Manager Electrical Engineer
Resume:
Personnel Resume of
Robert A. O’Bannion
Waco, Texas 76705 254-***-**** (cell)
E-mail: ***********@*****.*** 910-***-**** (Alt. cell)
Experience:
**/** – Present NAES Inc, Sandy Creek Plant Riesel, TX. Maintenance Manager/ IC & E Supervisor
Promoted to Maintenance Manager and assumed those responsibilities due to reorganization.
Responsibilities include: Implementation of CMMS, supervision of IC & E technicians, start up support, plant staffing, test equipment specification, training and procedure development, at this 920 MW PRB fired supercritical power plant.
02/10 – 09/10 NAES Inc, K-gen Sandersville Plant, Sandersville, GA. Plant Manager
Maintained overall responsibility for plant Operations, Maintenance, Site budgets, development and implementation of site procedures. Supervision of O & M Technicians, outage planning, contract management and general management issues, including NERC and Environmental compliance at this 8 Unit simple cycle GE 7EA based Combustion Turbine Generating plant
10/08 – 02/10 NAES Inc, Blackhawk Station, Borger, TX. Maintenance Manager
Responsibilities included: Development and implementation of CMMS computerized maintenance management system, supervision of I & E and Mechanical Maintenance technicians, outage planning, emergency management issues, and frequent assignment to the role of temporary Operations Manager and Plant Manager at this duel Unit Westinghouse 501D5A based Combustion Turbine Generating and Steam host facility.
9/00 – 10/08 Progress Energy, Crystal River, Fl. Maintenance Supervisor
Transferred to Crystal River fossil units as Night Shift Supervisor
9/00 – 09/07 Progress Energy, Southport, NC, Instrument & Controls/Electrical Technician
Responsibilities include: Planned and emergent maintenance on analog and digital plant systems, supervision and oversight of contract employees, modifications and engineering changes review and implementation. Also involved in Power up-rate of these twin GE-6 BWR’s.
Personnel Resume of Robert A. O’Bannion (cont’d)
Experience: (cont’d)
2/99 – 9/00 Transmatic Environmental ,Wilmington NC, Applications Engineer
Product design & development, Electrical and mechanical engineering, systems design, fabrication, installation and start-up of PLC based high velocity-low volume source capture vacuum systems.
10/94 – 2/99 Moen Inc, Sanford, NC. Facilities Engineering Manager
Plant electrical engineer, management of all outside contractors, design implementation and start-up of building additions, new technologies/processes totaling over $ 27 Million. Managed the engineering, maintenance, toolmakers departments, tool-crib, and waste management areas along with their respective budgets. Designed and implemented planned maintenance programs, and upgraded electrical distribution, control and utilities conservation programs.
1/90 - 10/94 Bechtel (Westinghouse) Savannah River Inc. Aiken, SC Instrument & Controls Engineer/I & C Instructor
Control systems design, testing and troubleshooting of DCS control systems, in the replacement tritium facility, and chemical separations areas to include robotics, lasers, and PLC controlled welding machines. I was sequestered to Westinghouse for the design, implementation and instruction of a certified hands-on training course for electrical, instrumentation, maintenance and HVAC specialist. DOE “Q” Clearance
3/89 - 1/90 Atlantic Technical Services, North Anna Station, Louisa, VA Instrument Engineer.
Research, engineering review, and upgrade of station procedures for safety related systems, and development and installation of Auxiliary Turbine shutdown system using Modicon 884/984 PLC.
2/85-3/89 Nuclear Support Services (Westinghouse) Catawba Nuclear station Lake Wylie, SC Senior Instrument and Electrical Engineer
Start-up, calibration, and maintenance of digital and analog process control systems, HVAC, data-acquisition systems, and development of loop and logic diagrams.
3/84 - 2/85 Volt Technical Services, Belle River Fossil station, Senior I & C Engineer,
Start-up and calibration of digital and analog process control systems including Bailey Net 90, Foxboro spec 200, and Allen Bradley PLC's.
6/83 - 3/84 Westinghouse Instrument Service Group, Thomas Hill energy center, Instrument and Controls Technician/ Electrician.
Start-up testing and PLC program design of upgraded Pulverizer systems, and replacement of Precipitator with dry-lime scrubber system based on Foxboro Spec 200, and GE-5 PLC's interfaced with bailey 820 & 762 control systems.
Personnel Resume of Robert A. O’Bannion (cont’d)
Experience: (cont’d)
12/80 - 6/83 Kansas Gas and Electric Wolf Creek Power Station. Instrument & Controls Technician.
Calibration and acceptance testing of Instrument loops and systems, surveillance testing, maintenance, and standards lab calibrations, at this Westinghouse 1150 MW PWR.
12/75 - 12/80
United States Navy, Aviation Fire Control Technician (AQ) S.E.A.L. Team (2)
Troubleshooting, repair, and preventive maintenance of aircraft landing systems, communications, fuel systems, missile guidance systems, and intelligence acquisition.
Personnel Resume of
Robert A. O’Bannion (cont’d)
Education/ Qualifications
AAS Electronics Technology
108 Credit Hours Electrical Engineering and Fire Protection
US NAVY advanced electronics program
(Apprenticeship) ANSI qualified Level IV I & C tech
(Apprenticeship) Certified Journeyman Electrician
(Apprenticeship) Certified Journeyman Pipe fitter
U L 508A Certified Panel builder
Association of facilities Engineers (Full Certification)
IEEE Member
American Vacuum Society Advanced Vacuum Technology
Honeywell TDC2000/RD-4400 Controller course
Allen-Bradley Programmable Controller Course
Modicon 484,584, & 984 Programmable Controller Courses
Westinghouse Instrument Engineering Course Including:
Safety Injection System, Digital Rod position Indication, Nuclear Instrumentation, Incore Instrumentation, Solid state Protection, 7300 Process Control, Nuclear Steam Supply System, Boron Thermal Regeneration system.
Johnson Controls Air Conditioning Specialist Course
Foxboro Spec 200 Course
Bailey 762, 820, and Network 90 Courses
General Electric Turbine schools
General Physics courses as follows:
Chemistry, Nuclear physics, Advanced Math, Calculus, Job performance measures, procedure writing, Educational Design and development, Presentation skills.
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