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Austin, Texas

• Developed and managed Global Control System Reliability Program for a major marquee level customer. Coordinated joint development of work procedures, global organization, staffing, funding, and execution. Ensured customer access to control systems experts to provide proactive guidance in reliable use of DeltaV control system, sharing of lessons learned and tracking of reliability related Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Managed manhour reporting through Clarity project management… Show more • Developed and managed Global Control System Reliability Program for a major marquee level customer. Coordinated joint development of work procedures, global organization, staffing, funding, and execution. Ensured customer access to control systems experts to provide proactive guidance in reliable use of DeltaV control system, sharing of lessons learned and tracking of reliability related Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Managed manhour reporting through Clarity project management software.• Managed 8 Premier Service accounts, provided customer access to control system experts, coordinated training, and developed proposals. Performed cost analyses, set pricing and developed contract templates. Managed manhour reporting through Clarity project management software.• Member of Process Systems and Solutions Safety Review Board. Participated in analysis of important incidents in usage of Emerson products and software to determine if they should be classified as safety issues requiring further disposition. Show less

Austin, Tx

• Developed North American Resident Engineer business, designed processes, created sales collateral, made presentations to Local Business Partners (dealers), trained engineers and facilitated interviews. Maintained monthly forecast and coordinated with upstream managers for scheduling and skills requirements.• Developed and taught an internal course for leveraging engineering consultants to sell advanced engineering services as part of their usual business interactions with… Show more • Developed North American Resident Engineer business, designed processes, created sales collateral, made presentations to Local Business Partners (dealers), trained engineers and facilitated interviews. Maintained monthly forecast and coordinated with upstream managers for scheduling and skills requirements.• Developed and taught an internal course for leveraging engineering consultants to sell advanced engineering services as part of their usual business interactions with customers.• Developed internal guidelines and sales collateral for managers to contact existing customer and business partner relationships to increase engagement/awareness of Advanced Engineering Services business portfolio. Evaluated multi-user sales tracking CRM software to promote easier execution and managerial monitoring of sales development progress.• Negotiated and secured Advanced Engineering Services consulting contracts, developed business, established internal mentors for project execution.• Acted as intermediary between consulting engineers and customers for contracts that did not fit the standard Advanced Engineering Services portfolio.• Developed sales collateral for Premier Service business.• Made presentations to customers for all Advanced Engineering Services.• Annually participated in Emerson Exchange (company trade show), made contacts with customers and business partners, and collected leads on new business. Show less

Austin, Tx

• Developed Wireless Standards for Corporate Clients consulting business in conjunction with Emerson Rosemount Wireless Sales organization and the Emerson Wireless Center of Excellence. Engaged in customer discussions to secure contracts, expanded the business by 10x in first year, and added more consulting engineers to the business.• Performed cost analysis studies on WirelessHART deployment for the Rosemount Wireless Sales organization, published and presented three papers on those topics… Show more • Developed Wireless Standards for Corporate Clients consulting business in conjunction with Emerson Rosemount Wireless Sales organization and the Emerson Wireless Center of Excellence. Engaged in customer discussions to secure contracts, expanded the business by 10x in first year, and added more consulting engineers to the business.• Performed cost analysis studies on WirelessHART deployment for the Rosemount Wireless Sales organization, published and presented three papers on those topics at Emerson Exchange.• Taught high level in-depth classes on WirelessHART, Wi-Fi networks, and digital buses (HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus, Profibus and DeviceNet) to customers.• Worked with DeltaV Large Project Pursuit team to craft customers’ functional requirements and specifications on several pursuits, specifically regarding network architecture, equipment and technology connecting offshore platforms with Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). Led a group of engineers of varying skill sets (Human-Machine Interface, Human Centered Design, Wireless, SIS, and Network Architecture) to contribute analyses to customer specifications. Show less

Austin, Tx

• Solutions Architect of general DeltaV applications for Shell, BP, Valero and ConocoPhillips Marquee accounts. Worked with Marquee account directors and sales leads to develop customer standards and specifications using Consultative Selling / Sales Challenger techniques. • Developed WirelessHART demos and presentations for Marquee accounts.• Taught classes to customers on Digital Buses and Fundamentals of FOUNDATION fieldbus.• Did field troubleshooting for DeviceNet, FOUNDATION… Show more • Solutions Architect of general DeltaV applications for Shell, BP, Valero and ConocoPhillips Marquee accounts. Worked with Marquee account directors and sales leads to develop customer standards and specifications using Consultative Selling / Sales Challenger techniques. • Developed WirelessHART demos and presentations for Marquee accounts.• Taught classes to customers on Digital Buses and Fundamentals of FOUNDATION fieldbus.• Did field troubleshooting for DeviceNet, FOUNDATION fieldbus, Profibus DP and WirelessHART. Show less

Pittsburgh, Pa

• Participated in introduction of FOUNDATION fieldbus (FF) technology to Emerson Power & Water Solutions, worked with conceptual technology selection team. Created marketing introduction, sales collateral, demos, launch kit. Coordinated internal training, conducted Lunch & Learn presentations.• Performed sales support, made presentations and demos for customer pursuits.• Made presentations on process control historian software.• Supported OPC interface… Show more • Participated in introduction of FOUNDATION fieldbus (FF) technology to Emerson Power & Water Solutions, worked with conceptual technology selection team. Created marketing introduction, sales collateral, demos, launch kit. Coordinated internal training, conducted Lunch & Learn presentations.• Performed sales support, made presentations and demos for customer pursuits.• Made presentations on process control historian software.• Supported OPC interface implementation.• Supported SQL interface to controller applications.• Developed HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus (FF), valve and instrument demos (physical hardware, display panels, with accompanying Ovation application software). • Developed Profibus DP, Modbus TCP and DeviceNet motion controller demos (physical hardware, display panels, with accompanying Ovation application software).• Handled Appropriations Requests for my department (approximately $500,000 per year).• Participated in and demonstrated Ovation products in various power industry trade shows. Show less

Austin, Texas Area

• Consulted on recovery, restoration and testing of large scale control system at Ansonia Copper, Ansonia, CT. The system had been damaged and due to the age of the installation, records had been lost, programming terminal was out of date, newer production parts had to be substituted for originals, and program had to be modified to accommodate the substitutions. • Reverse engineered assembly language to ladder logic on large control system. • Contracted to Fieldbus Foundation on… Show more • Consulted on recovery, restoration and testing of large scale control system at Ansonia Copper, Ansonia, CT. The system had been damaged and due to the age of the installation, records had been lost, programming terminal was out of date, newer production parts had to be substituted for originals, and program had to be modified to accommodate the substitutions. • Reverse engineered assembly language to ladder logic on large control system. • Contracted to Fieldbus Foundation on Interoperability Testing of FOUNDATION fieldbus field devices, and consulted on Flexible Function Block standards development.• Performed troubleshooting and field service on a remote I/O communications network on a Welex extruder. Show less

Austin, Tx

• Managed Device Description (DDL) technology, member of Architectural Control Team, Maintained DD Library, DDL and DD Tokenizer C / C++ source code (extracted from common source code also used by the HART Communications Foundation). Used Microsoft Visual Source Safe for version and configuration control. Used Microsoft C++ compiler to maintain software.• Taught DDL classes• Facilitated volunteer committee meetings for Common File Format (CFF) and Analyzer Transducer Block specification… Show more • Managed Device Description (DDL) technology, member of Architectural Control Team, Maintained DD Library, DDL and DD Tokenizer C / C++ source code (extracted from common source code also used by the HART Communications Foundation). Used Microsoft Visual Source Safe for version and configuration control. Used Microsoft C++ compiler to maintain software.• Taught DDL classes• Facilitated volunteer committee meetings for Common File Format (CFF) and Analyzer Transducer Block specification development team.• Managed sales and licensing of DDL source code.• Made presentations on FOUNDATION fieldbus technology to industry groups.• Performed Interoperability testing and worked with clients to correct deficiencies. Show less

Austin, Texas Area

• General Instrumentation Engineering consultant at Motorola, Oak Hill, TX. Designed and specified leak detection system for semiconductor fab, specified instrumentation for new fugitive emissions scrubber, supervised contractors for implementation of new communication system for collecting power usage and diagnostic data from UPS system, designed hardening of control system to resist lightning strikes, designed and implemented new power monitoring network to collect data for the plant control… Show more • General Instrumentation Engineering consultant at Motorola, Oak Hill, TX. Designed and specified leak detection system for semiconductor fab, specified instrumentation for new fugitive emissions scrubber, supervised contractors for implementation of new communication system for collecting power usage and diagnostic data from UPS system, designed hardening of control system to resist lightning strikes, designed and implemented new power monitoring network to collect data for the plant control system, designed remote terminal for existing particle monitoring network, designed expansion of the particle monitoring network data collectors, added devices to the fire detection network, and added devices to the safety incident detection network. Also wrote a program to data mine the department’s raw AutoCAD drawing files to cross reference field device tag names to the drawing numbers and field locations. • Designed and programmed Rockwell Allen-Bradley HMI for gas compressor plant at Western Gas.• Designed, specified instrumentation and programmed Rockwell Allen-Bradley SLC-500 control system with HMI to automate an offset printing press at HART publications.• Designed and programmed Cutler-Hammer control system to automate data collection for ASOMA X-Ray Diffraction stream analyzer (OEM product). Managed panel shop, design, production, cost and sales pricing for the stream analyzer valve panels. Show less

Austin, Tx

• Product Manager of Programmable Controllers and Controllers with embedded HMI.• Performed conceptual design, collaborated with engineering, manufacturing, and test engineering.• Developed programming systems, firmware and hardware design.• Product Marketing, developed sales collateral, advertising, determined pricing, participated in trade shows.• Troubleshot the interface for a newly developed privately licensed high power radio network for large water well… Show more • Product Manager of Programmable Controllers and Controllers with embedded HMI.• Performed conceptual design, collaborated with engineering, manufacturing, and test engineering.• Developed programming systems, firmware and hardware design.• Product Marketing, developed sales collateral, advertising, determined pricing, participated in trade shows.• Troubleshot the interface for a newly developed privately licensed high power radio network for large water well network.• Wrote a custom communications driver to interface to a motion controller in a thermoformer application.• Designed several software macro function blocks to provide simple user interfaces to complex hardware components such as high speed counter interfaces, BCD displays and thumbwheel switch readers.• Designed hardware quadrature to two-channel high speed counter pulse conversion circuit, and wrote interrupt driven software to accurately track position based on pulse stream from quadrature encoder.• Designed high accuracy RTD analog input module for sensing air temperature in egg incubators.• Modified compiler to add retentive memory feature for non-volatile recipe storage in batch and continuous process applications.• Reverse engineered PID control algorithm written in Assembler on Intel 8080/8085 platform so that it could be translated to C to execute on x86 platforms.• Extensive collaboration on privately labeled power line communication network for heat tracing. Designed changes to communication interface electronics to improve signal strength, wrote test procedures and designed test hardware electronics, implemented rigorous testing, documentation and verification process, hardened application software to improve reliability, and designed innovative solutions to improve the reliability of the command and communications software. • Conceptual design for privately labeled GPS monitoring system for a transportation network.• Taught classes on PLCs, communications and control. Show less