I would like to obtain a job which allows my contribution until retirement 20 years from now.
Donald Wayne Banner
153 Raccoon Trail Phone: 803-536-1139
North, SC 29112 umpdumpy[at]hotmail.com
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Profile
Highly accomplished Engineering Professional with a history of increasing responsibility in the areas of
electrical, instrumentation, reliability, maintenance and facilities. Decisive leadership positions in a diversity of
career disciplines associated with technical expertise, management and audits. Effective demonstration of
problem solving and analytical approach to root cause analysis. Motivated proactive team contributor with a
strong work ethic and ability for change management.
Professional Experience
Albemarle, Orangeburg, SC 2006 – 2009
Electrical/Instrumentation Superintendent
Responsible for all electrical and instrumentation needs for a plant producing pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
â–ª Managed three electrical engineers along with four salaried foremen and planners, directed 18
Instrument and Electrical technicians. â–ª Participated in 5S and Kaizen events. â–ª Responsible for complying with FDA, GMP, ISO, and other auditors requirements.
DAK Americas 2005 – 2006
Facilities Engineer
Responsible for all Electrical Engineering needs for a facility producing 410 tons/day of PET, the raw material for plastic bottles. Equipment included Allen Bradley PLCs, Foxboro DCS, and Wonderware HMIs. Other equipment; gas/fuel oil fired boilers cooling towers, waste water treatment, and 2 large Dow Therm vaporizers.
â–ª Managed 6 Instrument and Electrical Technicians and 15 Maintenance Mechanics day to day activities.
ConAgra Foods 2003 – 2005
Maintenance/Reliability Supervisor
Responsible for instructing and managing maintenance, electrical, and production employees. Equipment includes food processing lines with Allen Bradley PLCs and AC inverters. Also, heat exchangers, level and pressure transmitters, (Elmar) can fillers and (Angelus) seamers, (Krones)labelers, (Kister) casers, (Alvey) palletizers, conveyors and much more equipment.
â–ª Developed process improvement initiatives as well as equipment reliability improvements. â–ª Provided mechanical, electrical and technical support to production personnel. â–ª Supervised production personnel.
Lenzing Fibers Corp. 2000 – 2003
Electrical/Instrumentation Superintendent
Managed 3 salaried supervisors and 15 hourly instrumentation/electrical technicians. Equipment included 3 Foxboro DCS systems: receiving inputs from flow, temp., humidity, pressure, speed, level, etc. transmitters and interfacing with Modicon PLCs and Intellution human interfaces, pumps, heat exchangers, Mitsubishi AC inverters, valves, etc. Electrical substations, steam powered boilers and generators were also maintained.
â–ª Responsible for maintaining, installing, upgrading and calibrating all equipment associated with a
chemical process producing rayon fiber and in coal fired power generation. â–ª Implemented new control equipment procurement and installation to improve bottom line cost and
maximum production. Extensive interaction with sub-contractors to ensure proper specifications and
documentation were implemented.
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Dupont/Sterling Diagnostic Imaging/ AGFA. 1996 – 2000
Staff Control Engineer/Bar code Project Manager
Responsible for ensuring maximum equipment up-time. Equipment included web processing, visual inspection systems, automatic packaging, automatic labeling, overhead cranes, automatic guided vehicles, AC and DC drives (including coordinated drive systems) and process tracking. Also much equipment involved in tracking raw material acceptance and bar coding, (with SAP interface), to follow these materials through processing into finished products.
â–ª Designed preventative maintenance schedules, trained maintenance team to implement work orders,
and provided off-hour support when mechanics needed assistance. This allowed follow up on customer
complaints to isolate cause and fix. Initiated programs to verify ISO and FDA compliance to allow
mechanics and operators to produce products within established standards.
▪ Trained maintenance team to analyze, troubleshoot and program PLC’s.
▪ Programmed PLC’c for modifications and upgrades. ▪ Managed outside contractors. ▪ Management of a $1.5M corporate bar code project to interface user input to SAP. ▪ Member of the Plant Electrical Safety Committee. Performed periodic safety audits.
Asheville Elevator Co. 1990 – 1996
Elevator Maintenance Mechanic/Adjuster Overall engineering responsibility to include design and implementation of new systems, modifications of existing systems and maintenance of existing systems.
Elevator Specialist Inc. 1988 – 1990
Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Designed and implemented maintenance schedules, software analysis of equipment performance, new equipment installations, troubleshooting and debugging existing systems, management of technical and non-technical personnel.
Technical Proficiency
Allen Bradley/Modicon PLC, Reliance Electric, Mitsubishi, Danfoss, Allen Bradley,AC and DC Drives, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Groupwise, SAP Fundamentals, National Electric Code, and Bar Code Readers and Systems. Forty plus hours Foxboro DCS curriculum. Intellution, Siemens, Schneider (Proworks),Wonderware, and other HMI,( human interface )products.
Education
The Citadel, (The Military College of South Carolina)
BS Degree - Electrical Engineering
Graduated May 1987
CURRICULUM
Electrical Energy Conversion, Electronics, Electrical Power Systems, Fortran, Optics, Systems Control, Digital and Electronic Design, Communications Engineering, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Electrical Measurements, Quality Control Analysis, Engineering Economics, Antenna Design and Analysis, Mechanical Drawing, AC and DC Circuits, Engineering Design, Electrical Properties of Materials, Management, Public Speaking and many others.
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