GREGORY R. ROSSVANES
Centralia, WA
l3hz0c@r.postjobfree.com
Career Profile
Controls Engineer with over sixteen years of experience working with a wide variety of clients/industries including GM, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Proctor & Gamble, Kellogg’s, American Airlines, Oil & Gas, and others.
Electrical Control Panel Construction - five years.
Electrician (eight years as an Electrician’s Mate aboard Nuclear Submarines while in the U.S. Navy, and two years as an Industrial Electrician).
Skills
PLC Programming: Allen Bradley (PLC-2, 3, 5, and SLC 500, RSLogix 5, 500, 5000), Modicon, GE, Honeywell, Mitsubishi, and Omron
Graphics Packages Programming: Allen Bradley Advisor II, Fix Intellution, Wonderware, Panel Mate, Panelview, Mitsubishi
Drawing Designs: P&ID, Panel (Layout & BOM), Elementary, Loop Sheet, Single Line, Communications (RS232, 422, Ethernet etc.)
Field Start-Up: field system installation supervision, system start-up and troubleshooting, operator training
Electrical Control Panel construction: panel layout, mounting components, wiring, reading blueprints, checkout, and troubleshooting
Instrumentation: research and selection, spec sheets, calibration, and field testing
Career History
2/13-9/15 ELECTRICAL ENGINEER – New Mather Metals Inc.
Responsible for assisting electrical maintenance in trouble-shooting, In-house controls improvements, providing assistance with and supervising larger outsourced system upgrades.
10/05-01/12 ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - TIC, Tunis Tunisia (British Gas Tunisia)
Responsible for job supervision, initiation of Work Permits, tracking/closing out of Work Packages, assisting with Project Management, and PLC program updates.
11/01-3/04 CONTROLS ENGINEER - Honeywell/PAI, Las Vegas NV.
Responsible for Updating Control Strategies, writing instrument calibration and start-up procedures, updating P&ID/panel/elementary/loop sheet drawings, PLC and Graphics package programming
Gregory R. Rossvanes
Page 2
12/98-9/01 CONTROLS ENGINEER - Rann Technologies, Inc. Alpharetta, GA.
Responsible for control system design to include project management, PLC and Graphics package programming, instrument specifications, P&ID/panel/elementary/loop sheet drawings, field system installation supervision, system start-up and troubleshooting.
7/93-10/98 CONTROLS ENGINEER - Interconnect Technologies Inc., Toledo, OH.
Responsible for control system design to include PLC and Graphics package programming, instrument specifications, P&ID/panel/elementary/loop sheet drawings, field system installation supervision, system start-up and troubleshooting.
4/88-6/93 CONTROLS ENGINEER - Lockwood Greene Engineers, Spartanburg, S.C.
Responsible for control system design to include project management, PLC and Graphics package programming, instrument specifications, P&ID/panel/elementary/loop sheet drawings, field system installation supervision, system start-up and troubleshooting.
4/86-3/88 CONTROLS ENGINEER - Acco Systems Division, Babcock Industries Inc., Stone Mountain, GA.
Responsible for control system design to include PLC and Graphics package programming, estimating, panel/elementary/loop sheet drawings, field system installation supervision, system start-up and troubleshooting.
9/84-4/86 ELECTRICAL ESTIMATOR - American Technical Services, Tucker, GA.
Performed electrical estimating for industrial construction, and designed programming to computerize estimating.
6/81-8/84 Control Panel Construction - T & G Controls, Lilburn, GA.
Responsible for construction of control panels: panel layout, mounting components, wiring, reading blueprints, checkout, and troubleshooting
3/79-5/81 ELECTRICIAN - Crownover Electric Inc. College Park, GA.
Duties included running conduit, pulling wire, wiring control panels, and troubleshooting.
9/69-2/78 ELECTRICIAN’s MATE/E6 - United States Navy
Coursework includes: Basic & Advanced Electricians School, Nuclear Power School, Nuclear Power Prototype training, Submarine Equipment Schools including: motor generator, turbine generator, variable speed motor controllers, bearings and lubrication
EDUCATION
9/14 Motoman Robot Accelerated Programming
4/98 Wonderware Basic Training
8/88 Allen Bradley PLC-5
4/86 Allen Bradley PLC-2
6/81-9/84 Southern Technical Institute, Marietta, GA - BS Electrical Computer Engineering Technology
9/69-2/78 United States Navy