Engineer Control

CHERYL RAE EVANS

*** *** ***** **** *Macon, GA **216 *478-***-**** * ***********@*****.***

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Chemical Engineer with proven ability, wide-ranging process control and instrumentation background, twenty years work experience in 24/7 process manufacturing environments, extensive collaboration experience with operations and instrument/electrical personnel, outstanding record of developing control applications to enhance operations, strong planning and organization skills, ability to prioritize multiple assignments and deliver positive results under heavy deadline pressure, proficiency configuring and maintaining Honeywell TDC3000 and Experion PKS DCS, high performance HMI and alarm system optimization know-how, working knowledge of Pascal, Fortran, C, HTML, Visual Basic, SAP, Matrikon OPC, AutoCad, multivariable control and networking theory, familiarity with Honeywell TDC2000 DCS, OSIsoft PI, Honeywell PHD, Triconex safety system logic solver, Allen Bradley PLC, technical training expertise and ISA membership.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL (2010 to 2012)

Senior Process Control Engineer, Macon, GA

* Resolved day to day Honeywell TDC3000 DCS, process control and instrumentation issues in support of the Power House and Kraft Pulp Mill.

* Guided annual turbogenerator, recovery and biomass boiler SIS testing. Streamlined SIS testing by improving the quality of the test procedures.

* Performed digester startup checks after annual maintenance to ensure instrumentation and process controls still functioned as designed.

* Accelerated turbogenerator rack testing by automating test procedure.

* Eliminated mill shutdowns due to the lost of air compressor cooling water by implementing reliable controls.

* Created natural gas usage advisory to eliminate penalties due to excessive gas usage during curtailment periods.

* Influenced the acceptance of alarm management at mill by identifying alarm system deficiencies, improving Power House alarm system by removing OOS equipment alarms, reducing nuisance alarms and implementing alarm suppression.

* Collaborated with instrument/electrical personnel to eliminate equipment ground faults and to perform Allen Bradley PLC research.

* Supported maintenance and capital projects by developing DCS I/O lists, process control strategy development, DCS point configuration and graphic building, Honeywell PHD point building and Honeywell TDC Viewer graphic updates, creating instrument loop drawings, modifying motor elementary drawings and updating P&IDs.

* Integrated Case Controls air compressor energy management system (Allen Bradley Controllogix PLC based) to Honeywell TDC3000 using OPC.

* Trained operations and instrument/electrical personnel on new and existing process control applications.

VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION (2008 to 2010)

Safety Instrumented System Engineer, Delaware City, DE

* Managed refinery SIS compliance program.

* Developed safety critical instrument testing scope for the 2008/2009 turnarounds.

* Field verified critical instrument systems and created test procedures.

* Provided engineering support to instrument/electrical personnel during critical instrument testing.

* Performed safety integrity level calculations to determine required SIS testing frequency.

* Investigated critical instrument system activations to determine if activation was legitimate or spurious. Made recommendations to Operations to prevent spurious activations.

* Helped to improve the reliability of Power Plant Boiler SIS which stabilized the refinery’s 600# steam supply.

* Performed analysis of the refinery flare quench drums independent protection layers to determine which drums required a SIS to prevent the emission of toxic gases to the atmosphere.

* Contributed to the development of the Corporate critical instrumentation management, maintenance, design and implementation standards.

* Ensured safety instrumented systems met ISA84 and Corporate requirements.

* Issued monthly report that summarized the critical instrument program key performance indicators for refinery management. Also, met with refinery management monthly to discuss the compliance status of the critical instrument program.

* Assisted instrument/electrical personnel with PLC access and coordinated refinery PLC support.

SUNOCO INCORPORATED (1998 to 2008)

Human-Machine Interface Engineer, Philadelphia, PA

* Responsible for increasing the effectiveness of the interaction between the process control operator and the Honeywell Experion PKS DCS. Also, responsible for ensuring that the HMI improves the value of the process control system in all capital projects.

* Led the $2 MM HMI effort for the new central control room. Effort included the HMI contractor selection and management, PKS HMI best practice development and creation of new PKS displays for 7 process units. Developed HMI test criteria. Also, identified HMI performance optimization opportunities and PKS product anomalies. Decreased HMIWEB display invocation time from 12 seconds to 3 seconds.

Senior Process Control Engineer, Marcus Hook, PA

* Responsible for the configuration and maintenance of the Transfer and Shipping Honeywell TDC3000 DCS. Provided hardware and software support for the Gasoline Blender, Waste Water, Honeywell Inter-refinery Pipeline and Storage Data Management (SDM) applications. Developed DCS applications to increase operator productivity.

* Led the effort to install the first overview display at Sunoco to help the process operators manage the increased work load caused by the installation of a new Sulfur Plant. Effort included contractor management and operations facilitation.

* Configured #2 Tank Farm’s Honeywell Local Control Network (LCN) and Area Database. LCN included Communication Link Module/Application Module (CLM/AM), Computer Gateway (CG), Enhanced Programmable Logic Controller Gateway (EPLCG), History Module (HM) and two Universal Stations (US). Built DCS points, created Picture Editor graphics and configured history groups. Assisted Honeywell with the installation of SDM.

* Configured new Honeywell High Performance Managers (HPM) in support of the Benzene/Toluene/ Xylene (BTX) Reformer unit reinstrumentation and the new Carbon Monoxide (CO) Boiler projects.

* Developed training course on the Transfer and Shipping TDC3000 applications. Trained instrument/electrical and process control personnel.

* Led the effort to upgrade the Refinery’s obsolete crude blenders to TDC3000. Designed and implemented HPM control strategy that stabilized crude control.

* Championed the Refinery’s alarm management effort. Applied Beville Engineering’s alarm management methodology to the BTX Reformer unit to optimize alarm system. Reduced standing alarms by 80%.

MERCK AND COMPANY CHEROKEE PLANT, Danville, PA (1997-1998)

DCS Engineer

* Maintained Xanthan Gum factory ABB MOD300 DCS and developed DCS applications to improve Xanthan Gum productivity and volume.

* Initiated the use of ABB PC Templet Generator to expedite increasing history data deadbands to improve performance of the history nodes. Changed DCS historized tags deadbands in two days. Traditional method would have taken several weeks.

* Used ABB Pagebuilder and CCF programming to develop DCS area status boards for the nutrient room, F-units, beer wells and solvent recovery areas to enhance shift-wide and factory-wide communication.

* Developed laboratory application using ABB PageBuilder, CCF programming and Taylor Control Language to enhance the communication of the Xanthan Gum laboratory data between the laboratory technicians and the manufacturing personnel.

* Performed Year 2K testing on control applications in the Xanthan Gum area.

* Updated plant P&IDS to reflect as-built DCS database.

MOBIL OIL CORPORATION - Now EXXON-MOBIL (1992-1997)

Control Applications Engineer, Beaumont, TX

* Implemented and maintained Honeywell TDC3000 DCS basic and advanced regulatory process control applications to improve production and reduce cost.

* Assisted with configuration of new Honeywell High Performance Process Managers (HPM) and Programmable Logic Controller Gateways (PLCG) in support of Mobil’s Olefins Expansion Project.

* Developed Honeywell Application Module Control Language (AM CL) program to automate ethylene furnace sample line blocking to prevent damage to the line during furnace decoking.

* Participated in Mobil’s Grassroot Para-Xylene Project Honeywell DCS factory acceptance test (FAT). Checked instrument readings, control loops, graphics and group displays on DCS. Helped FAT meet project deadline.

* Developed and instructed an advanced process control training course to increase console operators’ understanding and utilization of the Furnace Feed Maximization DMC Controller.

* Initiated the repair and support of the plant’s Bambeck CO trim controllers which reduced the plant’s annual fuel gas expenditure by approximately $11K.

* Developed a Microsoft Access database to serve as a central repository of basic regulatory controller tuning changes to enhance the management of these changes by the engineers.

* Developed excess oxygen advisory to help the console operators run the ethylene furnaces more efficiently.

* Participated in the Voluntary Employee Safety Committee.

* Mathematics tutor as a part of Mobil’s School/Business partner program.

Process Engineer, Princeton, NJ

* Designed and maintained process units and provide ongoing support to three Operating Divisions: Marketing and Refinery, Mobil Chemical, and Exploration and Production.

* Assisted in the development of a semi-regeneration reformer advanced control application using DMC technology for Mobil's refinery in Altona, Australia. Traveled to Australia in support of this project.

* Assisted with on-site, full plant testing of FCC unit at Mobil's refinery in Woerth, Germany to apply Honeywell's Predictive Control Technology (PCT).

* Redesigned Woerth refinery's Naphtha Pretreater Depentanizer tower trays and internals to cope with corrosion and gain an increased feedrate using Simulation Science's PRO II Simulation Package.

* Developed enhanced process data trending and controller tuning application on Honeywell TDC3000. Project involved use of Picture Editor graphics and Application Module Control Language (AM CL). Also applied Honeywell's XY Plot software package to correlate process data retrieved from History Module using AM CL at Mobil's Process Control Lab.

* Developed generic computer program to validate MIS data on an IBM RISC Platform. This project linked the advanced control system of the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit at Mobil's Paulsboro refinery to a higher level optimizer.

EDUCATION

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, June 1992, Minor: Chemistry, GPA 3.2/4.0

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