Freelance automation engineer with more than 20 years of experience designing, programming and commissioning automation systems. Specializing in Siemens PLCs and drives and Vacon drives.Spent the last 10 years designing PLC-based solutions to control power conversion in DC-centric power plants & propulsion systems used in the marine industry (Workboat, Oil & Gas). Focused on integrating Energy Storage Systems, grid converters, dc-dc converters, variable frequency drives to make propulsion system more efficient and reliable.Recently integrated and commissioned the world’s first hybrid energy storage system aboard the Transocean Spitsbergen, a floating drilling unit which is drilling at the Equinor-operated Snorre field offshore Norway.Designed and commissioned in the last 10 years the automation platform of the XeroPoint Hybrid Propulsion System on 5 hybrid tug boats; Foss Maritime's Campbell Foss and Carolyn Dorothy in the USA and Kotug's RT Adriaan, RT Evolution and RT Emotion in Europe.
Listed skills include Plc Programming, Profibus, Variable Frequency Drives, Dc Dc, and 17 others.