Team Lead System Analyst

Summary

Experienced PI System Integrator & Project Team Lead with a proven track record of global PI implementations. Skilled at gathering and analyzing business, operational and user requirements, solution design and architecture, technical design documentation, resource and project timeline management. All recent projects completed via the Agile methodology.

Skills

•OSIsoft PI System – PI Server, PI Asset Framework (AF), PI AF Analyses, PI Interfaces (OPC, OPC-HDA, OPC-AE Modbus, RDBMS, PI-to-PI, HTML, Perfmon), PI Connectors (UFL, PING), PI Integrators (Business Analytics, Esri), PI Client Tools (PI DataLink, PI ProcessBook, PI Vision)

•VB.NET, VB6, VBA, VB Script

•ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript

•C#.NET, C++, C

•DOS, Windows PowerShell

•SQL Server Administration and Development

Experience

Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC July 2017 - Present

Senior PI System Analyst (Team Lead)

PI System Projects Team (Duke Energy Renewables)

Wind & Solar Energy PI AF databases

oDeployed PI AF across multiple servers for load balancing

oOptimized PI AF Analyses (via templates) to minimize the execution times of ~51,000 Analyses

oApplied Best Practices techniques (template driven elements, categorized attributes, exception/compress-based PI data)

oDesigned and implemented advanced Analyses

Wind Yaw Error

Wind Power Coefficient

Power Curves (Expected Power vs Actual Power)

oReprocessed Analyses output results as needed

oTeam Lead role with 2-4 resources assigned to me

Developed Lightning Strike Proximity solution to track strikes near renewables assets

oConverted antiquated PI ACE based Lightning Strike Proximity application to PI AF based solution

oAdded new PI AF Analyses to existing Wind Farm and Wind Turbine AF templates to determine if lightning is within a defined radius

oCreated Windows PowerShell script to retrieve National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) data

oDeployed PI-UFL interface to extract and transfer NLDN data to PI

KBC-Yokogawa (formerly Industrial Evolution), Houston, Texas 2002 - 2017

PI System Consultant

Project at Riverside Public Utilities, Riverside, CA

Water Production Division

Deployed AF hierarchy to represent the RPU water production system

100 AF Analyses KPIs (well production, storage levels, high/low conditions)

57 water wells derived from well AF Template

Pipeline, Flow Meters, Reservoirs and Storage AF elements

PI Notification alerts for various well and pipeline conditions

Built PI Vision-based displays to visualize the water production data

Coordinated with Water SCADA team to extract real-time well production data via OSIsoft interfaces

Substation Division

Deployed AF hierarchy to represent the 16 RPU substations

o59 transformers derived from transformer AF Template

o120 relays derived from relay AF template

oPI AF Analyses for monitoring transformer oil, gas and moisture test results

oPI AF Analyses for monitoring relay test results

oPI Notification alerts for various transformer and relay conditions

Built PI Vision-based displays to visualize transformer analysis and relay statuses

Electrical Distribution Division

Deployed AF hierarchy to represent the FCI (Fault Circuit Indicator) devices

o100 FCIs derived from FCI AF Template

oPI AF Analyses for monitoring FCI fault condition

oPI Notification alerts for FCI faults

Built PI Vision-based displays to visualize FCI data

Coordinated with DeltaX Inc. to extract real-time FCI data via the Onramp interface

Project at Chevron Corporation, Houston, TX

PI Support Manager for Chevron’s Midcontinent Business Unit (MCBU)

Provided Level III PI support for Chevron’s Midcontinent Business Unit

Managed the Level I and Level II PI support personnel

Performed review of MCBU’s existing PI infrastructure and provided best-practice recommendations

Upgraded MCBU’s PI infrastructure from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008

Deployed new PI system onto business network to mirror existing system on the DMZ network

Optimized existing PI system by performing data validations, removing obsolete tags and adding PI data buffering to the Process Control Network (PCN)

Implemented a PI system monitoring solution using ProcessBook displays and emails alerts

Project at Noble Energy Incorporated, Houston, TX

Installed a PI collective at client’s offshore Mari-B platform and onshore terminal in Ashdod, Israel

Redundant PI OPC interfaces gathered data from a WonderWare control system on the platform and the data is stored in the offshore PI Collective

Redundant PI-to-PI interfaces distribute the data to the onshore Ashdod terminal

Various other projects:

Recommended how best to deploy real-time historians and associated toolsets to improve the availability and reliability of real-time data and facilitate reporting

Built PI ProcessBook displays and PI DataLink Excel spreadsheets that were used to display the activity of producer wells, injector wells, separators and satellites

Planned, implemented and/or coordinated projects involving Industrial Evolution’s data hosting center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Managed support center, project resources and project deliverables

Developed core Remote Telemetry Unit (RTU) data collection utility that collected and archived RTU data into the OSIsoft PI System

Deployed PI-ACE (Advanced Computing Engine) executables, modules and contexts to calculate inventory volumes and usages

Configured and monitored PI server backups (incremental and full backups)

Resolved various reported problems with PI tags, PI interfaces and other service disruptions

Supplemented PI experts with additional resources of various skills and capabilities as required for support, upgrades and add-on projects

Installed central PI server at client data center

Configured two PI-OPC interfaces to pull data from control systems (Wonderware & Intellution)

Configured PI-to-PI interfaces to transfer Oil platform data from client to client partners via Industrial Evolution’s data center

Installed, configured and deployed Honeywell PHD servers

Configuring various software interfaces to pull or push data

Installed, configured, maintained and upgraded various Industrial Evolution PI servers

Ensured that customer’s PI users received help to resolve PI related issues and their PI systems were optimized at all times for best performance

Matrikon Inc., Edmonton, Alberta 2000 - 2002

Application Specialist

Supported real-time databases (OSIsoft PI, AspenTech CIM21)

Database migrations (converting one-type of database to another, typically to PI)

OSIsoft PI DBA

oConfigured data collection interfaces and tags

oImplemented backup and recovery strategies

oValidated data integrity

Created Functional Specification and Factory Acceptance Test documents

Certifications

PI System Infrastructure Specialist – Level 100, Houston, OSIsoft (40 hrs)

OSIsoft PI Asset Framework, San Francisco, OSIsoft (4 hrs)

OSIsoft PI Interface Development, San Leandro, OSIsoft (40 hrs)

Project Management Certificate, Edmonton, Grant MacEwan College (120 hrs)

Honeywell PHD Historian (v. 202), Calgary, Suncor (12 hrs)

Honeywell PHD Historian (v. 150), Calgary, Suncor (16 hrs)

Certified Engineering Technologist (C.E.T), Edmonton, ASET

OPC Level I, II COM/DCOM, Edmonton, Matrikon Inc. (8 hrs)

VB.NET Level III, Edmonton, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (40 hrs)

Industrial Data Communications, Edmonton, Phoenix Contact (8 hrs)

OSIsoft PI Historian, Edmonton, Matrikon Inc. (24 hrs)

Education

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology - NAIT (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

Computer Engineering Technology (December 1999)

Relevant coursework

oComputer programming

oEmbedded system implementation

oSystem analysis and design

oAnalytical thinking and problem-solving

Received diploma (graduated w/ Honors)

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