Daniel Mchale Email & Phone Number

Oswego, New York, United States

Senior Automation Engineer I at the Novelis Oswego aluminum plant Cold Mill.I work on developing, upgrading, and maintaining software and systems, including tracking, HMI/SCADA, Databases, I/O, coil setups, and reporting, and associated responsibilities (VM creation, thin clients, OS configuration, system specifications).

Syracuse, New York Area

Automation Engineer at the Novelis Oswego Aluminum Mill in Oswego, NY. This plant is a leading supplier of cold Rolled Aluminum for the Ford F-150 truck and other vehicles and supplies a variety of specialty aluminum grades to customers depending on application and requirements. My responsibilities include - Creating and modifying programs, SQL databases, HMI's, and webpages that are used in the mill by operators and engineers for data analysis and setups. - Setting up and maintaining certain hardware such as touchscreens and thin clients when they break or new ones are needed, and I deal with calls outside working hours to fix issues with the mill in a timely manner, when they come up, so mill downtime is avoided. My main skills developed here are SQL, C#, .NET, Cimplicity, and maintenance experience.

Roanoke, Virginia

Primarily worked on Development of Mill Production Reporting and various other programs (Coil Tracking, interfaces, etc.) using a scripting language developed in house called PASolutions Director script.Redesigned existing Mill Production Reports data collection, analysis, and classification program to be set up from a SQL database Table, so it only needs tens of SQL table fields to be changed per project instead of hundreds or thousands of lines of code.Created, maintained, and modified SQL DB tables, stored procedures, functions, and views to collect and modify data for HMIs, web reports, and to help with L2 scripting (ie, data restoration on restarting program).Developed Post Coiler Area Piece Tracking system for a pallet system that could send rejected coils backwards and hold over 40 coils at once.Developed interfaces for gauges.Set up Virtual Machines to test concepts in VMWare, OracleBox, and Hyper-VDeveloped simulation for Crop Shear setup and for Mill Production Reporting to decrease overall development time.Developed Cimplicity HMI screens that communicated with L2 system (directly and through SQL) and with L1 (through signals).Created a custom iFix screen as a replacement for a customer's old screen that relied on SQL stored procedures, functions, and views that greatly decreased loading time for HMI screen compared to similar screens.

Burns Harbor, Indiana

- Programming in C, FORTRAN, DCL, ASP, and HTML- Designing HMI's used by operators, made data collection and reliability improvements- Developing SQL queries for data collection and analysis- Taking ownership of two setup models (Crop Shear and Roughing Mill)- Mentored engineering intern and gave tours/presentations on Hot Mill to new engineers

Burns Harbor, In

spent a few weeks training to be a shift manager (Associate Engineer - Electrical), and then was offered a position in Process Automation in September 2010 (Associate Engineer - Process Automation).

University Park, Pa

Created and updated Labview programs designed for vehicle data testing and simulation