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Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada

EXxon Mobil, ESSO, Imperial Oil• Liaise with system controls confirming communication and automation expectations.• Scheduled Instrumentation Preventative and Corrective Maintenance, Proving all safety devices functions within tolerance keeping workers as well as equipment safe and operating properly including hazardous gas detection devices.

Alberta, Canada

Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada

Electrical & Instrumentation:Installation, configuration, initial and maintenance calibrations as required. Power & Control circuit wiring & troubleshooting. Commissioning. Motor starters & VFD’s, Electrical installation & upgrades and more.

Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada

• Maintaining and troubleshooting DCS, PLCs and network communication devices• Calibrating analyzers and transmitters• Maintaining wiring, motors, lighting systems and other electrical equipment• Interpreting drawings and specifications for installation, modification or repair of equipment• Serving where necessary on the O&M project team• Maintaining records and documenting equipment condition• Performing CM or PM on all I&E equipment as required• Developing and establishing work standards and procedures• Other duties as assigned.

Alberta, Canada

•Journeyman Electrician with Red Seal•4th year Instrumentation Tech.•Certified QA/QC Field Inspector•Certified QA/QC Management•Certified High Voltage Splicing•Certified High Voltage Terminations•Alignment Switches•Proximity Switches •PLC’s•Control Wiring•Power Wiring•Instrument Tray Fabrication & Installation•Power/Control Wire Tray Fabrication & Installation•Grounding & Bonding•Motors•Instrument Mounting & Wiring•Instrument Calibrations•Position Switch Installations & Rebuilds•Actuator Installations & Rebuilds•Emergency Push Button & Pull Cord Switch Mounting & Wiring•Emergency Pull Cord Installation•Instrumentation Tube Bending & Installation•PVC Conduit Installation•EMT Conduit Bending & Installation•Rigid Conduit Bending, Cutting & Threading Installation•Cable Pull “Rigging”•Cable Pulling•Lighting Installations & Wiring•Explosive Environment Wiring•Code Compliance

Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Electrical & instrumentation Maintenance.•Active team member dedicated to planning & implementing predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance for entire processing plant.•Troubleshooting Allen Bradley and Siemens VFD’s. Taken Rockwell Automations course on Allen Bradley Drives.•Removing old drives, retrofitting cabinets to install new up to date Allen Bradley drives.•Programming VFD’s for their applications.•Load test UPS systems.•Extensive Troubleshooting.•Corrective and improvement maintenance on general lighting.•Preventative and corrective maintenance on U.V lighting systems for wastewater discharge compliance.•Preventative and corrective maintenance on “Membrane filtering” systems.•Work with chlorine analyzers & their calibrations.•Work with Turbidity sensors & their calibrations.•Work with pneumatics including pumps for different chemicals & their calibrations.•Preventative maintenance & calibrations of “on line” analyzers. •Function checks & calibrations on various transmitters, valve position switches and actuators.•Rebuild actuators & position switches.•Logging/entering calibration details for records in DPC Track.•Reading prints, ISO’s & wiring diagrams.•Panel work & terminations•Wiring instruments.•Pressure to mA instruments•Redlines & as builts.•Navigation around Delta-V control stations.•Troubleshooting/resetting “Fieldbus” & other protocol communications with/for Delta-V.•Test/Calibrate LEL alarm systems.•Install/Calibrate and test H2S detectors.•Calibrate “auto samplers & their cooling systems.•Setting pressure regulators•Installation of instrument tubing for purging electrically sensitive cabinets.•Supply air for polymer mixers & pneumatic pumps.•Provide 24/7 stand by coverage on a rotating basis•Work with “Device-Net”.

Alberta, Canada

1. Worked in an industrial environment installing cable tray, setting up cable pull rigging, pulling cable.From November 2006 to June 2007 I moved to New Zealand. Once home I started up with IBEW 424 again. 2. Finished my electrical apprenticeship in November 2008.3. Recommended and selected as crew foreman due to demonstrated work ethic and interpersonal skills.4. Supervised crew of 10 electricians including all instrumentation and heat trace system packages workload organization, implementation & follow up.5.Worked at the keephills coal mine on conveyers, crushers, proximity switching, terminating cables into their junction boxes. Grounding and bonding to a grid.Promoted to oversee all document control and quality control department’s at keep Hills three project.6. Organize QA/QC Exhibit paperwork, system progress tracking, and systems turnover packages.7. Generate documentation required by all crews ensuring consistency between Prints and schedules.8. Identify print changes and liaise with engineer to ensure correction implementation.9. Administer/oversee All field inspections for the entire Taggart global contract at keephills three.10. Conveyors, motors, switches (alignment switches, limit switches, proximity switches, velocity switches & emergency pull cord applications.

Brooks, Alberta, Canada

1. Recognized by employer as responsible, enthusiastic and a quick learner.2. Trusted to work independently at early stage of apprenticeship.3. Managed and taught new apprentices on residential and commercial construction and renovations.4. EMT & Rigid conduit installations.5. Concrete encased PVC underground raceways.

Diploma Certificate, Red Seal Electrician

Electronics Engineering Technology

-Genuine interest in all electrical/electronics physics. -Maintaining a growing interest and growing understanding of the always evolving.

Journeymans Ticket With "Red Seal", Electrician, Registered Apprenticeship Program

-Extensively Practiced trade skills and requirements throughout each expected sector/division of the Electrical trade to be a well rounded.

Certification, High Voltage Splicing & Terminations, Pass, Certified

Through IBEW 424 training facility I took “High Voltage Splicing & Terminations”.

Certification, Qc Field Inspections, Pass, Certified

Organize QA/QC exhibit paperwork for field inspectors, system progress tracking, and Systems turnover packages.

Certificate, Quality Control And Management, Pass, Certified

1. Generate documentation required by all crews ensuring consistency between prints and schedules. 2. Identify print changes and liaise.

4Th Year Instrumentation Technician Apprentice, Instrumentation Technology/Technician, Registered Apprenticeship Program

-4 years apprenticing in a live "Wastewater Treatment" Facility maintaining the fully automated process. -Performed Scheduled maintenance.