Sr. Electrical Engineer
Resume:
Brad Rodgers, P.E.
The Colony, TX
***********@****.***
Summary
Skilled at communicating and building relationships with those involved in his projects, including engineers of all disciplines, management, operations, and maintenance personnel.
Extensive water/wastewater experience.
Extensive experience with P&IDs, logic diagrams, and control schematics.
Effective in all control strategy development stages from discussions with process engineers to the SCADA programmers to the operations personnel involved.
Extensive experience in calculations for short circuit, voltage drop, and harmonic distortion.
Extensive power distribution and motor schematic experience at 480v-4,160v
Highly productive in design assignments.
Experienced programmer and startup engineer with extensive construction experience.
Engineering Enterprises, 2011-2015
Lead Engineer for the Fort Worth Village Creek Electrical System Study:
The 12kV system was modeled down to the 480v MCCs and panelboards.
A detailed equipment evaluation was performed and updated circuit breaker settings were provided.
City of Dallas’ Trinity Watershed Management District flood control department generator integration and pump station control system retrofit.
Due to tight coordination with City staff, there were no comments on the 100% design documents.
No design addenda were required.
The OPCC was within 2% of the lowest bid.
City of Bedford Drinking Water Distribution:
Handled booster pump and electrical retrofit projects.
Assisted the City with motor starting problems at one of its well sites. Final resolution is pending, but the well is now operational.
Long term assignment at Prime Controls in Lewisville, Texas.
Designed over 20 control panels and participated in several gas compression projects.
Actively participated in applying computer-aided-engineering techniques to the CAD system. Purchase order time was reduced by 50%.
Quintette Coal Mine, British Columbia, Canada
Significant involvement with 4.16kV system troubleshooting
Resolved many issues with the plant SCADA system including pneumatics
Gupta and Associates, Dallas, Texas, 2008-2011
Lead Electrical and Control Systems Engineer for the City of Greenville, Texas Wastewater Reclamation Center Improvements Project. The design included 114 drawings. Project components included:
SKM study to avoid unsafe arc flash conditions.
Electrical and control systems for ultraviolet disinfection.
Sequencing batch reactor wastewater processing modules
New screening facility and lift station, 400HP total pumping load
New SCADA system based on Modicon M340 PLCs. Equipment packages were specified to coordinate with the new SCADA system with Ethernet based VFDs.
Lead Electrical and Control Systems Engineer for Fort Worth’s Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Secondary Area and Filter Rehab and Modifications project. The design included 48 drawings. Project components included:
Extensive coordination with plant personnel for their unique distributed control system requirements.
Harmonic analysis for the system, which included five variable frequency drives. Specified harmonic mitigation equipment due to the high percentage of non-linear equipment.
New motor control center for RAS pump station, new electrical systems for two final clarifiers, and traveling bridge filter modifications.
Lead Electrical and Control Systems Engineer for the Trinity River Authority’s Ten Mile Creek Wet Weather and Digester Improvements Project. A significant SCADA upgrade was included in this project. The design included 41 I&C drawings and over 150 electrical drawings. Project components included:
SKM study to avoid unsafe arc flash conditions.
Six new Modicon Premium PLCs and three new SCADA workstations.
Three new 400HP variable frequency drives for the raw water pumping station.
All variable frequency drives are connected to the control system via Ethernet.
Lead Electrical and Control Systems Engineer for the Anderson Pump Station Project in San Antonio, a new high service pump station with six 450HP pumps. The design included 67 drawings. A new control system with Modicon PLCs was designed and specified. A pre-emptive SKM study was performed to avoid arc flash issues with the submitted electrical systems study.
Lead Electrical and Control Systems Engineer for basic design for the Able Stormwater Pump Station Project in Dallas, TX. Project components included:
Three 2,750HP 4,160v pumps with variable frequency drives.
Simplified the 4,160v system versus that envisioned during conceptual design. The final construction documents used this simplified design.
Delivered a presentation to the local water/wastewater electrical engineering society (WEAT/electrical), identifying electrical and instrumentation design challenges related to digesters.
Carollo Engineers, Dallas, Texas, 2005-2008
Lead electrical engineer for two North Texas Municipal Utility District Projects. The Panther Creek expansion project design included over 80 electrical and control system drawings
Lead electrical engineer for the City of Grass Valley, California, UV disinfection project. This project was completed well under the allocated budget. Grass Valley retained Carollo with the remaining budget to perform additional engineering tasks.
Lead electrical engineer for the California Men's Colony drinking water system upgrade for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which included Ethernet radios in rugged terrain.
Electrical construction management engineer for a Palo Alto, California water distribution system improvements project. Over 2,000HP of pumps were replaced. Shutdown periods were limited to two hours.
Lead electrical engineer for the Eugene digester mixer upgrade project. This project featured Profibus communications with the variable frequency drives. Extensive efforts were undertaken to match the client's existing hardware while incorporating some new technology that was in the client's long-term plan.
Lead electrical engineer for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Duel Vocational Institute's new wastewater treatment plant. In charge of a team that included five other electrical engineers on a very fast-track project. The project featured DeviceNet communications for motor control and fiber optic Ethernet communications for PLC communications and remote I/O. The team produced 76 drawings in approximately eight weeks.
Worked with the business development team on a 3,000HP high service pump station replacement proposal. The existing pump station had cavitation problems. Worked with the team to find a solution that solved the cavitation problem and eliminated the need to replace the pump station and associated electrical equipment.
Developed and delivered two presentations aimed at explaining complex electrical/controls concepts to civil engineers: "Motor Starting Techniques for Civil Engineers" and "New Electrical Safety Concepts."
Ausenco PSI, Concord, CA 1988-2005
Developed electrical and controls drawing package for a retrofit of three obsolete Westinghouse PLC systems for the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency, California. Wrote software based on Westinghouse program for Allen-Bradley PLCs. Started each system up in one day.
Lead electrical engineer for the Clarian Peoplemover Monorail Project - the first U.S.-designed, fully automated Peoplemover train. Wrote software for RSView operator interfaces and Allen-Bradley Guard safety (SIL3) PLCs. Co-developed electrical, control wiring and panel design package.
Lead role in developing PLC and Panelview Interface software for the Gunderboom Power Plant Intake Curtain Purging System, New York. Also responsible control panel design and fabrication supervision and QA/QC. This project was unusual in that the remote I/O panels were installed in the river.
Developed control system software for the Genentech Water for Injection Distribution Control System, South San Francisco, California. Developed pioneering procedures and documentation for the Federal Food and Drug Administration for automated systems in the pharmaceutical industry.
Arizona Public Service, Phoenix, AZ, 1984-1988
Computer-Aided Engineering Long Range Planning Studies in Phoenix, Arizona. Developed a significant amount of computer-aided engineering and drafting software in FORTRAN.
Education & Technical
BSEE, University of Illinois (1984)
Registered Professional Engineer, CA/TX
Proficient with SKM electrical analysis software, AutoCAD, and Microstation
Proficient in programming of Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Modicon programmable logic controllers
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