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EXPERIENCE
1999 to 2002: VECO ALASKA, INC., Anchorage, Alaska
Principle Instrument Designer
• Primary responsibilities include generating AutoCAD drawings for design of cable schedules, cable block diagrams, wiring diagrams, installation details, loop diagrams and location plans.
• Performed field surveys of an existing pneumatic and electronic control room to determine installations to be made for instrument upgrade to a Foxboro I/A DCS.
• Clients are Alaska Nitrogen Products, Inc. and Alaska Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative, Inc., Nikiski Co-Generation Project – Fertilizer Plant – Upgrade & expansion
1999: BECHTEL, INC., Houston, Texas
Senior Instrument Designer/Checker
• Generated Microstation CAD drawings covering analyzer installations, instrument equipment layout (in satellite instrument house & central control room), producing grounding and power distribution layouts, and developing marshalling wiring diagrams.
• Checked fabrication drawings for instrument enclosures for the DCS termination panels, PLC hardware and field enclosures.
• Verified cable numbers, fuse sizes, wire sizes, contact arrangements and power requirements on wiring diagrams, schematics, installation details and location plans.
• Clients included:
• Union Carbide on the KL, Malaysia Optimal Project, chemical plant – grass root
• Monsanto on the Zarate, Argentina CT Project, chemical plant – grass root
1997 to 1998: LUMMUS ALIREZA LTD., INC. Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Instrument Design Supervisor
• Supervised designers to generate Aramco standard drawings for oil and gas production platforms.
• Project team maintained equipment, upgraded existing communication systems and provided EPC services to implement new platforms.
• Estimated man-hours to complete each instrument design task for cost/scheduling purposes.
• Client was Aramco in the Northern Area Maintain Potential Program.
1992 to 1997: CONTECH ENGINEERING, INC., LaPorte, Texas
Senior Staff Designer
• Primarily responsible for issuing complete construction packages to the field for control systems upgrades. This included coordinating with all disciplines (piping, civil/structural, electrical/instrumentation) to assure accuracy and completeness.
• Job activities included maintaining drawing registers, instrument surveys, estimating, scheduling, supervision of designers and CAD personnel, interfacing with client representatives and construction to assure conformance to design requirements.
• Design construction documents included: conduit plans, wiring diagrams, schematics, cable schedules, power panel schedules, loop diagrams, DCS/PLC block diagrams and P & ID’s.
• Completed Quality Educational System (QES) Crosby Quality Assurance Program.
• Clients included:
British Petroleum Oil – Toledo, Ohio, refinery (all process units) – instrument upgrade
Exxon Chemicals – Baytown, Texas, chemical plant (12 process Units) – instrument upgrade
Atlantic Richfield Co. – Channelview, Texas, petrochemical plant (boiler) – instrument upgrade
Millennium – LaPorte, Texas, chemical plant (acetic acid unit)– instrument upgrade
1991 to 1992: BECHTEL, INC., Houston, Texas
Senior Control Systems Designer
• Generated bulk material requisition from installation details and computer-aided instrument database (BEAMS).
• Participated in field walkdown to access instrument damage on fast track rebuild project.
• Squad checked piping iso’s for proper instrument connections.
• Assisted construction with instrument installations and field wiring terminations.
• Clients included:
Phillips Petroleum, Woods Cross, Utah, refinery – expansion
Angus Chemical Company, Sterlington, Louisiana, petrochemical plant (nitroparifins unit) –construction for rebuild and upgrade of new control room after plant fire and explosion
1989 to 1991: MEP GROUP, INC., Houston, Texas
Senior Instrument Design Supervisor
• Responsible for preparation of instrument location plans, installation details, instrument loop diagrams, instrument specifications, P&ID revisions, and marshaling panel arrangement drawings.
• Clients included:
Olin Chemical, Lake Charles, Louisiana, wastewater treatment unit - instrument upgrade
Texas Eastman, Longview, Texas, wastewater treatment unit – grass root
1980 to 1989: BECHTEL, INC., Houston, Texas
Senior Instrument Design Supervisor
• Supervised electrical and instrument crafts in the field for a hot cut over conversion.
• Scheduled work assignments for ten designers on a two-year project.
• Participated in project design from start to finish including physically moving to the job sites to implement the construction phase.
• Generated loop diagrams, interconnecting wiring diagrams, location plans, installation details and P & ID revisions.
• Clients included:
Ashland Oil Co., Cattlesburg, Kentucky, refinery (10 process units) - field survey
DuPont Co. Inc. LaPorte, Texas, petrochemical plant (vinyl unit)– instrument upgrade
Tennessee Eastman, Kingsport, Tennessee, chemical plant – expansion
Mobil/Sabic, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia petrochemical plant (polyethylene, ethylene, ethylene glycol, boilers, off-sites) – grass root construction
Marathon Oil, Robinson, Illinois, refinery (all process units) – included 6 months of hot-cut over to new field and control room instrumentation and construction
1973 to 1980: ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Houston, Texas
Instrument Technician
• Performed first class mechanic tasks of calibrating and troubleshooting instrument problems after a two-year apprenticeship in the instrument maintenance department at the Houston refinery which included cookers, cat cracker (FCCU), crude units, sulfur recovery, aromatics recovery, gasoline blenders, dock facilities, canning and packaging .
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