Mike Bailey Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Chesterfield, MO, US

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.

• Automation, Instrumentation, Controls, and Electrical design and support for the municipal and industrial Water / Wastewater sector. Technical responsibilities include designing and developing control systems.
• 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.
• 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.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

• 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.
• 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

St Louis, Missouri, US

• 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.

Dallas, TX, US

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Milwaukee, US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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..
• 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.
• 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.

Bachelor'S Degree, Control Theory & Computer Programming

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Pre-Engineering