C. MICHAEL THORNTON

*** ******* **** *****.

Simpsonville, S.C. 29681

Phone 864-***-**** / Work 864-***-**** /cell 864-***-****

Email: abkwzq@r.postjobfree.com

LONG RANGE CAREER GOAL:

To become a Lead Electrical /Controls & Instrumentation designer for a large consulting

engineering firm or utility and obtain a Bachelors degree in Engineering.

PROFILE:

Solid background in power distribution, instrumentation and controls and construction

support. Formal training in Autocad and Intergraph/ Microstation Cad systems, PDS 3D

Equipment & Electrical Raceway Modeling, Smart Plant Electrical, Smart Plant

Review,PDMS 3-D engineering Cad systems and Allen Bradley PLC’s (PLC-5, SLC-

500, & Flex I/O) and Honeywell DCS, Bailey Infi-90 DCS. Familiar with IEC Standards

and Design critera. Thorough familiarity with metal fabrication and associated machining

processes. Sales background entailing outside and inside sales, cost estimating and

proposals. Working relationships with customers, vendors and contractors. Nuclear

radiation worker training, ”RWT” from Duke Power. On Dupont/ INVISTA’s Electrical

site safety team. Licensed Residential Contractor.

EXPERIENCE:

Fluor Engineers & Constructors, Greenville, South Carolina 6/2007

to present

Electrical Design Specialist: Fluor Power Project- STP Nuclear Station, Units 3&4, Bay

City, Texas. Responsibilities include: Electrical design, specification of bulk cables and

electrical equipment, temporary power, schematics, one-lines, checking and construction

support.

Electrical Design Specialist: Fluor Power Project- Oak Grove Electric Station, Texas.

Electrical design, one-lines, wiring, checking and construction support.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Levers, Massachusetts, large pharmaceutical project. Design

responsibilities included: power, lighting, checking and grounding.

Hexcel Corp.,Decatur, Ala. Carbon Fibers Line. Design responsibilities included power,

lighting, and grounding.

Responsible for power, lighting, and grounding to support a new refinery in Kuwait. IEC

standards and design are being utilized, along with Smart Plant Electrical. Microstation,

Autocad, PDS 3-D Equipment & Raceway Modeling, and Smart Plant Review, Dialux

(Lighting Software) are also being utilized for detail design.

Jacobs Engineers, Greenville, South Carolina

8/2006 to 6/2007

Senior Electrical/ Controls Designer. Responsible for medium voltage motors and controls,

schematics, wiring, raceway, checking and construction support in International Paper’s

Mill in Pensacola, Florida.

Training in PDS 3-D Equipment & Electrical Raceway Modeling, Smart Plant Review

Mustang/ Palmetto Management & Engineering /Invista / Dupont.Camden S.C.

3/2004 to 8/2006

Day & Zimmermann 1/2001 to 3/2004

Senior Electrical Controls/ Instrumentation designer, on site at Dupont’s Nylon Plant in

Camden, S.C. Duties include Electrical Controls/ Instrumentation design with Allen Bradley

PLC’s, writing scopes, procuring construction materials, and following construction on all

projects involved with Nylon Production, site 40 megawatt coal fired power plant, site

wastewater treatment plant, and site infrastructure. Majority of design done with

Microstation and occasionally with Autocad. Also, Lead Controls & Instrument designer

for PET Resins Pellet/ Flake Expansion at INVISTA’S Spartanburg, S.C.Plant.

Parsons Chemical and Power/ TVA/ Chattanooga, Tn./ Parsons Charlotte, N.C. 3/99

to 1/2001

Lead Electrical / I & C Designer: Lead designer for TVA’S hydro-automation program ;

upgrading hydro plants in the TVA system to be automated and computer/PLC controlled

(Siemens components w/ fiber optics) along w/ auto- syncronizing their generators and

switchyards. Design done w/ Auto-cad Rel. 14 & Microstation. Electrical Principal designer

for AT&T’s aggressive nationwide web-hosting facility design,construction projects and

coordinating with area utlities. Responsible for design & construction at Atlanta, L.A.,

Boston, & Austin, Texas sites.

Bechtel Savannah River Inc./ Westinghouse Savannah River Co./ ACTS 8/98

to 3/99

Electrical / I &C Designer : Duties include design and documentation of modifications of

the DOE’s Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Site, S.C.

The facility is a plant which uses a glass vitrification process to dispose of radioactive

waste. Other responsibilities include construction support and implementing DCP’s

(Design Change Packages). Design done with Microstation

Day & Zimmerman / YOH. Charlotte N.C. 6/98

to 8/98

Senior Electrical and Instrumentation Designer. Duties include design, check, and

construction support of electrical and instrument modifications of various Dupont facilities

in the Southeast Region and Allied Signal in Columbia, S.C. Design done with Microstation

5.0.

Duke Power / P & S Technical Oconee Nuclear Station,S.C. 12/97

to 6/98

Senior Electrical and Instrumentation Designer. Responsible for design and installation of

Security System modifications and safeguards at Duke Power’s Oconee Nuclear Station

and coordination with Catawba and McGuire Nuclear Stations. Design done with

Microstation 5.0.

Kvaerner John Brown Engineers and Constructors Greenville, S.C. 8/97

to 12/97

Senior Electrical and Instrumentation Designer. Duties include design, check, estimating

and specifying electrical components and equipment for major engineering

design/construction projects in the polymer, resins, chemical and pharmaceutical

industries. Design done with Autocad 13.

Day & Zimmerman / Allied Technical Services . Charlotte N.C. 10/96

to 7/97

Senior Electrical and Instrumentation Designer. Duties include design, check, and

construction support of electrical and instrument modifications of various Dupont facilities

in the Southeast Region. Design done with Microstation 5.0.

John Brown Engineers and Constructors Greenville, S.C. 6/95

to 10/96

Senior Electrical and Instrumentation Designer. Duties include design, check, and

specifying electrical components and equipment (including lighting) for Hoechst Celanese

(Celanese Canada) “PET Resins” plant Expansion in Millhaven, Ontario,Canada . Design

done with Autocad 12. Also assigned to New Jersey office for design and check of

pharmaceutical facility electrical upgrades.

Gilbert Commonwealth Oak Ridge, Tenn. 3/94

to 6/95

Electrical and I & C Designer. Duties include design and check of TVA’s Hydro and Fossil

Plant Systems. Included was physical design, wiring, schematics and checking. Major

projects were: exciter replacements with protective relaying, substation design and boiler

control upgrades. Design done with Autocad 12.

Self Contract Jupiter, Florida 1/94

to 2/94

Short term contract with Perry Tritech (remote controlled submersible undersea vehicle

manufacturer) . Functioned as designer for electrical power and control operating systems

of the vehicle and tether systems. Design done with Autocad.

Florida Power & Light / Quantum Resources Juno Beach, Florida 5/91

to 10/93

Electrical / Instrumentation and Controls Designer: Responsibilities and duties were

control and instrumentation wiring, pneumatic controls, schematics, P &ID’s, wiring

diagrams & checking. Main projects included boiler, steam, & feedwater systems utilizing

“Bailey Infi 90” DCS systems at Riviera, Port Everglades, and Cape Canaveral power

plants. Other tasks included substation design and power distribution modifications at

various plants. Design done with Autocad 12.

American Electric Power Service Corp. Columbus, Ohio 8/85

to 5/91

Electrical Designer: Responsibilities and involvement included physical design with cable

tray, bus duct conduit, power distribution and substation modifications, control and

instrumentation wiring, panel design, schematics and checking of fossil and hydro plants.

Also worked on the conversion of the Zimmer Nuclear Plant to a coal fired plant. Design

done with Intergraph Cad Systems.

Matrix Inc. Toledo, Ohio 2/85

to 7/85

Electrical Designer. Responsibilities included physical design of conduit cable and wireway

systems, schematics, wiring diagrams and control panel and cabinet design. Control

systems (PLC’s) used were Texas Instruments, Allen Bradley, and Modicon. Clients were

AMC/Jeep, Owens Corning, Libbey-Owens-Ford, RCA, Chase Brass,Devilbiss, A.C.

Leadbetter, Midland Ross and medium sized steel mills.

Glasstech Inc. Perrysburg, Ohio 6/84

to 2/85

Electrical Designer: for computer controlled glass tempering manufacturer.

Responsibilities included physical design of wireway and conduit, wiring diagrams, panel

design, material take-offs and bills of material. Clients and customers of Glasstech

included Ford, Chrysler, PPG and most of the glass-related companies world wide. Design

done with Anvil 4000 Cad software.

EKJ/ Midland Ross Toledo, Ohio 3/84

to 6/84

Electrical Designer. Responsibilities included physical design of conduit and raceway

systems, control panel design and wiring diagrams for Timken’s Harrison and Faircrest

reladling alloy steel plants in Canton, Ohio.

Personal Business Cleveland, Ohio 7/82

to 2/84

Operated personal business . (Calvert Co. was to move to Jackson, Miss, and most

engineering firms were experiencing austerity programs).

The Calvert Co., Inc Rocky River, Ohio

1/79 to 6/82

Manufacturers of high amperage, high voltage distribution systems, cable tray and bus

duct systems. Sales/project Designer: Project responsibility for the design and layout of

power distribution systems : ranging from rapid transit systems, steel mills and power

plants to large scale systems in nuclear plants. Other duties were field service,

coordination of customer specifications with applied vendors, and production planning.

Sales responsibility included response to quotations for customer needs and traveling to

job sites for cost estimations.

Construction Work Cleveland, Ohio

6/78 to 4/79

Worked construction and surveying. American Shipbuilding was to go on strike and to

move to Tampa, Florida.

Amship Co. (American Shipbuilding Co.) Lorain, Ohio

10/77 to 5/78

Electrical Designer/Draftsman: Responsible for design and layout of lighting, power,

communication and radar systems for 1000 ft. ore carrying ships. Heavy detailing and

calculations required; along with requisitioning materials needed for the systems.

R.E.Warner & Associates, Lorain, Ohio

2/76 to 10/77

Responsibility included heavy detail and design for electrical systems: lighting, power and

distribution .Projects included steel mills, water treatment plants, and power plants.

EDUCATION

University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.2003-

Required Business College credits

Greenville Technical College, Greenville, S.C. 1995-

Required college credits, Allen Bradley PLC Training

Pellissippi Technical College, Knoxville, Tenn. 1994-1995

Required college credits, Autocad Rel. 12 and Microstation 5.0

Palm Beach Community College, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Associates Degree -Business

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1988-189

Required college credits

Bowling Green State University (Firelands), Huron, Ohio 9/1975 - 6/1976

Design engineering

Lorain County Community College, Elyria, Ohio 1978

Real estate

Vermilion High School, Vermilion, Ohio 1969 - 1973

College Prep

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