Engineer Power Plant

Robert Wistrand 847-***-**** ******@*****.***

Objective

Experienced automation and process control engineer with Six-Sigma Black belt manufacturing process improvement background.

Education

B.S. Pyhsics May 1991 Purdue University

Skills & Abilities

Automation

Allen Bradley Product s PLC ( RSLOGIX 5, 500,5000), PLC5, SLC5, Controllogix, RSview32, RSView SE, RSView ME

Allen Bradley Drives Ultra, PowerFlex,& PID Tuning

Siemens Step7, CNC Servo Drives 840 & 810D

Automation Direct Click & DoMore PLC, Cmore Display

Redlion HMI - DSP, GS310, GS 315 HMI ( C programming ), Wonderware Intouch, & GE iFIX

DAQ/ PC

National Instruments Labview & VB.Net with Measurement Studio ( VB & C# )

MS Office with Access Integration via ODBC

AutoCAD

LAMP application Apache, MySQL, & PHP

Drupal web development

Process Improvement

AlliedSignal Six Sigma Black Belt Training

Process analysis via Minitab or R ( statistics )

Experience

Automation Engineer Wolverine Advanced Materials 2012 – 2014

Appraised, upgraded, and integrated multiple vendor automation systems for a gasket manufacturing company (from Steel

coil coating to final punched parts). Redlion HMI ( C programs ), Automation Direct PLCs and HMI, Wonderware Intouch,

GEFanic iFIX & PLC, RS View, AB PLC5 to ControlLogix.

Integrated Plex Database and Tridium Niagara to PLCs

Advanced MySQL integration with data logging

Mentored newer Automation Engineer.

Founder MyOSBiz.com 2008 – 2014

Promoted Free/Open Source automation. Web development (Drupal & Joomla) and Open Source integration Apache,

MySQL, PHP, Process Improvement Lean/Six Sigma (R statistical software)

Simple PLC/HMI programming & integration solutions

Contract positions AEROTEK 2005 – 2008

Controls Engineer - ITG, Chicago, IL 5/08 – 7/08

Programmed AB PLC5 and RSVIEW32 HMI for process change of an existing KRAFT food processor facility.

Controls Engineer - Control Masters, Downers Grove, IL 11/07 – 1/08 and 4/07 – 9/07

Programmed GEFanic iFIX HMI for Contrologix system for an Oil refinery plant.

Programmed RSVIEW SE & ME HMI for Contrologix system for a power plant pollution control project.

Updated and programmed RSVIEW32 HMI with SLC500 & PLC5 for an existing food processor facility.

Test Engineer - Robert Bosch Inc, Mount Prospect, IL 07/06 – 03/07

Designed and built several electro-mechanical test systems for quality control analysis of hand tools.

Designed and implemented PC based data acquisition system (National Instruments and Microsoft Visual Basic) for

automating intelligent hand tool quality testing.

Controls Engineer - COX 05/06 – 06/06

Implemented Allen Bradley RSViewSE and RSview32 HMI system projects for power plant pollution control project.

Controls Engineer - Control Masters, Downer s Grove, IL 11/05 – 03/06

Implemented Allen Bradley RSViewSE and RSview32 HMI system projects for power plant pollution control project.

Controls Engineer CONTROLLINK 2003–2004

Developed and implemented Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC system with RSView32 and ADO database interface to MS

Access.

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Developed and implemented Omron based machine system.

Senior System Engineer DMC Contract Position (Cox Automation ) 2003

Troubleshot various hardware, wiring, and program debugging for Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC and RSView system.

Applications Engineer Siemens Energy & Automation 1999–2002

Implemented various integration projects (mills, lathes, laser cutters) with Sinumerik product lines (810D, 840D) and

supported customers with integration issues.

R & D Scientist I AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) 1995–1999

Supported Pilot plant AB PLC5 and UNIX based HMI systems for process development and testing before full-scale

implementation.

Received Six-Sigma Process Improvement Black Belt Training. Implementation project for AlliedSignal Amorphous

Metals. Electronic material product suffered from a low RTY. Application of Six Sigma tools enabled a process

improvement resulting in a RTY improvement from 50% to 95%.

Senior Research Technician 1995 -1998

Research projects for SPC and QC of electronic laminates. Electronic Laminates Business Unit desired a Global Quality

System for database storage and analysis of quality measurements. Developed Visual Basic applications with NIDAQ card

for PC based data acquisition and control.

Automation Engineer Nanophase Technologies 1993–1995

Integrated PC to various laboratory and particle analysis instruments.

Designed automated system for nanometer ceramic particle production. Included machine design and PC based I/O data

acquisition and control.

Engineer Pollution Control Industries 1991–1992

Programmed AutoCAD 14 for plant layout.

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