Engineer Project Manager
Resume:
Thomas A. Zajdel
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Electrical / Construction / Engineering / Project
Management / Design / Startup
PO Box 62606
Cincinnati, Ohio 45262
Cell: 513-***-****
***.******@***.***
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Engineering: Experienced Engineer in the areas of Consumer products, Food & Beverage, Chemicals, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear,
Paper. I have managed a company of 8-9 individuals and managed groups 10-14 people in size.
Management: Managed a corporation consisting of 8-9 Individuals for over 3 years, managed 3rd party component and services suppliers as
part of my employment by general contractors. Managed a group of 12-15 people for Pharmaceutical / Biotech Validation work. Engineering
Manager for a group consisting of Civil, Structural, Piping, Process, Electrical, Instrument and CAD. Construction Management of Civil,
Electrical, Piping & Structural.
Other: Experienced with all phases of large and small project management, pilot plants, machine development and
improvements. Experienced in interfacing with non-engineering clients and organizations in order to determine product
requirements, and in translating product requirements into working equipment and processes; from concept, through
definition and design, construction and start-up. Experienced in managing the effort of in-house groups as well as when
provided by third party contractors, suppliers or integrators. Experienced in Training, Technical Sales and Business Unit
Management
EXPERIENCE:
FLUOR 1994-2009
PRINCIPAL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER 2007-2009 (Nuclear) Active DoE Q Clearance
Responsible for on site design of temporary construction facilities such as temporary trailers, toilet facilities, parking
lots, power and security systems. Also responsible for developing construction work packages, contractor bid
packages, estimates, evaluation of subcontractors and related construction planning activities.
ENGINEERING MANAGER 2004-2007 (Chemicals and Refinement)
Responsible for engineering of on-site plant capital work projects with supervision over the following disciplines:
Civil, Structural, Electrical, Instrument, Piping, Process, Mechanical & CAD. Responsible for defining scope,
engineering budgets, schedules, and the issuance of construction packages and specifications. Further responsibilities
include a total of 10-14 reports with a yearly engineering budget of 1.0 – 1.5 million.
VALIDATION MANAGER 2001-2003 (Pharmaceuticals)
Responsible for the validation of Pharmaceutical Equipment such as Bioreactors, cryogenic vessels and support
equipment, tanks, utility systems, process controls, HVAC and clean rooms for Eli Lilly. Managed a group of 10-15
people for Pharmaceutical / Biotech Validation work in the area of Receipt Verification and Install Verification. Also
responsible for updating documents and authoring Protocols for the installation and testing of an extensively modified
Foxboro DCS System at Eli Lilly. Also have experience with P&ID walk downs, Dry Loops, and instrument
troubleshooting. Experienced in solving validation problems brought about by field re-designs. Also experienced with
OQ and software change management.
FIELD ENGINEER – PHARMACEUTICALS (Digital Control Systems)
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Responsible for updating electrical and instrument drawings to reflect field as-built conditions. Responsible for
specifying instruments and pulling together field installation packages for changes requested by the client. Responsible
for managing a field upgrade that involved extensive changes to a Foxboro DCS system at Eli Lilly. The change
involved the addition of 34 control processors to an existing system consisting of 17 control processors. This involved
fiber optic cabling and the installation of new equipment, and relocation of I/O. Project was managed over 5 months
and was completed on schedule and under the cost estimate.
DUKE FLUOR-DANIEL
PRINCIPAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEER & MANAGER 2001 (Power Generation & Distribution)
Responsible for auditing the electrical and design engineering of a 1600 Megawatt and an 800 Megawatt combined
cycle power plant using gas and steam turbines. The effort also included developing commissioning and qualification
procedures. Total project cost of 1.1 billion.
FLUOR DANIEL
PRINCIPAL ELECTRICAL & CONTROLS ENGINEER 1994-2000 (Food & Beverage)
Folger Coffee Plant Consolidation
Responsible for the Conceptual and Definition Engineering and Turnkey vendor qualification for the Electrical/Control
portion of the Coffee Can Packing effort. Responsible for managing the Electrical/Control Design for the Process,
Packing, Power and Facilities area of the project. Engineering staff consisted of In-house and third party engineering
firms. Overall project size was in the $80-90 million range. Maintaining a low engineering percentage was a major
challenge of this project. Major changes in the Process area, and increased Packing line efficiencies resulted in
additional challenges.
Heat Shrink Can Labeling
Involved in the Feasibility, Conceptual, Definition, Design, and Vendor qualification for this project. The Feasibility
phase involved pay out studies and the setting of reliability goals. The Conceptual phase continued with the
identification of technical studies, along with machine and control architectures. The Definition phase involved key
plant personnel to plan what was to be implemented in the Design phase. The evaluation of machine vendors and the
selection of an appropriate labeling equipment supplier were also part of this effort.
Peanut Butter Projects
Duties included the Definition and Design activities for a variety of plant improvement projects:
The Installation of a jar bundler & modernization of peanut butter jar filling line, The design of a tractor trailer drop
lot requiring remote access and surveillance devices, the upgrade of an empty jar delivery system, the installation of
surge tables, tray-formers, and new unit load formers. Other activities included the auditing and update of existing
drawings in order to streamline future maintenance of existing equipment.
Tray Packing Initiative (Conversion from Product Shipping cases to Shrink Wrap Trays)
Responsible for managing C&IS activities for two different plant sites. Duties included selection & managing third
party contractors, and engineering efforts of equipment suppliers. Responsible for delivering a custom operator
interface (Wonderware) for a European equipment supplier, and integrating with the equipment before shipment from
the vendor. Effort also included modification of a Plant wide Wonderware system with EtherNet to streamline plant -
monitoring functions of production equipment.
Commercial Measured Brew filters
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Responsible for managing C&IS activities of a third party vendor, and integrating that vendor’s equipment into a
system. The vendor was developing prototype equipment, and was consulted with in the areas of design schedule,
control architecture, operator interface requirements, safety, coordinated drive systems, web handling and sensor
applications. The equipment was responsible for high speed "packetization" of coffee granules. A Mechanical
Engineering role for scrap handling and recycling was executed in addition to the electrical/controls role for this
installation.
MACHINE CONTROL ENGINEER (Machine & Process Development)
Ivory Soap, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio
Efforts involved Machine development work. Analysis of recently developed equipment with high speed photography
was used to determine the requirements for the addition of servo equipment. Other areas of high speed product
handling were studied by applying sensors coupled with data acquisition equipment.
MACHINE DRIVE CORPORATION
SALES ENGINEER & MANAGER (Outside Sales of Electrical & Control Equipment))
Responsibilities included managing large OEM accounts, increasing customer base, addition of new product lines, and
dealing with manufacturers & suppliers. Duties also included Strategic business planning.
PROJECT MANAGER (Wastewater Treatment)
Responsible for overseeing engineering projects for Waste Water treatment and in the area of custom- engineered
servo, drive, and control system packages for printing presses and packaging equipment.
FLUOR DANIEL
LEAD POWER & CONTROL ENGINEER (Bar Soap Making, Packaging, Finished Product Handling)
Bar Soap Modernization, Procter & Gamble, Ivorydale, Ohio
Responsible for managing Electrical Control activities for Bar Soap Making, Packing and Finished Product Handling.
Effort included design responsibility for a bar soap making and packaging line.
CCDI CORPORATION
MANAGER OF TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (Test Equipment for Aircraft & Government))
Responsible for development, design & production of an absolute referenced effective flow area stand for the testing of
aircraft engine parts. This allowed testing of parts in two minutes, which previously required one hour with then
available industry standard equipment. The design and manufacture of extremely large sonic nozzles was a
requirement of the test stand, and was managed directly with a Chinese manufacturer. I, also was responsible for
managing portions of a portable electronic warfare calibration facility for the US Air Force. This facility was later
used in the Gulf War.
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SELF- EMPLOYED
BGP SERVICES
LEAD CONTROL ENGINEER (Disposables & Packaging)
Responsible for developing all design basis documents for the electrical & controls portion of a 150 million dollar
project for a disposable diapers manufacturer. This resulted in changing the packaging of diapers in cartons to that of
Poly-bags. Coordination of start-up efforts among four plants was also a duty of the position.
TRI-STATE TECHNICAL SERVICES
PRESIDENT (Sales, Operations, Human Resources, Engineering Consulting)
Responsible for building the organization to that of nine employees. Clients involved Procter & Gamble, American
Standard, General Electric & others. Projects included explosion proof granules handling & packing, the manufacture
of metal doors, high speed "packetization" of laundry granules, bowling machine controls & research of
superconductivity as applied to antennas. Proposals for research projects for the Navy were submitted during this
period. Administrative duties included Sales, Tax planning, Liability management and Employee benefits.
BELCAN CORPORATION
GROUP LEADER (Capital Projects, Facilities, Sensor Applications, Laundry Granules Handling)
Responsible for an in-house electrical design group whose activities included capital projects, laser lab facilities for the
drilling of aircraft engine parts, sensor development, and specialty machine control systems. During this period, an
explosion proof pilot plant for a new granules based laundry product was designed, installed, and operated.
PROCTER & GAMBLE
STAFF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (Finished Product Handling, Disposables, Paper, Food, Soap, Packaging,)
Duties included conceptual & definition engineering and start-up activities in the following areas: finished product
handling, disposable diapers, foods, soaps, packaging, paper converting, facilities, machine development, and robotics.
EDUCATION:
BS, Electrical Engineering, Penn State University BSEE
SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Project, Allen-Bradley.
SEARCH WORDS:
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Packaging Manufacturing Finished Product Facilities Administrative Organizations Positions
Cartoners Disposable Diapers Conveyor Systems Warehouses Design Schedules Procter & Gamble Sales Engineer
Case Packers Bar Soaps Bar Code Readers Pilot Plants Design Bases American Standard Project Manager
Stackers Laundry Granules Case Sorters Lighting Design Management General Electric Principal Engineer
Baggers Cake Mix Unit Load Formers Power Dist. Training US Air Force President
Case Tapers Frosting Stretch Wrappers Security Procurement Cloud Corp Corp Secretary
Wrappers Coffee Balers Alarms Proposals Fluor Daniel Site Engineer
Robots Paper Towels Pwr. Generation Design Contracts Belcan Product Manager
Checkweighers Toilet Tissue Sales Drop Lots Estimates BGP Services Staff Engineer
Labelers Peanut Butter 3 years outside HVAC Staffing CCDI Lead Engineer
Tray Formers Potato Chips 5 years services Buildings Engineering Mgmt Machine Drive Technology Mngr.
Defect Elim Pharm-Bio 1 year retail Bio-Reactors Government Eli Lilly Validation
High Speed Splicing of Paper/Poly Webs, Sensors, Defect Recognition, Gravure Gluing, Loss in Weight Feeders, Gain in Weight
Feeders, High Speed Packetization of Granules, Holt Melt Adhesive Systems, Heat Sealing, Ultrasonic Welding, Tension Control,
Tension Measurement, Temperature Measurement & Control, Motor Control Centers, DC Drives, AC Variable speed drives,
Programmable Controllers, Operator Interface Technology, CO2 Lasers, Lighting – natural & artificial, Robots, Pneumatics, Hydraulics,
Baghouses, Compactors, Data Acquisition Systems, Analog Circuits, Plodders, Mills, Stamps, Overwrappers, Metal Detectors, Servo
Drives, AC Vector Drives, Radio Control, Two Way Radio Systems, EtherNet, Safety, Construction Support, Power Generation, 115KV
& 345KV Electrical Equipment, Wireless Video, Bio-Reactors, Clean Room, Hygienic, Security Systems, Parking lots, Drop Lots,
Conveyors, Air-Veyors, Paper Scrap Handling, Video Inspection, Sensors, Antennas, Balers, Chemical plant equipment, Nuclear
construction.
Electrical document review, Electrical specification writing and editing, Equipment selection and Specification, Lighting and electrical
device, sensors selection, Electrical power system design and specification, Voltage drop and power factor, Uninterruptible power system
Power plant generator, Programmable logic controllers (plc), logic, and control systems, Allen-Bradley, Electrical distribution design for
wastewater and industrial waste treatment facilities, Machine Control, Utility design, Electrical distribution design for structures, plants
and complexes, Logic design, Logic diagrams, Coffee, Food, Beverages, Soap, Oil, Chemicals, Nuclear, Pharmaceutical, Regulated,
Validation, Startup, Roadway, Radio, Security, Camera, wireless, antenna, 10, 15, 20. Cincinnati. Ohio. OH
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