Mike Eells Email & Phone Number

Brea, Ca, Us

565 Explor St., Brea, Ca

Customer-First PhilosophyAccounts Manager for Southern California Edison and First Solar Inc.Project Management: Water/Wastewater Projects, Chemical & Petrochemical Projects, Utilities - Substation Automation, Renewables (Solar & Wind), over 3-GWatts of CX, Entertainment, and MES.

565 Explorer St., Brea, Ca 92821

30+ years of technical/management experience in industrial automation and process controls. My focus is loyalty and support to our clients as a systems integrator services the utilities, power, solar & wind renewables, water/wastewater, oil/gas, bulk material handling, manufacturing, food & beverage, entertainment, and scientific industries.

Escondido, Ca

Instrumentation & Controls Integration / Process Control Loop Check , Functional Testing and Commissioning

Greater San Diego Area

Project Manager, Estimator for Building Automation and Control Systems

Escondido, Ca

Electrical Process and Energy Project Management

Embedded, City Of San Diego Wastewater

• Provide guidance to MWTD client, contractors and engineering firms on sound DCS and I&C&E engineering practices for automated plant control systems, instrumentation and associated control strategies. • Design, develop, modify, test and implement plant control logic and graphics software applications.• Citywide fiber optic integration, mapping, troubleshooting and repair. • Instrumentation, electrical and controls design reviews and recommendations.• Remote fire monitoring certification for City of San Diego COMC control room. • Reduced nuisance alarms by more than 60% at major facilities.• Prepare, modify and review program guidelines, specifications, loop diagrams, P&IDs, electrical schematics, logic diagrams & installation details.

Assigned to The City of San Diego Metropolitan Clean Water Program Construction Management Team; Contracts Manager for instrumentation and controls with Sverdrup/ICF Kaiser Engineers. Coordinate development, loop check, functional testing and start-up of various projects throughout the city.Contract manager: contractor administration and dispute management as per contract documents; client contact, interface liaison and coordination; interpretation of contract documents;manage field orders, work orders, requests for proposals, and potential change orders; review and approve pay applications, negotiate change orders and expedite RFI's.Expedite and coordinate the development, interface and protocol of data link addresses for various projects.Equipment I/O and control graphics check out of the Westinghouse's WDPF II Distributed Control System.Managed a design drafting loop diagram team that included CAD drafting in Bentley Micro-Station.

Torrence, Ca

• Assigned to the Mobil Torrance Refinery. Researched and accumulated electrical and instrumentation data to bring Mobil into compliance with federal regulations. Furnished equipment and process data for the establishment of the computerized electrical and instrument (LAN based) database for use by maintenance and operations personnel.• Installed new consoles, fiber optic data highways, racks of extended controllers, HLPIU’s and LEPIU’s, and gateways for the Honeywell TDC 3000 distributed control system. Placed and connected several programmable logic controller systems including Triconex, Triplex and Modicon systems. Loop and functional testing of instrumentation and control systems. • Managed a crew of forty technicians including assigning project work, billing, purchasing materials and leading safety meetings. Acted as liaison between client engineers and the construction staff. Used piping and instrument diagrams, instrument location plans, instrument loop diagrams, termination drawings, electrical schematics and instrument installation details to estimate materials, manpower requirements and install projects to customer requirements. Installation projects included the Process Control Modernization, Refinery Analyzer Upgrade, Alky Evacuation System, Hydrotreater Cooling Tower Substation Expansion, Boiler Triconex PLC Upgrade Project and Fiber Optics Project.

Long Beach, Ca

Assigned to Mobil Oil Corporation Torrence Refinery. Supervised a crew of ten technicians for refinery turnaround, hot cut over, start up and maintenance throughout the refinery. Removed and replaced existing analog instrumentation during refinery upgrade to the Honeywell TDC 3000. Installed electronic instruments to replace the old outdated pneumatic instruments for interface with new DCS. Installed, calibrated, troubleshot, and repaired Rosemount, Foxboro, Moore Products, Fisher Controls, Motorola, Moore Instruments, and many other instruments.