Engineer Electrical

Don Spicer

Cell Phone: 603-***-****

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SUMMARY 10 years of professional experience in Controls/Electrical engineering:

design, development, test, installation, commission of industrial control systems, power

controls, and operations. Strong in real-time software development for a variety of

systems with multitasking OS, programmable controllers, PLCs, HMI/SCADA and,

motion control systems. Well versed with Project Management, system integration,

startups, control upgrades, Instrumentation. Work to improve the control scheme of

existing production equipment, resolve control/programming related problems on the

production floor. Development of experimental test programs/methods, and, maintaining

good composure at the high stress levels typically encountered in a large industrial

setting. Well developed trouble-shooting skills and experience for electrical/electronic

devices, servo controls, pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical support. Strong in Allen-

Bradley based - servo control - electric & hydraulic-positioning systems. experience with

TCP/IP/Internet and wireless installation & setup, networking/Industrial WiFi, OPC

connectivity with Kepware. Developed various HMI interfaces with the usual packages,

(below), and custom designed software in Visual Basic. In-depth experience developing

custom software for WindowsXP/2000, to control machine operating systems events via

scripting languages & Visual Basic. Complete Electrical control systems and panel

design, manage and complete construction, installation, startup/debug and run-off

experience. Class 8 CDL license, Universal Air Conditioning technician certification

from NC. Skilled with machine shop equipment such as lathe, vertical mill, grinder table,

etc. Working experience with AutoCAD & AutoCAD Electrical, some with Solidworks.

Personal equipment includes oscilloscope, VOM, regulated power supply, logic tracer, 2

modern laptops & supporting engineering software, various AB Compactlogix/SLC500

racks, processors, & cards, Wifi, short-haul modems, and, other precision machine

equipment which fills a locker.

PLC systems LD, ST,IL,FBD,FB,SFC

Allen Bradley PLC5/SLC500/Contrologix/Compactlogix 5000, Beckhoff soft plc &

bc9000, Seimens (S7, S5 & 505), Automation Direct, Mitsubishi, Delta Tau, Giddings &

Lewis, MathCAD, Labview, some GE Fanuc, extensive work with VME systems, AML,

Turnbull TCS, Andover Controls, some Omron, Steeplechase

HMI/SCADA Seimens Simatic-WinCC, GE-iFIX, Wonderware, Citect, Rockwell-

RsView32 SE & ME, extensive experience with OPC server development & applications.

C, VB6, Windows Scripting.

PROFFICENCIES AutoCAD, AutoCAD electrical, some Solidworks 2004, VB6,

Cognex, Accuity, and Keyence vision systems. Extensive experience with Kinetics,

ControlNet, DeviceNet, Industrial Eithernet. SERCOS servo Drives and control systems,

OPC connectivity, SCADA systems. Robotics & Robot control, Some Change

Management software, vision systems development and PID loop tuning. AC/DC servo

& stepper drives – experience with many designs, including linear. Data Logging

systems, software & analysis such ROC. Hydraulic linear servo control dc & ac motor

control, soft starts, (fractional to 500 hp) Servers, Routers, Switches Gateways/bridges

TCP/IP WiFi for automation. Visual basic manufacturing software development, OPC

drivers, OLE, etc. Electrical Panel design, construction & install, Power systems,

Experience with vision systems design & engineering, development support. Familiar

with GMP and S88 standards, methods, batch concepts & controls. Recent experience

with HART protocol devices, DNP3 (MODBUS).

WORK EXPERIENCE

Controls Engineer – Globalogix, Houston Texas. The project is for Shell Oil, in

Wyoming, a natural gas field. I am leading the HMI/SCADA development for a large

water treatment plant/naural gas processing expansion; almost all work is done at my

home in New Hampshire. January 2009 - Present

Test Engineer - Kepware, Portland Maine My role was development and testing of an

OPC driver for Beckhoff PLC connectivity. June 2008 - December 2008

Staff Senior Controls Engineer for Allen Bradley architecture - LT Software, Portsmouth

NH. This company is a Siemens/Allen Bradley integrator, providing product

manufacturing support and new equipment design / install throughout the US. My

principal efforts were two-fold; 1- a SCADA training system and a tubing bundler code

re-write. The SCADA trainer presents 22 different SCADA systems from Allen Bradley,

Wonderware, and Siemens on one PC. A selection screen offered screen buttons that

booted any of the SCADA/HMI systems, with the background process running against a

custom built process simulator, unique to each SCADA/HMI. The user could get well

acquainted with any of the plant processes. 2- The tubing bundler was the final step in a

continuous process steel tube mill, which converted steel coil fresh from a steel plant to

tubing, from 2 by 2 inch to 18 by 18 square or round tubing, lengths of 20 to 80 feet. The

bundler organized the tubing at the end of the manufacturing process into banded bundles

suitable for loading onto flatbed truck or rail flat-cars. The bundler combined servo-

hydraulic linear cylinders with electric servo motors, in a number of cascaded electronic

drivetrains. I rewrote the entire software package. March 2007 – January 2008

Senior Motion control Controls Engineer, Vutek, Inc., Meredith NH New product

design/development. Primary focus was the design of a new, large format table printer

(200 square foot table). I did all of the kinematics for this project as well. May 2006 –

January 2007.

Equipment Engineer III, Corning, Inc., Corning NY, other states in the US, primarily

Asia (Korea, Japan, Taiwan). Manager for Software Development, plant equipment

installation, startup, debug, and commissioning of new manufacturing facilities under

construction throughout Asia. Contract project, January 2005 – July 2005.

Control Systems Engineer, MSC Automation, Wilmington, NC. Sole responsibility for all

electrical/controls bidding, specification, design, and construction in a custom-machine

job-shop. Each machine was a unique, custom design, specifically intended as a “one –

off”, for manufacturers such as Cooper Bussman, Tyco Electronics, Stanadyne, MSE,

Purolator, Corning, and others. The health of the owner/chief engineer of the company

deteriorated, causing a lay-off. September 2003 – January 2005.

Control Systems Engineer, Lampe & Malphrus Lumber, Smithfield NC. Solely

responsible for all automation systems in a highly automated lumber mill. The 2 plants

presented a variety of serious control issues stemming from a lack of continuous support,

and, many partially finished systems. Working through these problems increased

production capacity by about 20%, and improved quality 10%. Project Lead for various

complex control system changes to existing production centers in the plants. Designed

and installed a wireless network in both plants and connected plants together. Created a

management data analysis system for all production centers, moving the company away

from a variety of unconnected batch systems to a SCADA environment. Upgraded HMI-

Rsview Windows 3.11 systems to RsView32/Windows 2000. Converted machines from

AB ladder to AB IEC 1131 compliant code. Troubleshooting lead. June 2002 –

September 2003.

Senior Controls Engineering Technician III for Corning, Inc., Wilmington NC. Machine

controls software creation/experimentation, development, startup, first and second level

trouble-shooting, improvement on a variety of high-speed, co-coordinated motion, multi-

axis sequential-operation fiber-optic-thread manufacturing machines. Project lead to

build a clean-room based high speed 5 axis fiber screening machine using Steeplechase

and integrated iFIX SCADA. Designed and developed a winder historical database

system to log all machine events for the engineering group. Project lead for redesigning

Winder hardware architecture with new HMI processor and upgrade Windows 3.11 to

W2k. Established VME backplane communications in place of NIC-based co-ax and

connected 22 high-speed winding machines to the plant network. Improved success rate

for snag and thread sequence by 30%. Modified code to improve spool-to-spool transfer

rate by 15%. Designed and developed data acquisition and trend charts (Wonderware) for

auto-flange adjustments, dancer feedback, tractor speed, spindle speed, and thread

sequence trigger points that exposed and pinpointed problem areas. Designed and

developed closed loop fiber tension control and tuned spindle rate control. Converted

AFA algorithms to PID method. Rewrote winder PLC & AML code for auto-wrap

sequence. Work included 3 large, major new plant start-ups. Wrote machine specification

descriptions, troubleshooting guides, and ISO 9000 documentation as part of project

management. Participated in many different team efforts to improve the plant operation.

Rotating off-hours on-call, troubleshooting lead. November 1996 - October 2001.

EDUCATION Cape Fear Community College, A.S. Electrical Engineering 1996

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