Derek Smith Email & Phone Number

Allen, TX, US

Aberdeen, GB

Technical Account Manager accountable for Systems Integration business growth and delivery in Upstream, Midstream and Renewables in the Americas. Responsibilities include: - Directing and guiding the growth, development and delivery performance across projects in assigned customer contracts within Energy sector. - Maintaining positive customer.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Training, developing, mentoring, and career-development of the staff.
• Responsible for the attainment of sales, revenue, and net-profit goals for the Section, including meeting billability and utilization goals
• Coordinating work for the Section including making assignments and reviewing performance to ensure the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff.
• Work with project managers and business development team to identify opportunities and participate in team efforts for submittals, proposals, presentations, contract negotiations and related activities.
• Serve as project manager for key technical projects where required and where new business is being developed.
• Monitor progress on projects and provide input into areas of concern and direction or redirection to enhance achievement of project schedules, productivity goals, budgets, and quality.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Project Manager and Senior Automation Engineer for multiple clients within the water and wastewater industry. Responsibilities included:
• Provide overall management of projects from concept to completion
• Ensure that automation solutions are delivered within timeframes, budget and industry standards
• Prepare proposals, assist in presentations, and participate in contract negotiations.
• Serve as primary point of contact with the client regarding efforts such as client coordination, strategic planning, master scope management, budget finances, subcontracting, facility support, and schedule attainment.
• Work closely with the Project Team to ensure deliverables and services are being provided to client’s satisfaction and that projects are following internal QA/QC guidelines.

Aberdeen, GB

• Led development of project specifications and process control documents such as Control Narratives.
• Led man-hour and procurement estimates for several project proposals with Business Development group
• Led review of my company's as well as external companies' work as a technical authority on Allen-Bradley PLCs

Aberdeen, GB

• Project engineer for the detailed engineering and development of total installed cost (TIC) for expansion and modernization project for a large refinery. Responsibilities included:
• Preparing scopes of work, coordinating Electrical, Civil, Structural, Automation, Instrumentation, and Process disciplines work for the project’s Remote Instrument Enclosures, and material tracking.
• Provided coordination between engineering disciplines, inspection, project management, several vendors, and the RIE fabricator.
• Led technical management of change including development of change orders/ project scope variances.
• Reviewed and coordinated engineering team to ensure technical compliance and consistency, and to meet client schedule

• I worked as Control System and Instrument Engineer for Jacobs, working primarily on domestic facilities. Duties and responsibilities included:
• Led assembly of bid packages and led technical/ commercial bid evaluation of vendors
• Automation representative in P&ID reviews, HAZOPs, and in model reviews for plant design
• Specified different type of instrumentation, control valves, and flow meters such as pressure transmitter, Ohmart Vega level radar transmitter & guided wave radar, Coriolis meter, Vortex meter, and others
• Developed Control Narratives, Cause and Effects, and other process control documentation to be given to integrators to program control systems
• Conducted several site surveys of brownfield equipment in instrumentation and automation

Aberdeen, GB

On-site Interface Coordination between EPC, client, vendors, and MAC Execution and Design Teams for Main Automation Contractor for the delivery of Remote Instrument Enclosure (RIE) and associated Honeywell Experion ICSSLed the effort, inclusive of multiple trades and disciplines, to resolve punch list items on siteDeveloped commissioning test procedures.

Aberdeen, GB

• Project engineer for the detailed engineering and procurement activities for expansion and modernization project for an existing tank farm. Responsibilities included:
• Preparing scopes of work, coordinating Electrical, Structural, Automation, and Process disciplines work for the project’s Remote Instrument Enclosures, and material tracking.
• Provided coordination between engineering disciplines, inspection, project management, several vendors, and the RIE fabricator.
• Led technical management of change including development of any change orders/ project scope variances.
• Reviewed and coordinated engineering team of over 35 engineers across three continents to ensure technical compliance and consistency, and to meet client schedule
• Led the Eurasian Conformity certification required for import into Kazakhstan

Aberdeen, GB

• Led Automation Interface Coordination between EPC, client, and vendors as part of the Main Automation Contractor (MAC) Execution and Design Teams
• Wrote technical FEED definition requirements and specifications
• Participated in HazOps, Safety Objective Analysis, and other safety and process design reviews
• Led Automation design review of Burner Management Systems for Boilers
• Participated in P&ID reviews for Automation
• Drove estimate inputs for the plant area I was responsible for coordinating interfaces

Aberdeen, GB

• Responsible for serial communication between Honeywell Experion and several PLCs (using PCDI)
• Conducted field survey of existing control system in the tank farm
• Led Electrical Substation Control System design using multiple Allen Bradley PLCs integrated into a Honeywell Experion DCS
• Developed configuration and graphics development for several substations
• Developed PLC specification, system documentation, test procedures, and scope of supply
• Led configuration of substation RTU and smart substations

Part of the development team of the graphics (WonderWare) and control system for additions to brownfield offshore platform- Added a large compressor package (Allen Bradley PLC Programming)- Diesel power generation and power management scheme improvement- Smart MCC and power distributionParticipated in several commissioning phases and shut-ins on a large.

Houston, Texas, US

Lead I&C engineer on several petrochemical projects, Designed control system and instrumentation for a Marine Unloading Terminal (Allen-Bradley PLC) including tank farm and custody transfer (LACT meters)Designed and programmed control system and SIS for a sales gas plant (Allen-Bradley PLC)Specified and purchased equipment and instrumentation, prepared.

Columbus, OH, US

Participated in several power plant maintenance turnaround and upgrade projects;Part of a team installing several water treatment plants (RO units)Led the system design, configuration, and commissioning of Flue Gas Desulphurization units, CEMS units, and other various subunits within a fleet of power plants