Brian Letcher Email & Phone Number

20+ years of process controls experience. Including DCS hardware layout, DCS control logic development, plant commissioning and start up, DCS upgrades, Safety Instrumented System (SIS) validation, and instrumentation specification. Performed SIL verifications SIF analyses to determine required instrumentation and acceptable proof test times. Lead teams of controls engineers and instrument technicians to design, commission, and start up projects in North America, India, China, and Thailand.

Listed skills include Instrumentation, P&Id, Process Controls, Hydrogen, and 14 others.

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  Senior Principal Process Controls Engineer

  Air Products

  Jul 1997 - Present - Allentown, Pennsylvania, Us

  Designed and programmed control systems using Siemens/Moore PCS7, Win CC, 4-mation, and Vision to operate new steam methane reformers, CO coldboxes, ammonia plants, high temperature shift reactors, and NF3 plants.Supervised OS migrations from Vision to WinCC on existing plants while on line.Supervised instrument technicians to install, calibrate, and function test instrumentation and control systems.Commissioned, validated, started up and provided support for plant control systems.Lead international controls teams for projects in India, China, and Thailand.Specified instruments and valves in Intools/Smart Plant Instrumentation to be used in steam methane reformers, CO cold boxes, ammonia plants, high temperature shift reactors, flourine distillation, NF3 production, and hydrogen PSA’s.Performed SIL/SIF verifications to ensure plant designs met our safety requirements.Reviewed and revised piping and instrumentation diagrams, shutdown tables, panel diagrams, and wiring diagrams.Developed intellectual property protection plan for DCS logic on projects with joint ventures in China.Mentored new controls engineers on DCS/SIS hardware layout, DCS/SIS logic configuration, soft staging, commissioning, and validation.

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  Drexel University

  Chemical Engineering