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SUMMARY
35years specializing in high voltage electrical maintenance, installation, testing and QA/QC inspections verifying power distribution/generation equipment in fossil, gas and oil Power Plants and Utilities up to 500Kv, as per technical engineering specs for customer support.
Field testing experience has included (but is not limited to) maintenance, testing and QA/QC verifying inspections of the following equipment:
Circuit Breakers (vacuum/oil/gas/air) Transformers (dry/oil-filled)
Generators (diesel/gas/coal-fired) UPS (GE/Westinghouse/Allen Bradley)
Switchgear (Siemens/GE/Westinghouse) Batteries (low voltage) Protective Relays (IQ 1000/GE/Westinghouse) AC/DC Motors & Controllers
20 years supervisory experience managing up 40 Electricians and I&C Technicians.
20 years involvement of the construction, commissioning, testing and inspection of power distribution systems at seven chemical refineries and four oil refineries in Texas,
Kentucky, South Carolina and Louisiana.
20 years experience programming/troubleshooting Programmable Logic Controllers
(PLCs) - Allen Bradley PLC5, Westinghouse and Andover Controls.
Journeyman Electrician, certified High Voltage Splicing.
Adept at acceptance testing - Doble, Hi-Potential, Power Factor, Cable, Ductor,
CTMP, Meggar and Transformer Ratio/Ratio,wind farms Transformer,substation switchgear.
Strong knowledge and experience conducting Load Flow Studies, Load Surveys and Infrared Thermographic Surveys.
22 years experience installing and commissioning electrical controls on GE and Westinghouse gas/steam turbines.
Computer literate: Microsoft Word Programs, Windows and the Internet.
Stress resilient and capable of working under deadline pressures.
U. S. passport.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
01/08-03/09 TASK FORCE INNOVATION,TFI,NATO/US,KANDAHAR,AIRBASE,AFGHANISTAN.
07/18-5/18 /08 KUWAIT, ENGINEERING /QA/QC DUBAI, RECRUITER CO.
contract gas turbines,switchgear,hv cable,hi pot,testing all transformer,mcc.
10/05-06/06 INTEGRATED TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, INC.electrical engineer
Contract switchgear,mcc,load test,commissioning,tranf,hi pot,start up.
04/05- 07/05 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUSTRIES, CLEARWATER FL.
contract Plant manager. Moved plant to Texas. Over one engineer.
15 directly reporting.
04/04-04/05 SOUTHWEST ELECTRIC, USEC, Paducah, Kentucky High contract voltage and low voltage breaker engineer. Directly reporting 10.
11/03-04/04 COMPUTER SCIENCES RAYTHEON, Ascension Island, POWER PLANT WIND FARM
12/02-05/03 FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER, PO_ WELL SWITCHGEAR,
Contract Houston,texas.Directly reporting 4 Maintenance & instlation of
Vacuum circuit breakers 5 -3 8 kv, substations, dc-switchgear, startup," bus duct repair, sf 6 switches, transformer repair, 5-38kv retrofill breakers bus, power controls, and inspected for customer support.
01/02-05/02
contract ELECTRICAL START-UP ENGINEER (Contract) BLACK & VEATCH Eldorado, Arkansas
Member of a two-man Start-Up Team at a 500 Kv switchyard commissioning, testing and performing loop checks on vacuum breakers (filling them with SF6), breaker timing, calibrating transducers (4/20MA), setting up Kurtkey Lock-Outs and pole discrepancy checks, as per technical design specs.
Completed and submitted all Test Data Sheets and applicable paperwork after QA/QC inspection,& walkdown.
03/00-12/00
contract GENERAL FOREMAN (Contract) KAMTECH, INC.
Anderson, South Carolina, 20 elect. Directly reporting to my self.
Electrical start-up working for GE on a combined-cycle gas turbine, associated Mark 4 computer, transformers, switchgear, lube oil systems, AC/DC motors, battery chargers, inverters and QC inspection walkdowns for SANTEECOOPER START UP.
Conducted HIPOT, Doble, Power Factor and CTMP tests on the power distribution systems
3/99-9/99 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING, RITZ CARLTON
HOTELS, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Directly reporting to director.
Managed 10 Multicraft Technicians; maintained and performed corrective/preventive maintenance on HVAC systems, Lift Stations, a 345Kv power plant and inspection of all associated power distribution/generation equipment.
06/87-02/99 ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN SUPERVISOR, EG&G,
Kennedy Space Center, Titusville., Florida
Maintained PLC-controlled chillers (2500 ton), boilers and air compressors at the Utility Annex. Responsible for budget
Performed electrical preventive/corrective maintenance, calibration, testing and QC inspection of six diesel generators (13 8Kv), Rosemont SMARTS, Bailey Boiler controls. 21 electrician
Directly reporting to my self.
Two electrical engineer under my supervision.
`86-87 ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN, ORLANDO UTILITIES
COMMISSION, MULTI-AMP, INC., Orlando, Florida
`85-'86; HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEER, DAVIS ELECTRIC,
Orlando, Florida START UP.
1985 HIGH VOLTAGE ELCTRICAL FOREMAN, YEARGAN
CONSTRUCTION, Orlando, Florida
'83; - '84; ELECTRICAL FOREMAN, TRIAD ELCTRIC &
CONTROLLERS, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
'82; -'83; MAINTENANCE ELCTRICIAN, PAYNE & KELLER CO., INC., Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
978- `82 ELECTRICAL FOREMAN, GENERAL TIRE COMPANY, Mayfield, Kentucky
'74; -'78; ELECTRICIAN, AIRCO ALLOYS STEEL MILL, Calvert City, Kentucky
EDUCATION/TRAINING
1993 Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Course, York Institute, York, PA
1992 Allen Bradley PLC-5 Course, Kennedy Space Center, FL
1991 Andover Controls Course, Kennedy Space Center, FL
1986 RAYCHEM Certified - high voltage & splicer.AUTH,LOTO.
1976 JOURMEYMAN WIREMAN CERTIFICATE I.B.E.W
1969 3 years electrical trade school, Tilghman high,
2006 OSHA 10 SAFETY & HEALTH TRAINING.
2007 SINGLE,WITH NO CHILDREN.
REFERENCES.
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