Electrical Engineer

Alfred Kennedy, III

**** **** *** ***. ***, Baton Rouge, La, 70807

**************@*****.***

504-***-**** (cell)

Objective:

Seeking a position as an Electrical Engineer, specializing in controls, instrumentation and design within a progressive,

forward thinking company.

Skills:

Proficient In- reading high/low voltage electrical schematics, testing and troubleshooting transducers and electrical

systems, familiar with maintaining substations, switchgears, transformers, back-up generators, using high/low speed

data acquisitions, upgrading control systems (DCS & PLC), high aptitude for paying attention to detail, root cause

analysis failure, designing and implement control loops for PLC & DCS systems, analytical thinker, innovative.

Software – Skilled at Power Point, Excel, Access, Publisher, Word, Project, Oracle, Auto-Cad, P-SPICE, INtools,

Visio, MATLAB, analysis and simulation tools - PVSim, Psim, and Maximo.

Professional Experience

Controls / Instrumentation Electrical Engineering

Waldemar S. Nelson, November 2012 – Present

• Responsible for reviewing and updating P&ID drawings

• Perform upgrade design on control systems DCS & PLC (Rockwell Automation, Allen Bradley, Yokogawa

Corp of America, Triconex & Honeywell) for Shell offshore platforms

• Vast amount of experience in providing detail drawings of wiring layouts

• Familiarity with instrumentation and control engineering electrical standards (PACO)

• Experience in designing field instruments to pre-existing systems and specifications

• Operation knowledge of NFPA, API 14C and IEEE

• Provide detail scope of work plans for Shell offshore contractors (PACO)

• Commissioned and Decommissioned PLC, and DCS systems as well as instrumentation, cables and conduit

on Shell offshore platforms

• Experience with design and detail engineering with INtools software

• Experience with providing Functional Specifications and Narratives Describing Control/Safety Systems

Logic

Electrical Engineer

Southern University A&M/Jacobs (Contractor), November 2011 – November 2012

• Performed an electrical assessment of Michoud’s overall site power systems

• Developed written plan to upgrade all of the dated, non-functional equipment

• Performed an electrical walk down of the facility

• Redline and assisted with updating Jacob’s facility drawings

• Developed detail analysis of electrical maintenance issues and safety issues

• Incorporated electrical standards throughout the facility

• Electrical Engineering Lead on Southern University Engineering team at NASA Michoud

Electrical Instrumentation Engineer

Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, January 2007 – November 2011

• Designed systems and hardware integration for SSME, RS68 and J2X liquid propulsion engines

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• Researched, developed, designed, and tested electrical components and equipment

• Lead, designed and upgraded projects on for the test facilities and its instrumentation

• Possess strong technical skills on low/high speed data acquisitions systems for testing aerospace liquid

propulsion engines

• Provided troubleshooting support with recommendations to NASA team to repair instrumentation, control

systems and test equipment

• Performed investigations of chronic and/or unusual failures of equipment and systems related to

instrumentation to determine the root cause of failure

• Experience with understanding Advanced Base Layer Control Loops (Feedforward-based control, Fin-fan

outlet control, three element level control, feedback control & Cascade Control)

• Analyze/generated preventative maintenance and data to create recommendations for reliability

improvements

• Mentored and trained new engineering personnel on varies instruments and electrical data systems

• Calculated, designed and upgraded instrumentation specs, schematics and p&id’s drawings for NASA rocket

engine test instrumentation and facility equipment.

• Maintained documentation, files, procedures and inventory databases to ensure integrity and maximum

longevity of instrumentation usage and storage life

• Acquired an vast amount of hands on experience with test equipment, troubleshooting large instrumentation

ranges and varies systems amplifiers

• Created standard work procedures for performing daily operations.

• Analyzed high speed and low speed sample rate test data and provided feedback to industry customers

• Created troubleshooting work orders and other technical writing instructions to less experienced engineers

Electrical/Field Engineer

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, January 2006 - December 2006

Onshore and Offshore experience

• Tested fluid levels

• Recharged mandrels valves

• Designed schematics using PIPSEM, AEPAD and Design Pro

• Tested and redesigned pump tools,

• Assembled flow control valve for clients

• Calculated well reservoir and fluid depth measurements

• Provided specifications and purchased instrumentation for job design

• Interacted with offshore customer managers.

Segment: Well Completion Productivity

Sub-Segment: Oil and Gas Artificial Lift

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology – Dec 2003

Southern University A&M College – Baton Rouge, LA

M.S. in Electrical Engineering – May 2016

Southern University A&M College – Baton Rouge, LA

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