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Qualification Summary
I am experienced with instrumentation and control, both in plant and sales, design and commissioning. I have experience in many industries including boilers and power generation, food and dairy, water and waste water, paper and pulp, plus others. I am qualified as a field service representative, sales engineer, engineering technician, I&C technician, system integrator, technician, DCS technician, HVAC engineer or technician, and computer technician.
Experience
2006 to present
Fagen Inc.
Commissioning Engineer
Startup and commissioning of ethanol plants built by Fagen and engineered by ICM. Included all aspects of plant commissioning including loop checkout, configuration, equipment commissioning, training.
2004 to 2006
Cal Energy, a MidAmerican Energy Company. Calipatria Ca.
I&C/DCS Technician
Instrumentation and DCS support for 13 generating units in 6 geothermal power plants located in the Imperial Valley, Ca. Supporting Foxboro I/A DCS running on Sun Unix platforms, Rosemount Delta V DCS running on Microsoft NT4 operating systems, Woodward, Triconix, and Mitsubishi governor control systems and Bently Nevada temperature and vibration monitoring systems. Responsibilities included DCS repair, maintenance, data backups and programming, PLC trouble shooting and repair, maintenance and configuration of RTX plant data logging systems and well field SCADA systems. Using all the above systems along with Hathaway event data collection systems I was responsible for identifying causes of turbine trips and supplying supporting data and documentation. Installed, configured and maintained database and hardware for Druck documenting calibration system.
2001 to 2004
Champion Systems, Jamestown N.C.
HVAC control system engineer
All aspects of commercial HVAC control system engineering and design from bid preparation to submittal including hardware specification. Included control system logic programming and graphic screen configuration of Delta Control DDC building control software, and control system logic design for chillers, boilers, air handlers, cooling towers and pumping systems. Also supervised field network installation and performed system checkout and startup of BacNet based Delta Controls DDC systems with OrcaView software installed and configured on Windows XP operating systems.
1998 to 2001
Systemation, Fairport N.Y.
Systems Integrator, engineering technician
Formed applied services division of Systemation with another individual. Focus was system integration for municipal water and waste water treatment plants. Systems used Modicon PLC's, Opto22 I/O and Citec software running on Microsoft NT4 server/operating systems. Services included panel design and fabrication, installation, configuration, calibration, start up and commissioning of systems. Provided factory trained field service for the sales division on Foxboro instrumentation and calibration services for flow metering devices.
1985 to 1998
Total Control System Services, Inc., Varysburg N.Y.
President, founder and primary business manager.
Manufacturer's representative for several major lines of instrumentation. Provided repair, calibration, maintenance, installation and start up of instrumentation and control systems in New York and Pennsylvania with additional customers scattered from New England to North Carolina. Provided technicians for plant shutdowns and outages. Primary customers were water and waste water treatment plants, paper mills, food processing plants, hardwood lumber drying operations, and various other applications. My involvement included general business management, sales, system design, supervision installation, start up and calibration of instrumentation. Sale, design, installation and servicing of data telemetry and SCADA radio based systems.
1978 to 1985
The Foxboro Co., Buffalo N.Y.
Field Service Representative, Sr. Field Service Representative, Systems Analyst
Provided field services for entire Foxboro product line. Supervised installation and calibration of instruments. Specialized in power system and boiler control system start up and commissioning for utility and industrial applications. Hardware experience included Foxboro DCS systems, electronic and pneumatic process control instrumentation and systems, and analytical instrumentation. Experience includes Water and Waste Water, Paper and Pulp, Chemical, Food and Dairy, Refineries, Foundries, Steel works, and many other various applications.
Licenses
F.C.C. General Radio Operator license
F.C.C. General Mobile Radio Service license (Old F.C.C. First Class Commercial license)
F.C.C. Amateur Radio License Advanced
Education
A.A.S. Electrical Technology, Erie Community College, Williamsville, N.Y.
Additional Classes
Invensys Triconix System Maintenance
Foxboro I/A System Maintenance
CiTec software configuration
Delta Controls OrcaView software configuration
Eckhardt control valve sizing and specifying school
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