Power Systems Aramco

Gary Pierre Joseph

Electrical Engineer (BSEE)

CITIZENSHIP: USA & CAN

Languages: French & English

Writing & Speaking Fluently

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Roanoke, VA. 24018. USA

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PROFESSION: Electrical Engineer (EE): From E4lectrical Design, Construction, Installations, Commissioning, Operations, Maintenance Facilities, Hydro Generation, Power Systems And Power Generation, Automation Controls Systems, Renewable to Electrical Project Engineering.

EDUCATION:

Electrical Engineering & Sciences Graduated Degrees (BSEE):

College AHUNTSIC & University de Montreal: Polytechnic-School: Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Main Major: Oriented in Power-systems & Power-generation Rotating -Machines and Certify Electrical Industrial Automation & Control Systems.

Graduated GE Field Electrical Engineering Program at GE Power Systems University (PSU), Schenectady, New York.

Graduated GE Combined Cycle, SC Field Electrical Engineering Program (FEP) at PSU, Schenectady, New York, USA.

Graduated GE Power Systems & Generation Industrial Solution Systems at GE Energy Global Installation Field Services

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Electrical Engineering Project Engineering on Power Systems And Generation, Hydro, Renewable. Professional.

Certified GE & Siemens Motor & Generator Specialist: Installation, Commission, Start-up, Rewind, Testing, Maintenance.

Certified GE & Siemens Power Systems & Generation, Gas And Steam Turbine Generators (STAG) Combined Cycle (CC)

Certified GE Global Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt, GE PSU Field Engineering Program (FEP) University, Schenectady, N.Y. Certified Technical Project Engineering Management, British-Aerospace Electronic Systems, BAE OSI RFAAP VA, USA

Certified Project Engineering Essentials Control-Monitoring-Closeout, Saudi Aramco Project Management Team (PMT).

Certified Safety Electrical Construction Power Plants Implementation LOTO, EHS, OSHA NFPA Safety Code-Standards.

Certified GE Energy Turbine Generators Steam And Gas (STAG): Single & Combined Cycle Power Plants (SC-CCPP).

EXPERIENCE:

Lead Technical Project Engineering Electrical Engineer (EE) 2018 - Present:

Utility, Transmission, Distribution, Substations, Power Systems, Power Generation & E/ I Automation Control Systems BAE Systems, Radford Army Ammunition Plant, VA. An USA Gov. (USG) Energy Renewable Power & Modernizations.

Lead functional requirements for Electrical Engineering Automation Control Systems, Power Systems & Generation Projects.

Determine Technical Resource needed to complete all Electrical projects interface with Utility, Transmission & Distribution.

Technically Lead engineering staff assigned to specific program/projects life cycle management (LCM) completion systems

Lead design, development, construction, commissioning, acceptance test & performance of EE phase balance of plant (BOP).

Responsible overall technical viability to requirements and successful completion of BAE & Contractors Engineering tasks.

Lead Engr. technical meeting and provide regular update to progress the technical engineering side of the program/ projects.

Lead cross-functional internal and external technical electrical engineering teams or external suppliers in the development design phases, revised drawings to verify Sub/Contractors match follow statements of work (SOW) to deliver milestones as final issue for construction (IFC) drawings, final details design (FDD), construction, installations & start-up to performance.

Estimated, specification packages engineering procurement construction (EPC) equipment technical services for IFB to IFC.

Lead technical design team applications of BAE systems life cycle management (LCM) process and methodology used in the design, development for construction & commissioning by create technical development plan for overall engineering tasking.

Review-comments contractor/subcontractor technical work products to assure satisfactory performance scope of work (SOW).

Monitor work schedule task duration estimates (ETC) for vendors, sub/contractors electrical design phase, IFC to construction, installations, start-up, site acceptance test (SAT) for utility, transmission, distribution, substation, power systems & generation.

Supervise, lead engr., facility, operation modernization for USG future distributed energy renewable (DER)) to the micro-grid.

Manage, lead & support all electrical projects engineering to ease transition to facilities, operations for USG final productions.

Prep/Follow from design phases, construction, installations, commissioning start-up acceptance testing & performance criteria.

Review-comments of details design, IFC drawings scheme for preliminary construction-SOW main contractor technical tasks.

Implemented & revised relay protection studies & coordination, settings relay protection for utility, generators, motors, MCCs transformers, breakers & feeders in switchgears, SCADA/RTU/SEL/PMS/PSA interface BOP to the grid for transmission, distribution, revise, set, protective relay scheme after coordination/harmonic study power, generator, motors, control, systems.

Technically/Professionally oversee electrical balance of plants (BOP) protection safety from MCC, LV, MV, HV, EHV, and UHV T&D Grid/Substations, current/voltage short-circuit/harmonic protection study: ETAP, SKM, ASPEN, Easy-Power, etc.

Lead Electrical Project Engineer (EE) 2012 - 2018:

Saudi Aramco Oil Company (SAOC) Energy Service: Lead Electrical Project Engineer Power Systems & Generation for Mega Construction Power Plants, Global Corporations, Texas, USA & Dhahran, KSA Project Management Team (PMT)

Lead SAOC Electrical Engineering Contractors, Subcontractors, Vendors, and Suppliers at Installations, Commissioning, and Start-up, Performance. Develop Engineering Specifications & Procedures for Mechanical Construction Completion (MCC).

Lead Pre-&-Commissioning & Start-up Procedures for Integrated Gas Combine Cycle (IGCC), Heat Recovery Steam Turbine Generators (HRSG) & Combustion Gas Turbine Generators (CGTG) & Steam Turbine Generator (STG) for Power Plants

Lead Electrical Engineering: Powers Systems, Substations, GIS, Transformers, Switchgears, & Protection Relay Coordination for Power Systems, Generations, and SEL Power Management & Automation (PMS/PSA/SCADA) Interfaces to Total Plant Network Transfer Distribution Control Systems (DCS), HMI Network Communication System GOOSE IEC-61850 Protocol.

Collaborated on Construction of EE Safety Management and Loss Prevention Systems BOP, UHV, EHV, HV, MV, LV, GIS.

Conduct Technical Bid Review at Front End Engineering Design (FEED) Package for Power Plant, ASU, Chemical, Refinery.

Construction of Mega Project Engineering, supporting and guiding Global Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers & Vendors.

Understand Project Contract, Sub/Contractor, Vendor Tasks to Guide them perform Electrical Technical Scopes Early Work.

Continuous Monitoring Method of Changes (MOC) to Project Projection Feasibility Study Schedule Monitoring and Controls.

Monitoring & Control Projects Milestones Estimated and Planned to Lead Site Schedule from Project Execution to Closeout.

Lead & manage project engineering procurement construction (EPC) Onsite and Offsite of the Field Electrical Engineering to balance of plant (BOP) Engineering Project Management daily Activities. Evaluated progressions of electrical power plants by directly overall construction stages, partial plant mechanical & electrical construction completion Certificates (MECC) Safely.

Serves as Electrical Project Engineer BOP, power systems, generation substation, Factory/ Site Acceptance Tests (FAT/SAT).

Power generation management & power automation (PMS/PSA/SCADA) for the overall site acceptance project certificates to

Maintain SAOC specifications & Standards, programming documentation internal/external final detail design concepts to i c issue for bid (IFB) & construction (IFC) drawings, redline, as-built drawings per SAOC PMT engineering quality guidelines.

Technical Advisor of electrical/substations & BOP systems and subsystems list for mechanical completion plan for pre- and- commissioning, start-up, performance of Steam And Gas (STAG) Turbine Generators SC, HRSG, IGCC, CCPP power plants.

Lead & supervised High Voltage Substations electrical Systems for safe energization and start-up of all Auxiliaries equipment.

Prepare readiness of unit power plants & refineries performances with kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) compliances and Gulf

Environment Protection Agency (GEPA) to meet minimum Emission requirement, control, regulation Design & Specification.

Support SAOC downstream businesses to final engineering plants transitioning from commercial project to management team of oil & energy service deliverables to export successfully best/highest quality oil production for customers locally & globally.

Contributed to new project integration (NPI) engineering modernization future renewable-energy generation projects in KSA.

Senior Electrical Engineer (EE) 2008 – 2012

Utility, Transmission, Distribution, Substations, Power Systems & Generation, Industrial Automation Control Systems

Air Products & Chemicals Company Global Services Incorporated, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Supporting local, global, internal & external customers in Petroleum, Petrochemical, & Power Plants Generation Units (PGU) for all Power Plants, Air Separation Units (ASU), Chemicals, & Refineries.

Troubleshooting and repairing plant equipment working / coordinating with the plant maintenance teams

Serves & Support plant operations at multiple locations. Installed motor control systems & large Industrial drive systems.

Prepared Installations Multi Turbine-Generator Systems and Specifying multi electrical engineering projects & technical tasks.

Develop Upgraded retrofits Electrical for single cycle (SC) & combined power plants (CCP) operations and PM safely.

Led preventive maintenance equipment units: industrial, power systems, power generation, hydrogen, chemical plants

oInstallation & start-up low & medium voltage frequency drives, & high voltage motors, pumps & compressors & generators automation control systems. Including, Instrumentation & controls automation, DCS Process Systems.

Prepared Installations, Commissioning, Energization, Start-up Procedures Specifications, Standards and Applications:

Installed & Tested Transformers, Substations with Switchgear Protection Panels used for large Motors, Turbines Generator interfaced with utility upstream (HV) transmission to customer BOP downstream (MV/LV) switchgear, distribution MCC load Coordinated, Tested, set protection relays settings using software capability as easy-power SKM or power tools for windows (PTW, ETAP simulate short-circuit analysis, power load flow, and arc-flash analysis, harmonic study results to protect personnel & all workers at site to practice good electrical safety protection requirement code & standard to prevent fatal electrical incidents,

Liaison with Operations team in the plants to provide support work on HV, MV, LV, SWGR, MCC, Motor-Generator:

Test Turbine-Generators, Motors, Pumps, Compressors Supervisory Computer Aid Automation Control System (SCADA)

Bid with vendors, suppliers, contractors/ subcontractors & customers for Turnkey retrofit projects GIS global power plants.

Reviewed & Supervised Sub/Contractors Electrical EE & Mech. Drawings for new Installations And/ or Retrofits Synchronous Generator Coupling with Turbines; STAG, CGTG STG, CC, CCPP for Cogeneration Power projects.

Specifying Excitation XFRTs, AVRs, Switchgears, Relay Protection & Control Schematic for AC/ DC Permissive & Tripping Circuits Switching from ANSI/ IEEE Devices via One-Line, Three-Line, Metering Sync., CTs, VTs/ PTs, etc.

Set up preventive maintenance using SAP Software to lead, organized, scheduling, and planning total plant outages.

Revised Design & Follow factory acceptance test (FAT), large motor & generator rewinds for Air Products in the US globally.

Installed, Set, Tune, commissioning, test GE automatic voltage regulators (AVRs) excitation automation & controls systems:

GE EX2000BR, EX2000, EX2100, EX2100e, Brushless, Elin, Prismic-A30/A32. Basler DECS-200N, ECS-2100; Siemens

LIN-THYME GMR Series to Test-Run Regulated units with control systems interfaced GE HMI, SCADA, DCS to control industrial motor-pumps; compressors & combustion gas, steam combine cycle turbine generator (CGTGs, STGs, CCs) units.

Lead Field Electrical Engineer (EE): 2000 – 2008

Lead Electrical Field Engineer Power Systems & Power Generation, Maintenance, Retrofit & Construction Power Plants

GE Global Energy Infrastructure Power Systems & Generation, Renewable Energy Services in Schenectady, N.Y., USA.

Working for GE International Global Energy Services: Supporting balance of plants (BOP) for all power systems, power generation, simple cycle (SC) and combined cycle power plants (CCPP), such as thermal, chemicals, refineries,

Air & gas products, water systems, cogenerations facilities, etc. in United States, Canada, Global & around the World.

Performed long term service agreement (LTSA) projects / contracts for clients working closely with plant maintenance

Global Services in Power Systems & Power Generation integrated Turbine Generator Automation & Control Systems and Advanced Electrical Engineering Trainings GE Power Systems University (PSU), Schenectady, N.Y., USA Energy Services.

Plan electrical & balance of plants (BOP) for retrofits & new construction multiple local & global customer site installations,

Lead Commissioning and start-up for GE energy power systems & generation electrical equipment unit applications

Developed, Performed maintenance controls upgrades for pulp/ paper mill operations in LA, AR, MS, TN, TX, & AL.

Leaded GE Motor-Compressors, Gas and Steam Turbine Generator (STAG) for Installations & Field Service Product Line.

Utilize Six Sigma to Improve Business Product Line. Study & Set GE-Multilin and SEL Protections Generator Control Panels.

Specifying, Prepared, Maintained, Develop, Coordinated Tunings EE Generator, Ground, AVRs PSS, short circuit, harmonics analysis, load flow for customers, utility interconnections to power plants, cogeneration, petrochemical, etc.

Prepared & Set GE Networking HMI-Cimplicity Interface to Siemens, Brush, ELIN, BASLER, Toshiba, Hitachi AVRs

Liaisons with 3rd. party Designers of Electrical Synchronous Generators, Protection and Excitation n, Siemens, Toshiba, Excitation Controller. Tuned power system stabilizer to eliminate plants & power grid disturbances

Set GE Electrical Protection Equipment BOP Unit Applications to Interfaces with GE Toolbox Turbine & Generator Controls Software Mark-V, Mark-VI & Vie Turbine Controls, Distributed Control System (DCS), Cimplicity-HMI, SCADA Interfaces.

Supporting Preventive Maintenance (PM) Engineering Technical Schedule to Avoid Customer Downtimes (MTBF).

Leaded & Applied GE Electrical Safety Procedures to PGU customer commission turbine-generator unit for balance of plants (BOP): distributions, transmission, Substations for Safety protection against Arc-flash exposures mitigation in power systems.

Lead Factory & Site Acceptance Tests, Set Electronic, Digital, Automation Protective Relays: GE, ABB; SEL SIMENS, etc.

Support & Assist GE Design Manufactured Steam and Gas (STAG) Turbine Generator Shop Testing (FAT) & Repair.

Assist STAG Generator Design, Specification, Construction, Reconditions for Customer Installation, Commissioning Start-up.

Tuned AVR excitation systems offline & online power system stabilizer (PSS) with respect to utility grid compliances.

Secured & Verified performance capability between utilities grid and GE customer power plants respectful to NERC, PIR, etc.

Prepare Utility Load Study List for Electrical Balance of Plant (BOP) and Mechanical Auxiliary Turbine Generators.

Simple & combined power plants to final & overall electrical protection function power systems generator safety protocols.

Supporting distributed energy renewable (DER) generation & storage when request to modernize GE customer power plants.

ORGANIZATIONS:

International Instrumentation & Control Systems Society Automation and Control Institutes (ISA) Communities & USA.

IEEE Industrial Application Society (IAS); IEEE Power Energy Society (PES); IEEE Applications Codes & Standards

IEEE Relay Protection Coordination, & IEEE Electrical Safety Community, IEEE Specifications, Codes & Standards.

Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) & North America Electrical Reliability Corporation (NERC) Test & Compliances.

Electrical and Multiple Engineering Disciplines Design Specifications, Codes & Standards Requirement Organizations (ISO).

ANSI, IEEE, NFPA, NEC, IEC, API, NESC, ISO, NETA-ATS, AWS, ASTM, ASME, CEC, ISA, UFC, NERC, NEC, etc.

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Global Electrical Engineering (EE) Energy Services & Technology Innovations for Continuous Education.

Member of Electrical-Control Systems Gas & Steam Turbine-Generators (STAG) Combine-Cycle Journal (CCJ) Group.

Member of Energy-Central Network Power-Industry, Power-Systems, Power-Generation & Renewable Energy (DER)

Member of Utility Product Solutions Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Automation & Control Systems Plants World.

Member of Institute Electronic Electrical Engineering (IEEE) for Power Systems, Power Generation, Protection & Control.

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