Vitaliy Plaks
Powder Springs, GA 30127-4408,
Home Phone: 770-***-****
Cell Phone: 678-***-****
E-Mail: ******@*******.***
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
More than twenty years of experience in maintenance and
troubleshooting of electrical, mechanical, electronic, pneumatic, and
hydraulic equipment. Have experience in AutoCAD and PLC/HMI, VFD
programming. Excellent troubleshooting, problem solving and decision
making abilities.
WORK HISTORY
Service Engineer, EMA Inc, Norcross, GA
April Installation, commissioning and service Variable Frequency Drives for
2011-Dece different applications. Repair drives on component level. Design and
mber 2012 implement different automation projects with PLCs and VFDs.
2010-2011 Field Service Engineer, Clyde Bergemann, Atlanta, GA
Installation, start-up, commissioning, and service of boiler cleaning
equipment, both mechanical and electrical parts.
Editing PLC/HMI programs.
2007- Field Service Engineer, Haver Services, Conyers, GA
2009 Installation, start-up, commissioning, and service of liquid filling
machines, packaging machines, and conveyor systems.
Writing and modifying PLC/HMI programs.
2000- Electronic Technician, Southern Tea, Marietta, GA
2007 Startup, troubleshooting, and maintenance of packaging equipment.
Design new controls using different brands of PLCs, (Allen Bradley,
Mitsubishi, Siemens, Keyence, Telemecanique, etc) and improve controls
for running equipment.
Design and configure new controls with different brands of VFDs
(Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Telemecanique, etc).
1997- Lead Mechanical Assembly Technician, Phoenix Automation Inc, Norcross,
2000 GA
Mechanical assembly of custom design machinery, mainly for textile
industry. Installation of motors, gearboxes, belts, and similar
equipment; assembly of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment.
Building electrical panels and machine wiring.
Initial and in-the-field machine start-up.
1995- Technician, Computer Data Exchange, Marietta, GA
1997 Component level test and repair of printed circuit boards (printers
and card readers).
Component level troubleshooting and repair of printers.
1986- Maintenance Manager, EZK Transformer Plant, Moscow, Russia
1995 Directed and supervised work of a fifteen person team of electricians,
electronic technicians and mechanics.
Responsible for maintenance of all operating equipment, reduction of
equipment downtime, and installation and start-up of new equipment.
1975- Controls engineer, EZK Transformer Plant, Moscow, Russia
1985 Designed electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic controls for machining
equipment.
Start-up and commissioning of designed equipment.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Combined BS-MS in Electro-Mechanical Engineering,
Moscow Aviation University, Moscow, Russia, 1975.
Short course: "Industrial and power electronics in various
applications",
Leningrad Polytechnic University, St Petersburg, Russia, 1976.
Short course: "Power electronics in VFDs applications",
Moscow Energeticheskiy Institute, Moscow, Russia, 1983.