ARNIE FINLEY

US Mobile: +1-619-***-****

E-mail: ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

Mr. Finley has over 45 years of experience, including extensive international experience, in power generation (renewables, conventional, supercritical, simple cycle, combined cycle and co-gen/CHP), marine propulsion, energy, oil and gas, employed in increasingly responsible capacities that include Watch Engineer, Shift Supervisor, Lead Mechanical/Operations Commissioning Engineer, Materials Control Management, Operations and Maintenance Manager, Turnover Coordinator, Commissioning Coordinator, Start-up Manager, Commissioning Manager, Construction Manager, Site Manager and Project Manager. Mr. Finley has start-up/commissioning/construction experience with the following Combustion Gas Turbines, (gas, liquid and dual-fueled): ABB/Alstom GT11NM1&2, ABB/Alstom GT26B prototype single shaft w/steam turbine configuration, Alstom-Stahl GT10C, GTX-100, GE LM 2500, LM 6000, LMS 100, GE/Alsthom Frame 5N, Frame 6B, Frame 6E, Frame 7FA, Frame 9A, Frame 9E, Frame 9FA (including prototype single shaft w/steam turbine configuration), NATCO, Solar, Siemens SGT-400/Cyclone, SGT-700, SGT-800, Siemens-Westinghouse 501D5A, 501FD2, 501FD3, and Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit and Wartsïlla diesel-gen. sets. Plant power production ratings range from 5 mw to over 2000 mw, simple and combined cycle, as well as conventional. Mr. Finley also has experience in municipal solid waste-to-energy facilities, landfill-methane-gas-to-energy facilities, hospitals, semi-conductor (microchip) facilities, food processing plants, gas compression stations and marine shipboard propulsion systems. Boilers and/or HRSG’s that Mr. Finley has operated, maintained, erected and/or commissioned include ABB-CE, ATS, Babcock & Wilcox, Babcock-Hitachi Supercritical, Clayton, Deltak/Letec, Doosan, EIT, Foster-Wheeler/Detroit Stoker, Kawasaki Keeler-Dorr, NeM, Nooter-Erickson, Vogt, Vogt-NeM, Zurn, and others with operating pressure ranges from 200 psi to 3625 psi, (13.6 bars-225 bars) saturated, superheated and supercritical steam cycles. Mr. Finley has Steam Turbine Generator experience with ABB, Dresser-Rand, GE, Hitachi, Ingersoll-Rand, Shin-Nippon, Siemens, Toshiba, Westinghouse and others. Mr. Finley has operating experience with the following controls systems: ABB/Taylor (Egatrol), ABB Advant OCS, Bailey Pneumatic, Bailey Net 90, ABB/Bailey Symphony (Infinet90), Foxboro, GE Mark V & VI, Johnson-Yokogawa, Sun Microsystems, Siemens-Westinghouse TXP Teleperm and T-3000, Westinghouse Distributed Process Family (WDPF II), amongst others. Mr. Finley’s skills-set include construction, commissioning, start-up, operations and maintenance management from Greenfield to Commercial Operations, of both power generation and gas compression stations.

EDUCATION:

Calhoun MEBA School of Engineering Marine Engineer 1972

Cypress College, Orange Coast College, Mt. San Jacinto JC

Course work in Mechanical Engineering

LANGUAGES:

English: US Native

Spanish: Fluent, conversational and technical (read, write and speak)

Portuguese: Conversational

Arabic: Conversational

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

03/21–04/21 Owner’s Rep/QA Inspector

AES/DPP

Los Mina VI Planned Outage/Overhaul

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

03/21–03/21 Owner’s Rep/QA Inspector

Saavi Energia

La Rosita II Planned Outage/Overhaul

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

02/20–08/20 Commissioning Manager

GE Power

Barker Power Plant CC Conversion Project

Tandil, Argentina

&

La Plata YPF Refinery Cogen Project

Ensenada, Argentina

10/19–11/19 Commissioning Supervisor

New York Power Authority/US Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority

Randolph E. Harley Power Plant

St. Thomas US Virgin Islands

11/18–12/18 Steam Turbine Start-up Supervisor

Petro-Chem Development Co, Inc.

Petronas RAPID (Refinery And Petrochem Integrated Development) Project

Pengerang, Southern Johor, Malaysia

03/17–10/17 Mechanical TFA

Siemens

Santo Domingo de Los Olleros Combined Cycle Conversion Project

Chilca, Peru

06/16–08/16 Construction Operations Manager/Commissioning Coordinator

GE-Alstom Renewable Energy

Los Humeros III Phase A Geothermal Power Project

Los Humeros, Puebla, Mexico

02/15–08/15 Start-up and Commissioning Technical Manager

Cobra Facilities and Services SA

UTE Reserva Fría, Eten

Reque, Chiclayo, Lambayeque, Perú

10/14 -12/14 Material/Fuel Handling TFA

Sithe Global Power LLC

GNPower 600 mw Coal Fired Power Plant,

Mariveles, Bataan, Philippines

03/14 -04/14 Mechanical TA

PT Sulzer Indonesia

Kapar Energy Project/ Unit 5 Major Overhaul

Sultan Salah Huddin Abdul Aziz Power Plant

Kapar, Selangor, Malaysia

07/13- 09/13 HRSG Construction TA

Vogt Power International

MPX UTE Parnaiba II Gas Power Plant Project,

Santo Antonio dos Lopes, Maranhão, Brazil

11/12-05/13 Commissioning Manager

GdF Suez/Enersur

Peaky Power Project, Ilo, Peru

06/12- 09/12 Commissioning Coordinator

GdF Suez/Tractebel Energy

Tractebel Energia de Monterrey Repower Project, Monterrey, Mexico

05/12- 06/12 Mechanical TA

Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas

Termo Valle Repower Project, Cali Colombia

06/11- 09/11 Project Turnover Coordinator

CITGO Petroleum/PDVSA

Tacoa Power Barge Project, Tacoa, Venezuela

04/10- 11/10 Project Construction Manager

Caterpillar Power Generation Systems

Collahuasi Cogeneration Project, Iquique, Chile

10/09-12/09 Commissioning Coordinator

Siemens Energy Inc. / Techint / COGA-TgP

Chiquintirca Gas Compression Project (Camisea II), Chiquintirca, Peru

06/09-07/09 Owner’s Rep. /Mechanical TFA

Turbine Technology Services Corp./BlueCrest Capital Management

Dynami IV Power Barge Repower Project, Guayaquil, Ecuador

03/09-06/09 Site Manager

Siemens Energy Inc. / Techint / COGA-TgP

Chiquintirca Gas Compression Project, Chiquintirca, Peru

01/09-03/09 HRSG Site Start-Up Manager

Siemens Energy Inc. / Sudamericana de Fibras

Sudamericana Generación Cogen Power Project, Callao, Peru

11/08-01/09 Senior Commissioning Engineer

Siemens Energy Inc. / PDVSA

ICO-Morón Compressor Project, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela

10/08-11/08 HRSG Site Start-Up Manager

Siemens Energy Inc. / Sudamericana de Fibras

Sudamericana Generación Cogen Power Project, Callao, Peru

04/08-09/08 Lead Mechanical Commissioning Engineer BOP

Topaz Energy/ GE/ Zachry Construction

Laredo Peaking Power Project, Laredo, Texas

02/08-04/08 Materials Control Management

Siemens Power Generation/Pacific Rim Energy

Proyecto Alberto Lovero, Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela

Proyecto Ezequiel Zamora, Alta Gracia de Orituco, Venezuela

08/07-02/08 Construction Manager/Commissioning Manager

Técnicas Reunidas, Omán /Petroleum Development Oman/GE

Saih Rawl Depletion Compression Project (SRDC), Saih Rawl, Oman

06/06-07/07 Engineering, Operations & Construction Site Manager

Globeleq Perú S.A./Siemens Power Generation

Kallpa Greenfield Merchant Power Project, Chilca Perú

02/06-06/06 Start-up Coordinator/Assistant Start-up Manager

Hitachi America, Limited/MidAmerican Energy

MidAmerican Energy Project, CBEC Unit 4, Council Bluffs IA.

05/05-01/06 Mechanical TFA

Fluor/US Army Corps of Engineers

Shuiaba Repower Project, Mafraq as Shu’avbah, Iraq

Nasiriyah Turbine Rebuild, Al Nasiriyah, Iraq

03/05-04/05 DCS Operator

Shaw/Stone & Webster Asia/China Light & Power

Black Pointe Power Project, Hong Kong, SAR, PRC

09/04-11/04 Project Manager

OLS Energy/Delta Power

OLS Cogeneration Facility, Camarillo, California

09/03-03/04 Lead Mechanical/Operations Commissioning Engineer

Iberdrola/GE

Altamira III & IV Power Project, Altamira, Mexico

12/02-08/03 Lead Mechanical Commissioning Engineer B.O.P.

Siemens Power Generation/EDF

UTE Norte Fluminense Power Project, Macaé, Brazil

03/02- 07/02 Lead Mechanical Commissioning Engineer B.O.P.

Alstom-PRENCO Services/Redding Electric Utility

City of Redding Power Project, Redding, CA.

12/01- 03/02 Lead Mechanical Commissioning Engineer B.O.P.

Alstom Power/PetroBras

Novo Piratininga Repower Project, Sao Paolo, Brazil

07/01- 12/01 EPC Commissioning Manager

Aker Kvaerner Process/ El Paso Energy Int.

Termonte Macaé Merchant Power Project, Macaé, Brazil

05/01- 07/01 Start-up Operations Shift Supervisor

Bechtel/General Electric/BP-Amoco

Great Yarmouth Power Project, Great Yarmouth UK

01/01- 05/01 Lead Mechanical/Operations Start-up Engineer

Black & Veatch/Duke Energy- PPL

Griffith Power Project, Kingman, AZ

12/00-01/01 Commissioning Engineer/Start-Up Support/Vendor’s Representative

Vogt-NeM/The Southern Company

Alabama Power Co., Barry Combined Cycle Project, Bucks, Ala.

06/00- 12/00 Lead Mechanical Commissioning Engineer

Stone & Webster/ Siemens Power Generation

North Duri Cogeneration Power Project, Duri, Indonesia

01/00 -05/00 Commissioning Engineer

ABB-CE/ABB-Alstom Power Generation Systems

Enfield Energy Centre, Enfield, England, UK

10/99 - 01/00 Operations Consultant/Shift Supervisor

General Electric/Techint

Centro Puerto Project, Buenos Aires, Argentina

08/99 - 10/99 Commissioning Engineer

Foster -Wheeler Power Generation

Valorsul Waste-to-Energy Facility, Lisbon, Portugal

08/98 - 08/99 Operations and Maintenance Manager

ABB/Duke Engineering & Services

Aguaytia Thermoelectric Power Plant, Aguaytia, Peru

02/98 - 08/98 Operation Support/Shift Supervisor

ABB Power Generation, Inc.

Cambalache Peaking Plant, Arecibo, Puerto Rico

12/97-02/98 Start-up Operations Support

Walsh Construction

Central Utility Plant, University of California, San Francisco

10/97 - 12/97 Mechanical Start-up Consultant/ Lead Mechanical NDE Inspector

ABB-CE Marine Services Division

Mexican Navy, Manzanillo, Mexico

08/97 - 10/97 Start-up Operation Consultant

LSI Logic, Inc.

Gresham Oregon Campus

03/96 - 12/96 Start-up Operations/Mechanical Commissioning Engineer

J.A. Jones Construction/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Ft. Lewis Power Project, Ft. Lewis, WA

03/89 - 03/96 Shift Supervisor/ Control Room Operator / Plant Auxiliaries Operator

CREA Facility, PERG Facility, SERG Facility

L. A. County Sanitation Districts, Los Angeles, Ca.

08/82 - 02/89 Power Plant Operator

Irvine Medical Center,

University of California Irvine

1979 – 1982 Power Plant Operator

Hunt Wesson Foods, Inc.

Orange County Ca.

1972 – 1974 Third Assistant Engineer

Merchant Marine, Various Merchant Vessels

TRAINING:

On-site leadership training, managerial training, safety training and operations training,

LA County Sanitation Districts

Calgon Chemical, Pomona, CA, 1994

Bailey Net 90 (Bentley Nevada), Pomona, CA, 1990

Shin Nippon, Pomona, CA, 1990

Ebasco Constructors, Pomona, CA, 1990

Betz Chemical, Pomona, CA, 1990

Orange Coast College, Course work in Mechanical Engineering, 1976 – 1979

CERTIFICATION:

ASME QRO (Qualified Refuse Operator), 1993

Licensed Forklift Operator, 1993

CPR Certified

U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Third-Assistant-Engineer

U.S. Government Security Clearance

Valid Peruvian and U.S. Passports

Peruvian/U.S. Dual Citizenship

Mexican Legal Residence.

Professional References:

ABB/ALSTOM Power

Dermot Breslin ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Dermot Cullen ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Dwight Goodman ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Andy Hottinger ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Rod Singleterry ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Black & Veatch

Steve Stidham ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Caterpillar

Art Walton ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Jonathan Wentworth-Linton ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Dresser-Rand

Richard Pillsbury ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Michael Martin ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Foster Wheeler Power Systems

Alan Deal ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

GDF-Suez

Jerry Stowers ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Carlos Campo ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Cindy Root ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

GE Power Systems

Tom Wells ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Kevin Twinn ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Globeleq

Wayne White ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Halliburton

Felipe Catelli ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Siemens Energy Inc.

Francisco Necas ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Richard Fulkerson ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

AJ Verstrate ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Miguel Balandran ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Raúl Palenzuela ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Jaime Mondoñedo ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Christian Ciriani ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Universal Energy Inc.

Bob McIlvain ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Sheila Vining ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Personal References:

Jonathan Linton ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Ken Brophy ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Greg Satfield ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Kelly Morgan ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Eric Beaulieu ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Mark Ring ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Anthony Banon ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Johisy Zamora ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Paola Tamayo ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

Guadalupe Viena ad0hrk@r.postjobfree.com

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