Eng. Francisco Pinerua

*. Proposed Position Senior Electrical Engineer

2. Name & Contact Francisco Rafael Pinerua

Address ***** ******* **. ***. ***, Dallas, Tx

75238

Phone 469-***-****

Email ad16rv@r.postjobfree.com

Date of Birth 19th January 1962

Nationality Venezuelan / US Work Authorization

3. Profile Professional with more than 34 years of experience in engineering projects, construction and maintenance of electrical substations and transmission lines for Electrical Power Utility Companies. Extensive experience with sizing, specification, selection, testing and commissioning of major electrical transmission and substation equipment, including power transformers and autotransformer, SF6 gas insulated substation modules (GIS), EHV/HV/MV/LV circuit breakers and disconnect switches, measurement transformers, and protection and control power systems. Experience as a team leader of the Transmission Engineering and Maintenance Planning Department at CORPOELEC, providing efficient support to Development, execution, monitoring and evaluation of substations and transmission lines maintenance plans, including protections and control schemes in substations at voltage levels from 24 kV to 400 kV. Developing and applying the Quality Management System under the ISO 9001: 2015 Standard. Quality Control and Quality Assurance. Knowledge and use of software AutoCAD, MS Project, SAP, MS Office, DiaLUX, Power System (ETAP, DigSILENT) and familiar with IEEE, IEC, NEC and NEMA standards.

4. Education

1982 - 1988 Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, Maracaibo, Venezuela. 5. Membership in

Professional

Associations:

Member of the Venezuelan Engineering Society

6. Experience

Jul. 2023 - present Company: FIRSTCO - Mesquite, Texas. Position: Crew Leader.

• Plan and order the manufacturing of the parts that make up the air conditioning units of two of the company's production lines.

• Pursue the zero stock method to reduce operating costs. Sep. 2021 – Apr. 2023 Company: ICIS, C.A. (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Project Management Company) - Maracaibo, Venezuela. CV F. PINERUA

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Position: Substation Physical and SP&C Engineer (remote).

• Rehabilitation of Protection, Control and Auxiliary Services Schemes of S/E Arreaga 138 kV: Updating of the single line diagram; Plan view and elevation drawings of 138 kV yard; equipment assembly detail drawings; list of cables and connection.

• Standardization of the protections system of the urban rings in 230 and 138 kV and their associated communication systems of the western coast of Maracaibo Lake: Review of technical information provided by the client; Transmission database update; Support in carrying out the Protection Coordination Study.

Jul. 2016 – Sep. 2021 Company: ICIS, C.A. - Maracaibo, Venezuela. Position: Leader of Physical Substation and SP&C Engineering / Quality Assurance

• Technical support and review of physical substation design of projects "Manufacture, supply and assembly of 400 kV underwater and underground cables for the crossing of Maracaibo Lake", "Cardón 115/34.5 kV Substation" and

"Manaure 115/13.8 kV Substation", including, yard layouts, plans, sections and details, schematics, wiring diagrams, grounding, lightning protection, control building arrangements, interior and exterior raceways, auxiliary AC/DC power systems and bills of material. In addition, protection and control design including panel arrangements, single line and three lines diagrams, AC/DC schematics, equipment and panel wiring and coordination for the interconnections to SCADA.

• Development, review and implementation of the Quality Management System under the ISO 9001: 2015 Standard for the Internal Processes of the company.

• Support QA/QC for deliverables to clients.

Jan. 2013 – Jul. 2016 Company: CORPOELEC, S.A. (National Electric Power Utility) - Maracaibo Venezuela

Position: Manager of Protections and Controls Systems Maintenance - Country Northwest Area

• Strategic direction of the team of engineers and technicians to perform the coordination and calculation studies to determine relay settings and functionality testing for electromechanical and electronic protective relay systems, downloading and analyzing transient recorder events, perform power systems specialized studies including load flow, short circuit and harmonics analysis and maintenance of the Protection and Control schemes.

• Monitoring of tactical and operational indicators and determination and analysis of strategic indicators. CV F. PINERUA

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• Preparation and presentation of strategic reports to the Regional Transmission Management.

• Technical assistance to validate test factory results of ZIV Protection and Control Systems, Bilbao, Spain 2014. Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 Company: CORPOELEC, S.A. (National Electric Power Utility) - Maracaibo Venezuela

Position: Manager of Adaptation and Improved Projects for Transmission Maintenance – Zulia State.

Coordinating a professional project team for the execution of Maintenance Projects destined to the improvement of the existing installations of transmission lines and substations in the northwestern area of the country, involving:

• Obsolescence replacement plans.

• Increases in capacity, flexibility and reliability.

• Project Schedule & Budget Managing, Planning and Control with SAP R/3 PS Module.

• Physical and financial progress indicators, S curves, management of change project schedule (Microsoft Project), reports project advance, etc.

• Supervision of engineering & design development.

• Technical assistance to validate test factory results for high voltage power equipment of:

- Siemens Power Transformers and Alstom HV Circuit Breakers, Suzhou, China, 2012.

- Speco Power Transformers, Jinan, China 2012

Mar. 2007 – Dec. 2011 Company: Energía Eléctrica de Venezuela – ENELVEN

(Northwestern country area Electric Power Utility) Maracaibo Venezuela.

Positions: Transmission Maintenance Planning and Engineering Manager.

• Strategic management of the team of engineers and technicians for the development of preventive and predictive maintenance plans for substations and transmission lines, in accordance with the manufacturers recommendations, useful life, record of interruption current levels (operation and short circuit) and equipment test records.

• Monitoring of maintenance execution according to plans, ensuring that the total annual accumulated interruption time due to failures in the transmission system remained below 3 minutes.

• Definition and constant evaluation of protection schemes and their respective adjustments and coordination.

• Failure analysis through transient event recorders and forensic engineering.

2005 – Mar. 2007 Company: Energía Eléctrica de Venezuela (ENELVEN) - CV F. PINERUA

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Maracaibo Venezuela

Positions: Chief Engineer of Protection and Control Maintenance Division

• Developing coordination and calculation studies to determine relay settings for electromechanical and electronic protective relay systems.

• Functionality testing of electromechanical and electronic protection relay systems. Downloading and analyzing transient recorder events.

• Performed Power Systems specialized studies including load flow, short circuit and harmonics analysis.

• Coordination of the maintenance of the Protection and Control schemes.

2003 – 2005 Company: Energía Eléctrica de Venezuela (ENELVEN) - Maracaibo Venezuela

Positions: Substation Maintenance Engineer.

• Programming, monitoring, evaluation and optimization of maintenance plans for power equipment of substations and transmission lines from 8 to 138 kV, as well as protection and control systems.

• Fault analysis.

• Management of indicators for monitoring maintenance performance (SAP R/3 PM Module).

2001 - 2003 Company: Energía Eléctrica de Venezuela (ENELVEN) - Maracaibo Venezuela

Positions: Substation Planning Engineer

• Responsible for managing the budget associated to transmission and substation investment projects and construction of substations and transmission lines.

• Management of indicators of physical and financial progress of projects: SAP R/3 PS, MM and CO Modules, S curves, project schedule (Microsoft Project), etc.

1998 - 2001 Company: Energía Eléctrica de Venezuela (ENELVEN) - Maracaibo Venezuela

Positions: Rural County Administrator of Commercial and Technical Electrical Energy Services

• Coordination of residential, commercial and industrial energy metering and billing activities; customer service; detection and recovery of energy losses; development of marketing strategies; preventive and corrective maintenance of the distribution system.

1988 - 1998 Company: Energía Eléctrica de Venezuela (ENELVEN) - Maracaibo Venezuela

Positions: Substations Projects Engineer.

• Perform the detailed design of medium and high voltage CV F. PINERUA

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substations including, but not limited to: one- line diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, SCADA, communications, station physical layouts, sections/elevations, cable and conduit drawings and details, ground grid design and details, coordination of foundation and structural drawings and details, control room design and details, lightning protection drawings, yard lighting drawings and bills of materials.

• Procurement of all high voltage power equipment and protection system.

• Developing of specifications and metric calculations for construction; construction budget; work contracting; site inspection of civil construction and electromechanical assembly; execution of tests for the commissioning.

• Special designation for detailed engineering of the project “Zulia 9 138/24 kV Substation” (Campo Boscán, Venezuela), in agreement with the company CHEVRON, at offices of

BECHTEL, in Gaithersburg, Md - United States. Construction and commissioning.

• Special designation for design of the first protection scheme and numerical control of the Venezuelan Western Transmission System (230/138 kV Cuatricentenario Substation), at offices of ABB, in Baden – Switzerland.

7. Training Assertive communication and team integration. Leadership.

Quality Management.

Evaluation of Power Systems.

ABB protection relays.

SCHWEITZER protection relays.

Instrument Transformers.

Substation Automation.

Control Systems Series Capacitors.

Statistics.

Auto CAD, Office.

English.

8. Languages

Spanish Native

English Fluent

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