Project Manager Controls Technician

Ruben N Salgado

**** ****** **.

El Centro, Ca **243

(H) 760-***-****

(C) 760-***-****

E-mail, **************@*****.***

Objective

Seeking for Electrical Superintendent

Career History.

San Diego Naval Base South Cummings Substation

2024 to Present

Galindo Electric Inc. El Cajon CA, 92021

• Project Manager for a Substation Relay Protection and SCADA System Project.

Training & Compliance Coordinator Safety & Work Practices Energy Department

2022 to 2024

Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial CA, 92251

• Training Energy Department & Generation, Water,

Vegetation (Tree Trimmers) Department employees

Safety and Best Work Practices.

• Created SOP, SWP and Testing Procedures, Switching Operation Procedures and Curriculums for Imperial

Irrigation District.

• Investigated Incidents to find the root cause of incident or accidents.

Power Utility Substation Construction & Maintenance (Energy C&M Substation Foreman)

2012 to 2022

Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial CA, 92251

• Responsible for the administrative duties of the operation of the Substation Construction & Maintenance Department.

• Responsible for 12 Construction & Maintenance

Technicians in Imperial Valley & 3 Technicians in

Coachella Valley.

• Responsible for the safety and training procedures in our Substation Construction & Maintenance Department.

• Responsible for the time keeping, record keeping of engineering documents and ordering materials, equipment repairs.

• Responsible for the scheduling of Substation maintenance, substation construction and commissioning new projects, WECC reportable substation equipment related to PRC- 005, PRC-008, FAC501.

Assist line constructions crew on the primary phasing when needed.

Career History.

Communication and Controls Technician, (Energy/Engineering Relay Protection Controls Foreman)

2005-2012

Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, Ca

• Responsible for the administrative duties of the operation of the Relay Department.

• Responsible for 8 Communication and Controls

Technicians in Imperial Valley & La Quinta Valley.

• Responsible for the safety and training procedures in our Relay Department.

• Responsible for the time keeping, record keeping of engineering documents and ordering materials, equipment repairs.

• Responsible for the scheduling of relay maintenance, substation construction and commissioning new projects, WECC reportable relays PRC-005, PRC-008 etc…

Communication and Controls Technician, (Intern Supervisor) 11/17/05 -10 months

Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, Ca

• Responsible for the administrative duties of the operation of the Relay Department.

• Responsible for 7 Communication and Controls

Technicians.

• Responsible for the safety and training procedures in our Relay Department.

• Responsible for the time keeping, record keeping of engineering documents and ordering materials, equipment repairs.

• Responsible for the scheduling of relay maintenance, substation construction and commissioning new projects. Communication and Controls Technician, Leader

2 Years

Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, Ca

• Supervise other relay technicians in construction projects and coordinate maintenance programs.

• Coordinate outages with the power dispatcher for equipment repairs and replacements.

• Assist supervisor with administrative duties with time keeping and record keeping.

• Ordering materials, equipment repairs and working in conjunction with engineering department.

• Keeping record of new project electrical schematics and blue prints.

Communication and Controls Technician, Journeyman

3 Years

Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, Ca

• Maintain Imperial Irrigation District Power Substations equipment and Generation in the Imperial Valley and Coachella Valley.

• The construction of new Power Substations and

commissioning.

• Repairs, trouble shooting of all substation electrical and mechanical equipment.

• Electrical, Dielectric and commissioning equipment testing.

• Protection Relay Maintenance, panel wiring, equipment wiring electrical testing.

Substation Maintenance Electrician, Journeyman

10 Years

Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, Ca

• Maintain the Power Substation Transformers, oil breakers, SF6 gas breakers, air breakers, switch gear equipment etc.

• Test and maintain routinely all Imperial Irrigation District Substation Equipment and Generation in Imperial Valley and Coachella Valley.

• Maintain Substation Battery Chargers, Batteries and DC Systems that pertain to substation controls.

• Repair voltage regulators, Transformer tap changers, capacitor banks.

• Coordinate equipment outages and switch out high voltage equipment.

• Assisted Line crews when needed on storm outages.

• Phasing Power Lines on new construction and on line restoration.

Technical Knowledge and skills

Substation Construction & Maintenance

• Transformer Testing

• Breaker Testing

• Current Transformer Testing

• Potential Transformer Testing

• Voltage Regulator Testing

• Capacitor Bank Testing

• Thermal Imaging Certified

• Ground Grid Testing

Protection Relays

• Electromechanical relay testing

• Microprocessor relay testing

• Relay setting implementation

• Fault event analyzing

Computer Skills

• Windows 2010, Windows, NT & XP

• Microsoft Office, Word, Excel

• Keyboarding, 10 key

• Computerized advance relay testing (RTS, Power Base)

• Power point

• SAP

Education

Central Union High School

Graduated 1981

Imperial Valley College

1.5 years 1982-1983

Certifications

State of California Protection Relay Certified Journeyman State of California Electrical License Contractor C-10 State of California Substation Electrician Certified Journeyman Certified Thermal Imaging Inspector/Contractor

NERC

FERC

WECC

NEC

Vocational Instructor

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