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California, United States

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Maintain following software packages: Aveva Offsites Management Suite (BOSS, TIS, and OMM)-Production/Test servers/clients, Schneider Electric System Auditor and Alarm Shelving Tool, Matrikon Alarm Manager and MOCCA, Honeywell ProfitSuite, SimSci APC/Aveva APC, AspenTech DMC3, and Schneider Electric Control Editor and Control HMI. Mentored OT personnel to take over management of all Process Control Network administration tasks, including: firewalls, WSUS, anti-virus, non-Foxboro DCS backups, domain controllers, VMware cluster, Splunk, and Cisco and Enterasys switches. Mentored new PI System support personnel. Assumed Site APC Engineer role and managed APC models across ten different process units with 27 controllers. Maintain site's Master Alarm and Process Variable (MAPV) database and associated PI AF Notifications. Perform systems maintenance support including problem diagnosis, unscheduled maintenance repairs, planned preventive maintenance and system upgrades. Maintain Schneider Electric System Definition configuration changes for Production/Test systems. Perform Foxboro DCS control configuration changes and graphic display building. Research and stay current with control technology developments, evaluate new technology, and make recommendations for use at the refinery. Provide backup PI system support.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Was Tesoro Corp./Andeavor at the time. Implemented and maintained following software packages: Aveva Offsites Management Suite (BOSS, TIS, and OMM)-Production/Test servers/clients, Schneider Electric System Auditor and Alarm Shelving Tool, Matrikon Alarm Manager and MOCCA, NetSight Console, Honeywell ProfitSuite, and Connoisseur APC/SimSci APC. Assumed Process Control Network Administrator role and implemented Process Control Environment (PCE) independent of IT network: managed two pairs of SonicWALL firewalls for PCE (L3 pair) and PLCs (L1 pair), managed WSUS server and implemented all Windows updates, managed McAfee ePO server and all anti-virus updates, managed separate domain controllers for production/test domains, managed VMware host cluster and storage array, managed Symantec Backup Exec servers and all system backups, managed Splunk server and created automatic notifications, and managed Cisco switches. Managed Enterasys switches for Foxboro DCS. Implemented Hyper-V virtual server and thin client technology on production/test Foxboro DCS. Maintained site's Master Alarm and Process Variable (MAPV) database. Assisted with Control Systems Modernization Project (CSMP). Performed systems maintenance support including problem diagnosis, unscheduled maintenance repairs, planned preventive maintenance and system upgrades. Maintained Schneider Electric System Definition configuration changes for Production/Test systems. Performed Foxboro DCS control configuration changes and graphic display building. Researched and stayed current with control technology developments, evaluated new technology, and made recommendations for use at the refinery. Developed for Foxboro DCS: Excel tool for alarm settings review and updates, AIM*Historian data collection standards, and executable to configure AIM*Historians. Developed/documented formal approach to site's Foxboro DCS procedures. Provided backup PI system support.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Was Tesoro Corp. at the time. Assumed role of Foxboro DCS System Administrator for the Martinez Refinery. Performed systems maintenance support including problem diagnosis, unscheduled maintenance repairs, planned preventive maintenance and system upgrades. Provided technical support on the Foxboro DCS as required. Maintained refinery NOx Factor Report for Environmental Compliance based on OSIsoft Plant Information (PI) data in Excel and enhancing the functionality and shortening the calculation time by moving most PI DataLink calls to PI-SDK calls using Visual Basic. Provided backup PI system support for the refinery.

Worked onsite at the Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery. Assisted with OSIsoft Plant Information (PI) server administration duties. Provided PI support for refinery personnel. Created PI tags and maintained all existing PI tags for fourteen Foxboro I/A interfaces using my Visual Basic/PI DataLink program in Excel. Created and updated PI tags on other interfaces, company PI ProcessBook displays (both with and without Visual Basic programming controls), custom PI ProcessBook applications and Add-ins utilizing Visual Basic, Excel reports utilizing Visual Basic and PI DataLink or PI-SDK, PI System Management Documents, PI Manual Logger data collection Tours, and PI-ACE calculations. Troubleshot PI server, PI tag data collection, PI interface, and Excel report issues. Performed loop number comparison between new and old P&ID’s, existing PI tag information, and new Foxboro I/A displays during control systems upgrade projects to convert existing PI tags to the new system during loop cutovers and create only the necessary new PI tags. Implemented and maintained e-mail submission using Visual Basic for off-site Bleach and Acid ordering for refinery cooling towers. Assisted IT Department with new and modified software installation packages. Tested new software and software upgrades. Maintained records of all PI tag parameter changes, PI ControlMonitor software, and Daily PI System Operator’s Log Book. Managed PI System and Archive backups.

Worked onsite at the Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery. Assisted with OSIsoft Plant Information (PI) server administration duties. Provided PI support for refinery personnel. Created PI tags and maintained all existing PI tags for eleven Foxboro I/A interfaces using a Visual Basic program in Excel that I developed to use compound and block information exported from Foxboro I/A using an iccdriver task. Created and updated PI tags on other interfaces, company PI ProcessBook displays (both with and without Visual Basic programming controls), Excel reports utilizing Visual Basic and PI DataLink or PI-SDK, PI System Management Documents, PI Manual Logger data collection tours, and PI-ACE calculations. Troubleshot PI server, PI tag data collection, PI interface, and Excel report issues. Implemented and maintained e-mail submission using Visual Basic for existing Environmental Word and Excel reports, with and without PI data, to eliminate paper copies and improve report retention capabilities. Assisted IT Department with new and modified software installation packages. Upgraded all PI ProcessBook files and displays from version 2.16 to 2.31. Performed loop number comparison between new and old P&ID’s and instrument database for almost 4,000 instruments. Reinstated and maintained records of all PI tag parameter changes. Implemented PI ControlMonitor control loop performance monitoring software for various process areas. Maintained Daily PI System Operator’s Log Book. Managed PI System and Archive backups.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Developed Recovery Skid Standardization database in Access to support gap analysis. Troubleshot, created, and edited tags in AspenTech CIM/21 historian. System Administrator for AspenTech InfoPlus.21 Process Data Server and three CIM-IO Servers. Assisted with validation test procedure development, including generating and reviewing test procedures and forms for identified changes and enhancements, for Process Data Servers.

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

Worked onsite at the Genentech Vacaville manufacturing facility. Assisted with OSIsoft Plant Information (PI) server administration duties. Created and edited tags in PI system. Created and maintained reports from PI data using Visual Basic in Excel and PI DataLink. Developed a custom interface to collect data from a new system into the PI system using Visual Basic in Microsoft Access. Created and maintained company process displays in PI-ProcessBook. Troubleshot report, PI tag, and PI system issues.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Created and maintained reports from OSIsoft Plant Information (PI) data using Visual Basic in Excel and PI DataLink. Created tags in PI System. Created and maintained company displays in PI ProcessBook.