Engineer Power Plant

A. R. ROMERO

Phone: cell 760-***-**** home- 760-***-****

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

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SUMMARY

Thirty years in Industrial Automation Market including Power, Mining,

Chemical De-militarization, Waste Treatment and Manufacturing with majority

of career spent in the field in a self directed capacity. Control Systems,

Instrumentation and Electrical. Exceptional commissioning background.

Specialization in System upgrades, design, implementation and migration

into operating facilities. System specification and vendor acceptance

testing.. System auditing to maximize performance and provide operational

integrity. Over ten years' experience in Power Plant Start-up and

Commissioning as well as Scheduled Maintenance, Daily Support, Outage

Support and System Analysis. Gas Turbine including but not limited to GE

LM5000, LM 6000. Full production as well as Peakers, and Coal Fire Plants.

Exceptional knowledge, 8 years' experience, with Emerson Ovation including

third party interfaces from serial to Ethernet drivers to OPC. Extensive

experience Bailey (ABB) and all Allen Bradley control products. Strong

background with Siemens Flex Plant, T-3000 and TXP, GE Mark V, Woodward

Controls, Cimplicity HMI, Foxboro DCS, Rockwell Controllogix, RSlogix 5000,

Wonderware, ASI(Actuator Sensor Interface), Fisher Prov-Vox, Modicon PLC

and Honeywell TDC. Network Administration. Strong leadership skills,

management, scheduling, and team development & training.

Advanced Service Solutions 11/02 to current Apple

Valley, Ca.

DCS Customer Support and Consulting

VIWAPA (client)

St. Thomas, Virgin Is.

Control System and Instrumentation support for Maintenance Outage. GE

Frame 5Combustion Turbine.

First Solar (client)

Tempe, Az.

Hired as consultant to audit and review Control Systems for current and

future Solar Field Projects. Ask to establish that use and implementation

of system as it relates Solar Energy Projects operation and data collection

was sufficient as it related to power generation.

PG&E (client)

Antioch, Ca.

Plant operations support

GE (client)

Mexico

Maintenance program at remote sites on GE LM6000's

Kennecott Copper RTZ (client)

Salt Lake City, Ut.

Control System Consultant

Review photovoltaic, state mandated, emergency freeway signing system.

Corrected design issues with the current system, provided recommendation

for implementation of reliable and efficient system.

Progress Energy (client) Richmond County Project

North Carolina

Control System Consultant

Factory acceptance Test and Audit for NERC-CIP Compliance. Critical Cyber

and Critical Asset Identification.

Progress Energy (client) Bartow Power Project

St. Petersburg, Fl.

Lead DCS Commissioning Engineer Client Representative

Lead DCS on a 15 month project for the commissioning of a 4X1 Combined

Cycle Power Plant for Progress Energy, replacing an existing facility.

Emerson Ovation for balance of plant. Siemens T-3000 CTG, Mitsubishi STG.

Responsible for all DCS related work and personnel including vendor

compliance.

Verification audit of NERC-CIP compliance. Managed Control System Staff

and supervised Instrumentation Group.

Black & Veatch (Grafton)

Emporia, Ka.

DCS Commissioning Engineer

Owner Rep. DCS support, Commissioning of a 600 Megawatt, Simple Cycle Power

Plant. Owner, Westar. Systems: BOP, GE Mark VIe. Plant had 3 GE7 FA's,

4 GE LM6000.

Mint Farm Energy Center (client)

Longview, Wa.

DCS Commissioning Engineer

1X1 Combined Cycle Power Plant. GE Turbines. Control System, ABB Harmony

and ABB Portal B. The plant had been shut down in a partial completion

stage for 5 years. Managed Control System staff and Instrumentation

Group. Established and implemented maintenance schedule. Managed vendor

compliance with state and federal safety regulations. Out-dated equipment

and system, missing data, and incomplete engineering have made this a

challenging project.

Constellation Energy (client) High Desert Power Project

Victorville, Ca.

DCS Engineer (Resident Engineer Client Rep)

Operational support and system analysis on 3X1 Combined Cycle Power Plant

including Water Filtration Plant. Westinghouse Ovation and Siemens Control

System. Auditing of original DCS Specifications and securing of vendor

compliance. Dailey monitoring of DCS operation to develop solutions to

remedy inefficiencies optimizing operation. Operator support and Data

Acquisition. Implement control system upgrades. Converted Siemens

interface from Modbus serial to redundant OPC. Configured Modbus interface

for Siemens Flex Plant optimizer. Including the specification, installation

and configuration of new cabinet of I/O required for the implementation of

Flex Plant. Performed plant engineering an all activities associated with

this project dramatically reducing client costs. Provided outage support

and scheduling for Controls and Instrumentation tasks. Maintenance

scheduling and implementation of controls, instrumentation and high voltage

for outage.

LADWP (client) Sun Valley Energy Center

Los Angeles, Ca.

Lead DCS Commissioning Engineer

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LADWP Joint Venture Project, 2X1 combined Cycle Power Plant. Westinghouse

Ovation NT DCS. Project included twenty-one serial interfaces, and the GE

Ethernet GSM protocol for the CTG's and STG. Actuator Sensor Interface, for

motor control on a power project in the US.

Constellation Energy Group (client) High Desert Power Project

Victorville. Ca.

DCS Commissioning Engineer

3X1 Combine Cycle Power Plant. Ovation NT DCS System.

Calpine 05/01 to 11/02

Folsom Corporate Office

Folsom, Ca.

DCS Controls Engineer

Assigned for development and configuration of new DCS system to replace

current system on new facilities. Developed specifications for Vendor

Proposals. Evaluated proposed systems and presented final recommendation

for system selection. Recommendation of Westinghouse Ovation was

implemented. Provided system analysis, outage and maintenance support for

Sites as needed.

Delta Energy Center

Pittsburg, Ca.

Lead DCS Commissioning Engineer

3X1 Combined Cycle Power Plant. Complete responsibility for DCS Control

System. (Seimens TXP, ABB Bailey and Toshiba Tosmap). Commissioned 3

Siemens Westinghouse 165 MW combustion turbines and 1 Toshiba 300 MW steam

turbine. Including but not limited to identification, analysis and

solutions for control applications, installation, testing, compliance,

vendor accountability and operator training. Responsible for Controls

support staff and Instrumentation. Scheduling, training and team building.

Los Medanos Energy Center

Pittsburg, Ca.

DCS Commissioning Engineer Client Representative

2X1 Combined

cycle power Plant. Vendor accountability and specification compliance.

Testing and commissioning. Analysis and solution implementation for

process control system.

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10/99 to 05/01 ABB (Bailey)

Wickliffe, Ohio

08/97 to 08/98 Bailey (ABB)

Controls Engineer

System Engineering on Control Systems for Power Generation Plants. Factory

and Field testing. Application and software. Project auditing for Systems

Integration and installation for future contracts. Commissioning and field

audits.

PROJECTS:

Babcock Wilcox: Office engineering. Saba project.

Pakistan

Entergy, Baxtor Wilson: Office, audit and filed.

Vicksburg, Ms.

Entergy, Gerald Andrews: Office, audit and field

Greenville, Miss.

Dubai Electric and Water Authority: Office, testing and field.

United Arab Emirate

Support services on various Egypt projects.

Fluor Daniel 08/98 to 10/99

Batu Haju, Indonesia

Lead Controls Engineer

Two Billion dollar mining project in Indonesia. Grass roots project.

Included all support plants such as power generation, water filtration

systems and port facilities DCS, PLC, NT, Bailey Controls. System design,

check out, installation and start-up. Bailey NT Conductor. Managed

Controls and Instrumentation Field Staff. Developed and implemented

instrumentation training program.

Independent 11/96 to 08/97

Forteleza De Minas, Brazil

Controls System Consultant (Nickel Mine)

Contracted directly to client for the express purpose of development and

definition of control system. Foxboro DCS with networked PLC's. Vendor

accountability, compliance with engineering, budgets, and scheduling.

Direct involvement with design, testing and system integrity. Training and

development of Control System staff. Managed 32 staff members, including a

group of in-house Engineers as well as provided the direction and defined

the expected schedule of results for Engineering staff at vendor

development and testing center. Delegated field assignments, conducted

disciplinary meetings, gave performance reviews. Implemented a "Team-work-

group", system that enabled staff to more efficiently perform project tasks

by providing each group with a staff member proficient in a specific

discipline.

Bowen Engineering 01/92 to 11/96

Salt Lake City, Ut.

Kennecott Smelter/Refinery Modernization

Smelter:

Controls Engineer

Completed refinery and was then assigned to the Flash Smelter as a Controls

Engineer for Start-up and Testing. Smelter was a large Fisher DCS control

system with networked PLC's.

Project Automation Specialist

Upon completion of the Smelter was retained as a Project Automation

Specialist to manage a Contract Controls Engineering group designated to

work with the Kennecott Control System Transition Team defining and

completing quality and reliability improvement projects.

Refinery

Controls System Test Engineer

Copper Refinery material handling, Tank House, Steam plant, and Precious

Metals facilities.

EG&G Defense Materials Inc

Tooele, Ut.

Control System and Instrumentation Specialist

Start-up engineer for the new chemical weapons disposal plant for the Army

Corp of Engineers. First plant of its kind in the Continental U.S.

Geneva, Steel 06/91 to 01/92

Orem, Ut.

Control System and Instrumentation Specialist

Installation and start of new X-Ray System and equipment for Environmental

improvement project.

Aptus 01/91 to 6/91

Arognoite, Ut.

Controls and Instrumentation Technician

The commissioning and operation of a new Waste Incinerator facility owned

and operated by Westinghouse. Installation, pre-commissioning, testing,

start-up and operating maintenance. Responsible for environmental

compliance documentation.

Procter & Gamble 1981 to 1991

Control System Technician

Dallas, Texas

Soap manufacturing plant. Project support, operations maintenance program,

automatic process control system upgrades, installation and maintenance.

Control System and Instrumentation Technician

Long Beach, Ca.

Provided daily support services. Supervised a Technical Installation Team

responsible for all in house modernization, upgrades and systems

replacement. Project manager installation and conversion projects.

Utilities Engineer

Responsible for providing reliable supply of plant utilities, including

high and low pressure steam, process water, compressed air and

refrigeration systems in a seven day a week around the clock operation.

Commissioning of first wood fire powerhouse.

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