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Lenexa, Kansas, United States

Technical consulting lead for Human Machine Interface (HMI), Networking, and SQL solutions on more than 80% of company projects.Manager of internal virtual machine (VM) infrastructure for streamlining development and testing.Developing, reviewing, and implementing pharmaceutical documentation across all associated projects including User Requirements Specifications (URS), Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), Detailed Design Specifications (DDS), Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and supported Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ), and Performance Qualification (PQ).

Lenexa, Ks

Managed team of five (5) project engineers who designed industrial automation solutions while guiding their company career growth and providing technical oversight.Provided conceptual designs as well as proposals for project bids based on requests for proposal (RFPs), requests for information (RFIs), scopes of work (SOW), and/or direct, documented input from clients.Evaluated direct reports by discussing feedback on goals, providing input on career progress, reviewing individual project performance and contributions, and recommending merit increases and bonus rewards.Led weekly meetings with engineering team based on mixture of Agile and Waterfall methodologies to maintain project focus and remove roadblocks to project progress as well as assess individual project contributions and build team culture and camaraderie.Led 10+ on-site commissioning projects with average site time of 2.5 weeks to implement and execute testing protocols and interface with client during manufacturing downtime window.Proactively designed, implemented, and managed internal wiki knowledgebase for company to provide centralized resource for technical information to engineering team.

Olathe, Ks

Served as technical lead for design team of butane blending automation systems, delivering improvements to up-time and optimization for 80+ distribution terminals as well as three (3) pipeline facilities.Provided peer technical reviews of system designs for multiple projects simultaneously to maintain product quality.Led or participated in 20+ on-site commissioning projects for new installation, upgrade, and maintenance events at client sites with on-site time averaging 3 weeks.Team Lead on design rewrite of PLC logic template for all future butane blending automation system installations, which increased system up-time, client satisfaction, and requests for future projects.

Olathe, Kansas, United States

Developed standard documentation for repeatable company project phases (i.e. Project Kickoff, PLC Design, FAT, and SAT) to track and increase efficiency and quality of project design and implementation.Conducted training sessions with 75+ person office regarding PLC best practices and mentored individual team members in quality programming techniques, which improved project development efficiency.

Olathe, Kansas, United States

Led design and deployment of control system upgrade for two (2) hydroelectric power plant systems including water intake flow control, generator level control, and operator HMI interface design.Designed and implemented butane blending control systems with Rockwell PLC, Wonderware HMI, and Wonderware Historian including Proportional, Integral, Derivative (PID) loop tuning for injection flow control, liquid sample queueing control, and operator trending and reporting template design.Provided support and maintenance to natural gas pipeline projects for alarm annunciation and industrial communication upgrades for Rockwell PLC and HMI systems.

Developing Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for use with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) in industrial environments

Live/Active software installation/updates during maintenance windows for Lucent 5ESS equipment

Provided technical support for Lucent Plexus, Airave, and Cantata platformsPerformed first implementation of software upgrades for these platforms

Developed disconnect and circuit roll plans for CDMA, Wireline, and iDEN networks contributing to $1.04 million in annualized savingsCoordinated with Affiliate Mod Disconnect Team to track data for disconnectsManaged 'Orders on Hold' data for entire manager team

Provided IP information for EV-DO cell site expansion (direct competition with Verizon) and for Nortel CSVS, CBRS, and CPDS expansionAudited Lucent and Nortel EV-DO sites for IP AddressesManaged DNS hostnames into VitalQIP servers as well as subnets

As a pharmacy technician I prepared myself with a vast knowledge of prescriptions in order to quickly and seamlessly help customers. Along with customer care, I organized the store inventory and managed vendor relations through product ordering.