JOB INTEREST Electrical Engineer

OBJECTIVE My objective is always to continue learning, and in the process to design and build useful systems that improve both profitability and quality of life. .

SKILLS

Exceptional at both written and oral communication.

Computer software and tools: AcSELerator RTAC and AcSELerator Quickset (for programming SEL devices), AutoCAD, Wonderware Historian and HMI, IEC 61131 family of PLC programming languages, C, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, Visio), Windows, and Linux.

Computer hardware: assembling, troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and networking.

Hands-on circuit design, analysis and debugging skills.

Above-average mathematical abilities and extremely interested in all things theoretical.

Familiar with system modeling and simulation in MATLAB and Simulink.

Well versed in programming microcontrollers in C.

IEC 61850 MMS and GOOSE

EXPERIENCE

Jan 2011-July 2016: Engineer II, Automation

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)

Fairview Heights, IL 62208

Job duties include creating and implementing designs for protection, monitoring and control, supporting protection and automation control systems as part of a team that installs, commissions and trains customers in the use of our products and system designs

Experienced in on-site testing and commissioning, having installed automation systems and controllers in both utility and industrial environments all over the country.

Sample Projects:

At a green field substation connecting wind generation to the grid, designed, implemented and commissioned the IEC 61850 GOOSE communications network, along with the breaker failure and bus differential protection functions associated with the GOOSE network.

Special Protection System was designed and implemented using a Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC) in order to maximize power output at a power plant. This entailed automatic generator shedding as transmission lines are lost or overloaded.

Designed the HMI screens and commissioned the automation controllers for a protection, load shed, and HMI solution at multiple substations for a customer’s pharmaceutical plant.

Designed, tested, and commissioned a data concentration system and HMI screens using an SEL-RTAC for a new data center.

Technical Papers: “Case Study: Using IEC 61850 to Simplify Lockout Circuits in a 345 kV Wind Generation Integration Substation”

Presented at Power and Energy Automation Conference in Spokane, WA, 2014

Mar 2001 – May 2008: Land Combat Electronic Missile Systems Repairer (MOS: 94A)

US Army (Ft. Riley KS 66442)

Ultimately promoted to Sergeant (E-5) before receiving Honorable Discharge.

Education: BS in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics

Cum Laude, December 2009

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Edwardsville, IL

Registration: IL PE #067321

Affiliations: Pi Mu Epsilon, IEEE member #90500361

Senior Design Project: Power Information System – A wireless power meter network for the home. Each meter measures power consumption on a level below that of the entire house; for example, a single circuit, wall outlet or individual appliance. Data may be sent to a PC, and analyzed with spreadsheet software

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:

Digital Systems Design

Signals and Systems

Network Engineering

Eng. Economics

Electronic Circuits

Stochastic Processes

Microcontrollers

Eng. Mathematics

Engineering Electromagnetics

Control Systems Design

RF Design

Communications

ECE Design

C++ Programming

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