greenville, SC

Rhone Poulenc Inc. - Distributed Control System

Spartanburg, SC

Food Process - Planters/Lifesavers - Instrumentation for Reactor Vessel

Pisgah Forest, NC

Government/Military - Trident Dry dock - Reactors Dock Support Panel

Kingsbay, GA

NAVFAC, Southern Division - "Hugo" Rehabilitation

Charleston, SC

USMCB - FMC-3 Tank Service Facility

Camp LeJeune, NC

Manufacturing - IBM, Inc. - Chip Manufacturing Control Panel

Manassas, VA

Air Products - Flexcryl Glue, Controls Rehab Project

Fountain Inn, SC

Lockheed Aeromod - Plant Utilities

Greenville, SC

Pittsburgh Corning - Substation Design

National Cabinet Lock - Designed and commissioned high speed

broaching machine Greenville, SC

Westinghouse Air Brake - Designed and commissioned brake test

racks for world's rapid transit systems Duncan, SC

Medical - Kincare, Research Facility, Portable Control Panel for

Bioreactor Boston, MA

Municipal - Rhone Poulenc - Wastewater Facility Controls

Spartanburg, SC

Other Industrial - Ecusta Paper Company - TiO2 Reactor Vessel Controls

Brevard, NC

Petrochemical - Texaco - Distribution Center Layout and Piping

Doraville, GA

Pharmaceutical - Novo Nordisk - Instrumentation for WFI Grade Project,

Clayton, NC

Bausch & Lomb - Instrumentation for USDA Grade Project,

Greenville, SC

Public Works - AES Utility Company - All controls for material handling

lime/coal OK

Texas-Mexico Power Company - All controls for material handling

lime/coal TX

Pulp & Paper - PCA - Controls for Lime-Kiln Fuel Handling System

Valdosta, GA

Robotics - Automated Cutting Systems, 5-axis Gantry

Atlanta, GA

Textile - Sandoz - MCC Bucket Schematics

Mount Holly, N.C.

SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE

Design was implemented on SolidWorks or, AutoCAD. Controls experience

includes expert level exposure to nearly all PLC manufactures, vision

systems and stepper/servo based motion control systems programming of PC

based data acquisition systems through various languages. Mechanical

experience includes the design, commission of mechanical assemblies.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Business Administration degree - received 6/82

Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA

Grade point Average (3.2)

Degree acquired in three years

Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering Technology degree -

received 1/87

Southern College of Technology (SCT), Atlanta, GA

Degree acquired in one and one-half years

REFERENCES Available upon request

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