G.R.Patel, P.Eng.

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Fayetteville

GA 30215

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Twenty-eight years experience in engineering, program management, construction management, operations, and strategic planning. P.Eng. license in the Province of Alberta, Canada.. Experience includes power distribution, electrical controls, field instrumentation, area classification, Distributed Control Systems, Programmable Logic Controllers, UPS systems, Analyzers. Worked for operating plants(Refinery, gas plant and Petrochemical plants, power generation and distribution), EPC companies and DCS manufacturing company. National Electrical Code and NFPA certification.

EDUCATION &: B.S./ S.P.University (Major in Control Systems Engineering)

TRAINING Instrumentation Courses with Alberta Institute of Technology

Power Distribution Certification with NAIT

Registered Professional Engineer

Master Electrician

Networking Essentials, C++, Fortran V, Unix, PHD Training, TDC 3000 implementation, Plant Scape Systems, Modicon and Allen Bradley PLC’s,

Fisher Provox Application and training for programming.

Foxboro I/A series DCS implementation, Fisher Provox DCS system implementation.

Honeywell PKS Experion Training-Sever-Controller and Graphics-maintenance trouble shooting training by Honeywell school

Arc Flash and Relay Co-ordination training by SKM.

SEL training for Protection Relays.

Delta V DCS application for DeviceNet, Foundation Fieldbus and Charm I/O hardware and loop check for validation.

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

APR 2015 TO DEC 2016: GRP I & C SERVICES .

@ BAXALTA-COVINGTON FACILITY

SR. I & C ENGINEER

DELTA V DCS SYSTEM AMD ALLEN BRADLEY PLC SYSTEM-APPLICATION ENGINEER

DATABASE FOR ALL UNIT ENTITIES-SERVER UPDATE RESPONSIBILITY-PHASE AND STEP FUNCTION RESPOSIBILITY

INTERFACE WITH BATCH ENGINEER FOR FUNCTIONAL VALIDATION AND DOCUMENTATION.

2014-MAR 2015 Mustang-Wood Group At Invista Chattanogga Plant

Sr. I/E Design Engineer

Engineering Services

E & I Project Scope of work and Estimate.

Unit Substation Modernization-High Voltage/Medium/Low voltage

Cooling Tower 3- Fan control design-PLC and electrical Design

Waste water Monitoring-Scope of work and Estimate

Salt Building PLC verification and Field check and as built documentation.

2011- Feb- 2014 Celanese Chemicals-Texas

Reliability I/E Engineer

Project Engineering Group

Electrical and Instrumentation Projects for chemical plant-responsible for power distribution, Instrumentation for various units-DCS and PLC control addition for I/E projects.

Low voltage 480 V- MCC’s power distribution-Arc Flash study-Load flow calculations- Short circuit study and protection relay selection and settings.

SEL Relays-Proection and Co-ordination for Overcurrent Unervoltage, Directional Overcurrent, Bus Differential, Transformer and Generator and Frequncy protection relays application.

Experion PKS DCS upgrade project.

2008-2011 Hess Corporation-Refinery

Technical Services

Sr. Electrical/Control Systems Engineer

DCS and PLC project Engineer for Refinery,

Honeywell DCS-Allen-Bradley PLC networks

Familiar with TDC 2000/ 3000, Experion PKS, Logic Manager, Triconex, Modicon and Allen Bradley PLC systems. Engineering,

Major Turnaround for refinery-Planning-scheduling-implementation-30 day- 5 year Turnaround for refinery complex..

Load flow-short circuit, arc flash and relay co-ordination study using SKM tools

Plant wide level 1-Level2 and Level 3 system architecture for control systems.

1995-2008

Honeywell IAC

Global Project Operations

Sr. Principal Project Engineer

DCS and PLC project Engineer for Yanpet, Amoco, Celanese, Dupont,

Uniroyal Chemicals, Sappi, Augusta News, Georgia Pacific, Georgia Power,

Verio., and Honeywell Speciality Chemicals-ILL,Shell Chemicals and Genentech Inc.

Familiar with TDC 3000, Experion PKS, Logic Manager, Triconex, Modicon and Allen Bradley PLC systems. Engineering, start up and commissioning of above projects.

Genentech Pharmaceutical Inc.- Project Engineering: Devicenet and Fondation Fieldbus configuration and testing for various units

Twenty Site surveys for Internet Web hosting company(VERIO), includes Data Cabling, Telco components, UPS, HVAC, Power and Grounding, Inventory for servers, switches, patch panels, data monitoring fiber optic cables and termination panels.

1992-1995 Saudi Aramco

Sr. Process Control Systems Engineer

Responsible for Modernization of Refinery and Gas Plant with DCS and PLC systems. Detailed engineering to be done in conjunction with a International Engineering firm. Accountable for providing detailed engineering for process areas, preparation of P&IDs and equipment specifications for all areas. Development of overall project execution plan.

1989-1992 Bechtel Corporation

Control Systems Supervisor

Responsible for engineering and design for Kodak Eastmann DCS Expansion.

Port Arthur Refinery Expansion.

Honeywell PM system and Triconex PLC system Implementation for three new units.

Coceptual and detail design and implementation of DCS/PLC project.

1986-1989 Shell Western, USA

Sr. Electrical/ Instrumentation Engineer

Operation and Field Engineer fir all dehy. water plants and crude oil plants. Conceptual and detail design for Electrical and Instrumentation major projects. Power distribution, Electrical controls and Instrumentation for all facilities. Area classification, Start up and commissioning for plants.

1982-1984 Shell Canada Ltd.

Sr. I/E Engineer

Grass root refinery engineering and construction with EPC firm. Work includes DCS/PLC system specification, estimate, DCS/PLC vendor evaluation, E/I vendor evaluation. Instrument Index database, Instrument selection and detail engineering participation .

1977-1982 Dow Chemical of Canada Ltd.

Senior Electrical /Instrumentation Engineer:

Responsible for engineering and design of electrical and controls portion of the project. Work included preparation of engineering specifications, load studies, development of power distribution system, and logic diagrams. Preparation of PLC programming document for Allen Bradley, Modicon and Reliance PLC and distributed control system configurations for Honeywell TDC 2000.

Start-up Engineer: Served as a Start-Up Electrical/Controls Engineer for a paper products plant and coffee plant. Responsibilities included PLC programming, DCS configuration, DC-drive systems, and complete checkout of the electrical and instrumentation system. Construction coordination, field engineering, preparation of system turnover packages and plant personnel training was also part of the start-up responsibility.

Area Electrical Engineer: Responsible for development of power distribution single lines, logic diagrams, schematic diagrams, short circuit calculations, lighting and grounding design and PLC programming. Inspected electrical and control equipment at the manufacturer’s plant prior to shipment to the site.

1972-1977 General Electrical Co., England.

Sr. Application Engineer

Worked for Electrical manufacturing for LV, MV and HV power distribution and Protection and Measurement for local and International projects. GEC Measurement and Industrial control MCC and Switchgear design work for consulting firms.

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