Automation Engineer, proj egr, proj mgmt, technician
Resume:
Robert Darling
Alabaster, AL *****
***************@*****.***
Career Goals:
Excel as a technical resource helping clients with their automation needs and goals in a variety of industries for a wide range of customer types. I am a father of six children who is passionate about excelling in work & personal life. Proud to have to come to America & become a citizen.
Education:
September 1982 to Fanshawe College
September 1986 London, ON CANADA
Earned Canadian Control Engineering Technologist Diploma in four-year co-operative education (U.S. Bachelor of Science Control Engineering degree with related field experience). Specialized in controls for automation including PLC, robots, pneumatics & motion.
Career Experience:
April 2024 to Present PMD Automation Victor NY
Regional Sales Manager and Project Manager responsible for business development & project management execution in the SE & SW USA for OEM production equipment for a variety of industry verticals. Part welding, assembly, test/inspection, transport & packaging/palletizing.
Have exceeded target funnel size, order closure and project execution goals. Contract until April 2025 then plan to permanent.
Feb. 2023 to April 2024 Edgewater Automation
Spartanburg SC
Regional Sales Manager and Project Manager responsible for business development & project management execution in the SE & SW USA for OEM production equipment for a variety of industry verticals. Part welding, assembly, test/inspection, transport & packaging/palletizing.
Have exceeded target funnel size, order closure and project execution goals. Company layoffs to sales & engineering staff.
July 2020 to Feb. 2023 Agilix Solutions Memphis TN
Automation Specialist for Rockwell Automation distributor. Design, implementation and start-up of full scope automation solutions incld. Electrical, field devices, motor control & motion, controllers, visualization and data logging & reporting for discrete, batch & process projects in TN, MS & AR. Customers from end users to SI and OEMs in a variety of industries incld. Life Sciences, Logistics, Automotive, Food & Bev, Consumer Products, General Mfg., Municipal & Commercial. Led Agilix to implement new services program offering, acting as the lead for the automation services execution for both project engineering & management. Met RA technical competency goals. Company-wide financial reductions & layoffs due to merger.
July 2018 to July 2020 Honeywell Process Solutions.
Atlanta GA
RSM & project management execution incld design & implementation of full scope Honeywell process solutions and associated field services for both brown & green field projects for customers in AL. Served Pulp & Paper, Spec Chem, Pharma, Oil & Gas, Commercial and Food & Bev clients. Met HW technology competency requirements and assisted sales growth goals. Company-wide compensation & staff reductions due to COVID.
August 2016 to July 2018 InSource
Richmond VA
Snr Sales & Technical applications resource for AL, GA and Florida for AVEVA Wonderware automation, HMI & SCADA solutions including full scope design & implementation with computer hardware. Wide range of industries and customer types served. Met company technical expertise requirements and sales growth goals. Company-wide staff financial & personnel reductions.
August 2015 to August 2016 Siemens Industry
Norcross, GA
Lead Tech Dev Engineer for the Modernization Made Easy initiative nation-wide to convert Rockwell Automation customers using Siemens conversion tools &-TIA Portal for factory automation. Technically promoted & presented Siemens technical capabilities to RA customers for migration and modernization in municipal, commercial, industrial end user & OEM/SI markets in a wide range of industries and applications. Acted as project engineer & manager working on those projects to completion. Met stringent technical and sales growth goals of initiative program. Company cancelled initiative with company- wide staff reductions.
March 2007 to August 2015 Rockwell Automation
Birmingham, AL
Technical Consultant for AL, MS, GA and FL. Covered full portfolio of automation incld. Electrical, field devices, drives/motion/motor control, controls, Ethernet, virtualization and SCADA/IIOT. Engineer for process & discrete projects with startup for commercial, end user, SI and OEM customers. Worked with customer staff at all levels alongside other RA and channel tech specialists. Met technical competency and sales growth goals, earned job performance rewards & implemented new technical initiatives. Company-wide restructuring eliminated role.
Feb. 2005 to March 2007 Border States
Electric Phoenix, AZ
PLC & HMI Technical Specialist for industrial automation division for process & discrete in industrial end users, consultants, municipalities/state, SI, OEM and contractors in AZ. Performed project engineering & startup for customers, working with other tech specialists. Met technical competency and sales growth goals. Left to return to the SE for family reasons.
Aug. 2000 to Feb. 2005 Womack Machine (formerly FPS Technologies) Birmingham, AL
Motion & Automation Manager for automation division. Sole technical resource for project engineering, management & startup for automation with HMI & drives/motion for SI/OEM and large industrial end users in AL, MS & FL. Bosch Rexroth, Rockwell Sprecher & Schuh, Mitsubishi, Wago, Balluff and other automation solutions used. Established & grew automation division. Womack acquired FPS Technologies and didn’t continue work VISA sponsorship, requiring departure.
Professional Development Courses and Product Instruction:
-Rockwell integrated motion & VFDs, controls, networks, visualization and data management & reporting software, including Cisco CCENT & TUV certification.
-AVEVA Wonderware InTouch and System Platform
-Siemens Portal, older Step 7 & TI
-Bosch Rexroth Servo and VFDs, sequence/motion/CNC controls for electric and hydraulic systems.
-Many other vendors & platforms technical training
-3 different customer relations skills enhancement training
-Rockwell & Honeywell project engineering and management OJT
References:
Available upon request from current & previous employers & specific customers. Rec’d job performance awards nominated by both management & peers at Rockwell Automation.
I would appreciate being considered for the role. As a result, I believe I would be ideal candidate as:
-have been involved in discussing, designing, specifying and closing electrical & automation applications incld process, controls, safety, networking, mechanical, drives & motion and computers/servers/thin clients/virtualization alongside HMI/SCADA with customers for 36 years. Since 2010, have done work as a project engineer for Rockwell, Siemens, Agilix and as a Project Manager for Honeywell, Siemens, Agilix, Edgewater & PMD. In total, have 7 years project management and 11 years project engineering experience. I have always had to be familiar with the actual production equipment itself in order to be able to do all the associated automation but HW, Edgewater & now PMD have taught me in depth on the mechanical side.
-have been part of water-waste water teams, earned my TUV safety certification on machine and process safety and deepened my knowledge of instrumentation and process automation. Previously I had earned my Cisco certification and learned & implemented Industrial Ethernet, acted as an automation & motion product & sales manager, headed up the technical and sales activities for legacy automation systems migration & modernization for the whole country, and acted as a SME for a sales group for an entire automation product & solution portfolio.
-Have worked with a broad range of customers (OEM, SI & End User) in a variety of industries incld. Oil & Gas [i.e. Chevron, Williams], pharma [i.e. Baxter], spec chem [i.e. Indorama, Arkema, BASF], water- waste water [i.e. city of Pensacola, city of Dothan], food & bev [i.e. Smuckers, Kelloggs, Kraft], automotive [Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, GM], mining [i.e. CAT], metals [i.e. Nucor, TK], material handling & tracking [Fedex, Amazon, Walmart] in a variety of applications ranging from batch & process control, pumping & material handling, general assembly, packaging applications, etc.
-joining your company would be my 4th personal voluntary choice in my year working life and today am a US citizen, living & raising my family in the USA [am originally from Canada]. My resume explains the transition between companies and am performing well in my current role but the company appears to have underlying financial issues as a # of staff have been laid off. My interest in you is so I can focus on the industrial automation itself without the sales piece and for a secure permanent role.
-am goal oriented, organized, self-managed & part of a larger team, focused on success. Can provide references from automation manufacturers, companies and personal sources.
Thank you,
Robert Darling,
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