Jose Jarque

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SUMMARY

Experience in managing Electrical, Mechanical, Civil/Structural and R&D design which include standard and custom designed switchgear for industrial, marine, oil/gas and utility industries. Successful background with internal and outsourced engineering services to sustain a lean, productive and effective engineering department staffing.

Deep involvement on engineering software tools customization, product line standardization and engineering process improvement initiatives.

Product knowledge spans to: Electronic hardware and software (0-48VDC), low voltage (up to 634VAC), medium voltage (1000V to 38 kV) power distribution systems. ANSI/IEEE, UL, NEC, NFPA, CSA standards applied to electromechanical, solid state and microprocessor based equipment, metalclad arc resistant medium and low voltage switchgear, UL508A industrial control panel, circuit breakers

(miniature, molded case, air, vacuum and SF6 circuit breakers), including IBC, ASTM standards applied modular, prefabricated welded and/or bolted building structures for outdoor walk in equipment. Analog-digital-embedded equipment design, prototyping, software and hardware debugging, RTU/PLC onsite technical support assistance, technical document writing. Related areas of expertise:

Engineering Management Project Management

Product Engineering / Development Product Standardization Computer Aided Design Engineering & Marketing Configurators Productivity Improvement Quality Control

EDUCATION

Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas Venezuela 2000 Engineering Faculty

B.S.E.E., College of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Control EXPERIENCE

AZZ, Inc. MAR/23 2015 – JAN/11 2017

Engineering Manager – Switchgear Systems

Plans and directs all aspects of engineering and design activities within the organization. Ensures all engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with organization's established policies and objectives.

Responsible of Medium Voltage ANSI Air Insulated Switchgear product lines engineering for Utility Markets. Lead and implement the strategic direction for all electrical and mechanical design, components and R&D focused on achieving reduced cycle time, delivering superior quality, reducing per-unit costs and enhancing product portfolio.

Support best in class manufacturing with focus on cycle time, quality, and value by maintaining internal department processes, providing professional expertise to assist in the growth and development of team members, and distributing departmental capabilities to maximize human capital resources. Develop project schedules that are compatible with customer needs and internal department capability. Coordinate project activities and meetings. Closely monitor project progress throughout the project cycle to ensure on-time delivery and budget attainment.

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Communicate with customers to address project and warranty issues, and maintain pertinent documentation. Generate and present written reports concerning projects status. Increase efficiency and quality by proactively identifying and implementing advanced tools within the engineering and manufacturing departments.

Define responsibilities and communicate expectations to direct subordinates; monitor the performance and development of subordinates.

Ensure that department activities and operations follow legal and ethical guidelines. Provide guidance, direction, and authorization to carry out major plans, standards, and procedures consistent with company/corporate goals and policies. Maximize gross profit of projects. Implements cost control methods and reduction where possible without compromising quality.

Point Eight Power AUG/18 2014 – MAR/16 2015

Engineering Manager – Power Distribution and Control Responsible of all engineering group deliverables milestones and budget. Support manufacturing focused on cycle time, quality, and value. Evaluate existing, maintain and create new internal department processes.

Coordinate with Estimating Department on technical topics to ensure accurate quote execution; collaborate with production, fabrication and building structural managers to monitor progress and efficiency on all projects and act as the final authority for technical related matters. Recommend budget expenditures and appropriations for research and development with a focus on product simplification and standardization, using cost reduction and process improvement philosophies. Coordinate and direct outsourcing engineering resources processes, productivity and effectiveness. ABB, Inc. 2008 – 2014

COE Engineering Manager – ABB PPMV LM FEB/01 2013 – AUG/11 2014 Responsible for Customer Order Engineering. Customer Order Engineering comprises Medium Voltage Products (ANSI Switchgear), Medium Voltage Apparatus (ANSI Outdoor Breakers, Reclosers, In Door Breakers and Versa Rupter), Engineering Tools & Automation (ePLAN, MVE, SolidWorks, SmarTeam

& SAP Mechanical Configurators) and Electrical Standards (Secondary Circuits) Teams. Continue working with the ABB Global PPMV Standardization of Secondary Engineering Team (SSE). Continue the lead of eCAD tool migration process for the three mayor Medium Voltage Products of ABB in North America (Canada, Mexico and USA).

Standards and Configurators Engineer – ABB PPMV NAM MAR/03 2011 – JAN/31 2013 Manages engineering tools for Medium Voltage Products and Apparatus on all Customer Orders. Engineering Tool Administration group and Electrical Standards group for ABB Medium Voltage Products in North America (US-MEX-CA).

Experience in developing and implementing applications for Engineering Process Improvement. Actively contributed with Global ABB PPMV Standardization of Secondary Engineering Team (SSE). Lead of eCAD tool migration process for the three major Medium Voltage Products of ABB in North America (Canada, Mexico and USA).

Created master parts data base, symbols and macros from start to completion of first pilot and production projects using EPLAN Professional V8 in USA.

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Project Engineer – Medium Voltage ANSI Switchgear MAY/19 2008 – FEB/25 2011 Experience performing substation protection, control and communications design for medium voltage electrical substation projects. Medium voltage arc resistant, customized and standard switchgear design, designing new and modifying existing relay switchgear, modification and design of single line, three line, floor plans, general arrangements, front views, section views, AC elementary, DC schematics, equipment wiring, relay panel wiring, AUTO DESK AutoCAD drawings detailed bill of materials and specifications sheets. Experience with high voltage substation equipment such as transformers, circuit breakers, metering & instrumentation, pilot wire, audio tone, fiber optic communication, carrier equipment, SCADA & RTU's.

Siemens Energy & Automation MAY/07 2007 – MAY/12 2008 Product Engineer – Low Voltage Switchgear Division Experience performing substation protection, control and communications design for low voltage electrical distribution projects. Siemens Type WL (up to 6000A, 600VAC metal enclosed, four high, NEMA 1 to 3R) low voltage metal-enclosed switchgear, designing new existing relay switchgear, design of single line, three line, floor plans, general arrangements, front views, section views, AC three line diagrams, DC schematics, equipment wiring, relay panel wiring, creating AUCOTEC Engineering Base Electrical, AUTO DESK AutoCAD drawings, detailed bill of materials and specifications sheets. Contributed in establishing standardization designs for control power transformers and distribution. Added experience in dual parameter dynamic arc flash protection settings as well as in the zone selective interlocking techniques.

ABB, Inc. MAY/02 2005 – MAY/04 2007

Project Engineer – Medium Voltage ANSI Switchgear Division Experience performing substation protection, control and communications design for medium voltage electrical substation projects. Medium voltage arc resistant, customized and standard switchgear design, designing new and modifying existing relay switchgear, modification and design of single line, three line, floor plans, general arrangements, front views, section views, AC elementary, DC schematics, equipment wiring, relay panel wiring, AutoCAD drawings detailed bill of materials and specifications sheets. Experience with high voltage substation equipment such as transformers, circuit breakers, metering & instrumentation, pilot wire, audio tone, fiber optic communication, carrier equipment, SCADA & RTU's. Miami Switchgear, Co. FEB/25 2002 – APR/25 2005

Application Engineer – Miami Breaker’s, Inc. Switchgear Division Managed this subsidiary in the specifying, design, development, manufacturing and testing of medium and low voltage switchgear for the utility, industrial, commercial, OEM, on local and export markets. Responsible for engineering, design, develop, technical support and start up of Electrical Control Panels for Miami Dade County Water and Sewer Department, Elliot Energy Systems, Americas Generators, among others.

Equipment installation and operation manual writing and design. Supervised all circuit breaker testing and repair service department. Crucial contribution in achieving and maintaining UL508A certification. Main achievements: production increment over 70% in a depressed market (2003-2005). Significantly upgraded engineering and technical support infrastructure for this company.

• Energy Control Systems USA, Inc., Miami, FL; 2003 - 1st Annual Latin American Conference of Generating Systems & Electrical Protection; TOPICS: Power Transformers, Power Circuit Breakers Description, Protection and Maintenance.

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• Energy Control Systems USA, Inc., Miami, FL; 2004 - 2nd Annual Latin American Conference of Generating Systems & Electrical Protection; TOPICS: Protection and Coordination using Microprocessor Based Relays.

Custom Cartographic Group, Corp. MAY/22 2000 – FEB/21 2002 Technical Document Writer

Responsible of electrical equipment technical document writing and design, including electrical and mechanical CAD drawings for installation, maintenance purposes.

• Wrote and designed the “XLU Line Busway System” design and installation manuals for Electbus Corporation, for USA electrical market.

• Wrote and designed the “R-line Circuit Breakers” installation manuals, “Koino Industrial Control Products”, “R-line Circuit Breakers” and “MB General Products” catalogs for Miami Breaker, Inc., for USA electrical market.

• Supervised all cartographic representations development and design for “Miami-Dade Road Maps System Project”.

Electbus, S.A. JUN/16 1998 – MAY/15 2000

Electrical Engineer, Caracas, Venezuela – Pompano Beach, FL Based in Caracas, contributed in RTU structured block devices for Venezuelan’s PDVSA petroleum extraction field SCADA system designing and developing. Participated in the innovation of a low voltage distribution system line within the electrical engineering design team. Cooperated with engineering team in the design and preparation of control schemes for electrical distribution systems metering, control and protection for PDVSA. Cooperated with engineering team in specifying components, issue drawings and Bill of Materials for main projects.

New low voltage electrical distribution systems based on aluminum or copper busway conductor feasibility study to produce new competitive product headed for world wide electrical market. Industrial control device technology research and development for electronic equipment design and production of innovating products to be launched into local market. Prototype implementation for the separate stages of new Remote Terminal Units design projects and their evaluation for ongoing production.

Debug software and hardware on Remote Terminal Units and Transducers control process for petroleum extraction fields in PDVSA Oil Camps.

MPR DE VENEZUELA, S.A. 1997 – 1998

Intern Electrical Engineer, Caracas, Venezuela 1997 to 1998. Designed embedded electronic equipment with SCADA capabilities for Caracas municipal automotive traffic control system.

Participation in a committee for standards definition - Venezuelan Committee for Industrial Standards, Automotive Traffic Control Equipment, 1999.

Represented MPR de Venezuela, S.A. in the standard committee definition for Traffic Control Light Systems (SC-02) as COVENIN 2753:1999 Standard “Traffic Control Equipment”. Participation in an Engineering Congress as a speaker. Jose Jarque

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MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE Standards Association Member. 2010 - Current

IEEE Power & Energy Society, Switchgear Standards Committee Member. 2015 - Current IEEE Power & Energy Society, St. Louis Chapter, Position: Chair. 2016 - Current TRAINING

• ABB, Inc. 2012

ENOVIA SmarTeam V5R20 - Achieved certificate of completion on tool ABB customization for ENOVIA SmarTeam integration SolidWorks, Mentor Graphics PADS and MS Word, Excel applications as Part of Product Lifecycle Management training for Research and Development.

• North Carolina State University – Main AUG/14 2011 - AUG/19 2011 Project Risk Management - Achieved certificate of completion on RM1 Project Risk Management as Part of Project Management PMP Certification Program.

• George Washington University MAR/21 2011 - MAR/25 2011 ESI International - Project Planning Analysis and Control Achieved certificate of completion on Project Planning, Analysis and Control as Part of Project Management PMP Certification Program.

• ABB Learning Management System 2010

Achieved certificate of completion on Leadership Challenge Program as Part of Project Management PMP Certification Program.

• ABB, S.R.O. 2009

Medium Voltage Switchgear Facility – Advanced Training EPLAN Software - Achieved certificate of completion on ePLAN for tool administrator in ABB Medium Voltage Products for North America.

• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee SEP/20 2004 - SEP/24 2004 Center of Continuing Engineering Education – Achieved certificate of completion on conceptual design of electric substation for high and medium voltage. Electrical Substations, Power Systems, Regulations, Project Chronology, Project Overall Scope Development, Identification of Bounds, Environmental Conditions, Costs and Schedules, Site Grading Design, Foundations, Classifications, Design Techniques, Bus Configuration, Grounding, Structures, Power Transformers, Circuit Breakers, Switches, Instrument Transformers, Substation Auxiliary Systems.

• Beckwith Electric Co., Inc. 2003

Beckwith Electric Automation Seminar - Achieved certificate of completion to the Beckwith Electric automation seminar on power factor autodaptive equipments for distribution lines, power transformer protection and generators protection.

• Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. 2002

3AH2 Maintenance and Operation - Received certificate for medium voltage vacuum circuit breaker maintenance, operation and device specification.

• Basler Electric, Inc. 2002

Power Systems and Relay Application - Received certificate for medium voltage systems protection and coordination recommended practice.

• Echelon Corporation 1999

LonWorks Device and Network Design - Received complete course on electronic equipment device distributed control network applications based on the Echelon Neuron embedded system and Echelon Lonworks protocol and network control operating system.

• Universidad Central de Venezuela 1998

High Level Language Programming for Real Time Operating Systems - Received certificate on ANSI C programming and real time operating system design for 8051 Family of INTEL Microprocessors.

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COMPUTER SKILLS & SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Electrical Circuit Design Applications:

o Autodesk, AutoCAD Electrical, 2005-2016

o EPLAN Electric P8 version 2.3 SP1

o AUCOTEC, Engineering Base Electrical

o ECT, Promis-e Versions 5-05 and 2007

o Bentley, Promis-e Version V8i

o ORCAD’s PCB 4.1 version;

o ORCAD’s Capture. 9.1 version;

o ORCAD’s Layout 9.1 version

o PSIPCE 6.1 version

Control Systems Integration Tools

o INTELLUTION’s Fix 32

o GE FANUC CIMPLICITY

Product Configurators and Workflow Tools

o BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise, 2016

o ENOVIA SmarTeam V5R20, 2012

o MVE Medium Voltage Switchgear Engineering Configurator 2.2; o MVP Pro 2.3 Medium Voltage Switchgear Marketing Configurator Office Tools

o MICROSOFT Windows 3.1-10;

o MICROSOFT Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Project, Outlook, Money); o MICROSOFT SQL Server, 2008 R2

o MACROMEDIA Freehand version 10

o ADOBE Photoshop version 6;

o ADOBE Acrobat Distiller version 7

MRP/Marketing Systems

o SAP; Intuit Eclipse; Syteline,

o ORACLE, E-Business Suite,

o Salesforce, Report Generators & Dashboards

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

MICROSOFT Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for MS Excel Basic, ANSI C, C++,

Macroassembler for the INTEL’s 51,

Franklin’s Software C Language Compiler for INTEL’s 51 Family, Keil’s Software C Language Compiler for INTEL’s 51 Family Trajan’s Software Neural Network Simulator 2.0 version

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