Power Plant Electrical Engineer

Location:

Lakeland, FL

Posted:

September 27, 2012

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Richard Smith

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City: Lakeland

State: FL

Zip: 33813

Country: USA

Phone: 863-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 110

Willing to Relocate

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831 Hamilton Place Drive, Lakeland, Florida ********-***-*************@********.***

Richard LaDonald Smith

Objective September 17, 2012

Work as a manager at an Electric Utility.

Experience

Jan.2012-Present

Lakeland Electric

Lakeland, Fl.

Resource Engineer III

Reassigned to Power Supply Department, tasked with developing Lakeland Electric Generation Resource Plan. Recently completed training on PowrSym3 Modeling Software, have proceeded to work with Lakeland Electric`s PowrSym3 Consultant developing a power resource model for use at Lakeland Electric.

Feb.2009-Jan.2012

Manager of System Control

Selected as Coordinator for Subject Matter Experts on twenty four NERC Standards. The NERC Audit of Lakeland Electric in Oct. 2010 resulted in no NERC Violations

Tasked to coach, train, mentor NERC Certified Operators assisted in rewrite of Lakeland Electric`s Training Program to include PER-005 Requirements, assisted in updating the Standard Operating Procedures in System Control to provide guidelines and explicit procedures that better identify the operator`s responsibility in meeting NERC Requirements.

NERC Certified as Reliability Coordinator Operator 12/29/2011.

April 2008-Feb. 2009

R J Covington Consulting

Austin, Texas

Electrical Engineer

Assisted Municipal and Cooperative clients with transition from Zonal Market to new Nodal Power Market and attended fifteen ERCOT Training Classes on the Nodal Power Market.

Assisted a manufacturing client, to investigate unusually high number of cogeneration facility forced outages. Found in my investigation that cogeneration facility had incorrectly placed generation synchronism mechanism on the wrong side of a -Delta- -Y- metering point and was closing the generator 30 degrees out of phase with the utility bus, thus accounting for significant mechanical issues resulting in a high forced outage rate.

OCT. 2002-Mar. 2008

Traverse City Light and Power

Traverse City, Mi.

Executive Director

Responsible for demolition and sale of a 25 MW coal power plant. Honduran Investor provided the manpower to disassemble and ship this power plant to Honduras for reassembly this resulted in a net savings in demolition costs of $750,000 and income from the sale of $400,000.

Tasked with reviewing options for new base load renewable energy source/ successfully applied for and received a grant from the Public Service Commission of Michigan for $400,000 for a feasibility study for a variety of renewable energy sources.

Tasked with doing a cost of service study/unbundling study /rate increase study to determine

adjustments in rates for various service classifications and amount of electric rate increase/We were able to minimize this rate increase by successfully petitioning the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) to allow TCL&P`s Transmission System to be included in MISO`s Bulk Electric Transmission System even though it is only 69 KV which resulted in an annual payment to TCL&P of $1.67 million

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Richard LaDonald Smith

NOV.1994-JULY 2002

Brownsville Public Utility Board

Brownsville, Texas

Director of Power Supply

Worked as a team member in acquisition of 105 MWs of 500 MW Duke Energy Plant, in addition construction of 35 MWs of distributed generation for peak shaving which provided strategic emergency energy sources during Hurricanes

Tasked with providing power market opportunities to reduce overall cost of service to PUB Customers:

Year Project Details Net Benefit

1997/1999 Resource swap Reduced transmission cost 4.38 million

OKLA./San Miguel Trans. Cost Method=V.A.M.M

1998/2001 Reg. Services Reduced Generation Costs 2.8 million

Contract with Reliant

1999/2000 Resource Swap Reduced Generation Costs 1.60 million

Silas Ray/ Fonterra Trans. Cost Method=V.A.M.M .

2001/2003 Revised Gas Trans. Reduced gas Transport Cost--$0.29 million

Contract with Valero Converted to Partial to Non Firm

2001 Sold Unit #8 Sold 27 yr. old Ft4 Twin Pak 6.30 million

48 MW Turbine ( Over Appraisal

)

1996/2003 Power Marketing Reduced Net Heat Rate 16.0 million

Contract/Tenaska Purchasing Economy Power

TOTAL ALL BENEFITS 31.37 million

Developed a risk management policy and procedures manual for power supply worked as a team member in developing a policy and manual for limiting PUB`s risk by first establishing a Risk Oversight Committee (ROC) and writing a PUB Strategic Power Plan. These actions formed a solid foundation for a team review of power supply options for PUB going forward.

Purchased Tampa Electric`s Lineman Training Program and recertified all PUB Linemen to improve their working skills and safety awareness.

Obtained ERCOT certification as a system operator in 2000. Completed a settlement negotiation with Westinghouse on the Silas Ray Power Plant that was constructed in 1998. This unit was never able to achieve air permit limits for CO and NOX and thus Westinghouse finally agreed to install an SCR. Completed a settlement negotiation with Westinghouse on the Silas Ray Power Plant that was constructed in 1998. This unit was never able to achieve air permit limits for CO and NOX and thus Westinghouse finally agreed to install an SCR at their cost.

OCT.1992 -AUG.1994

Four County Electric Member Cooperative

Burgaw, N. C.

Manager of Engineering and operations Provided methods to reduce cost of power to our consumers by Expanding the existing Interruptible power program from 1.3 MWs to 26.8 MWs by assisting large industrial customers with peaking generator installations, largest site developed was 10.5 MWs. Increased reliability in Load Management System by initiating the replacement of the existing Zellweger MPC Controller with a new microprocessor based controller, also acquired my North Carolina Unlimited Electrical Contracting License for Four County EMC`s use in installing load control devices in customer facilities.

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Richard LaDonald Smith

Reduced outages due to trees blowing into lines by successfully implementing a new trade-a-tree program at Four County EMC and in one year removed over 500 trees in conflict

o with transmission and distribution lines.

OCT.1990-SEPT.1992

Tri-County Electric Cooperative

Mt. Vernon, Il.

Manager of Engineering Provided methods to reduce the cost of power to consumers by expanding the existing load management program from 3MWs to 16 MWs by providing Tri-County Cooperative Customers with turnkey generator installations controlled by Tri-County to shave coincident system peak demand. Tasked with expanding Energy Management System from Water Heaters control only/ I upgraded the existing load management system to include air conditioning, electric heat, and peak shaving distributed generation systems.

JAN.1986-OCT.1990

Department of Defense

Scott Air Force Base

Manager of Energy/ Military Air Lift Command Developed Energy Conservation Program for fourteen MAC Bases by implementing energy conservation programs at all fourteen MAC Bases and as a result reduced energy consumption by 3.5 percent on an annual basis. Wrote justifications for and programming for MAC Energy Improvement Projects/ I was able to justify and then programs over 5 million dollars worth of projects in the Power Improvement Program. I successfully developed conceptual designs for energy improvement projects submitted these to the Pentagon and received approval of funding from the Productivity Investment Fund.

JAN.1984-DEC.1985

Chance Load Management

Hazelwood, Mo.

Sr. Applications Engineer Two Way Automatic Comm. System. (TWACS) Tasked with installation of TWACS Load Management Systems at customer locations/Installed the first six six TWACS System at customer locations on budget and on schedule. Tasked with trouble shooting system to improve performance of equipment/Originated the development of a system improvement and corresponding patent that increased the two way communication performance from 60% to 97%. This system improvement, adjustment of the firing timing to compensate for distribution system resonate frequency changes, is still in use today.

Dec.1973-Dec.1983

Illinois Power Company

Decatur Il.

Gas and Electric Operations Experienced in electric and gas operations management; Electrical Engineer in Non Conformance Review Group, Clinton Power Station Worked as gas engineer on distribution work orders which included new gas main extensions, renewal of existing gas mains by direct burial replacements, and gas main renewal by plastic pipe insertion, gas regulator station rebuilds and new gas regulator installations, and odorant station upgrades. Worked also as assistant gas superintendent in gas meter shop and served as gas supervisor on call for three years.( one week per month) During 4-week strike, worked on line crew for electric operations; and gained familiarity with

day-to-day electric operations and interest in same. Worked with electric operations on major distribution projects for four years. Served as Electrical Supervisor on call 4 years. ( one week per month) During a major ice storm, assisted in development of new procedure for handling system outages. Procedure was used throughout Illinois Power. Engineering duties included underground residential electrical distribution in new subdivisions; carried out load studies, fuse coordination, was responsible for work of eight engineering clerks, two draftsmen and department budgets. Completed design for replacement of Champaign and Urbana downtown underground commercial systems; selected cable and assisted in implementation of new system of connectors; method standardized by company and was used in all service areas.

SCADA System Analyst Worked with system control operators in developing graphic interfaces and displays for SCADA that were configured as the system allowed to what the operators requested. Developed electrical data base on schedule/When given this task the electrical data base development was six weeks behind schedule we were able to prepare and deliver data base on schedule within the next year. Worked on Clinton Power Station Stop Work Order Electrical Team responsible for expediting the lifting of seven electrical stop work orders. Under the direction of Stone and Webster Site Management./I assisted in rewriting the electrical cable tray, conduit, instrumentation, and cable installation procedures and obtaining approval for these improved processes from the NRC.

EDUCATION:

January 1972-January 1974

University of Illinois

Urbana, Il.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

Power System Option for BSEE

Training/Certifications:

NERC Certified Reliability Coordinator Operator(2011)

ERCOT Certified System Operator(2000)

Licensed Unlimited Master Electrician (1994)

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Richard LaDonald Smith