Electrical Engineer

LARRY HOPPER

OBJECTIVE: Looking for an Electrical Engineer position

SUMMARY

• BS + 20 + years of engineering experience.

• 12 years of hands – on PLC, MMI programming experience for applications like, Batching, brewing, blending, etc. Worked with Foxboro I/A DCS systems, A/B, GE Fanuc PLC & HMI Systems like iFix etc.

• 3 years of Process Controls project engineering experience. Handled complete project cycle including budget justification, generation of bid specification, vendor selection, factory system testing, startup/commissioning support and final system acceptance.

• 3 years of corporate engineering experience supporting multiple plant locations.

• 7 years of in-plant experience with production support and troubleshooting. Supported multiple shift production environments.

• 9 years of experience with Food processing and packaging industry.

• Excellent team player. Work well with vendors, contractors and plant production personnel.

• Local person. Willing to travel as needed.

EXPERIENCE

Innoventor, St Louis, MO

OEM for the Aerospace and related industry. 2007 to Present

Controls Project Engineer

Current projects include participation in Lockheed aircraft mobile assembly machine (assembly), Lockheed aircraft paint dolly (PLC programming and assembly), Honeywell welding machine (team lead for cable assemblies), Caterpillar mold machine (plc program conversion and assembly)

DiamlerChrysler, Fenton, MO 1995 to 2007

Controls Engineer – Project Manager

I worked as the Project Manager for the St Louis ITM group with the new 2008 minivan model launch. I did the same for the 2005 minivan Sto'n'Go project and for the 2001 Dodge Ram truck model launch. In between launches, I was the FIS/AVI Manager (Factory Information System / Automatic Vehicle Identification) for both the North and South assembly plants.

The ITM group is responsible for data communications (PFS - Performance Feedback System, PFCS - Plant Floor Communication System, AVI - Automatic Vehicle Identification, QAS - Quality Assurance System, ALS - Automatic Line Stop, FIS - Factory Information System) between various systems used to provide information for building vehicles, recording results and providing data to help troubleshoot and maintain the equipment.

Other duties included - Team lead for supporting, maintaining and upgrading the FIS, AVI, QAS and ALS systems for both the North and South plants, providing training to new plant hires and new ITM group members in FIS/QAS, assisting customers having problems with the local area network, PFS and FIS communications systems. We provide first line support for all computer communications within the plant.

Temperature Monitoring Project - led the team to install temperature and humidity monitors in the main Data Center and a sub Data Center. The purpose was to add the ability to monitor remotely, record and alert personnel when the temperature rose above alarm levels.

Hampton-Tilley, Chesterfield, MO 1986 to 1994

Controls Systems Integrator

Electrical Controls Engineer

Worked at Anheuser-Busch engineering office for various A-B projects. I spent 2 years programming plcs for and starting up several kathapac systems in the Columbus, Newark, Houston breweries. Later worked on other Anheuser Busch projects - the Fort Collins, CO brewery startup (Clean in Place) and the St Louis brewery modernization (mill tower and brewhouse interface).

In between A-B projects, I worked on potato chip lines for Frito Lay, automation of a baby food line for Bristol Meyers, Granite City Steel automation upgrades.

Originated a method using the Foxboro I/A and PLC-3 to input, modify and store multiple brew recipes for the A-B St Louis brewery. This method used an I/A HMI to load and modify the recipes and store them in a PLC-3. .

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL

B.S., Physics / Math

St Charles Community College, St Charles, MO

2 semesters AutoCAD

SKILLS

• Electrical building circuit design (lighting, power, HVAC, fire alarm, communication)

• PLC Programming - PLC-2, PLC-3, PLC-5, Foxboro I/A, GE Fanuc

• HMI programming (A/B Panelview, Nematron, QuickPanel)

• Instrumentation Diagrams, power one line diagrams, fire alarm diagrams

• Equipment Installing / Testing / Start-Up / De-bug

• AutoCAD 2007

• Solidworks

• Microsoft Office programs

• Visual Basic

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