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Australia

Achievements: Promoted for the second time as Principal Field Operations Engineer.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Achievements: Promoted to a principal position to support not only Australia and New Zealand but also in the Middle East and Europe.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Responsibilities: Architecting, scoping, and implementing passive network security monitoring solutions in complex industrial environments (Dragos Platform) regarding monitoring and safeguarding their critical operational infrastructure. Provide onsite installation and troubleshooting support to customer environments onsite, such as power plants, substations, manufacturing floors, and refineries.Achievements: Project managed simultaneous deployments while continually achieving a high rating for customer success.

Perth, Australia

Responsibilities: Leading the Operational Technology technical team in Asia, Pacific and Japan for Forescout Technologies as a senior cybersecurity consultant working closely with both customers and partners in the region, improving the cybersecurity posture of the critical infrastructure.Forescout is the leader in device visibility and control with agentless software. The company leads innovation within the operational technology cybersecurity space with the product of Silent Defense.Achievements: We developed the business from scratch to achieve 1.7 million US dollars in revenue in only the first year.

Perth, Australia

Responsibilities: Lead, plan and coordinate projects from concept initiation to execution, for the Port, Rail and Mining fixed plant facilities; mentor the process control engineers across the business; and ensure effective implementation of operational technology to facilitate decision making and processes optimisation, and cybersecurity initiatives.

Western Australia, Australia

Responsibilities: Manage and lead the optimisation and maintainability of the Port Facility control systems to achieve the business objectives, developing strong working relationships and technical skills for my team based both in Port Hedland and Perth.Achievements: Leading this team, I achieved a reduction on unavailability due to PCS systems from 1.2% to 0.1% in only 3 years. I have also driven the process optimisation to increase the net rate for Inload and Outload circuits of the port facilities in at least 1,000 tonnes per hour. I have delivered cutting-edge technology projects as shiploading automation and radar assisted optimisation for balance machines and train unloaders. Additionally, Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure and cyber security risks mitigation projects for Port and Rail facilities.

Western Australia, Australia

Job description: Act as primary technical coordination, keeping up-to-date with the latest developments and technical innovations in the mining industry. Manage and coordinate engineering activities to ensure improvement projects are executed in a safe, efficient, cost-effective and timely manner.Main achievement: Achieve successful completion of different improvement projects for the port facilities in a very short period of time, leading a group of project engineers and a SAP planner.

Pilbara, Australia

Job description: Support the operations at the port in the fields of train unloading, reclaiming, stacking and ship loading; covering all aspects from conceptual design, through detailed engineering, day-to-day activities, and long-term performance improvements. Main achievement: As commissioning process control engineer for the expansion project that incremented the capacity of the port from 45 to 155 Mtpa, I headed multiple improvements contributing to the high performance of the Inload and Outload circuits.

Colombia

Job description: Manager of investment and improvements projects for steel mills plants, making the planning, cost management, and technical specification of equipment and services.Main project: Leader of electrical and electronics area of the emission control system project for steelmaking converters, with a budget of USD 26 million.

Colombia

Job description: Maintenance manager for automation, drives and instruments, for this steel company at a plant of Rolling Mill. Planning and control of maintenance, ensuring high availability of electrical equipment and plant control, and reduction of accidents. Management of automation upgrading for the plant.Main achievement: Increase the production of this hot rolling mill plant by the optimization of the automation algorithms with the support of international and corporative consultants. This project won the 3rd place in the first Votorantim Steel Technology Seminar.

Colombia

Job description: Automation projects engineer for the company's projects division, planning and controlling projects in this steel company, and expenditure’s control of different projects using the company’s ERP. Engineer specialist in industrial automation for the proposed industrial: Machine continuous casting and rolling mill.Main achievement: Walking beam furnace commissioning, working together with international providers of engineering and equipment. Additionally, getting great experience in Natural Gas and Diesel combustion.

Colombia

Job description: Automation of buildings and stores, including centralized information systems at the Carrefour supermarkets. Development of a monitoring system for different equipment of a computing centre using OPC and SNMP protocols.Main project: Automation engineer for a 2.5 kilometres vehicle tunnel project, which included instrumentation, communication, signalling, ventilation control and supervision systems.

Bogota, Colombia

Automation project engineer treatment water plant, including installation and calibration of instrumentation at the pumping stations of the Water and Sewerage Company of Bogotá. WEB-Design SCADA systems in LabView.

Graduate Certificate In Business, Business Administration And Management, General

Electronics Engineer, Command & Control (C3, C4I) Systems And Operations

Activities and Societies: IEEEThis qualification is accredited by Engineers Australia

Ics410: Ics/Scada Security Essentials, Cybersecurity

Technology Management, Business Administration And Management, General