Michael Shreve

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Address: ** **** **** ******

City: Media

State: PA

Zip: 19063

Country: USA

Phone: 610-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 120

Willing to Relocate

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Michael Shreve

20 E Glen Circle, Media PA 19063

cell: 610-***-****

abo3ue@r.postjobfree.com

Electrical Engineer with 27 years of project management experience designing, programming, and installing DCS & PLC

(Allen Bradley, Honeywell, Modicon, Texas Instruments, & Fisher) and HMI`s (CTC Interact, Intellution, PanelView,

PanelMate, and Wonderware) for the power generation, ceramic, chocolate, soup, and paper industries. Design and

installation of substations, power distribution panels, and MCC`s to power production equipment.

Experience

KIMBERLY CLARK CORPORATION Chester, PA

Engineer IV 8/2008 - current

* Designed, managed, and field installed a major upgrade project with new distribution conveyors, packaging

equipment, winders, and log saws for toilet paper production.

* Created preventive maintenance schedules, refurbished outdated controls systems, proactively improved machine

run-time by engineering modifications to original designs using modern controls to bring line up to full

commercialization potential.

* Maintained and updated paper machines controlled by Honeywell TDC3000 DCS and Modicon 984 PLC.

* I managed work for engineering interns.

CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY Camden, NJ

Project Engineer 10/2001 - 8/2008

* Developed and managed $2.6 million electrical budget for upgrade of a soup production line.

* Automated the operation of a 900 acre wastewater Sprinkler spray field at the Paris, TX plant and a 500 acre

Pivot-Arm spray field at the Maxton, NC plant to evenly distribute wastewater to the fields and to monitor

application rates through data collection for state permits. Automated spray plant equipment to balance equipment

run-time-hours with ControlLogix PLC and Wonderware HMI.

* Engineered, managed, and field installed Cognex Vision System across 56 soup production lines in 7 North American

plants to read two & three character can codes through Optical Character Verification and Recognition routines at a

rate of up to 1400 cans per minute.

* Electrical Project Engineering resource in design-to-startup of numerous projects, including ammonia

refrigeration systems, Pepperidge Farm bread production line, Soup-at-Hand production line, conveying systems

upgrades, packaging line upgrades and replacements, etc. Developed Wonderware HMI screens and ControlLogix PLC

programming for most of these projects.

* Converted Interact operator interface to Wonderware HMI for Prego production line at Sacramento.

* Designed and installed substations, power distribution panels, and MCC`s to power production equipment.

* I managed work for engineering interns.

HERSHEY FOODS CORPORATION Hershey, PA

Electrical Engineer (contract engineer) 3/1995 - 10/2001

* Engineer and design-to-startup on numerous projects as a PLC controls engineer, using Microstation for drafting

and design, and developing Intellution HMIs, with SLC-5/04, SLC-5/05, & ControlLogix PLC programming. Projects

include: new Fast-Break production line in Stuarts-Draft, VA; new Classic Caramel production line in Naugatuck, CT;

new licorice production in Memphis, TN; new Reese`s production in Oakdale, CA; new PayDay production in Robinson,

IL

* Installed new conveying & palletizing lines in Hershey, PA using DeviceNet and AB bar code scanners.

* Converted relay logic corn-starch molding machines in Reading, PA to PLC controls and Intellution,

* Construction coordinator on several projects, overseeing daily work of 30 to 40 electricians at peak project

installation times.

* Actively managed construction to save $350,000 electrical install cost on a project at Pennsburg, PA.

* Designed and installed substations, power distribution panels, and MCC`s to power production equipment.

* I managed work for engineering interns.

VIRGINIA POWER Richmond, VA

Electrical Engineer (contract engineer) 6/1988 - 3/1989

1/1991 - 3/1995

* Controls engineer, using Modicon 984 PLCs, with Hot Standby processors and redundant I/O systems to replace

hard-wired relay controls for Burner Management Systems (BMS) for the complete controls upgrade of three 500

megawatt coal-fired boilers at Mount Storm Power Station in WV. Responsible for design, programming, and the

operator interface on Fisher DCS for BMS on these units.

* Used Foxpro database to manage the installation of this project, including drawing development, Fisher Envox

pre-compiled code, PLC descriptors, electrician daily task sheets and reports, etc.

* Designed the Mount Storm Station operator control consoles consisting of eight CRT monitors with dedicated

keyboards and a hard-wired Master Fuel Trip section per Architectural Design Standards.

* Designed new sootblower control interface at Possum Point Power Station with a Wonderware HMI that allowed manual

and automatic sequencing setup of the soot blowers, and setup of custom sequences to be automatically scheduled

with drag-and-drop convenience.

* Through efficient programming eliminated the need for additional memory modules while matching the PLC code to

logic diagrams for easier troubleshooting and maintenance.

CORNING GLASS WORKS Corning, NY

Electrical Engineer 3/1989 - 1/1991

* Plant production engineer, responsible for daily maintenance and upgrades to equipment for a continuous ceramic

extrusion production line. This included pneumatic conveying of the dry ingredients, mixers, weighers, 400 hp co-

rotating screw extruders, 250 kW dielectric dryers, GEFanuc robotic handling of product to conveying systems, etc.

* Implemented a program for onsite rebuilds of the Fanuc robot, saving 6 months rebuild turn-around time, and

$60,000 per rebuild.

* Duties included documentation creation and updates, including Standard Operating Procedures, Preventive

Maintenance Procedures, and PLC and drawing maintenance.

Education

West Virginia University Institute of Technology

* Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1988

* Co-op terms

WV Department of Natural Resources, Hazardous Waste Division, Charleston, WV (1 term - 1984)

Virginia Power, Richmond, VA (3 terms 1985 - 1987)

o Assisted engineers with projects.

o Developed complete set of test loop diagrams for a hydro plant.

o Built an AutoCAD block library and custom drafting menus.

o Converted AutoCAD drawings to Microstation.

o Converted mainframe database to PC for major project use.

o Designed plant control board layouts and fabrication detail drawings.

o Modicon PLC programming per pre-developed logic diagrams.

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