I&C Auomation Engineer and Project management
Resume:
Samuel K Ho PE (Texas), P.Eng.(Ontario)
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Cell: 907-***-****, Home: 905-***-****
Email: *********@*****.***
Desired Position: Senior C&I Automation Engineer
Summary:
A Texas PE and Ontario (PEO) P.Eng. with 20+ years of Canadian and international work experience in operating facilities and EPC companies covering nuclear power plant, oil& gas, petrochemical and process industries.
Provided full range of I&C and control systems engineering design documents, plus scope of work, supply specification. Experienced in full project cycles, from FEED, cost and schedule, full I&C detailed design documents, vendor evaluation, FAT, construction support, commissioning and turn over to operation.
Integrated control system; including control system specification, system planning, Instrument index, I/O assignment, system configuration, HMI, system check out, FAT to field commissioning.
Managed major projects from FEED, scopes definition, cost estimation, project scheduling designs reviews, construction contracts review, organized and led commissioning and start-up, turned over to Operations.
Keep myself updated with standards and products.
Accomplishments high-lights:
Design and modified a troublesome gypsum conveyor system to smooth and full capacity operation.
Saved $1.3 million and obtained firm schedule and fixed lump sump turn key vendor commitment on a LNG DCS upgrade project, than upgrading as cost plus maintenance project.
Made a series of innovative changes (cable duct banks, cable man-holes, control room, access ramp, fire water system control, sampling system) during the construction of a shipping and receiving facilities of a product pipeline project, prevented slip of schedule and cost overrun. Prevented an environment accident on a retention pond tie-in operation.
Implemented innovative flow control solution for a Test Trap operation problem for a GOSP, and advance temperature control for a gas plant.
Detailed designs for new instrumentation and control (I&C) systems and control systems replacements for LNG, refineries, petrochemical, and nuclear power generation facilities. Implemented advanced process controls, process design, and managed bigger projects.
Led multi-disciplines team for multi-products pipeline project, pipeline shipping and receiving facilities project, bulk plant modernization project, oil & gas plant revamping project, and plastic resin plant expansion project.
Led DCS replacement and control system replacement projects, DCS and PLC configurations. Specified, detailed engineering and replaced BMS, SIS, F&G, fire protection system, vibration monitoring system and compressor surge controls.
Detailed Experience:
5/15 – 8/15
Senior I&C Engineer, ASRC Energy Services, Anchorage, AK
I&C detailed designs for an Arctic Slope oil & gas producing facility, review gas recovery and Gas treating package modules designs.
Work with Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC
6/11 – 3/15
Senior Automation Engineer, CoSyn Technology, Fort McMurray, AB
Provide FEED and detailed engineering on instrumentation and control (I&C) projects for Oil-sand industry. Worked with Microstation, INtools, Honeywell Experion, Completed projects including :
Gas Chromatographs replacement projects,
Gypsum conveyor system modification project,
On-line heat exchangers cleaning project;
Steam turbine over speed protection retrofit project;
Cooling water header replacement project for oil sand industry.
5/05 –12/10
Senior I&C Design Engineer, Ontario Power Generation, Pickering, Ont.
Contracted to Ontario Power Generation; work included detailed engineering on I&C detailed design and small I&C systems replacements for Nuclear power generation. Major projects completed including:
Pickering B Life Extension GAP project;
Digital Controllers replacement;
Condensate Deaerator Level controller replacement;
Radioactive Liquid Effluent Monitors (LEM) replacement;
Fire Protection systems replacement and
Emergency Power Generator (EPG) upgrade project.
5/01 – 5/05
Instrumentation Specialist, Sirte Oil Company, Marsa Al-Brega, Libya
Provided designs on I&C and process controls related projects. Responsibilities including instrumentation and control problem troubleshooting, instrumentation, advanced process control solutions, and DCS system detailed designs for LNG plant, Refinery, and Petrochemical plants. Major work and projects accomplished including:
Specified, purchased, different instruments, analyzer sampling systems. Provided detailed design to commissioning equipment such as dissolved oxygen analyzer, hydrazine analyzers, CO2 analyzers, Kinetic Vapor analyzers, Caloric value and Wobbes index analyzer, Foxboro 931C Gas Chromatograph.
Detailed instrumentation and logic designs, PLC configuration, and A/B SLC500 PLC installation for pumps, separators, and coalescers controls.
Replaced and converted the logics of obsolete Texas Instrument PLC system to Allen Bradley SLC500 PLC system for a Nitrogen plant.
Implemented control systems replacement for sections of two Ammonia plants with ABB Freelance DCS.
Implemented Burner Management systems (BMS) replacement with Siemens boiler control for a steam plant
Led and managed a Yokogawa Centrum V upgrade to CS3000 DCS.
7/99 – 5/01
Senior Instrumentation Engineer, Stone & Webster, Bruce, Ontario
Performed CANDU nuclear station safety system analysis.
Provided detailed I&C designs for Bruce NGS EQ modification and upgrades in accordance to the Company’s (OPG) standards and procedures, as well as the nuclear industry standards and qualifications including IEEE, CSA, OH&SA, and ASME codes.
Provided I&C designs for the Pickering “B” UDM’s controls.
10/91 –4/99
Senior Instrumentation & Control Engineer, Project Engineer, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Technical support for Oil & gas operating facilities and project management
Led and managed a multi-discipline team of engineers for a new pipeline shipping and receiving facilities project, a bulk plant modernization project. Developed & implemented solutions to resolve design and construction problems. Commissioned I&C system including a paging system, RTU and SCADA systems, Fire protection & foam system.
Led an instrumentation & control team for the design and commissioned a half million b/d GOSP revamping project (Facilities including separators, desalters, gas treating and compression, desalination in both onshore and off-shore).
Provided technical support for both onshore & offshore Oil and Gas facilities which included problem troubleshoot, advanced process control solutions, detailed design and implementation.
Experienced with Honeywell TDC 3000, Triconnex TMR, Micron controller, Compressor surge controller, Custodian transfer and prover system etc.
7/88 –10/91
Instrumentation & Control Engineer, Davy Canada Ltd. - Toronto
Instrumentation & control engineering design package for two mineral processing projects. Scope included sizing, specification and selection of de-superheating valve, control & relief valves, Bentley Nevada 3300 vibration monitoring systems, burner management system and boiler controls, CCTV system and instrument installation details.
Documentation preparation included P&IDs, instrument index, DCS I/O assignments & definitions and process graphics design.
FEED report on gateway communication for MIS.
1987 -7/88
Control Systems Engineer, Tertec Enterprises Inc., Toronto
Software development for three GPIB bus based QA/QC testing systems with system peripherals configuration and special design QA testing modules.
EDUCATION
1998 MBA, Hull University, Hull, UK
1986 Diploma, (Computer Tech), George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
1978 BASc in Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
AFFILIATIONS
Professional Member of State of Texas Professional Engineers
Professional Member of Professional Engineers Ontario
REFERENCE
Name
contact
Title
Company
Relation
Joe Au
**.***@********.***
Senior I&C Associate
Syncrude Canada
Client
Bruce Hore
****.*****@********.***
Senior specialist
Syncrude Canada
Client
Gordon Holowach
Holowach.Gordon @syncrude.com
Discipline Lead
Cosyn Tech
Supervisor
Bob Bachynski
*********.******@********.***
Group Manager
Cosyn Tech
Manager
Rick Germaine
****.********@**********.***
I&C Manager
ASRC Energy Services
Manager
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