Engineer Project
Resume:
Kevin King
Principal Project Engineer
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Education
B. S. Industrial Technology, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado, 1992
Graduate course work, Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Distinguishing Qualifications
Over the past 23 years, has acquired a varied controls engineering background in power systems/distribution, electric machines/motors, power electronics, instrumentation Control Network setup engineering and diagnosis specializing in OPC loading and scheduling
Excellent skills in communications with DCS and other instruments to retrieve data in to other platforms such as PLC, SQL, and OPC for data retrieval
Proficient in Networking network administration data storage and retrieval hardware redundancy cost benefit analysis for networking components security and virus protection
Tests and verified security of VPN connections
Terminal services Citrix and WN systems, Intergraph Smart plant instrumentation and Electrical 7.0 database setup and seed file installation and template design
Relevant Experience
Representative Projects and Dates of Involvement
Jedson \Procter & Gamble OH 2016-2017 Relocate R&D facility from existing site to Mason Business Center. All module making, PRL and product development and test systems to a modern facility and integrate or upgrade existing systems with new Archestra system using P&G OPERA tool kit.
Whiting ND 2013-2015 Gas processing center in Colorado and the gathering systems at Razor Field. Upgrade existing Robinson lake gas plant new compressors and booster stations screens network design and radio system specification and fiber upgrades Panel design and system layout.
Arrow Pipelines ND 2012-2013 develop a new LACT gathering system and SCADA control system using Ignition and existing Allen Bradley 1400 PLC systems design radio back bone and infrastructure to support SCADA control and PLC programing.
Whiting ND 2012-2013 New oil terminal Wonderware and upgrade the gathering systems at Sanish Field and Pronghorn for easy system maintenance and addition of wells. Upgrade existing Robinson lake gas plant screens for easy navigation.
WPX ND 2012-2013 SCADA System Upgrade and installation Belfield. Develop and Configure New Well Head Control And Monitoring System PLC Program and HMI Interface with Fisher Rock and Cygnet SCADA system. Support new and existing wellhead sites being installed Supporting legacy Oliem Teck Radio System and Twido PLC developing user manual for the new system and documenting the old system .
Whiting ND 2011-2012 SCADA System Upgrade and installation Belfield. Develop and Configure WonderWare Archestra System and PLC Program. Support newPlant being installed at the Belfield ND.
Resolute Natural resources SCADA System Upgrade and installation Aneth Utah 2011-2011. Upgrade Aneth Plant with Wonderware Archestra system and screens for new Process system
Wichita ASR KS 2010-2011 City of Wichita Kansas Aquifer Storage and Recovery system 2.2M SCADA system using multiple GE RX3I PLC’s. The city will uses a Wonderware Archestra SCADA system that controls a surface water treatment plant and distributes water through a pipeline to a network of wells to either recharge the aquifer or recover the stored water for the city of Wichita.
Whiting ND 2010-2010 SCADA System Upgrade and installation Stanley. Debug and trouble shoot WonderWare Archestra System and PLC support. Support on turnaround and new equipment being installed at the plant. Installed grid control to display data from the SQL XPOC system. And General changes and upgrades and support to the Gas plant and well sites.
BP Ulysses Kansas 2009-2010 Control System Upgrade re write the compressor controls for 16 Cooper compressor units. The system controls the air fuel ratio the spark and the entire control of the compressor systems. The project uses a ControLogix PLC and a panel view HMI. The system is completely configurable from the panel view HMI scaling alarms and shutdowns are all configurable. Program is easily changed for the 16 different configurations by the customer. System interfaces with the existing station controls and the Televent SCADA control system.
Resolute Natural resources SCADA System Upgrade and installation Aneth Utah 2008-2009. Upgrade existing 2 sites to Wonderware Archestra system rework database and screens for new archestra 10,000 point SCADA system
BP SIL-LOPA SIL2 Safety Systems Superior Tuscola Green Springs and Crane – 2007 to 2008; Design panels communication networks to comply with EXIDA review of the plants and work with operations to design a safety system that works with the process and the desired safety criteria from EXIDA. Safety system is SIL2 requirement using ControLogix L61s Safety processor and 1756 SIL2 Rated I/O communicating to remote racks with ControlNet and to the HMI using Ethernet.
Automation Engineer Cryogenic Plant Automation Upgrade, Western Gas Resources Waynoka, Oklahoma- 2006 to 2007; 1500-2000 data points Matrix DCS control system talking to 2 processors and 4 Ebims. WonderWare HMI communicating to matrix and communicating to 5 Murphy millennium processors controlling the compressors 1 Allen Bradley SLC500 2 Allen Bradley Compactlogix 2 chromatographs and 15 ABB total flow computers ESD and safety system. Wonder ware application with active factory and NAD development for consistent screens between 5 control stations.
New Amine Plant, Black Hills Energy New Mexico – 2005; Automation Engineer Startup and commissioning of new plant to integrate all control and safety systems and display on HMI.
Automation Engineer Natural Gas Plant Upgrade, El Paso Energy, CIG Asset – 2005; Replace 50 Ifix SCADA nodes system to WonderWare 7.11
Automation Engineer - Natural Gas Compressor Startups And Station Control And Safety System, El Paso Energy Trinidad, Colorado; Fort Lupton, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Rock Springs, Wyoming; Keys, Oklahoma; Beaver, Oklahoma; Bivins, Kansas; Springfield, Colorado; Kit Carson, Colorado – 2004 to 2005;
Automation Engineer Steam And Electrical Generation Control System Integration, Calpine Geysers Hieldsburg, California – 2002 to 2003; iFix and Allen Bradley Controllogix PLCs Integrating Bailey, ABB Honeywell scan 2000 and3000 DCS Information in to iFix. Integrating OSI PI in to iFix and developed custom application to run in iFix to determine which tags were off scan sort by alarm area. Priority store all events in to a SQL data base and recall events back in to iFix by the operator requests. When complete the system will have 20,000 OPC tags control 15 power plants and provide corporate with real time data from all plants to enable outage scheduling and CBA of all of the plants.
Automation Engineer Water Reclamation Project, City Of Carlsbad Carlsbad, San Diego – 2002; 250 points RSVIEW SE distributed slc500 plc reverse osmosis filter control chemical monitoring and closed loop control for sodium hypochlorite and all chemicals to control PH. Connected existing plant to new system.
Automation Engineer Wastewater Treatment Plant, Escondido Harrf Escondido, California – 2003; WonderWare 1 development using NAD two SCADA six control stations, and 4 view nodes and a Allen Bradley PLC5 configuration controlling entire upgraded side of the plant. All data feeds in to a SQL server where reports can be generated per operator and managements requests.
Automation Engineer- Songs Nuclear Generating Plant San Onofre, California – 2005; Triconix safety system for HVAC cooling system for control room and controls system
Automation Engineer Omni Flow Computer Troubleshooting, Sempra Rosarito, Mexico – 2005; Rewire, document Omni flow computer that is currently installed and reading 10% low. Redesigned and reprogrammed inputs going to Omni flow and GC to correct the 10% loss of flow going out of the plant and set up second Omni to act as a stand by CPU incase primary Omni fails.
Automation Engineer Natural Gas Custody Transfer, Sempra, Baja Norte Pipeline Mexico to United States – 2005; Monitoring leak detection and gas distribution to 4 power plants custody transfer to and from Sempra Mexico to El Paso, USA. Citect HMI Sixnet PLC and Fisher ROC flow control.
Automation Engineer Airline Baggage System Retrofit, City And County Of Denver Denver International Airport, Colorado – 2001 to 2002; United Airlines team member assigned to develop and streamline PLC programs using existing hardware and new HMI to respond to the needs of the air carrier United. System consisted of inter-linking a network of PLC systems over 215 miles of track and communicate to master sorting system to ensure 99% accurate sort of bags going to the planes. Square D PLCs and Intellution FIX Dynamics.
Automation Engineer Sorting Conveyor System, Samsonite Denver, Colorado – 2002; Project involved Paradigm (soft PLC) and Intellution FIX Dynamics (HMI database query).
Project Engineer Iron Ore Pellet Plant, Hibbing Taconite Company – 02/98 to 2000; Designed schematic and wiring diagrams, switch gear/MCC layouts. Mapping of PLC I/O addresses for various PLCs. Configuration of Allen Bradley communications network. Created custom alarming for digital control systems to decrease downtime, directing maintenance personnel to source of problem. Designed custom human-machine-interface for Bentonite delivery systems and concentrator lubrication oil system using Allen Bradley Panel view 900-C. Programmed the upgrade of nine 6000 horse power mills and 2 pellet lines including the filters and the balling systems.
Project Engineer Y2K Analysis, Newmont Gold Denver, Colorado – 1998; Implemented custom reports.
CEMS Installation And Certification, U. S. Government Worldwide
Project Engineer Responsible for worldwide installation and certification of CEMS to meet federal regulations (CFR-60 and 75) and World Bank specifications.
Mining QA/QC, National Energy Commission Utah. Project Engineer Designed and managed QA/QC procedures for federally owned Pit 9.
Title IV Compliance Various Clients and Locations. Project Engineer Nationwide client assistance creating facility emissions reports and developing electronic data reports (EDRs) for Title IV compliance for State permits and Federal regulations. Regulatory interpretation of both the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 60, 63, 72-75 and various state regulations. Wrote source-specific guidance to assist plant operators in understanding Federal and State regulations. Wrote operating, maintenance and monitoring plans for continuous emissions monitoring systems. Developed DPA-approved monitoring plans for large sources covered in 40 CFR Part 60 and 75.
Honors and Awards
Wilf Hinz Memorial Award for excellence.
Specialized Skills
Archestra Certified.
System trouble shooting and restoration
Design and layout of project electrical and schematic/wiring diagrams. I/O interconnections, design, control network layout, electrical power layout, and design details
Programming and communications configuration of Programmable Logic Controllers: Allen Bradley SLC and 5 series, Modicon Quantum, Udicore 4001/6001, Square D, RTP, Step7, Arcom, Lantronics, software Winlogic, RSlogiX,Plant PAX, RTP Netarrays, Matrix, DeltaV, CIMPLICITY, General Electric’s LM 90 and Taylor software.
Programming, configuration and communications interface AB Panelview; RSview, ME and SE; WonderWare; Citec; Proficy; Ifix; fix 32; Delta V;Ignition.
Proficient in using Microsoft software products including Windows Back office NT/2000/XP/W7/W10.Net, Terminal services, Citrix, Word Excel, Access, Internet Explorer, PC Anywhere, RDP, ReachOut and WinZip.
Customer Contacts
Include name, client, address, phone number, fax number, email address, and project aspect on which he/she can comment from recent successful projects.
Employment History
2016- Present Industrial Automation Gurus (Denver Metro)
2013–2016 EPC Energy Services. Greenwood Village (Denver Metro)
2010-2012 – Samuel Engineering., Greenwood Village (Denver Metro)
2007-2010 – CH2mhill. Greenwood Village (Denver Metro)
2003 – 2007, Technical Lead Hinz Automation Inc., Denver, CO
1998 – 2003, Project Engineer Hinz Automation Inc., Denver, CO
1993 – 1998, CISCO, Englewood, CO – Environmental Engineer
1989 – 1992, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado – NCVECS Test Engineer
1989 – 1990, Unique Mobility, Golden, Colorado – Test Engineer
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