Electrical Engineer Power Plant

OBJECTIVE

An engineering position which utilizes my extensive experience in electrical system development to maximize a company's profits, as well as provide personal challenge.

SUMMARY

A results oriented hardware/software engineer with over twenty years experience in product development and support. Professional areas of interest and experience include:

Digital/Analog Circuitry DSP Software

Project Management Embedded Software

Real-Time Software System Definition

System Integration System Test Philosophy

EXPERIENCE

LUS 2011 – present

Lafayette, Louisiana

Electrical Engineer

Prepared design specifications for instrumentation, control system and electrical

systems for electric power plant construction and renovation projects.

Prepared diagrams, schematics and bid packages for electric power plant renovation

projects.

Monitored contractors for compliance with applicable standards, codes or

regulations.

Diagnosed problems with power plant equipment in support of electric generation

operation.

NiSource 2007 – 2009

Lafayette, Louisiana

Electrical Engineer

Developed design specifications for instrumentation, control system and electrical

systems in measurement/regulation and compressor stations.

Created schematics and one-line diagrams for measurement /regulation and

compressor stations.

Selected equipment for measurement/regulation and compressor station projects.

Conducted electrical design reviews for measurement/regulation and compressor

stations.

Conducted site visits to monitor and verify measurement/regulation and

compressor station project status.

Raytheon 2005–2007

Dallas, Texas

Sr. Electrical Engineer

Design engineer responsible for design, development, layout and test of Cryogenic

Cooler Controller CCA

Developed circuitry to meet functional, operational and environmental requirements

using Mentor Graphic’s Design Architect for schematic capture.

Analyzed analog and digital circuitry to verify and quantify design margins for

functional, operational and environmental requirements for multiple project CCAs.

Designed analog and digital CCAs for a module test set using Cadence Orcad for

schematic capture.

Simulated critical CCA circuit operation using Spice.

Developed functional test procedures for each CCA to verify proper operation.

Performed design verification testing of analog and digital CCAs using an

oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power supplies and function generators.

Created assembly drawings and wiring lists for the modules which housed the CCAs.

Integrated modules and verified proper operation of entire test system.

Developed test procedures to be used as acceptance test for system sell-off.

PDNB 2003 – 2005

Lafayette, Louisiana

Operations Analyst

Performed analysis of complex business problems to be solved with automated

systems and workflow improvements.

Analyzed production, inventory control, distribution, cost analysis, finance,

marketing, human resources, and other business functions in order to develop new

or modified information processing systems and workflow improvements.

Provided technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and

procedures.

Created and maintained functional specifications for new or modified business

systems.

Consulted and coordinated with systems analysts and programmers to design and

develop automated business systems.

Sentinel Control Technologies, Inc. 2002 – 2003

Houma, Louisiana

Electrical Design Engineer

Developed Steering Amplifier printed circuited board to be used to steer marine

supply vessels. Developed Graphical software package that runs on Windows using

WinCC that allows the user to control the valves of a cargo control system. The

software determines the flow of the cargo once the requested command is executed

and updates the display with the potential flow allowing the user to cancel the

command and prevent cargo contamination or a hazard. Developed PLC software

for various alarm and steering control systems used in the marine industry.

Omega Natchiq (Contractor) 2001 – 2001

Lafayette, Louisiana

Electrical Engineer

Created new and modified existing electric, instrumentation and PLC drawings for

nineteen pump station sites along Marathon’s Centennial Pipeline that begins in

Beaumont, TX and ends in Ohio. The drawings consisted of schematic diagrams and

wiring diagrams for transformers, electric motors, motor operated valves, circuit

breaker panels, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, level sensors, variable

motor drives, lighting and grounding for each of the pumping stations.

Cochrane Technologies, Inc. 1998 – 2001

Broussard, Louisiana

Manager of Engineering/Systems Engineer

Developed system requirements for a magnetic anomaly detector used in

conjunction with a navigation system to detect and locate pipelines on or beneath

the sea floor.

Researched magnetic sensors to identify a sensor with sufficient sensitivity to allow

the detector to detect the presence of a pipeline whenever the detector is within 25

feet of the pipeline.

Designed and built high gain amplifiers along with high order analog filters for signal

processing.

Developed C software for a TMS320C40 DSP based data acquisition board to collect,

process and store magnetic data samples. Code Composer was used to test and

debug software.

Directed team of technicians in the maintenance of a privately owned Differential

GPS network consisting of 5 transmitter stations and more than 25 RF receivers.

Directed team of programmers in the maintenance of a proprietary navigation

software application and in the development of an internet based job and

equipment inventory database application.

C & C Technologies, Inc. 1996 –1998

Lafayette, Louisiana

Systems Analyst

Developed remote controller for an unmanned submarine used in surveying. The

remote controller consisted of a Zilog Z80 based microcontroller and software that

monitored the user’s inputs from a joystick and several pushbuttons and sent the

corresponding serial command to the submarine controller. The microcontroller

also updated the submarine status via a display on the remote controller.

Texas Instruments, Inc. 1985 – 1996

Dallas, Texas

Electrical Design Engineer

Developed test strategies that allowed for greater BIT fault detection and greater

fault isolation. Test strategies were selected by analyzing BIT and factory test

requirements as well as functional hardware and software requirements and

implementation. The test strategies included modifications to functional circuit

implementation, BIT circuitry implementation, BIT circuit and software definition

and implementation and test requirements. Test strategies were developed for the

IBAS/ITAS FLIR system of the M1 tank and the F 16 Modular Mission Computer

(MMC).

Developed real-time embedded software in Motorola assembly language for the

multi-processor electronic system of the P102 project. The software development

included software design, implementation, module test definition and system level

integration and test. The software development process utilized on P102 complied

with MIL-STD-2167A and the Software Engineering Institutes (SEI) Level 3.

Developed board-level test requirements, test adapter stimulation and monitoring

circuitry, embedded software and factory test software for the Navy’s Harpoon

radar guided anti-ship missile system. This development effort consisted of the

design and customer design review of a test adapter for each Harpoon radar PCB.

The development consisted of TMS9989 assembly language software exercising the

processor PCBs and automatic test software. The automatic test software

controlled all test equipment stimuli, monitored PCB responses and determined

whether the PCB responses were within tolerance. The development effort involved

integration between the test set, test adapter and the Harpoon PCB and final

acceptance test.

Supported Harpoon system test set production by verifying acceptance test results

and analyzing and remedying any test failures. Integrated and debugged Harpoon

system test sets installed in Navy maintenance depots.

EDUCATION

B.S., Electrical Engineering (Computer Option) December 1984

University of Southwestern Louisiana

TEST EQUIPMENT EXPERIENCE

Expert in use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, function generators, power meters

MICROPROCESSOR SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE

Texas Instruments: TMS9989 & TMS320C40, Intel: 8080 & 8088, Zilog: Z80, Motorola: MC68020

LANGUAGES

C on TMS320C40 & Z80; Assembly on TMS320C40, TMS9989, 8080, 8088, MC68020;

IN-CIRCUIT EMULATORS

TI Code Composer, Motorola and Intel

DESIGN TOOLS

Mentor Graphics toolset

Cadence OrCad

P-Spice simulation

MISCELLANEOUS

Held various DoD security clearances

Parishioner of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church

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