DOMAIN

Locomotive electrical design

Airport people mover design

Chemical plant switch gear, motor control and instrumentation

Steel plant computer control, PLC control and instrumentation

SKILLS

CAD design using Smart Autocad Electrical

Electromechanical design including PLC's, switchgear, instrumentation and

motor controls

Programming PLC's and computers using C, C++, Visual Basic, ladder logic

and machine language

Project leadership including conducting design reviews

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

General Electric Transportation

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

- General Electric Transportation electrical integration

team.

o Developed new locomotive schematics on GE projects for

major railroads including Union Pacific, Burlington

Northern, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National using

smart Autocad Electrical.

o Developed locomotive wire lists using the GET Wilmor

package.

o Conducted design reviews on each of these projects.

o Worked with the factory in resolving issues with the

wiring harnesses on each of these projects.

- Achievements - Learned Smart Autocad Electrical, Gained

experience conducting design reviews

Brookville Equipment Corporation

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

- Lead engineer in the design and commissioning of a 2000

hp. Low emissions prototype locomotive (BMEX259) powered

by a solid state drive.

o Specified and purchased engines, generators, sensors,

switchgear, IGBT inverters and control computer.

o Debugged and demonstrated prototype locomotive on a

nationwide tour of Class I railroads.

- Participated in the design of a fleet of re-manufactured

trolley cars for the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit

Authority (SEPTA) in Philadelphia. Represented Brookville

Equipment Corporation at SEPTA providing field support

including servicing, maintaining and upgrading the re-

manufactured trolley cars.

- Achievements -

o Successfully lead the design of a prototype solid state

drive locomotive resulting in it's sale to the Central

California Traction Co.

o Successfully represented Brookville Equipment at SEPTA

fixing many wiring

problems when the trolleys were delivered in

Philadelphia.

Bombardier Transportation Inc.

SENIOR ENGINEER

- Complete responsibility for the hardware design of the

central computer control system for the Kuala Lumpur,

Rome, Houston, San Francisco, Seattle-Tacoma and Madrid

airport people mover systems.

o Performed the conceptual through final design in co-

operation with the software engineering group.

o Documented all designs using AUTOCAD 2000 in co-

operation with the Computer Aided Design Group.

o Wrote specifications for purchased equipment such as

custom consoles, industrial PC's and fault tolerant

(Stratus) computers.

o Designs included connecting all equipment over various

networks including Ethernet (10Base2, 10Base T and

100Base T) and serial (RS232, RS485 and RS422). Networks

were implemented using both hardwired and fiber optics.

- Communications based automatic train control system.

o Conceptual design of the ATCS vital communications

system.

o Hardware design and documentation for a prototype

communications based train control system. The system

was tested on the Bombardier test track.

- Achievements -

o Successfully designed central control systems linking

industrial computers over various network connections.

Dupont Chemical Corporation

SENIOR ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEER

- Electrical and Instrumentation project engineering for the

chemical process industry.

o Complete project responsibility for specifying and

purchasing instruments, switchgear and distributed control

systems for medium size projects in chemical plants.

- Achievements -

o Electromechanical design including instrumentation,

switchgear and motor controls in chemical plants.

United States Steel Corp., Research Laboratory

RESEARCH ENGINEER

- Designed and implemented a prototype microcomputer based

pickle line acid monitor and control system resulting in

annual savings of 1.1 million dollars

- Wrote the control program for and designed the interface to

an Allen Bradley programmable controller operating the case

hardener section of an oil well sucker-rod production line.

- Developed hardware and software for an embedded microcomputer-

based solid-state controller on a coal mine shuttle car.

- Developed a prototype computer system to predict roll

separating forces on a reversing type rolling mill

- Evaluated various types of instrumentation including strain

gauges, pyrometers etc. used in steel production.

- Achievements -

o Developed prototype designs connecting computers and

PLC's to instruments and electromechanical devices such

as relays, stepping motors and motor controllers in

steel mills

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. - MSEE, computer option

Penn State University, University Park, Pa. - BSEE

Community College of Allegheny County - Completed courses in C, C++ and

Visual Basic Programming Languages

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND LICENSES

Professional Engineers License - State of Pennsylvania

REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS

"Automatic Train Control Systems (ATCS) Communications Conceptual Design

Document" by B. E. Martin and Sherrie Fisher, October 1992

"Microcomputer-Based Solid-State Control of a Coal-Mine shuttle Car", B.

E. Martin, November 1978

"Description and Evaluation of Extensometer-Type Strain Transducers", J. F.

Laycak and B. E. Martin, June, 1976

"Design of a Microcomputer-Based Solid-State Direct-Current Controller for

Traction Drives", by C. D. Rogers, F. E. Acker and B. E. Martin, paper

presented to the Fifth Annual Conference on "Industrial and Control

Applications of Microprocessors", Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. March

19 through 21, 1979

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