NAME Peter A. Tuazama

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Raleigh, NC. 27610

919-***-****

ROLE Electrical/Mechanical Designer

QUALIFICATIONS 1991

A.A.S. Architectural Engineering Technology

Wake Technical College - Raleigh, NC

2002

BS Business & Organizational Management

Saint Augustine’s College - Raleigh, NC

2014

Revit Certification (Building information Modeling System/MEP)

Wake Technical College

October 2020

Advance Revit (MEP Certification)

Wake Technical College, Raleigh, NC

COMPUTER SKILLS Revit (MEP Certification), AutoCAD (2021), Microstation V8i CADD (Certificate - Bentley Institute), SolidWorks (2015) 2D & 3D designs (Certification), Windows 2010, MS Word/Excel 2010 & Windows XP, 3D drawings in Sketch-up Pro-2020 for presentations., AutoCAD Electrical (2020)

WORK EXPERIENCE

May 2022- January 2023 (Contractor)

Mid-South Engineering, Raleigh, North Carolina

Electrical & HVAC Designer III, (Using AutoCAD 2021 & Revit 2021)

Laid out electrical design systems for industrial equipment/components, chemical plants, manufacturing, commercial industries, nuclear facilities, and instructional buildings.

Transmission & Distributions:

Using Revit for electrical system designs:

Created and coordinated electrical equipment plans for low, medium, and high voltage power distribution system.

Prepared Electrical plans for switchgear, motor control centers (MCC), VFDs, switchboards, transformers, motors, cable schedules, grounding, lightning protection, fire alarm systems, access control & security systems, and closed-circuit plan production.

Laid out Cable Trays for Kiln and various electrical rooms.

Laid out power panel board schedules for (120v-single & 480v-three phases), including lighting systems, other electrical equipment & fixture schedule.

HVAC Design:

Performed HVAC design for building cooling and heating systems to include design, layout, and installation. Inspection of existing HVAC system and preparing new ducting routing. Prepared HVAC section and details. Sizing of ducting supply airflow, return and exhaust & chilled. Prior experience with healthcare, medical, industrial, or educational HVAC projects.

Provide drafting and design support to Architecture and Structure Engineering department as requested.

Project: Steves Doors and Paper Mill Station, Athens, GA.

Electrical/mechanical Designer & Construction Administration for this project: Assisted lead engineers with creating and coordinating electrical & mechanical equipment plans for the electrical system design of a new 54-mgd pulp & paper mill station design/build project. The project included five large pumps, 10 pulp & paper mills and two escalators; controlled by VFDs, an instrumentation system to provide equipment control, data monitoring and communication from the MWRA Operations and Control Center, and a substantial site security system. The project also included an assembly of 3000A low voltage switchgear with automatic transfer controls and a 1000kW diesel-fueled standby generator installed within the pump station. Noise and aesthetics were a paramount concern for this pump station, which presented many engineering challenges.

March 2021- April 2022

Duke Energy, Western Region, North Carolina

Engineering Technologist-Electrical Designer III, (Using AutoCAD Electrical & Revit 2020-Contractor)

Substation Design Envelopes:

Support lead engineers with creating and coordinating substation design envelopes.

Laid out substation plans (60kv & above), including Transformers, Bus supports Surge Arresters, Isolation Switches, Circuit Breakers, Lighting Mast, Capacitor Voltage Transformer (CCVT), grounding plan & Control Enclosure Buildings.

Protections & Control:

Generate electrical drawings, layouts, elevations, single line diagrams, conduit & cable schedules, cable tray, cable trench and grounding plans.

Prepare schematics and wiring diagrams for control panels. Familiar with the NEC and related Codes.

March 2019- June 2020

Hazen & Sawyer Engineers - Wastewater Treatment– Raleigh, NC

Electrical/Mechanical Designer, (Using Bim 360 Revit & AutoCAD – Downsize due to Covid-19):

Electrical:

Responsibilities included: Preparing electrical power system design drawings, including single line diagrams, elementary, riser & wiring diagrams layout and circuitry design, Used Elum and Revit software to design lighting systems, and to calculate lighting foot-candles., Routing electrical conduits in Revit model. Sizing conduit and wire, preparing schedules, laying out electrical distribution equipment, and interacting with engineers from other disciplines. Ability to apply detailed knowledge of electrical design principles & requirements., Developed detailed scope of work documentation and bill of materials and performed field verifications, construction administration, project management, and site supervision.

Lighting:

Responsible for generating lighting drawings, utilizing AutoCAD, Revit, Excel, Auto table, and other software, incorporated into electrical drawings.

Ensured the correction and updating of lighting design documents.

Lighting design calculations include lighting foot-candles, luminaire input watts, lumens, volts & total watts.

Assisted in developing lighting solutions to design problems at all design and construction phases.

Project, Wastewater: Terrible Creek WWTP Expansion, Town of Fuquay-Varina, NC

This expansion project resulted in a new 3.0-mgd biological nutrient removal wastewater treatment facility for the Town including an influent pump station, flow equalization, preliminary treatment facility, BNR tanks and blowers, final clarifiers, filters, and UVV disinfection. A new administration building was also provided for this new $27M facility. The electrical distribution system consisted of a 3000A main-tie-main switchgear assembly connected to the electric utility and a 1500kw standby engine-generator set.

January 2018- December 2018

Ford, Bacon & Davis Consultants Engineers– Morrisville, NC

Electrical/Mechanical- HVAC, Plumbing & Fire Alarm Designer (Revit MEP & AutoCAD-Contractor)

Electrical Designer:

Assisted lead engineers with creating and coordinating electrical equipment plans for pulp and paper mills design packages, including identifying motor operated valves (MOVs), local control station (LCS), and disconnect switches (DSW). Prepared single line & riser diagram from P&ID for PLCs and Instrumentation., Developed electrical panel schedules in excel program and exported into AutoCAD using Autotable program. Worked with other disciplines, clients, suppliers and contractors to develop designs. Visited construction sites to verify scope of work was in accordance with design and on time.

Fire Alarm Designer:

Prepared fire alarm plans and single line schematic diagram for (Conventional, addressable, digital (wireless) & intelligent) systems.

Verified fire alarm system met equipment specifications and applicable fire code and requirements.

Prepared submittal packages to be sent to Fire Marshalls for approval.

Made adjustments to bills of material and system calculation spreadsheet.

HVAC Designer

Prepared HVAC section and details. Sizing of ducting supply airflow, return and exhaust & chilled., Prior experience with healthcare, medical, industrial, or educational HVAC projects.

Plumbing Designer

Assisted lead engineers in performing building plumbing system design layout and prepared construction documents for various commercial and industrial building plumbing systems. Systems include domestic cold water, domestic hot water, sanitation, chilly water, sewer, storm, compressed air, natural gas, and fuel oil.

October 2014- December 2016

Power Secure Consultants Engineers– Morrisville, NC

Electrical Designer (Using AutoCAD Electrical, Revit & MicroStation v8i - Contractor):

Created schematic drawings, wiring diagrams & bill of materials for Advanced Paralleling, Medium voltage Switchgears, and Substations design., Drawings, including one and three-line diagrams, protection and control schematics, communications diagrams, wiring diagrams, substation layout plans, section and detail drawings, and application of mark-ups for project-built drawings.

Laid out Feeder module power distribution & enclosure panel boxes.

Prepared architectural, structural, civil, and site plans for onsite electrical equipment.

System included 950kw Standby/825kw Prime Generation, 35KV substations, Transfer Controller, Woodward DTST-200 Meter, Measurlogic DTS 310, Electronic Timer, Square D and GE Ground Source Return System.

Laid out panel plans for Shorting Blocks, Woodward ATS Controller, Crydom Diode Blocks, Surge Protective System, Uninterruptible Power system, terminal blocks, and others.

AC and DC panel power distribution, I/O diagrams, and loop diagrams.

April 2013 - March 2014

Siemens Energy, Primary Substation Design– Cary, NC

Electrical/Mechanical Designer; (Using AutoCAD & Microstation v8, contractor):

Substation Design:

Assisted Modular Solution Engineers with creating and coordinating Switchgear and Substation design packages, including: The design of Siemens 9395 480V UPS (1000kw/1000kva Switchgears System).

Laid out design proposals for both Air (AIS) & Gas (GIS) insulated switchgear & switch stations

Created standard libraries for common components and customer standard devices

Projects included Butler 69KV upgrade, Vineland, New Jersey, and many others.

Project Atlantic City Electric (ACE), NJ, Substation Upgrade:

A new 69kV three breaker ring bus substations, adjacent to the Butler-South Millville 69kV circuit to interconnect with (existing substation-w2-039). The Upgrade total estimated was $12,700,000 and took 36 months to complete. Supported lead engineers with creating and coordinating this substation design envelopes; including the preparation of single line diagrams, generated other electrical drawings, layouts elevations, conduit plan, cable tray, cable trench, grounding plans and site utilities plans.

SAP: Materials Management System

Managed new electrical and mechanical parts entry and created part records to be used on sub-assemblies.

Researched part information to verify existing designs and determine changes needed to resolve issues and problems.

Created new bill of materials for production release.

OMS: Opportunity Management System

Used this quality management system to research and resolve problems/issues with existing products reported by internal and external sources.

ECO: Engineering Change Order

Captured the details of changes required to bring resolution to problems reported within OMS. This included a bill of material changes, drawing revisions replacing a problem part with a new part.

March-2007 – December 2010

Wake County Public School System

Facility Planning Analyst

Prepared architectural, electrical, plumbing, structure, civil and site plans (using AutoCAD Design package) for project managers, architects, operations & maintenance, and WCPSS real estate group.,

Addition of a 15,000 square foot gymnasium space at Enloe High School, Raleigh, NC.,

Production of construction working drawings (architectural, electrical, and structural) for an additional 13,000 gross square feet of classrooms, and an administrative wing and making on-site visits to inspect various projects.

Worked along with first responders (i.e., police, EMS & fire service) to program WCPSS school floor plans & sitemaps onto their laptops and provide all additional information on school properties as needed during emergency operations on campus.

June 1998 - July 2006

Stewart Engineering Consultant, Raleigh, NC

Bridge/Structural Designer (Full time position-work done in Microstation-V8i & AutoCAD) Responsibilities included preparing structural plans for highway bridges, culverts, steel girders, pre-stressed concrete girders, pedestrian bridges, industrial & residential buildings and preparing bill of materials for reinforcing steel, concrete quantities; and analyzing Cogo computation runs for curved bridges.

Projects Included:

Cooper River Bridge Replacement, Charleston, SC.

Design 840 feet long ramp structure, utilizing 79-inch bulb tee pre-stressed girder sections at 14’-2” spacing. Ramp was designed without deck joints (except at bridge ends). Post-tensioned bent caps were utilized on drilled piers and columns, (Projected cost $600 Million).

Widening of I-40 over Alston Avenue, 99-B03 (16, 17) NCDOT, Durham County, NC Dual three-span Type III pre-stressed girder superstructure on curved alignment. The bridge was widened 18 feet towards the median side.

Ramp 2CD over I-77, 00-B05, R-2248D, Mecklenburg County, NC. Three-span continuous plate girder structure for this project. The span arrangement was goofy; Spans A & C are long, and Span B is short. This bridge is flared; the roadway flares from 11.4m to 13.723m. Flare caused by 1.8m shoulder widening on the left side and a partial spiral made straight on the right side.

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