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Renton, Washington, United States

Provide protective relay settings based on calculations and ASPEN base model. Review fault operations to determine cause. If relays misoperate document for WECC/NERC. Review projects under construction for relaying requirements. Present realying applications and requirements to small groups. Review distributed generation projects for relyaing requirements.

Manage electrical engineering department with 8–12 direct reports of project engineers, draftsmen, designers and applications engineers, and test department with 4-8 direct reports of test technicians. Preparation of schedules, budgets and department status, and presenting them to higher management levels. Coordination of engineering department and test department with other departments to improve overall plant throughput. Evaluation and selection of major components and systems. Customer and sales technical support for ASCO products. Training of engineers and designers. Evaluation and technical review of bids. Limited function as project engineer. Special accomplishments: Developed ISO procedures for engineering department that helped compress a 1 year ISO qualification process into 6 months.

Electrical Design of Low and Medium voltage Power Control Switchgear (PCS) systems including Power switchgear, Generator interface controls, PLC programming or Relay logic design for generator control and load control. Preparation of documents for approval and manufacturing, conducting customer approval meeting, providing support during manufacturing process, conducting witness tests and providing support during product startup. General support functions included customer assistance, sales presentations and technical evaluation of bids. Maintaining UL certification across all product lines. Special accomplishments: Obtained UL approval of Medium voltage switchgear for ASCO.

Designed low and medium voltage switch¬gear, bus duct, medium voltage dry type and cast coil transformers to 3000 KVA. Prepared test procedures and other manufacturing documentation. Evaluated bids, components and systems. Provided technical support for Golden Gate products. One year acting engineering manager for 5 man engineering department. Prepared reports and supervised tests for nuclear qualification of Class 1E switchgear. Conducted field tests, supervised customer installation and repaired installed equipment. Assistant QA manager and auditor, performed audits of suppliers for class 1E equipment and conducted audits of Golden Gate's manufacturing process.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering Power

Graduated with a Power Certificate showing an emphasis on courses related to transmission and distribution of electrical power.

Ba, Information Science