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Project Manager Engineer

Location:
Houston, TX, 77478
Posted:
June 26, 2013

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Resume:

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Extensive experience as a “Project Manager” in refinery projects, managing big manpower in multi-disciplines,

coordinating groups of equipment and material acquisition, and logistic, instrumentation, control, contractors, construction

(civil and mechanical), testing, change orders, skate portable probers, online samplers, pre-startup and commissioning. In

new plants, plant expansion, revamps, turnaround or re-engineering, etc. Always tasks completion in schedule.

Experience / expertise: 27 years in Automation, DCS, PLC/SCADA, SIS, F&G and HMI’s, especially in refineries and

petro-chemical plants, as well wastewater treatment plants, power plants with DCS control, pharmacy-laboratories, fertilizing

plants, mineral plants, paper, etc.

17 Years working with Yokogawa equipment and generic interface PLCs (A-B, Modicon, GE, etc.), several years using

Wonderware, Genesis, Industrial control packages. DCS: Foxboro, Emerson / Fisher-Rosemount, Siemens, ABB / Bailey

and Johnson Controls.

Automation proposals included: Power man (DCS, SCADA, RTUs, field, contractor and subcontractor), field instrumentation,

third party equipment, building (RIBs, SEBs, etc.), FTAs, marshalling, MCCs, UPS, FAT, SAT, hardware and software test

protocols, commissioning and project documentation (DTIs, loop drawings, memory calc., etc.).

As Sr. Proposal Manager, I was responsible for automation estimations / proposals coordination. This has fine-tuned my

administrative skill-set, as well as my leadership skills in engineering. I am a team player, as well as an efficient team

organizer with intuitive leadership ability, and I have mastered working in a high-pressure, team environment. The following

is a sample of the duties I have fulfilled:

• Management of people, coordination of proposals, estimations review.

• Responsible for developing, creating, analyzing and evaluating risk, create metrics data key, service cost information within

established guidelines of customer requests for: price quotation, cost reductions/increases, scaling, projections, against

standards, cost impacts with respect to scope changes, labor, third party material and/or equipment, contractor, overhead

costing rates basic schedule equipment, resources manpower and scheduling impacts.

• Received request for quotation, bill of material of product, DTI's, drawing of product, sketches or topologies. Basic

description job project and broken down into pricing components. For medium and big projects generation bid schedules for

execution of project and payments.

• Generation of proposal experience, according EPC's rules, basis and requirements.

Bilingual: Spanish / English

U.S. permanent resident (Green card holder)

Salary expectation: (Open negotiation) annual salary

Relocation: NO Relocation

I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss my potential contributions to your company (represented) with you. Please

contact me at your earliest convenience.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

********@*****.*** M.P.: 281-***-**** B.P. 281-***-****

RESUME 2013 DCS Automation Engineer

AUTOMATION ENGINEER

Proposal Manager – Leadership – Project Manager

Over 15 years experience in Yokogawa, hardware design, application engineer in µXL, Centum XL, Centum CS,

Centum CS1000, CS3000 & Centum VP DCS systems, Lead Engineer, Sales Support Engineer and Proposal Sr.

Manager.

More than 7 years in PEMEX /IMP field instrumentation specifications, DCS specification, DCS prototype designer,

PLD control substitutions, Non-invasive acoustic flow measurement design, Office Manager and New technologies

investigator for control in offshore drilling and management of crude oil.

DCS Consultant in Mexican projects, Project Manager.

Teaching (control subjects) in the National Polytechnic Institute, Casco de Santo Tomas, Mexico City.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Yokogawa Corporation of America, Sugar Land Texas (From August 1995 until today)

Lead Engineer.

Hardware Lead Engineer, review and adjust proposal, management hardware, software and third party resources,

design, equipment specification, architecture and detail drawings, assembly, FAT, SAT and field support to final

user.

Sr. Proposal Manager

In Service Dept. analyzing the viability and risks for generating a proposal especially in Migrations from old

Yokogawa equipments such as YEWPACK (Mark series), Micro XL (basis BASIC), Centum XL (basis UNIX) and

Centum CS (basis UNIX) or different DCS brands to Centum CS3000 or CentumVP, explaining to the customer the

possible options, cost, time and advantages or disadvantages according to models and brands’ installation times and

creating the best possible proposal according the customer requirements. Calculating the “Bill of Materials”

hardware, software and buyouts, calculating labor and time estimation, travel expenses and other type of support such

as contractors, consultants, etc. Creating an Architecture sketch as proposal support and consolidating everything in

one document easy to understand.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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DCS Sales Support Engineer

Equivalent title used for the Japanese companies for “Technical Internal and External Support.

In Operations for Proposal office, supporting questions from sales dept. and customer about the selection of

hardware, software and different technical questions.

Finding and sending the printing material that support the customer requirements; in case of complex and very

special application investigating the solutions.

Support to operations proposals in Yokogawa legacy migrations.

Lead Engineer

Controlling the technical part of projects assisting the project manager in the economical limits, supervising the

request of the proper equipment and materials in real time.

Generating basic engineering, correcting drawings, being involved in the assembly of the equipments and cabinets

according to drawings, reviewing detailed engineering, supervising and reviewing applications according to customer

specifications and control requirements. Supervising the IFHT (internal factory hardware test), supervising with the

customer the FAT (factory assembly test), tailoring hardware and software test protocols, supporting the customer in

application and graphics review, supervising field installation and interconnection with field, supporting SAT (site

acceptance test) and supplying resources for commissioning.

Some projects: Criterion Port Allen, Ferro-Minera at Puerto Ordaz Venezuela, Williams Gas TX-3 Opal WO,

Nisseki ENB 3 Pasadena TX, Tamazula Sugar Mills, Mex, City of Eugene OR, Azcapotzalco 2000 Mexico City,

TULA MTBE Mex, etc.

Applications Engineer

Configuration, application programming in µXL, Centum XL, Centum CS1000, Centum CS3000, Safety System

ProSafe-PLC and hardware selection.

Applications and control design in several projects which included the adjustment and modification of graphical

displays, FAT Test, in projects like:

Kock Nitrogen Monroe LA, Marathon Oil, Wood Lake TX, British Petroleum Ref. Victoria TX, NASA (several

small projects including MCC’s, buildings 45 & 47, Houston TX, Solar Malampaya I & II in San Diego CA,

Azcapotzalco Torre de Control HP Mexico and many others.

Johnson Controls, Johnson-Yokogawa & Yokogawa Industrial

Project Manager, Lead Engineer and Applications Engineer

Originally started to work directly for Johnson Controls leading the Mexican Projects, after one month the

office changed name to Johnson-Yokogawa Mexico; upon the closing of the Mexican office was

relocated to work in Yokogawa Industrial, Dallas office.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Configuration, application programming in Centum XL and Micro XL for applications in:

Tula refinery TAME Plant Hgo. Mexico, Azcapotzalco Tank control, ERA (Ecology and Resources Associates)

Minatitlan Mexico.

GE special control for Moores Bridges Water Treatment Plant in Dallas FTA, installation and tuning in Norfolk VA,

PLC application in Fargo City Water plant in Fargo ND, Flow Measurement and Control for Oakland County MI,

British Petroleum Reactor No. 3 Graphics and virtual point connection and others.

IMP/PEMEX (Mexican Petroleum Institute of Petróleos Mexicanos, Government Institution)

Lead Engineer, Office Manager and Automation Projects Coordinator (from September 1985 to July

1992).

Starting as field instrumentation and equipment specification engineer in Petro-Chemical Plants, moving to

Development Group of SIPPI (Industrial & Petro-Chemical Plants) to lead the project for inexpensive 128 Loops

DCS “COMCO-D”, moving to SIPE (Exploration and Drilling Engineering) Develop Dept. to lead Non-Invasive

and Invasive Flow Measurement for Drilling liquids of very high density; later promoted to Equipment Substitution

Office Manager for substitution of PEMEX Black Boxes using PLD (Programmable Logic Device) technology in

Land sites and Offshore, promoted to Control & Advance Instrumentation Coordinator for management DCS,

system and equipment specifications, requisitions and P.O.’s, inspection in factory, FATs, SAT’s and supported the

final customer of PEMEX Exploration in the installation and commissioning in “Turn-Key DCS Projects”

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT and Contractor

Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo GMD (January to August 1995).

Field Manager for DCS (Provox) Installation and Retrofit in Combine Plant (PEMEX) Tula Refinery

Control y Aplicaciones de España CAE (August 1992 to December 1994).

Project manager for Tula Refinery (PEMEX), Advance Control for Frontier Measurement with TDC3000 and VAX

Profimatic Advance Control.

Control y Aplicaciones de España (CAE, Dragados Group) (August 1992 to December 1994).

Project Manager for Industrial Gas Station with skids motor test in FORD Motor Co. Cuautitlán, México.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Adaptación de Oficinas, S.A. (October 1983 to July 1985).

Project Manager for Computer Network in SOMEX Bank Metropolitan Projects (39 branches), Mexico City

Bristol Babcock de México, S.A. de C.V.

Modification of gas flow (AccuRate) calc algorithms using ACCOL Program.

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EDUCATION

INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL I.P.N. (1975 -1980) Mexico City.

National Polytechnic Institute, College of Engineering in Electronic Communications “ESIME”

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science.

Mayor in Acoustics, minor in Control

C.E.C. Y T. No. 4 En Ingeniería y Ciencias Fisicomatemáticas (1972-1975) Mexico City.

From I.P.N. Mathematical & Physics Associate Degree

Industrial Electrical Technician

University of Florida (1981-1983) SFC Gainesville, Fl.

Mexican Government Scholarship

Industrial Electric Engineering, Computer Science Applied

HONORS & ACTIVITIES

PATENT OF INVENTION 1989

Group Patent “Distributed Control (128 loops)” COMCO-D

Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo

PATENT OF INVENTION 1991

Ultrasonic Density Meter for Drilling Liquids of Very High Density

Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo

PUBLICATION’s

“Minimum Troubles in Electronic Boards”

IMP Magazine and Gazette ESIME 1989

“Using PLD’s”

IMP Magazine 1989

TEACHING (1985 -1993) Mexico City.

Industrial Process Control & Electronics

Professor at National Polytechnic Institute

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SKILLS

QUALIFICATIONS

Highly inquisitive, creative and resourceful, honest, professional, very responsible, I am a team player as well

work team organizer with intuitive leadership ability to demonstrate initiative and assertiveness, the

ability to plan and organize work in an efficient manner, and the ability to work well under stress and time

pressures

Strong problem solving skills in developing understanding variables and root cause analysis & effects.

Ability to recognize inappropriate and confidential information, protecting the confidentiality of customer

and company information, adaptability to changing priorities, ability to multitask and respond quickly to

urgent analysis requests.

Experience as a Project Manager in refinery projects, managing big manpower in various disciplines,

coordinating groups of equipment and material acquisition, and logistic, instrumentation, control,

construction (civil and mechanical), testing, change orders, skate portable probers, online samplers, pre-

startup and commissioning. Completing tasks, always in schedule.

LANGUAGES

English and Spanish

OBJECTIVES

To work in a solid and sincere company (healthy), to secure a position, which would enable me to broaden my

current skills and challenge my various abilities in the petro-industry.

US STATUS

U.S. Resident (Green Card).

KEYWORDS

Project Manager, Proposal Manager, Leadership, Engineer in Industrial Automation.



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