WILLIAM BATES
**** *. ******* **., ***. #**** Houston, Texas, 77027 281-***-**** acw3vi@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Electrical Reliability Engineer January 2015 May 2016
INVISTA, Victoria, TX
Drafted electrical schematics for Jacobs on small projects when implementing new installations.
Provided maintenance and reliability engineering support for boiler, air compression, hydrogen, and water
treatment units.
Scoped and implemented project to replace more than 50 valves during boiler retube project.
Managed and implemented large underwater cable replacement project on 15 cooling basin spray coolers.
Designed and engineered strategy to save more than $50k a year on plant steam usage.
Coordinated efforts to repair a large gas stop ratio valve on site, saving upwards of $75k in offsite repair
costs.
Engineering Intern May 2014 December 2014
GWACS Defense, Tulsa, OK
Acquired and analyzed data for detecting sniper fire in urban and foreign locations.
Engineering and Research Intern May 2013 September 2013
Railroad Signal International, Tulsa, OK
Developed and designed a modern digital railroad crossing gate controller utilizing an advanced PLC
network, microprocessors, and custom data logging peripherals.
Designed and produced a custom optical shaft encoder.
Research Assistant May 2012 September 2012
Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC), Tulsa, OK
Studied VHDL and FPGA applications in Xilinx. Heavy emphasis on digital logic.
Research Assistant May 2010 September 2010
Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC), Tulsa, OK
Assisted in the development of an attack graph generation algorithm.
Developed GUI applications in C# for primary schools to enhance learning with touch screen technology
and networking.
PROJECTS
Timeclockr
Android App
Simple tool to track time spent at work, on a project, or recreationally.
Totals hours logged daily and weekly and stores them in an easy to access fashion.
EDUCATION
The University of Tulsa
B.S., Electrical Engineering (Minors: Mathematics, Physics) December 2014
Major GPA: 3.7
SKILLS
SUMMARY
Java C/C++ Control Systems
Android VHDL Microprocessor & Motor Controls
Mathematica Matlab SAP
Cause Mapping Project Management Reliability Engineering
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Bronze Presidential Service Award (2010)