ALBERT HOFMANN

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Ormond Beach, Florida 32174 acxko8@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Field Service Engineer with a BA degree and years of Industrial, Manufacturing, Automation Semiconductor and Power Generation experience. Strong troubleshooting, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills. In 2011, 2013 and 2014 attended MBA program to strengthen business skills.

EDUCATION

Coursework, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering (BSEE) - GPA 3.35 (pending).

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 2004.

Associate of Science (AS), Electronic Technology - GPA 3.45 Conferred 1976.

DeVry Technical Institute, Woodbridge, NJ. Conferred 1976.

AS Mathematics (Algebra, Calculus, Differential equations, etc Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ. Conferred 1998.

Georgian Court University Chemistry Major including upper level physics and (2) semesters of Electricity and Magnetism. Lakewood, NJ. Transferred to Florida University USF. 2000.

Coursework Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Current GPA 3.4 Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, FL

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Interdisciplinary Sciences, Chemistry Major - GPA 3.2.

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Conferred 2003.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ASML Specialist Integration Engineer, Austin, TX & Hillsboro, OR (2015 - 2016)

Field Factory CSE ((relo)

Field Integration, Commissioning & Maintenance, installation of Photolithography machines at major

semiconductor chip companies facilities (Intel and Samsung) domestically.

SPX Flow Technologies, Ocala, Florida (2014 - 2015)

Field Service Engineer

Field Service, Commissioning, Technical Support & Maintenance, installation of Industrial and

Engineering products: Drying Air systems for Instrument controls, Breathing air or Food/electronic

processing and manufacturing plants valued up to $2,000,000.00. Allen-Bradley PLC’s, customer

supplied DCS controls or Advanced System Controllers (Smart) coupled with customized or standard

products. Daily SAP and FIMS software systems for parts and documents and warranty administration

IPSEN INC., Cherry Valley, Illinois (2011 - 2012)

Field Service Engineer (Southeast region/Florida) Paid contracts or service.

Field Service & Maintenance, installation of systems valued to $1,000,000.00. Allen-Bradley

Programmable Logic Controllers diagnostics and commissioning using laptop programs and test

Equipment. Training customers on equipment using Wonderware. Quality testing performed on

request in factory. Domestic travel from home base.

ALBERT HOFMANN

ABB MARINE SYSTEMS, Miramar, Florida (2008 – 2010)

Medium Voltage Drive Specialist (FSE) on call 24-7

Service & Maintenance and some sales activity on cruise ship Electrical propulsion drives and other

systems: switchboards; generators; AVR’s; transformers; HMI, SCADA and EMRI interfaces in North

America and Europe. Customer relations; analyze event logs; field testing; created technical reports

with recommendations or repair plans; customer training; . Passengers and crew 3500+; machine

values $20,000.00 - $4,000,000.00. ABB drive windows software, power quality equipment, digital

recorders, fiber optic testers, dielectric testing and loop testing.

Operated from home office or Miramar office for 24/7 support and liason with Finland, Germany and

Switzerland product groups to coordinate work efforts. Work periodically included land based systems

at power plants, steel mills oil/gas Freighters’. Training provided by the factories in Europe on specific

versions of power converter technology and software.

FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT, Sanford, FL (2005 – 2008)

Production Leader – 2500MW power plant with combustion and steam turbines and controls.

Leadership position (supervising) - managing crew of up to 24 persons, 23 days per month.

Organizing work, supply chain, repair planning, procuring, and scheduling high valued activities.

OSHA Compliance. SAP, Microsoft office products (inventory control, reports and work tickets),

responsible for Plant Clearance program (LO/TO). Directed crew during system failures or

implemented mitigation for correct plant anomalies or facilitated corrective action. Load

Commutating Converters (LCI’s) for turbine starts. Servo’s and hydraulics used for ST controls.

Chemical analyzers and instruments monitored and calibrated for use of controlling process

Chemistry, manual titrations testing.

CARGILL (MOSAIC), Mulberry, FL (2003 – 2005)

Bachelor in Electrical Engineering internship

Automation Engineering Department: Project work; Ran $4,000,000.00 budgets; ordered materials for

Projects; paid and managed contractors; worked with plant personnel to coordinate and facilitate

Projects. Commissioning plant systems.

Instrumentation, Control and Electrical plant maintenance technician (on call after hours)

Repairs, installation, calibration and programming controllers, test and commissioning activities.

Utilized process meters and HART communicators for devices. Ph and conductivity and other related

chemically related devices employed (ex. Density meters). Some Switchgear troubleshooting in

MCC’s.

UNIROYAL OPTOELECTRONICS AND EMCORE CORPORATION Tampa, FL and Somerset, NJ (1996-2002)

EPI Engineering Technician (URC)

Production and maintenance on Emcore semiconductor tools valued at 1,000,000. Labview

controls, High tech Process hardware and GenMark Robotics. Continue Chemistry

degree. Characterization on product and adjusted recepe as required.

Final Production Technician/Engineering Aid (Emcore)

Leader for build cycle of customized and varying semiconductor and annealing machines. Setup,

checkout, managed ‘punch list’ for discrepancies, to facilitate, root cause analysis, potential non-

conformance of material, worked with engineering to implement and setup, test new equipment (ex.

Multi-zone PID temperature controllers) installation. Checked Labview software on custom machines.

ALBERT HOFMANN

ADDITIONAL COMPETENCIES

Engineering experience with change orders, reviewing drawings and specifications, maintainability.

Sr. Product Support Engineering for Power Converters and technical support including: reliability, maintenance, planning, after market and new sales, repair programs and development of new programs and repair operations in the airline and military markets.

Managed all Technical Publications and acted as a Program Manager for major airline manufacturer launch programme.

Technical representation at airline conferences and sales shows/ trade exhibits domestic and internationally.

Provided training in house and for customers from component level to system level, reading of schematics, PI&D or GA drawing, evaluate technical materials and research.

Laboratory Technician (2yrs.) directly involved with power generation and DC link systems and unit research and development in an Engineering environment fabricating test set ups, certifying equipment to DO-160 or other customer specs, temperature/altitude/ salt fog/ radio noise testing or UL testing support.

Owner of Gentle Cut Lawn Services, LLC.

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