Chester Linn Ford Jr., P.E. ; 281-***-****

Senior Electrical Design Engineer ; ad18cl@r.postjobfree.com

Web: electricalconsulting.net

EDUCATION/LICENSE:

Electrical Engineering & Math- BSEE

Lamar University, Beaumont, TX; USA (Army) Veteran

Registered Professional Engineer

P.E.#90004_TX; Reg#F-11510

P.E.#89386_FL

NCEES ID#18-472-43

SUMMARY:

Experience in the Design and Layout of Substations, Power Distribution, start-up and commissioning as well as supervision of sub-contractors. Offshore Petrochemical & Gas Compression Packages and Onshore Petrochemical & Start-Up and Commissioning as follows:

Highly skilled with Auto Cad & Micro Station; experience in MV, HV & EHV Voltage Design.

Experience in Substation layout Design and Relay Specification/ Coordination.

Experience in Instrument Design Systems (Delta V System).

Over Twenty Years of Experience in Quality Control & Value Engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AutoCAD, ETAP, SKM, INTOOLS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Suites, Microsoft Visual Basic(advanced), Word, Excel, Micro Station, IEC61850, NEC, ANSI, Network routers, EZI View, HAZOP review, P&ID’s diagrams, One-Line-Diagram, Arc Flash & Load Analysis.

Positions Held:

1_Senior Electrical Engineer 6_Startup Engineer

2_Senior E & I Engineer Consultant 7_Design Engineer Specialist

3_Consulting Electrical Engineer 8_Manager of Engineering

4_Substation Design Specialist 9_Senior Project Engineer

5_Instrument Engineer

International Experience includes:

Germany, Canada, Panama, Singapore, Indonesia, Qatar, Israel, United Arab, Yemen and England. WORK HISTORY:

Senior Electrical Engineer: C&M Electrical Consulting Services, Inc. Feb.2020_Presently

Providing Lead Electrical & Instrument support on Projects.

Provided One-Line-Diagrams; Cable Sizing and Voltage Drop Calculations.

Electrical Equipment Specs and BOM’s

Panel Schedules & Load Analysis

Instrument Index, Location, Details & Interface Wiring Diagrams

Grounding Design & Lighting Design

Providing Arc Flash Analysis

On Call Consulting Services: Nov. 2019-Feb.2020

Senior Electrical Design Engineer: Providing Calculations, Short Circuit Analysis, Arc Flash Analysis, Voltage Drop Calculations, Responsible for ensuring, Utility Coordination.

STRESS ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, INC (contract) May 2019_Nov. 2019

Houston, TX 77041-1206

Senior Electrical & Instrument Engineer.

INEOS-Chemical (Texas City, TX) Steam Generation estimated @ $80million Project:

Providing Lead Electrical & Instrument support on this Project.

BCCK Engineering INC. (full time) EE July 2018- May 2019

Midland, TX

International Gas-Engineering Co. specializing in Nitrogen reinjection,

NGL recovery, Cryogenic gas processing.

Senior Electrical Engineer.

Providing Calculations, Short Circuit Analysis, Arc Flash Analysis, Voltage Drop Calculations, One-Line-Diagrams, Equipment Layouts, Electrical & Instrument interface Drawings Protection & Control Relays to comply with NEC.

Houston Intercontinental Airport (consultant position) EE Dec.2015-June 2017

Substation_ (six (6) 15KV_MV Substations)

One-Line- Diagrams & Three Line Diagrams, Load Analysis and Short Circuit Studies (ETAP)

JR2 Energy/Center Point Energy (Houston, Texas) June 2015 - Dec 2015

Electrical Engineer Manager: Full Time Center-Point Energy (Houston’s Major Utility Company) Developed Design efforts for (6)-Engineers & (16) design people Performed the maintenance work for Center Point Energy following NEC guidelines.

Binkley & Barfield (Houston, Texas) EE_(consultant position) March2014-- August 2014 Design of Underground 13.8KV Feeder relocation from existing 138KV Substation & Power Distribution pole line and adding additional Breakers to existing 138KV Substation as follows: Developed one-line-diagrams, Physical layout of approx. (3 miles) of Pre-cast Concrete Duct Bank (Trenwa) & CLX (15KV) cable selection and overall cost for the entire Project.

Baker Hughes-Research&Development (Tomball, Texas) Aug. 2013-Feb. 2014

Electrical Engineer (consultant position) Delivered the design for the Gas Turbine Power Generation interface drawings for Power requirements to operate the 4.5MW MV_ Fracturing Pump.

Wood Group GTS Sept. 2012- July 2013

Electrical Design Engineer (consultant position) 138KV Substation & Power Distribution Site: NRG Parish Peaker Project which consist of One (1) Frame#7 GE Gas Turbine; whereas, providing the One-Line-Diagrams, block wiring diagrams, conduit and cable schedule, Short Circuit Analysis(ETAP) and Arc Flash Analysis(ETAP); all Electrical Interface Wiring Diagrams & SCADA master station with the Turbine J. Boxes, motors and Mark VI Control System. Stamping over 200 drawings.

Texas New Mexico Power (Texas City, Texas) April 2012- July 2012

Electrical Design Engineer (consultant position) Providing upgrade of 69kv; 138kv, & 230kv Substations & Power Distribution employing SEL_-Relays and design of a Capacitor Bank using GE C70 relay and SEL-487V relay as a standard bank for Protection & Control.

Departm’t of Energy (DOE), SRS Savannah River Site Aiken, SC April 2010-Oct.2011

Lead Electrical Design Engineer (as of June 2010) (contract with Spectrum PA, LLC) SITE NUCLEAR:Provided for a Delta V Instrument Control System ; Junction Box layout, interface wiring diagrams, Cable Tray Layout, Conduit & Cable Schedule, Block wiring diagrams, and Control Building Layouts.

Department of Energy (DOE) National Security Technologies Nov. 2009-June 2010 National Security Technologies (Contract with URS) Lead Electrical Design Engineer 232 Energy Way, N Las Vegas, NV SITE NUCLEAR: Responsible for electrical design effort of a Revamp and decommission of Nevada Test Site (NTS) 138KV Power Substation at Section #12. Provide for decommission of the Rainier Mesa 138KV Substation and provide and install a new SCADA system.

Proplant, Inc., (Houston, TX) EE_consultant position Aug. 2009-Nov. 2009Revamp Ammonia Plant in Doha, Qatar (travel to Doha, Qatar)_Cable and Conduit sizing; Voltage Drop Calculations, Cable Tray Layout & BOM for Electrical and Instrument Interface wiring and Connection Details, Cable & Tray Layout Design effort, specifications for MCC and UPS system.

Pro Energy Crafts, Inc. (Colon, Panama) Start-up Engineer May 2009-Aug. 2009

Responsible for project involving start-up of Three (3) GE frame 9, Gas Turbines (combined cycle) operating at 13.8kV stepped up to 115kV Substation & Power Distribution in Colon, Panama produced 70 new drawings.

Fluor Daniels Corp. (Sugarland, TX) consultant position June 2007- May 2009

Project involved revamping the facility to be integrated into the TXE Energy Gasification Project so that both sites will achieve the business goals for production, quality, reliability and safety. Provided Fluor with Load Studies for the additional load requirements.

Sunoco (Sugarland, TX) (consultant position) Sept 2006 – June 2007

Services contracted to various Firms providing Lead Electrical & Design Engineering and Consulting as follows: Delivered Sunoco Logistics with Cost Estimates of all assignments, scope of work, deliverable list, man-hours drawing requirements.

Gulf Interstate Engineering (Houston, TX) consultant position April 2005-Sep. 2006

Provided lead Electrical and Instrumentation support on this project estimated at $5.7 Billion Dollar Project @ Republic of Yemen LNG Project..

CDI Engineering, Inc. (Houston, TX) consultant position Feb. 2005-April 2005 Instrument Engineer : Developed estimates, design, datasheets, inquiry and requisitions of instruments.

GE (Houston, TX) (consultant position) May 2005- Aug. 2005 Developed Bill of Materials (Electrical) in the packaging of GE Turbines at GE Power LP Houston, TX to work to compact existing system to new revised spread sheet.

Fluor Daniels Corp. (Sugarland, TX) Aug. 2005- Dec. 2005

Design Engineer Specialist (consultant position) CADD work of Motor Schematic Templates for Exxon Russian project (Sakhalin) providing electrical schematic and wiring diagrams for various modules.

GE (Houston, TX) consultant position Sept. 2003- Feb. 2004

Worked on the packaging of the LM2500 trailer (prototype units) providing dual rated unit 50/60Hz, Atex, CE rated switchgear and motor control center; Developed all electrical interface drawings.

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