SNC Lavalin @ Avangrid Binghamton, NY March **** – January 2020

Substation Designer/Drafter

Design conceptual packages of Milo GIS station and Coopers Corner substations including civil drawings, electrical one lines, control house layouts, schematics and document control in Project Wise for deliverable packages.

TRC Solutions Inc. Liverpool, NY July 2017 - February 2018

Substation Designer IV

Substation design for National Grid adding 2 Capacitor Banks & QA/QC wire checking of the Batavia substation.

R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, LLP Boston, MA August 2011 - November 2016

Substation Designer

Substation design for clients such as Con-Edison, Orange & Rockland, Iberdrola, National Grid & NYSEG of control wiring of substation and Transmission lines including 230kv, 115 kv and 480 VAC 3 phase power.

Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia Atlanta, GA March 2000 - August 2011

Contract Substation Designer

Design/drafting of control and physical drawings for various voltage substations and transmission lines including single line diagrams, three-lines, A.C. and D.C. cabinets, control panel front views, metering and relaying schematic diagrams, breakers, switches, fiber optic connections, capacitor banks, transformer wiring diagrams, remote trip units for SCADA interconnections and Smart Grid upgrades.

Aerotek Engineering Services @ Square D Company Nashville, TN February 1999 - July 1999

Contract Designer

Design/drafting of elevation and single line diagrams for the Unit Substation Group which coordinates customer’s purchases of electrical equipment through the various Square D manufacturing facilities including transformers, switchgear, high voltage switching, motor control centers, power zone houses and QED’s.

Aerotek Engineering Services Nashville, TN August 1998 - December 1998

@ Rockwell Automation (Allen Bradley)

Autocad 14 design/drafting for the Nashville operations of Allen Bradley motor control, motion control & vision PLC’s for various clients such as Ford Motor Co., Bridgestone/Firestone & Bristol Meyers Squib. Responsible for creating the symbol library and catalog of industrial control components.

Peak Technical Services @ Frucon Engineering St. Louis, MO April 1997 - August 1998

Contract Substation Designer

Autocad 13 design/drafting for the Ralston-Purina plant Mechanicsburg re-opening project. Duties include all schematics, single line diagrams, conduit layouts, riser diagrams, instrumentation, control and associated wiring diagrams for Modicon PLC’s.

Tad Resources International @ SCP Global Technologies Boise, ID November 1996 - April 1997

Electrical Designer

Design/drafting for the retrofit section of the design team utilizing Autocad. Duties include drafting of the redlined drawings from field service and writing the scope of work for retrofit and warranty jobs for the electricians to modify existing systems.

Aluminum Company of America Massena, NY May 1992 - August 1996

Electrical Designer

Electrical designer for the smelting plant’s engineering graphics and design department. Responsibilities include design/drafting utilizing skills from the power industry to develop and maintain all drawings, databases, and pertinent data related to the associated systems in the industrial aluminum business. Designed various Texas Instrument and Allen Bradley PLC systems, Ilex SCADA system for the Power Services, potable water, zebra mussel control for the city’s water intake, baking furnaces, dry scrubbers, plant security systems, rectifiers for the smelting process and all electrical automation associated to the incoming dry alumina through the molten metal. Worked directly with field electricians and technicians maintaining the reliability of circuitry and documentation.

National Engineering @ ALCOA Massena, NY Portsmouth, NH March 1991 - May 1992

Power Systems Designer

Electrical designer primarily responsible for the power systems department reporting to Walter Brockway. Responsibilities include system single line diagrams, three lines, schematics of relaying and metering, panel layouts, panel wiring, supervisory control, AC/DC cabinets, telemetering, substation design/upgrades and tie-ins to the local utility Niagara Mohawk. Autocad 12 and board drafting in graphite, ink and on mylar.

Schneider Engineering @ American Electric Power Columbus, OH April 1989 - December 1990

Electrical Designer

Designed various systems involved in the Tidd demonstration plant, the new pressurized fluidized bed combustion clean coal technology for generating electricity from engineering data, designed the switchboard panels, schematic/wiring diagrams, cable schematics and single line diagrams. Responsibilities also included checking the design to AEP standards of the W. H. Zimmer Station Coal Conversion Project (proposed nuclear plant conversion to a fossil plant) utilizing drafting completed on INTERGRAPH.

Scientific Applications International Company Tysons Corner, VA January 1989 - April 1989

Design and drafting of computer networks at military hospitals throughout the country. This entailed preparing the entire package of floor plans, communication drawings & wiring diagrams for government contract presentations.

Total Recruiting Service Hopewell, VA October 1988 - December 1988

@ Fluor-Daniel/Hercules Plant

Design/drafting of the Waste Water Treatment Plant’s electrical and instrumentation diagrams on linen in ink and Leroy lettering.

Primary Gray and Associates Birmingham, AL April 1988 – September 1988

Responsibilities were design/Leroy drafting of television cable systems, CATV, for Scientific Atlanta of Atlanta, GA and the Society of Cable Television Engineers. Mapping of the cable routes included placement of taps, terminators, power supplies & amplifiers of the signal data.

Alabama Power Company Birmingham, AL October 1980 – March 1988

Entry-level draftsman

drafted railroad and river crossings of distribution power

lines, survey drawings, and standard book inked drawings for outdoor substation

equipment

Senior Draftsman

Responsibilities included the design/drafting of generating plant operating consoles, supervisory control, AC/DC cabinets, telemetering, schematics, wiring diagrams, manufacturer’s wire-less wonders, and panel layouts for the Substation Design group.

Engineering Draftsman

Responsible for inputting all existing system drawings of the Corporate Headquarters into the Prime System, including fire management documents, HVAC, plumbing, lighting, building automation, all electrical drawings and the ice cooling system. (Unique AC system)

Education:

University of Alabama in Birmingham

Engineering courses-incomplete

Raymond J. Horn School of Drafting Manufacturing Drafting certificate

Completed curriculum 4 months prior to graduation upon employment with Alabama Power

B. B. Comer Memorial High School Sylacauga, AL 35150

General academic and college preparatory courses. Extracurricular: Library club, Beta club, Monitor

and the Tiger Marching Band.

Computer Aided Drafting Experience and Certification: Software Expertise:

Basic Autocad Excel

Advanced Autocad 2010 Microsoft Word

Autocad ACDSee 10

Prime User Lotus

Prime Medusa Draftsman and AEC Draftsman Automanager Workflow

Prime Medusa Advanced Draftsman Professional Write

ACAD Raster Design Automanager View

Microstation V8 XM L View Pro

Project Wise

Additional Training:

1996 National Electric Code Training

OSHA Training and CPR certification

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