PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Electrical Engineering professional with 30+ years of experience working in domestic and international projects; this included department, project and site management, calculations, design, construction, installation, commissioning, start-ups, field engineering,
• Experience in design, construction, commissioning, and meeting start-up dates.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience with the mechanical and hydraulic equipment.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, AutoCAD, and other programming software.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Techco Inc, Bay Minette, AL 2004 – Present
Sr. Electrical Engineer
Privately owned consulting company reporting to the CEO. Dependant on the contract, responsible for design, budget, estimate, schedule, supervision of crafts, and commissioning.
• Supervised the takeout of electrical equipment of a reversing cold mill in S. Korea to be reinstalled in Jeddah. Reviewed electrical suppliers’ proposals
• Wrote functional descriptions, software, integration and simulation tests for an aluminum plate mill in China, and a Steckel Mill in India.
• Updating AutoCAD drawings and commissioning of drives and on a revamp of a hot strip mill in Canada.
• Commissioning software and drives on a Steckel Mill in Turkey.
• Troubleshooting main drives on an aluminum hot mill in S. Korea
• Upgrade of converters drives on a wind farm in Texas.
• Commissioning and maintenance support of the hot strip mill main drives and generator in Alabama.
• Conducted classroom instruction for maintenance personnel on the drives and automation.
• Designed, built, and installed a meter panel.
• Electrical appraisal and cost estimates of a facility after hurricane damage in Texas.
• Preparing and conducting classroom for maintenance personnel on AC/DC electrical fundamentals.
• Troubleshooting and correcting a problem on a Steckel Mill in Iowa.
• Designed, built, installed an annunciator (first fault) panel
• Troubleshooting a problem and correcting on a tension reel drive. Revamp of control on a cold mill
• Testing, analyzing and correcting a problem with the plant power distribution system in Alabama
• Commissioning of down-coiler software in Mississippi
Prosoft Automation, Pelham, AL 2000 - 2004
Sr. Electrical Engineer
Privately owned electrical company reporting to the president. Responsible for the design of drives and controls, supervision of crafts, cable schedule, sizing transformers and circuit breakers, motor control centers, designing control panels, commissioning, and field engineering.
• Designed, selected drives, interfaced with existing control, developed cable schedule, installed, commissioned, started-up of a six-stand hot strip mill revamp.
• Evaluated the replacement/refurbishment of switch gear at Alabama Power’s Gorgas Electric power plant.
• Commissioned the Drives and automation upgrades of a five-stand aluminum cold mill.
• Commissioned and stared-up of drives and PLC for a pickle and temper mill that had been idle and resold.
• Designed, wrote software, conducted integration test, installed, commissioned, and started-up an up-coiler in Alabama.
Tippins Inc, Pittsburgh, PA. 1986 - 2000
Fellow Engineer
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, Reviewing electrical design, write specifications, reviewing electrical suppliers, mentor younger engineers.
• Designed, installed, commissioned, and started-up of the first two-stand Steckel mill in the Czech Republic. The main drives were four (4)-6700 kW ABB cyclo-converters, the remainder of the drives, including the descale pumps were Siemens.
• Designed, installed, commissioned, and started-up of up a Plate-Steckel Mill conversion in Canada. This was utilizing the existing main drive with new auxiliary drives.
• Commissioned and started-up a Plate-Steckel Mill in Thailand. These were all CEGELEC/Alstom drives.
• Designed, reviewed cable schedule, installed, commissioned, supervision of union work force, and started-up of an automation and drive revamp of a six-stand hot strip mill in Pennsylvania. These were all Reliance drives.
• Designed, installed, commissioned, and started-up of a Skin-Pass Mill and Leveler in Belgium. These were all ABB drives and Siemens PLCs.
• Installed and commissioned drives on a Plate-Steckel Mill conversion in Belgium. These were all Siemens drives.
Drives Manager
Reporting to the VP of Electrical Engineering, In charge of the selection of the electrical drives, budget, schedule, supervision of engineers, drive design reviews, specifications. It also included commissioning of the following:
Steckel mill in Canada
Three- stand aluminum mill in South Korea
Steckel mill in Iowa
Project and Site Manager
Reporting to the VP of Mechanical and Projects,
• Responsible for the budget, schedule, and design of a 135†Plate Mill with three shear lines for a customer in South Korea. After the equipment was shipped to the jobsite, as site manager I was responsible for managing the installation for the mechanical, hydraulic and electrical departments, coordination with the customer and start-up
Senior Design Engineer
Reporting to the VP of Mechanical and Projects,
• Designed hardware, wrote software, supervised installation, commissioned and start-up of a Rail Mill in Canada. This utilized Canadian GE drives
• Refurbished, retuned, and started up a six-stand Hot Strip Mill in Alabama that had been idle. These were GE drives and generators.
• Designed new exciters for existing generators, new auxiliary drives, new automation, new pulpits, new hydraulic cylinders and controls for an upgrade on three-Stand Aluminum Hot Mill and Roughing mill in Kentucky. Design was based on a 30 day outage. These were GE drives.
General Electric Company 1773-1986
Schenectady, NY. Roanoke, VA., and Pittsburgh, PA.
Senior Field Engineer
Reported to Service Manager
• Upgrades, service, to various Gas Turbines units in Venezuela
• Commissioned Plate Mill Drives in Venezuela
• Lead main drive engineer on a Six-Stand Hot Strip Mill in Spain that had suffered damage from a fire. Required refurbishing of and testing all circuit breakers.
• Lead engineer on finishing mills -Installed, commissioned, assisted in performance guarantee of Taiwan’s first Hot Strip Mill.
• Installed, drives and controls on a Two-Strand Slab Caster in Argentina
• Site engineer on two hot strip mills in Italy.
• Lead engineer on a seamless pipe mill in Alabama. Commissioned main drives, associated controls and PLCs.
• Trouble-shot and corrected drives and process problem on a hot strip mill in Wales.
• Commissioned rotary furnace drives in Mexico,
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on a Stroll line and a Cement Kiln in Puerto Rico.
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on a Stroll line in Ireland.
• Installed and commissioned the drives on hot strip mill in Chile.
Field Engineer
Reported to Service Manager
• Oversaw all related shop operations including fabrication, milling, welding and lathing
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on the Electric Hydraulic Controls(EHC) of a Large Steam Turbine in Springdale, Pennsylvania
• Commissioned and started-up a GE Stag(Steam & Gas) Turbine Power Plant-Pennsylvania Brunot Island, Pittsburgh, PA
• Installed the output transformer in a nuclear power plant at Shippingport, Pa.
• Installed and commissioned upgrades on a Dragline in Pennsylvania.
• Installed and commissioned Switch Gear in West Virginia.
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on a Dragline in Pennsylvania.
• Refurbishing switch gear at a service shop in Ohio
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on a Mine Hoist in Pennsylvania
• Commissioned an underground Rotary Car Dump in a coal mine in Pennsylvania
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on a Shovel in Pennsylvania
• Inspected and started up a Cement Kiln drive in New York
• Refurbished and upgrade the electrics on a Plate Mil in New York
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on a Blast Furnace Skip Hoist in Pennsylvania
• Trouble-shot and corrected problems on a BOF in Pennsylvania
• Commissioned coiler drive on a rod mill in Pennsylvania
• Upgraded the drives and control on a Reversing Cold Mill in Pennsylvania
Westinghouse Research Center 1969-1973
Churchill, PA.
Laboratory technician
Reported to the Manager of in the High Voltage and Gas Physics department
Conducted many different tests associated with electrical breakdowns. Responsible for setting up, conducting and recording tests.
• Conducted breakdown test on various insulating materials.
• Tested and implemented modifications to 345 KV SF6 circuit breakers.
• Conducted corona tests and studies
• Assisted in construction of a 9 megavolt impulse generator.
• Conducted tests on vacuum interrupter breakers.
US Air Force 1964-1968
Airborne Hiran operator-navigation and radar repair and a crew member on RC-130As
EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering cum Laude 1973
Professional Affiliations
Registered Professional Engineer –States of Alabama and Pennsylvania
Industry Training & Certifications
GE Steam and Gas Turbine (STAG) Startup and Controls
GE Large Steam Turbine Electro-Hydraulic Control EHC
GE Silcomatic Plus
GE 77MM Silco
GE DC2000
GE Digital Siltrons
GE Siltrol Plus
GE Series Six PLC
GE Raymike 610 X-ray Gauge
GE Field Engineering Program
Siemens Simadyn –D
Reliance Distributed Power DC Drives
Reliance Automax Hardware and Software
Toshiba AC Drives TM10, TM20 and TM30s
Toshiba V-series PLC
Ansaldo Drives
Alstom Drives
Robicon DC Drives
VT SCADA
CEGELEC Alspa Micro 3
SMS’ ProBAS MBRT (Logicad)
Electric Motors and Generators Fundamentals
Three Phase Induction Machines
Three Phase Synchronous Machines
Power Electronic Control
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