Jim Silus

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Coppell TX-750190

Cell: 682-***-****

abn6kw@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of skills

Electrical Drafter/Designer with 7 years experience (MEP, Industrial Automation,

Control, Oil & Gas) supporting engineers and designers with PLC panel layout design and drafting, Bill Of

material creation, Mechanical Layouts, Lighting control systems layout & calculations using Visual. Create

drafting assembly drawings, schematics, one and three lines, panel schedules, floor plans and enlarged

details for power and control systems. Experienced designing electrical systems of passenger boarding

bridges, process control, instrumentation projects for refineries and drafting HVAC systems.

• Trained in the use of MS Office 2011 suite, DBA and EVO for BOM creation.

• Trained in the use of Visual lighting calculations.

Summary of work experience

Prime Controls, Inc., Lewisville-TX June 12 - Jan 13

Electrical Drafter

• Designed and drafted PLC control panels for the Water & waste water industry using

Autocad Electrical 2012.

• Incorporated redline changes to Panel Shop As built and Final AS-Built Packages.

• Checked submittal drawings packages for accuracy.

Campos Engineering Inc., Dallas, TX April 11 - June 12

Electrical Designer-ME

Project: DFW Airport Terminal Renewal and Expansion.

• Surveyed the entire Terminal E & parking garages.

• Supported engineers and senior designers with lighting equipment layout, and

calculations, setting up one lines, schematics, schedules, electrical room equipment

sizing, layout & cable length.

ThyssenKrupp Airport Systems, Fort Worth, TX October 09 - April 11

Electrical Designer

• Assisted Electrical Engineers by drafting and designing 480VAC-600VAC Power

panels, assembly drawings, shop fabrication drawings, walkway conduit layouts,

24VDC PLC schematics and Pre-cool systems on passenger boarding bridges for the

airports using AutoCAD Electrical 2011, Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical.

Mid States Tech., Davenport, IO Feb 09 – Oct 09

Electrical Designer

• Contracted for 6 months before going full time ThyssenKrupp Airport Systems.

• Worked on Electrical Design projects for passenger Boarding Bridges. Used

AutoCAD Electrical, Inventor, and AutoCAD Mechanical.

Valdes Engineering Co, Lombard, IL March 05 - Dec 08

Cad Technician

• H2 Substation Upgrade – ExxonMobil Petroleum (Micro station J)

Created single line & three line wiring diagrams of 480V power distribution systems.

Drawings also included protective relaying equipment, physical & location drawings.

Raster files were warped and vectorized. This project was as-Built and successfully

installed.

• Process Heaters SIS – CITGO Petroleum (AutoCAD 04, GTX Raster)

Created RTD wiring diagrams, heat trace isometric drawings, Conduit & cable schedules,

conduit installation layout and details.

• Fluid Coking Unit Opacity Reduction – BP Petroleum (AutoCAD 04 & GTX)

Project involved photo drafting, RTD wiring diagram creation, raster file manipulation

and several DCS control loop sheet creation.

• Dry Starch C-Dryer Automation - Corn Products (AutoCAD 04 & 07)

Created and modified several P&ID diagrams and control loops.

• Stand Alone Pilot Plant – Great Point Energy (AutoCAD 04)

Project involved instrumentation and electrical work for the coal to natural gasification

tower constructed from the ground up by the Valdes team. Several cable trays, manholes

and rollout details, physical and conductor (above and underground) layout and

installation drawings, substations and switch/ housings drawings were created.

• Coal Handling Area Monitors- Mid West Generation (ACAD 04, GTX raster)

Prepared construction drawings and made revisions to existing drawings from redlines.

Vision Automation Services Inc, Elburn, IL October04 - Feb05

Cad Technician

Chicago Public Schools. (AutoCAD 04)

• Worked on creating HVAC air handler wiring drawings and temperature sensing

layout drawings for an electronic to pneumatic sensor conversion project.

College Of Dupage, Glen Ellyn-IL April04 - June04

• Academic computing lab assistant

Education

Associate Degree- Manufacturing Technology "Drafting and Design"

College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, IL

GPA-3.2

Graduated 2006

Governors State Univ.-IL (BAAS) Anticipate completion in December 2014

Current GPA 3.5

References will be made available upon request.

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