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Reno, Nv, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Carson City, Nevada, Us

Controls Engineer / Staff Chemical and Controls Engineer / Controls Engineering ManagerControls Engineering manager working with a team of automation professionals to develop and improve standards and templates for expedited design implementation. I am a participating discipline lead in project design and commissioning teams. This includes development of scheduling, budgeting, resource loading, risk mitigation strategies, construction management, and quality review. Leading team through controls commissioning of equipment, vendor packages, instruments, machine package, and overall integration. Management and review of contractor workmanship for piping, electrical, instrumentation, and network.Controls Engineering Lead for the Hydrometallurgy and Copper Foil Projects responsible for discipline capital design, Continuous Improvements, and sustaining engineering.Developing project deliverables through collaborative lean strategy with an integrated multidisciplinary approach. Design responsibilities include P&IDs, Functional Requirements Documents, Indexes, Control Strategies, Equipment Specifications, PLC/HMI Programming, Network architectures, and Continuous Design. Thorough involvement in development of Process Safety determinations through HAZOP process. Support of manufacturing risk mitigation planning through PFMEA reviews.

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

Field: Mining and Industrial Water TreatmentProject Engineer and Technical Lead for Industrial Water Treatment and Mining Projects developing and managing multidisciplinary teams. My personal technical responsibilities in the areas of Automation, I&C, Process, and Mechanical design integration. Project Execution is my primary responsibility where I develop execution framework, coordinate teams, mentor, and assess quality for global projects. In addition, my work entails development of proposals, schedules, budgets, resource allocation, design team coordination, design implementation strategies, and design deliverables as the project requires. I am a hands-on manager, and provide field assessments on operational performance, contractor coordination, and construction management support.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Field: Oil and Gas, Mining and Mineral Processing, Water Treatment, Industrial AutomationInstrumentation, Controls, and Process Engineering for Mining, Water Cleanup, and Petrochemical Projects in both Upstream and Midstream. Instrumentation and Controls Lead on several projects with process optimization consulting and operational troubleshooting. Project engineer on projects up to $32M. Standards Committee member for the E, I&C Group.Specific Responsibilities Include: Project Management, Advanced Process Controls, P&ID Development, Process Modeling (Promax), Instrumentation, Instrument specification, Valve Sizing, Equipment Sizing, Review of Process Data and calculations, Hazard Cause and Effect Diagrams, HAZOP, Safety System design, HMI Development (iFix, FactoryTalk), Control System Programming (ControlLogix), Control Philosophies, Operations and Field Support, Control Panel Design (Hazardous and unclassified), Severe Service Evaluation, Quality Assurance (QA), Safety Evaluation, Project Estimation, Proposals and Schedule Development

Lakewood, Co, Us

Field: Mining and Mineral Processing, Water Treatment, Specialty ChemicalsSpecific Responsibilities include: Project Engineering, Process Modeling, Process Flow Diagram and P&ID Development, Heat and Material Balances, Proposals, Process Controls Design, Instrumentation Specification, Capital and Operating Cost Estimates, Project Financial Reports, Process Design, Functional Requirements, Field Engineering, Plant Troubleshooting, Equipment Specifications and Design, Plant Optimization.

Field: Nuclear Waste Remediation for DOE (Hanford and Idaho National Lab)Responsibilities: Process, Controls, and Field engineering, equipment suitability studies, construction oversight and management, engineering design, project deployment strategies, technical evaluations, Front-End-Engineering Design, proposals, mission enhancement studies, testing and quality assurance plans, construction and commissioning, control logic diagrams, preparation of process flow diagrams, and technical support to operations and maintenance.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Instrumentation, Controls, and Process EngineeringFields: Power, Effluent Cleanup, Chemical Weapon Destruction, ExplosivesResponsibilities: Vendor interfacing, database management, specifications, logic descriptions and SAMA drawings, connection diagrams, equipment and material analysis, material balances, waste and consumables estimatesTransferred to Washington River Protection Solutions.

Design vacuum system for use in Workshop. Facilities maintenance and floor planning.