CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEER / MANAGER / TRAINING / TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Results-driven, experienced and well organized technical professional, with excellent oral and written communication skills, who applies hands-on experience with a solid educational background to create, design, manage, maintain and provide training for control and instrumentation systems.

Competencies Include:

-PLC, SCADA, HMI - COMBUSTION SYSTEMS - MANAGEMENT - AUTOMATION

-I & C - CADD - CONTROL SYSTEMS - SUPERVISION

-CONTROL PANELS - TRAINING - INSTRUMENTATION - PNEUMATICS

-VFD & DC DRIVES - MAINTENANCE - ELECTRONICS - COMBUSTION

Specific Competencies:

CADD: AutoCAD and Microstation

PLC Programming: Allen Bradley – (Controllogix, PLC-5, SLC-500, older versions), Idec, Modicon, Mitsubishi, GE.

SCADA: iFIX

Industrial Instrumentation: Broad range of hardware experience from sensors to FCE’s

Broad field experience in maintenance, installation, design, specification, commissioning, etc.

Motor Control: Allen-Bradley VFD’s, ABB VFD’s, others.

Professional Achievements:

E&I design for manufacturing facility.

Control system upgrade of PLC systems for the flue gas desulfurization of a power plant.

Air separation plant control system design, commissioning, startup.

R&D project to extract hydrogen gas from oil refinery off gases.

Automation and upgrade of integrated instrumentation and control systems.

Control systems design, construction, commissioning and startup of ozone water treatment facility.

Design of advanced and complex control loops for specialty furnace to mass produce carbon fibers.

Design, installation, startup and continued maintenance of several sour gas cleaning plants.

Design engineering services and programming PLC and HMI control systems for air separation plants.

Design and engineering services and programming PLC and HMI control systems for hydrogen plants.

The design of chlorination system controls for zebra mussel abatement

Preparation of drawings. (P&ID, control loop, wiring schematic, installation.

Supervisory and administrative support for maintenance and operations personnel.

I & C maintenance support for thermal power generating facility. ( eight 500 MW boiler/generator units )

Training for instrumentation and controls, electronics, and PLC systems through the community college system.

The electronic design of a custom controller to military specifications for a steam driven Turbo compressor as part of a frigate defense system for the Canadian Department of National Defense.

Hands-on demand and preventive maintenance for instrumentation and control systems for blast furnaces, coke ovens, coke oven byproducts, oxygen plants, and steelmaking.

Employment History:

CSM Bakery Products– Project Controls Engineer 2013 – 2014

(Lancaster, NY – Elyria, OH)

Responsibilities Included:

Project management – Selection of equipment and contractors, bid analysis, supervision of contractors, supervision of installation, commissioning, progress and cost reporting.

Project design – Control system design (PLC, HMI, equipment selection included), electrical design, equipment and control system upgrading.

Primary control systems resource for company nationwide.

Electric power auditing for various CSM plants.

Interaction with maintenance and operations personnel as required.

Allstates Technical Services (division of KBR) – Sr. E&I Designer 2010 – 2013

(Contract position at DuPont, Buffalo, NY)

Responsibilities Included:

Selection of equipment and contractors, supervision of contractors, supervision of installation, commissioning.

Project design – Control system design (PLC, HMI, equipment selection included), electrical design.

ATSI Engineering Inc. – Sr. Staff Engineer, I&C 2005 – 2009

(Amherst, NY)

Responsibilities Included:

Participation in project teams for various projects

Control systems design – PLC, HMI, instrumentation, equipment selection, electrical design.

Libra Design Services. – Sr. Control Systems Engineer 2003 – 2005

(Contract position at American Brass, Buffalo, NY)

Responsibilities Included:

Control systems design – PLC, HMI, instrumentation, equipment selection, electrical design.

Training

Commissioning

PENCON Services Inc. – Control Systems Engineer/Manager 1992 – 2003

(Contract position at Ronald J. O’Mara PE PC, Williamsville, NY)

(Sub contracted to various companies – Praxair, Tonawanda, NY – Dunlop Tire, Tonawanda, NY – Harper International, Lancaster, NY – Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, NV)

Responsibilities Included:

Instrumentation and control systems servicing.

Small project management – Selection of equipment and contractors, bid analysis, supervision of contractors, supervision of installation, commissioning, progress.

Project design – Control system design (PLC, HMI, equipment selection included), electrical design, equipment and control system upgrading.

PLC/HMI programming using ladder logic and structured text.

Training for tradesmen control systems upgrading

Contract training for a Community College ( I & C, PLCs, Electronics)

Education:

Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario

Electrical Engineering Technology (Electronics)

St. Bonaventure University

Master of Business Administration

Volunteer:

Past member of Big Brothers, NYS Mentor, Shriners Oriental Band

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