Robert C. Owens

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Covington, L A. **433

225-***-****

E mail: acea2v@r.postjobfree.com

RESUME for

ROBERT C. OWENS SR .

Summary of Achievements:

I have experience in engineering, design, coordination and development of piping and instrument

drawings, loop drawings, wiring diagrams, junction box wiring, electronic board level trouble

shooting, drawing and reading of electronic schematics, and lay out drawings for several

different types of instrumentation projects. Also familiar with the engineering of various types of

field instrumentation including control valves, writing instrument specification data sheets and

procurement of the instruments.

Project Engineering for upgrades in a refinery setting for over 2 years from conception of project

to startup. Multi discipline engineering of this project (i.e. mechanical, civil, piping, process,

electrical, instrumentation, control system, etc). Managed design team and construction.

Manage and coordinate various types of projects for Engineering, communications, computer

systems, instrumentation, oil production, etc.

Worked over 11 years offshore and on land oil field in the position that is known today as a

completion engineer.

Engineering and programming of various vendors’ PLC and DCS hardware and software.

Configuration of both complex and simple control algorithms in many different

p rogramming languages. Development of several databases for many different applications

required for Instrumentation and Controls Systems Engineering throughout the Petroleum

and Chemical Industry. Designing and drawing H M I operational graphics using many

d ifferent manufacturers’ PLC and DCS systems. I am very knowledgeable using IEEE 1131

s tandards programming languages. This allows me to go from PLC to PLC or DCS to DCS

w ith very li t t le t raining specific to the manufacturer used. Programming and design for the

most part is very similar between vendors, just a different key stroke or two.

Programming and installation of various telecommunication devices such as radar guided

i nstruments with radio communication to PLC. Programming the PC, PLC, DCS, and field

devices allowing them to t ransmit and received required data. Allowing the customer to

reduce his maintenance budget and provided a much more accurate reading of all product

t ank levels on a continuous basis.

Review shutdown logic for emergency shutdown system, make changes where necessary

and documenting the entire program. Writing a complete operation's manual during field

testing of each shutdown scenario both in technical and simple verbiage for operating

t raining. This manual explained in detail what caused the shutdown and how to recover

f rom the shutdown the most efficient manner to save life, t ime, and money for the customer.

Writing of startup procedures and operations manual, describing how to control the entire

u nit in the most efficient manner. Developing and documenting the operations of each

complex loop strategies. Help in bringing units on line, tuning of loops, and t rouble

shooting. This resulted in finding many process, instrument, mechanical design errors

causing the customer to reevaluate the entire unit, changing out instruments, redesigning

p iping and adding two additional column giving them the desired quality of product.

Lead Instrument and Controls system Engineering for refurbishing of a shutdown

A mmonia Plant. Also author and presenter for the published material "Re-Instrumentation

of an Existing Ammonia Plant" published April 15, 1996 for the Gulf Coast Ammonia

P roducers Association. This gave the company a big boost in business throughout the Globe

by Ammonia Producers.

Coordination and development of a complex M icrosoft Access data management program to

automate data exchange between engineering disciplines associated with various

engineering projects. Giving the company and edge when bidding on various products by

cutting down on man hours required to fill in various specification, drawings, and other

documents required to successful completion of projects. This also eliminated many errors

d ues to verbal communication of information needed during a multi discipline engineering

p roject

Control Engineering, safety shutdown design, implementation, operator t raining, engineer

t raining, and startup assistance for a Wet Lap machine, bail handling system, and bail

conveyors along with associated equipment needed for operations located in Mississippi

R iver Corp. recycle paper mill. Wrote an operator's t raining manual used for t raining and

guidelines for everyday operation of the Wet Lap equipment. Giving the client the ability to

meet customer's demand and provide a backup system allowing them t ime to correctly

maintain the exciting system.

Successful completion of accuracy f low calculation upgrade and start up assistance for

Pump Station #1 of the Alaskan Pipeline using an Allen Bradley PLC and magnetic f low

meters. Giving the customer full control over the many companies pumping crude through

t he Alaskan Pipeline insuring fairness and conforming to governmental laws and

regulations.

Acquired a working knowledge in several of today's DCS/PLC software, including:

Honeywell, Moore Products, Siemens, Bailey, Allen Bradley, Crestron, Modicon, and other

systems. Windows 3.1 to xx, Access, dBase, Excel, Access, MS DOS, Unix, VAX, Pascal, C++,

A DA, etc.

Training Designers and Engineers in a classroom setting giving them the advantage of

k nowing ISA standards for symbols shown on P&ID, PFD and loop drawings. Provide the

company with a well-rounded understanding of the design requirements and standards of

common good engineering practices.

Writing of Instruction Manual, and presenting a complete analysis of ORCAD and PSPICE

electrical and circuit simulation programs. Developing and programming an interface to

combine the two programs into one allowing students to do analog and digital circuit

simulations with one interface. This resulted in a grant given to the University for the

continuing the research and software development by the university after my graduation.

E xperience:

ConsultNet December 9, 3013 to present

One Shell Square

New Orleans LA

Sr. Process Controls Engineer

Safety Engineering; generating Cause and Effects, Alarm Management for upstream Oil

and Gas Production field and pre-pipeline t ransportation.

C learwater Paper Corp April 2011 to December 9, 2013, Arkansas City AR .

Sr. Project Engineer Systems Controls Engineer

Manage M aintain, and upkeep of all Control Systems.

Engineering migration from TDC3000 to Experion

Engineering replacement of Honeywell Logic Managers to Allen Bradley PLC

Implementation of new projects and design of process improvements, Manage capital

p rojects. Control Spending, etc. Upgrade of TDC to Experion.

Experion R401, TDC 300, Allen Bradley PLC, Honeywell Logic Manager, Honeywell PLC,

etc.

Davies Engineering, September 2010 to April 2011, Gonzales, L A.

Sr. Instrument Engineer Manager:

Manage Inst rument and Controls Engineering and Design for a grass root $350,000,000.00

Polymer facility.

2007 – July 2010 Central Merchant Services L LC Central, LA.

Owner/Operator

Project manager and engineer over capital projects, including PLC and DCS configuration.

A lso, advertising sales, design of ads, account management, research for articles of interest

to the public, wri ting of the articles, photography, and distribution to over 12,000 homes for

a local magazine.

2005 - 2007 EnGlobal Engineering (Company name change from RPM) Baton Rouge, LA.

Senior Project Engineer

M anage and coordinate maintenance, reliability, and small capital projects for Exxon Mobil

Refinery and plastics plant.

Controlling meetings for many different clients covering P&ID review to Hazards of

operations using many different types of processes. Implementation of safety shutdown

system in new PLC to replace existing outdated shutdown systems.

2004 - 2005 Professional Temp. Services L LC, Baton Rouge, LA.

Owner / Operator (Contract Services)

Design, programming, and graphics configuration of Crestron home automation system.

T hese systems included but, not limited to, home security, video monitoring, and home

t heater systems.

Building of personal computers and installing software to meet the customer's needs and

t utoring the customer on how to utilize their personal computers along with the installed

software.

2003 - 2004 Shaw (Stone and Webster Engr.) Baton Rouge, LA

Sr. Control System / Inst rument Engineer

Testing of new control algorithms and tuning of loops in new DCS system.

Checking instrument specifications and design for correctness.

2001 - 2003 TEQPRO Profess. Services, Inc. Baton Rouge, LA.

Sr. Controls and Instrument Lead Engineer

M y task included shutdown system checking and correcting when needed, Honeywell TDC

3000 field acceptance test, and startup assistance.

2000 - 2001 VECO-Bertrand, Inc. Baton Rouge, LA.

Sr. Controls and Instrument Lead Engineer

Performed the following task; Project management, scope development, estimating,

engineering, coordination, design, checking of construction package, construction, and start

u p. DCS and PLC advance control engineering for new crude oil f low monitoring at Pump

S tation Number 1 in Prudhoe Bay Alaska.

1995 - 2000 RPM Engineering Inc. (Company Change Name from AMEC) Baton Rouge, L A.

Project, Inst rument, Automation, and Controls System Engineer

Engineering design for control system of complex loops and standard controls loops to be

i mplemented in DCS. Configuration of over 100 graphics and over 2000 control algorithms

for an ammonia plant. PID design and lead of check team.

1994 Moore Products Company New Orleans, LA.

Sales Executive

Increase of sale; perform design, and configuration of the Moore Products APACS

D istributed Control System, single loop controllers, and a variety of field instruments.

1992 - 1993 AMEC Engineering Inc. Baton Rouge, LA. (Barnard & Burk Engr.)

Project Engineer, Instrument Engineer, Controls System Engineer

Coordination with client to manage, approves, and makes budget adjustments for any

p roject scope changes, also, management of design team for several projects. Upgrade of

P ID and management of design team in developing over 2000 loops per ISA standards.

1986 - 1991 Radio Shack Lafayette, L A.

Assistant Store Manager (Employment while attending school full t ime)

Manage personal and t raining of new hires in sales and knowledge of products. Manage and

balance of budget on a quarterly basis.

During my tenure with this company I was given many sales awards for being the top

salesperson over a three state region.

1976 - 1986 Baker Hughes Lafayette, L A.

Technical Specialist Tools

Responsible for all equipment, ensuring that equipment is place at the correct depth and

calculating down hole pressure and temperatures making sure of the type of equipment

required for a clean and correct production of crude oil and natural gas.

Sub surface safety valve certified - In charge of placement depth, operations, and type of

sub surface safety valve for offshore wells to prevent oil pollution of our natural waterways

i n case of malfunction of equipment or damage due to weather or accidental breakage of

above surface equipment.

Warehouse manager, welder's helper, welder, pump operator, heavy equipment operator,

mechanical draftsman, marketing, models building to scale of all pumping equipment for

L ACO show, machinist, machinist inspector, engineer's assistant.

E DUCATION:

B.S. E lectrical Electronic Computer Engineering

U niversity of Southwestern Louisiana

Moore Products Training

Process Controls

Honeywell TDC 3000 classes

Honeywell EXP02 and EXP03

A pplication Engineering

APAC Controller Configuration and Operation

Pneumatic Inst rumentation and Maintenance

Siemens APT Configuration Software Language for Various PLC Applications

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