Engineer Project

ABEMELEK K ABAY

Tel:215-***-**** email:*******@*****.***

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Utility Engineer/Project Engineer-Solar/PV Design Engineer

Professional Experience

Nov 2010-February 2011 Premier Power

El dorado hills, CA

Solar Pv Project Engineer(Commercial and utility scale)

. Collected necessary data, shading analysis, pathfinder and Suneye.

. Designed the whole commercial scale package for 128KWDC rooftop system,

276KWDC and 1MWDC solar array ground mount systems.

. Designed electrical layout based on NEC, conduit runs, DC and AC

trenching.

. Designed single line diagram, string sizing as well as scheduling,

selection of combiner box, juction box if necessary and grounding

equipment.

. Selected inverter based on the assement of AC/DC derate factor by PVWATT,

PVsyst production estimate and customer utility bills.

. Dealt with sub contractors for better equipment selection of like racking

components and construction.

. Interconnection Assessment with utility, determining breaker, meter and

busbar size for piont of common coupling, discussed with utilites if it

might need transformer upgrade.

Aug 2009-Aug 2010 Constellation Energy Group Baltimore, MD

Solar PV PROJECT ENGINEER: Contractor

. Field visits to collect necessary data, shading analysis.

. Designed electrical layouts based on NEC (single line diagram, wire and

conduit sizing), combiner box, inverter and racking structure selection.

. Pricing and proposal preparation based on the RFP of PPA projects of

amount upto $5Mn.

. Designed the layout of rooftop and ground mount projects ranging from

200KW to 2MW(thin and crystalline film); such as 545KW patriots stadium

facilities, 45KW rooftop as well as 75KW parking canopies, 1.8MW

McCormick project and many sunburst rooftop projects.

. Interconnection assessment and rebate applications.

Sep 2008-May 2009 SunEdison Solar Company Beltsville, MD

Solar PV ENGINEER

. Attended site qualification visits to collect information required to

complete the design and permitting of large-scale solar electric systems

. Oversee the development of all designs for utility solar electric systems

that meet all national, state and local code requirements as well as

customer defined requirements

. Obtained design approvals from professionally licensed engineering sub-

contractors

. Managed drafters to create professional design drawings showing the

structural, electrical(AC/DC) and site plan design of large scale solar

electric systems

. Managed the submission of drawings to the appropriate agency in order to

obtain the necessary permits to allow for construction of large-scale

solar electric systems

. Coordinated the development of a bill of material for each project based

on the final approved design

. Provided technical input to support the interconnection application and

utility approval process

. Integrated new processes and methods to increase productivity and

efficiency of the department

. Serve as the technical expert for engineering team and final design

decisions which includes: Designed of the layout(shadow effect, and

laying out of the panels, elevations), the electrical part (single line

diagram, DC and AC trenching out), Structural (detail of the racking

structures fixed as well as trackers, analyzing geo report) of 8MW,1.5MW.

. Worked in the construction team for roof top projects of 500KW and

analyzed the interconnection with the existing grid.

2001-2006 Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

With MWH-Engineering Company international L.P. of USA

Project Engineer-electro/mechanical engineering

Project: The Tekeze Hydroelectric Power project

. Capacity and Budget: Generation power of 300MW and estimated budget of

$300 million carried out feasibility study of the project

. Evaluated and negotiated technical and financial for electro-mechanical

contracts

. Designed and checked the design as compliance with specifications when

manufactured in addition to supervising installation and erection of

transmission and substation engineering

. Budgeted, cost estimated, scheduled, planned, tracked work progress and

procurement

. Carried out environmental mitigation measures, reported and analyzed

claims and worked reliability and maintenance of Electro-mechanical

equipments and Heavy machineries such as conveyor, material handling

equipments.

Part Time :

o CBC Computer Center and Medco College

Taught MS project to Ethiopian Road Authority Engineers, Abyssinia Bank

Authorities

Taught Freshman Mathematics, Database

Energy Audit and cost/benefit analysis on Soap Factory.

Education

o Drexel University Philadelphia, usa 2007/2008

MSc. in Mechanical And Mechanics Engineering : Specializing in

Sustainable Energy GPA: 3. 52

o Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 2001

Bachelor of Science Major: Mechanical Engineering

Technical Summary

> Software and Packages: AutoCAD LT, MATLAB.

ALGOR, ANSYS, Abacus, SolidWorks, Pro/E, CFD-

Comsol, HVAC Carrier, Pvsyst, SPSS, Microsoft

office packages (Word, Excel, Power point, Access,

MS-Project), Primavera (sure track). Solar

Pathfinder,SCADA

> Programming: Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal

Thesis Topics:

MS Thesis:

. Economically Feasible Solar Tower Power Generation / Atomic force

Microscopy on Mechanical properties of Crop Drought Resistant

. Undergrad -Final Year Project:

. Material Requirements Planning (MRP) with its Case Study by Visual Basic

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Relevant Courses:

Electrical circuits and machinery, Fluid Mechanics, Thermal Systems Design,

Finite Element Analyses, Reliability and Maintenance Energy Conservation,

Data Structure, Computational methods and programming, Fracture Mechanics

Affiliations

> ASME (American Society of Mechanical engineers), IEEE

> Pursuing NABCEP certification, EIT, PE

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