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Pearl River, Ny, Us

Responsible for all project management functions including scheduling, inspection, contractor and company crew oversight and process control, procurement and prioritization of project specific tasks.Expert experience in Flow and Pressure Regulation of natural gas distribution and transmission systems.Technical direction of retrofits for control valves and all types of pressure regulating equipment , both for pressure and flow regulation. Responsible for temperature control equipment design and troubleshooting for all natural gas operations facilities, including gate station, regulator stations and large industrial customers.Manage union and contractor trade workers to troubleshoot issues at gas facilities.Perform design and manage construction projects for upgrades of Gate Station controls and instrumentation, district regulator stations and customer meter set installations.Involved with the gas odorization program and associated emergency response.Technical expert at upgrading communications, including wireless and wired frame relay.Perform engineering and analysis of projects involving SCADA upgrades and maintenance, within gas transmission and distribution systems.Assist in resolving logic and programing issues for station RTU's and ensuring proper remote control for the control room operators. Involved with station maintenace, upgrades and troubleshooting.Responsible for approving field changes and system additions Andy upgrades.Perform approval of timesheets and issue payments for contractors and material purchases. Generation of work orders for capital improvement programs.New customer gas regulator and meter sizing specialist and special order equipment procurement.Perform technical evaluation for customer low pressure complaints.Manage all funding and approvals for Research & Development Initiatives within Gas Operations.Manage the Gas Operations Enterprise Risk Management reporting and risk mitigating efforts.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead Engineer for flow, pressure and temperature control systems, including design, construction and maintenance activities. Experienced in various SCADA systems, including Ovation, Bristol, GE Fanuc, Rockwell Automation, Honeywell, Bently Nevada and Mercury systems. Supervised construction activities of contractor and trades personnel involving water cooling systems, atomizing steam, auxiliary steam and conductivity monitoring, desuperheating controls and steam pressure regulation. Technical direction of major projects involving power plant control retrofits and upgrades, including steam and gas turbine controls, generator controls and synchronization, burner management systems, fuel gas systems, including metering and regulation. Extensive knowledge of distributed control systems and integration/networking of various types of controllers and PLC's. Managed projects involving hydraulic control systems, relay protection, motor control centers, boiler feed pump controls, water treatment upgrades and steam send-out piping and instrumentation design. Worked with various departments on all aspects of projects involving pump controls, many types of instrumentation, including orifice, turbine, ultrasonic and mass flow meters, switches, solenoids, servo valves, pressure transmitters, thermocouples and RTD's. Support Operations for the Steam Business Unit by recommending corrective actions, finding route causes, preparing Travelers for control logic changes, and specifying new or upgrades for critical instrumentation and auxiliary equipment. Worked on many control system logic changes for power plants, to integrate and automate turbine controls, feed water systems, boiler controls and steam send out. Upgraded boiler protection sytems to use redundant instrumentation systems and develop median select, high select and bad quality rejection schemes. Expert at performing automation for power plant systems, with focus on increasing performance and simplifying operations.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Lead Steam Turbine Controls Engineer at sites for turn-key projectsTechnical Assistance on retrofits and upgrades for turbine control systemsResponsible for start-up, commissioning and testing of steam turbine generators to prove reliability and safe operation of control systemTechnical Direction on major equipment inspections to service turbines and generators at customer sitesAssist customers in resolving issues and deficiencies involving various plant operations to limit downtime

Masters, Construction Management

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts, Mathematics

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