Automation Engineer Automation, Controls, and Electrical design, development, and support for R&D group within the Agricultural sector. Technical responsibilities include designing and developing control systems, electrical, configuration, communications, and commissioning of automated systems, equipment, and components for laboratory and production environments.Work with multi-disciplined technical teams consisting of engineers, scientists, analysis, and technicians to design and develop tailored equipment.  Develop requirements, evaluating and selecting components, creating schematics, working with internal and external assembly shops, testing, and supporting the design.Developed electrical drawing packages utilizing AutoCAD Electrical & AutoCAD Vault for drawing management.Development of project documentation including Bills of Materials, project requirements, work/user instructions, risk analyses, safety documentation, functional specifications, and maintenance documentation.Relevant experience in electrical codes, standards, and safety systems

• Automation, Instrumentation, Controls, and Electrical design and support for the municipal and industrial Water / Wastewater sector. Technical responsibilities include designing and developing control systems, electrical and I&C construction packages, Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), instrument index, instrument data sheets, loop drawings, specifications, and selecting & specifying the I&C system equipment. • Designed power distribution systems, control systems, electrical site plans, control panels, and lighting diagrams for water and waste water treatment plants. Created single line and three line diagrams, and AC/DC schematic diagrams. Provided panel plans and electrical / structural elevation drawing details.• Reviewed plans regarding engineering specifications• Relevant experience in electrical codes, standards and criteria for power systems • In-depth knowledge of electrical industry and regulatory standards • Specify controls and instrumentation.

• ITM support for Chrysler St. Louis automotive plant, responsible for supporting the factory equipment information system, vehicle identification system,, image tracking, paging client / event paging, terminal services, workcell management, marquee set-up & management, assisted during model change, PLC program updates / modifications / troubleshooting, and provided call center support. • Set-up & troubleshoot bar code reader system, analyze log data, provide maintenance support.• Set-up graphic user accounts and schedules create / modify graphic screens, and perform throughput analysis.• Reset user’s XP password and re-acquire network nodes / printers

• Integrated Allen-Bradley PLC-5 / SLC-5/04 ControlNet & RSView32 architecture to control a pasta line. • Converted a medium sized Siemens S5 PLC program to a ControlLogix PLC platform for a flour delivery system, which was followed by a successful start-up. • Developed an A-B Pico & Cognex 1000 camera to inspect blister packs for missing or partial pills and then track and reject the bad packs.

• Control Systems Team Lead for Kraft’s CapriSun packaging line upgrade project. Responsible for the design, checkout, and start-up of the multiple control panels utilizing Allen-Bradley SLC-5/04 and PanelView HMI. In addition, responsible for the coordination, development, and commissioning of the control systems for the seven (7) packaging lines, consisting of various conveyors (Hytrol and Nercon, mainly) merges, diverters, spirals, bundlers, and collator.

• Instrumental in the development and implementation of a fourteen zone bread tunnel oven control system utilizing A-B SLC and DeviceNet architecture.• Responsible for the controls development and field implementation of a bread pan lid delivery system, which, once completed, improved production efficiencies by 30 %.• Improved palletizer controls system which increased pallet throughput by 3 pallets per hour. • Team Leader for a Nuclear Power Plant database consolidation project in which islands of data across multiple software packages have been combined into a single SQL database, accessible from any plant PC via the customer’s Intranet. • Coordinated the development, engineering, and execution of the system controls, which utilized custom ActiveX controls built around an HTML driven Web pages.

• Responsible for the growth and development of a group of engineers, which included providing encouragement, constructive feedback, performance evaluation, and promotion. Coordinate and schedule activities for direct reports, while maintaining an average utilization of 40%. • Develop customer relationships to promote new business. Accompanied sales on new and existing customer calls, providing the technical knowledge and insight. • Provide technical assistance, direction, and guidance for a team of engineers responsible for the development and commissioning of thirty-one (31) A-B PLC-5s and sixteen (16) Cimplicity/WebHMI systems. These systems monitored and controlled two-hundred plus (200+) AHUs, seventeen (17) MAUs, nine (9) scrubbers, and other various systems at the Intel Fab 23 facility. • Responsible for the development, engineering and execution of motion control projects. Coordinates and schedules activities for subordinate engineers and provides project reports to his manager.• Provided project management, program development, start-up and commissioning of an Energy Management System for a major automobile manufacturer. The system consisted of twenty-two (22) Allen-Bradley SLC-505 processors, networked together over Ethernet, and interfaced to Cimplicity server. The system utilizes Cimplicity Web Gateway in order to provide status and control of the EMS system via Netscape on the plant’s intranet. • Designed, developed, procured, and executed several silicon wetbench projects, which experience and knowledge of the PLC ladder logic, Wonderware GUI, and Motion Control system have contributed to the success of these projects. • Coordinated and developed the Modicon Quantum PLC, Servo, and PanelMate HMI efforts for Solutia’s VHR North Tote Loading system and VHR Flaker System project. The control and status information was directed through a PROVOX DCS system for both the Tote Loading and the Flaker PLC systems.

• Provide technical expertise and engineering support for the Tampa district customer base. Responsibilities include proposal and estimate analysis, project management, field service engineering, program conversions, start-up assistance, emergency response, and customer training; exposure to a multitude of industries and Allen-Bradley products. • Developed the Allen-Bradley VME PLC-5/60 program and assisted in development of the IMC GML motion control program to control a 9 axis Intermittent Motion Control Servo packaging machine.• Provided start-up assistance, system improvements, problem analysis, and personnel training along with providing ongoing engineering support for a Hess Oil refinery’s Fluidized Catalyst Cracking project. Worked closely with operations, engineering and maintenance to establish PLC hardware / software standards and to perform continuous system process enhancements.• Increased Anheuser-Busch Tampa brewery’s mash cooker functionality by incorporating a reverse pumpback process operation to the existing PLC-3 program, which increased production by reducing process time and losses.• Involved in several Water Treatment SCADA projects to update/convert old technology to current technology, in order to optimize control strategy and communication integrity.• Trained on / experienced with PLC-2, 3, 5, SLC-500, ControlView and RSView GUI systems, CVIM, Motion Control, AC VFD Drives, Basic and Visual Basic programming languages.

• Provided engineering support for Anheuser-Busch’s Ft. Collins brewery engineering and maintenance department. Responsibilities included project management, procurement, design and development engineering, troubleshooting maintenance assistant and training.• Lead engineer in the development, implementation, and start-up of a major programming effort to reduce the mashing process time. • Brewing data acquisition system optimization to increase data reliability. • Plant maintenance supervision experience.

• Designed control panel layouts, power and I/O schematics and developed ladder logic programs. Developed a BASIC language menu driven program on an IBM PC to collect, store, display, and trend arranging data from a G.E. Series Six PLC. • Programmed an Allen-Bradley PLC-2/30 to control multiple drill and tap heads, along with the synchronizing linear and rotary positioning for the missile housing precision drill and tap operation. • Consultant to Anheuser-Busch’s Corporate Engineering department, assigned to the Ft. Collins Brewery project. Responsibilities included schematic generation, program development, panel check-out, field start-up, and system documentation.• Responsible for PLC program development, system communications, and start-up of a data acquisition system which included brewing PLCs to a host computer. • Assisted in the implementing the Brewhouse PLC programs modification that increased the brewing capacity by 150,000 barrels per year.