Engineer Electrical

ALEXANDER BULGAKOV, P.Eng., PE

Brossard, QC

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PROFILE

A Protection and Control Engineering leveraging 15 years of experience supporting electrical engineering projects, including 11 years in utilities. A solid track record of efficiently responding to customer demands and achieving milestones with expertise in protection relays, distribution network planning, substation and line equipment. Professional engineer in Alberta and Washington State. Willing to relocate on TN or H1B visa.

Core Competences:

Project Management Safety and Risk Mitigation Relay Settings Design Team Leadership

Client Experience Site Testing and Commissioning Procurement and Strategic Sourcing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Alstom, GE, Montreal, QC 2015 – 2020

Lead Protection and Control Engineer

Designed relay settings files. Provided SCADA and GOOSE database.

Studied protection coordination (transformer, line, generator).

Led factory and site acceptance test. Prepared test procedures forms. Led testing teams.

Trained customers on relays programming and maintenance; Micom and SEL relays

Provided troubleshooting and investigated relays misacting.

Projects:

oNalcor’s 230 kV DC link between Labrador and Newfoundland: programmed and tested approximately 250 protection relays at five transmission substations. Most relays were: SEL-411L, SEL-487E, SEL-487B, P546, P643, P746, P841, P143, REB-670, CPR04

https://muskratfalls.nalcorenergy.com/project-overview/labrador-island-link-and-transmission-assets/

oManaged a few smaller projects with diverse GE relays: 845, 889, 850, B30, B90, T60, G60, C60 etc.

AMEC, Vancouver, BC 2013-2015

Electrical Design Engineer

Prepared SCADA network block diagrams, panel layout, one-line diagram, AC 3-line diagrams, DC diagram, panel wiring diagrams for BC Hydro (AMEC’s primary client).

Prepared AC and DC point lists for SCADA alarms PLCs and SDCs.

Prepared safety risk assessment for panel installation work. Led safety seminars.

Projects:

oNew 230 kV substation of BC Hydro in Surrey area. Included SEL-411L, SEL-321, SEL-587Z, SEL-487E, SEL-487B. https://www.bchydro.com/news/conservation/2016/new-surrey-substation.html

Quanta Services, Calgary, AB 2011-2012

Protection and Control Engineer

Calculated settings and coordinated studies for line, bus, transformer, feeder protection for Quanta’s clients: AltaLink, ATCO Electric, Nexen, TransAlta.

Selected equipment specifications and completed purchase orders.

Modeled system in ASPEN One Liner. Relays of GE, SEL, ABB, Siemens.

EPCOR, Edmonton, AB 2011

Protection and Control Engineer

Designed protection (DC, AC three- and single-line drawings), control and metering systems, panel layouts for electrical substations of 15 to 240 kV in the city of Edmonton area.

Led site testing and commissioning; a design team of technologists, co-ops, and EITs. Modeled in ETAP.

Supported procurement and sourcing for vendor quotations. Areva, GE, ABB, SEL, Siemens relays.

ATCO Electric, Grande Prairie, AB 2008-2010

Planning Technologist

Created power system models in PSS/ADEPT and CYME Dist; verified accuracy for 25 and 7.2 kV lines.

Coordinated fuses (Kearney, Bay-O-Net), reclosers (ABB, Cooper, Hubbell), Elastimold MVI, Westinghouse and Schweitzer protective relays.

Conducted flow analysis, fault analysis and motor start studies. Made proposals on load addition, relocation, equipment upgrade, motors VFD.

Unified Energy System (primary transmission company), Veliky Novgorod, Russia 2005-2007

Protection, Control and Automation Engineer

Provided settings for protective relays in 110 kV network.

Designed AC, DC diagrams for 110/35/10 kV substations in AutoCAD. Provided site commissioning.

Tested the relay with Omicron current injector. Relays: Siemens, ABB, Schneider, Sirius, Mekhanotronic.

GARO Factory (Garage equipment production factory), Veliky Novgorod, Russia 2001-2004

Electrical Engineer

Designed and tested technical control lines, versions for 3, 10- and 13-ton vehicles, equipped with brakes, alternator, starter, headlights testing devices, gas analysis; tire mounting stands.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, 2001

GE Multilin Systems Training- GE, Markham, ON, 2016

Micom Protection Systems. Training - Alstom, Stafford, Great Britain., 2015

Power System Protection of Transmission Stations seminar. UofA, Edmonton, AB, 2011

Cooper’s Power Distribution, CYME courses with ATCO Electric. Edmonton, AB, 2008

Institute of Energy, Power Systems Protection, St. Petersburg, 2005

Publication in the Technics and Technology magazine, Moscow, Russia, 2002

Practice in Lodz Polytechnic Institute, Lodz, Poland, 2000

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

ETAP, Aspen One Liner, CYME (Dist, TCC), PSS Adept, Microstation/PowerDraft;

AutoCAD, MathCAD, Visual Basic (Excel macros)

Relay: ABB, Alstom, Beckwith, GE, Schneider, SEL, Siemens, Trench, Qualitrol; Modbus, DNP 3, 61850 protocols

LANGUAGES: English, French and Russian.

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