Engineer Electrical

Controls Engineer

Provide contractual or full time support for Industrial automation control systems, predominantly based on Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Human Machine Interface (HMI) operator panels. 40 years of experience over the entire domain of industrial instrumentation and automation.

Boehringer-Ingelheim

St. Joseph, Mo. - November 2014 to Present

Accomplishments

Design, fabricate, program, and install high speed labeling equipment for the animal pharmaceutical company. Responsibilities included Servo programming, PLC and HMI software development, troubleshooting. Original contract of 6 months ultimately extended to 15 months of on-site support.

Contract Controls Engineer

Control Assemblies

Omaha, NE

January 2014 to May 2014

Responsibilities

Provide Control Engineering support for several ongoing Projects.

Accomplishments

Completed the installation of PLC/HMI controlled water treatment facility at Glenwood Ia.

Completed the installation of PLC/HMI controlled water treatment facility at Logan Ia.

Upgraded PLC/HMI controlled hazardous monitoring system for Cargill grain facility in Gibbon Ne.

Skills Used

PLC programming for Allen Bradley SLC 5 processors and Micrologix PLCs. HMI software included Red Lion Crimson development software for Glenwood, Schneider Electric Vijeo software for Logan and AB RSView32 software for Gibbon

Software Controls Engineer

Ellison Technologies Automation

2003 to 2013

Designing, programming, and integration of industrial equipment along with multiple Fanuc robot units to perform complex manufacturing production. Customers included John Deere, Caterpillar, GE, ConAgra and many more. Projects were on the order of several million dollars and included multiple robots and high speed milling machines. Operator panels incorporated Industrial level Human/Machine Interface PCs and applications were developed using custom graphic programming software from companies such as Allen Bradley, General Electric, and Microsoft.

Electrical Controls Engineer

Schneider Engineering

2001 to 2003Involved in the design, programming and startup of a soy bean oil refinery and development of corn ethanol production facilities in the Nebraska area. Installations covered the mid-west and were predominant in the agricultural industry. Worked heavily with Nebraska and nation EPA organizations in the promotion of ethanol plant startup and production.

PLC Controls Engineer

Carlson Systems

2000 to 2001PLC and HMI programming of automation equipment for the commercial and home building trade. Customer included Pella Windows and Anderson Products. Custom equipment did the automatic assembly and joining of wood material into finished commercial building fixtures such as windows and doors.

Plant Level Electrical Engineer

Kellogg's Cereal Company-1985 to 2000

Designed installed and started up numerous upgrades and additions to the Omaha Cereal manufacturing plant. Projects scope covered the range up to 100 million dollar additions and coordination with corporate level engineering teams. For the seventeen years I worked in the Omaha facility, I was responsible in the retrofit of outmoded control systems and replacement on modern PLC systems. This covered all areas of the manufacturing plant from bulk material unloading from rail cars to final warehouse unitizing and shipment to commercial suppliers. . I did the major portion of the PLC controls programming for a $120 million capital project undertaken by the Kellogg's company and it successfully went in to production on schedule.

Pilot

USAF

1968 to 1983Graduated from LSU in ROTC as a second lieutenant and completed pilot training at Laredo AFB TX. Spent one year in Viet Nam as a Forward Air Controller and returned as a SAC aircraft commander in KC-135 aircraft. Final assignment was an aircraft commander flying SAC airborne Command Post (Looking Glass) out of Offutt AFB NE.

Education

Bachelor of General Studies in Computer Science

University on Nebraska Omaha -

Omaha, NE -1982 to 1987

Masters in Systems Management

University of Southern California -

Kadena AFB Okinawa Japan-1974 to 1978

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Louisiana State University -

Baton Rouge, LA-1963 to 1968

Additional Information

Registered Professional Engineer Ne. E-11177

Skills & Abilities

Thirty five years of PLC and HMI programming experience covering the diverse fields of commercial food processing, industrial oil refinery, automated manufacturing equipment and robot system integration. Instrumentation and controls included continuous process systems, scaling systems, automated warehouse palletizing systems, and guided wire vehicles. Developed high level software applications for data acquisition and plant management and supervision functions.

In recent years, I have been mainly involved in network communication interfaces with third party equipment in an industrial control system environment. Dominant communications protocol such as Ethernet-IP, GETCPIP and EGD just to name a few.

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