Robert P. Deck. Deck

**** *** ***** *****, *******, TX 77521

Cell Phone 903-***-****

Email adviwg@r.postjobfree.com

QUALIFICATION PROFILE

·Highly adaptable project manager and lead design engineer capable of designing and implementing plant wide power systems, automated process controls, and operational continuity based on basic engineering standards and principles, and cost/benefit analysis. My responsibility starts at the perception of a problem or opportunity and ends on full implantation of the solution.

·Years of experience working with plant management, plant engineers, maintenance, contractors, and directing multidisciplinary teams of process, electrical, mechanical, and civil/structural engineers and designers.

·Significant working experience doing load flow, coordination, and arc flash studies using each of ETAP, SKM, and EasyPower software packages. Skilled in designing systems with large motors on limited capacity grids by using VFDs and Soft Starts to minimize inrush currents.

·Extensive PLC and DCS programming experience - primarily Automation Direct, Eaton, Rockwell, Siemens, and Yokogawa, with design experience in Honeywell.

·Advanced user of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, MicroStation, Adobe, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, and AutoCAD.

·Experienced in the RFQ and technical bid review processes for MV/LV electrical switchgear, transformers, MCCs, PCR buildings, drives, motors, automation components/systems, instruments, and valves.

·Expertise in international, national, and multiple corporate design and installation standards.

·Started my career by going through an electrical apprenticeship and working as a Journeyman Electrician on industrial projects as a supervisor on power, automation, and maintenance projects.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Senior Instrument and Controls Engineer

Olson Engineering Mont Belvieu, Texas 11/2022 to 2/2023

Senior Instrument and Controls Engineer supporting projects at ExxonMobil Refinery and Motiva. Specified instruments, valves and controls strategies plant upgrades and modifications.

Principal Controls Electrical Engineer

SMC industries Houston, Texas 3/2022 to 11/2022

Project Manager and Engineer responsible for the maintenance, upgrading, and optimization of existing production machines, production of new machines with increased capabilities and shorter production cycles, and upgrading of plant computer network capabilities. I specify and order parts, create and maintain drawings in SOLIDWORKS and AutoCAD, create and maintain PLC programs in Siemens Step 7, Automation Direct Productivity, and Eaton ELC, programming Routers, VFDs, and other devices. (I am working six and seven days a week as a salaried employee and keep getting even more project requests and responsibilities.)

Forced retirement due a temporary medical issue and then Covid

Baytown, TX 3/2019 to 3/2022

Contract Senior Power and Controls Engineer

C&I Engineers (STSI) Louisville, KY 12/2018 to 3/2019

Senior P&C Engineer taking over doing PCR layout, protective relay schematics, and wiring drawings for a group of electric power distribution projects at a major refinery to increase available power and network reliability. System analysis and relay settings done using ETAP. (Customer moved my work to direct employee I had mentored.)

Contract Project Engineer IV 9/2018 to 11/2018

Holly Frontier Refinery (Nesco Resource), El Dorado, Kansas

Hired to be Electrical Technical Authority for large 4-year ($113M) Coker Revamp for a medium sized oil refinery. Worked on preliminary DCS design and electrical substation bid reviews. (Work was deferred at the end of the current stage gate by corporate management.)

Project Manager/Lead Engineer 8/2014 to 3/2018

Taylor and Hill (Engage PEO), Texas City, Texas

Phone 409-***-****

Lead Electrical Engineer and multiple disciplinary project manager at BP Texas City Chemicals doing upgrades and modifications at a large aromatics chemical processing plant. I took either a statement of need or of a problem and proposed and developed a cost-effective solution in conjunction with plant process control, corporate and plant technical authorities, plant operations and maintenance, and plant project engineers. Projects ranged from everyday maintenance issues to $30 million dollars (for example, replacing all the switchgear, MCCs, and power cables for an entire unit). Supervised design work on Honeywell upgrades to Experion. I worked with vendors to specify and get quotes for valves, motors, transformers, and instruments. I was responsible for developing budgets and directing the technical design work of three engineers and seven designers. I worked on P&IDs, one-line diagrams, loop diagrams, wiring diagrams for LV/MV switchgear/MCCs. (Work slowed and my tasks were absorbed by the customer’s cheaper direct salaried employees.)

Senior Engineer 2/2014 to 7/2014

Universal Pegasus, Houston, Texas

Phone 713-***-****

I assisted on the power and was the design lead for two pumping stations and a large metering and distribution stations on a 24”(300,00 bpd heavy crude oil pipeline had 8,000 HP soft-start pumps and the metering stationing had two change-of-custody metering skids, two provers, and multiple flow control valves. (Next project cancelled leaving me as a surplus employee.)

Technical Specialist III 7/2013 to 1/2014

CSD Engineers, Houston, Texas

Phone 832-***-****

Project Manager and Lead Design Engineer on wide range of projects in the oil and gas and heavy industrial fields. Finished the drawings and programming in record time for satellite communication and power of a network of new pipeline remote valve stations with just the help of one designer. (Laid off – no new work)

Senior Electrical Engineer 11/2012 to 7/2013

Texas Municipal Power Agency, Carlos, Texas

Phone (936) 873--1100

Sole Electrical Engineer for a 470 net MW coal fired generating station managing projects and supporting maintenance, purchasing, and operations including H/M/LV systems and controls systems. Dealt directly with state and federal regulators on operational and controls issues of interest to the operator of a large statewide grid. My work included troubleshooting and continual improvements to power system, including the transmission switchyard.

Off-Site Contract Senior Electrical Engineer 8/2012 to 11/2012

Glenmount Global Partners Austin, TX

Phone 512-***-****

Remote Contract Design Engineer doing conceptual and detailed design of large capacity medium and low voltage power systems including station batteries for commercial scale data centers. Work done from home at nights and on weekends. (Finished assigned project)

In-Office and On-Site Contract Senior Electrical Engineer 8/2012 to 11/2012

Exterran, Broken Arrow, OK

Phone 918-***-****

Contract Design and Startup Engineer doing conceptual and detailed design of large capacity H/M/L systems for natural gas field collector processing and gas pipeline compressor stations. Work including station batteries and medium voltage soft start design for large compressors and refrigeration equipment using ETAP. On several sites we had to provide 118KV power feeds from remote utility substations. Others facilities required using special design techniques to minimize motor startup inrush currents to protect local utility stability. (Left contract job to get medical insurance)

Senior Electrical Engineer 5/2011 to 7/2012

Applied Control Technology, Texarkana, Texas

(no longer in business)

Managed factory automation projects involving multiple PLC/DCS platform replacement, vendor changes, upgrades, and modifications at munitions plants, paper mills, oil processing and mining operation. Directed arc flash studies, load flow analysis, and relay analysis for medium and low voltage power distribution substations and motor controls, including 13.8KV substations and medium voltage motor control.

Electrical Engineer 1/2008 to 2/2010

Maverick Technologies, Tinley Park, Illinois

Designed and programmed control system using Yokogawa DCSs, including loop diagrams and control room operator interfaces, Chevron oil refinery. (Business partnership to Yokogawa and Chevron dropped by Chevron – lost large amount of work)

EDUCATION

BS - Electrical Engineering - Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

BS - Chemistry - Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

Masters in Project Management – Keller Graduate School of Management, Naperville, Illinois

AFFILIATIONS

IEEE

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