-Supervisory role to plan, organize, and direct a field services engineering team to meet customer and business objectives including budget, schedule, resource loading, and utilization goals.-Focused on managing resources for installation, commissioning, and maintenance of automation systems for industrial manufacturing-Manage a team of 8 direct reports ranging from early career, technicians, and senior project level engineering professionals. Communicate daily on project assignments, ensuring direct reports have the appropriate knowledge and tools, and provide performance feedback, mentoring, and coaching on training and development plans. -Set expectations and success measures for accountable teams while also resolving conflicts that may arise due to competing business priorities-Establish and maintain communication and working relationships with other business units and senior leadership to identify opportunities for intercompany resource sharing and improvements for engineering project delivery-Manage succession planning and identify hiring needs. Participate in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding for open positions in the field services team. Also interview candidates for the Engineer In Training program.Responsible for leading project management for commissioning activities on assigned projects:-Generate detailed startup plans including tasks, manpower and expense estimates, schedule, and scope of work description-Understand contractual scope of supply and manage commissioning change orders with the overall project manager-Review order entry and set up project structure and costing-Identify and schedule a team of engineers to staff startups including coordinating split shifts, contractor support, and on the job training and development opportunities for engineers-Manage action item lists and drive open issues to resolution-Review engineer daily time reports and expenses, break out warranty and out of scope hours and generate billing summaries

-Provide onsite support primarily for coordinated variable frequency drive automation systems including engineering, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, training, hardware and software analysis and repair-Experienced in the following applications: Paper, Nonwoven Fibers, Steel, Automotive, Nuclear, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Recycling, Plastic Blown Films, Cranes, Winches, Fans, PumpsEngineering:-Program PLC and HMI systems for new or modified equipment-Develop technical documentation including functional design specifications, software requirement tracking and test plans and startup notes for commissioningCommissioning drives:-Perform power off and power on checks-Flash firmware, establish communications, program parameters-Perform direction test, autotune, inertia test and verify roll speed-Tune the drive speed regulator and verify the response-Tune machine sectional groups and process loops as neededCommissioning Site Lead (Some, not all startups)-Site lead on large, complex projects to provide technical oversite and task allocationCommissioning Project Management (October 2021-Present)-Transitioning out of commissioning to a commissioning project manager focus-Generate detailed startup plans including tasks, manpower and expense estimates, schedule, and scope of work description-Understand contractual scope of supply and manage commissioning change orders with the overall project manager-Review order entry and set up project structure and costing-Identify and schedule a team of engineers to staff startups including coordinating split shifts, contractor support, and on the job training and development opportunities for engineers-Manage action item lists and drive open issues to resolution-Review engineer daily time reports and expenses, break out warranty and out of scope hours and generate billing summaries-Interview Field Service Engineer applicants together with the engineering manager to grow the commissioning team

-Provide onsite support primarily for coordinated variable frequency drive automation systems including engineering, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, training, hardware and software analysis and repair-Experienced in the following applications: Paper, Nonwoven Fibers, Steel, Automotive, Nuclear, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Recycling, Plastic Blown Films, Cranes, Winches, Fans, PumpsEngineering:-Program PLC and HMI systems for new or modified equipment-Develop technical documentation including functional design specifications, software requirement tracking and test plans and startup notes for commissioningCommissioning drives:-Perform power off and power on checks-Flash firmware, establish communications, program parameters-Perform direction test, autotune, inertia test and verify roll speed-Tune the drive speed regulator and verify the response-Tune machine sectional groups and process loops as needed

-Provide onsite support primarily for coordinated variable frequency drive automation systems including installation, commissioning, and troubleshootingCommissioning drives:-Perform power off and power on checks-Flash firmware, establish communications, program parameters-Perform direction test, autotune, inertia test and verify roll speed-Tune the drive speed regulator and verify the response-Tune machine sectional groups and process loops as needed

-Completed a 7 month extensive training program to learn Rockwell Automation technologies and develop customer relationship and presentation skills for field service engineering-Specialized in variable frequency drives with 8 weeks of advanced drives training -Completed 2 weeks of motion training-Trained on the following technologies: -Allen Bradley PLCs: ControlLogix, CompactLogix, SLC-500, PLC-5 -Networks: Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet -Allen Bradley Drives: PowerFlex 525, 700VC, 700S, 755, 755 CIP, 755T, DC -Allen Bradley HMIs: PanelView Plus, FactoryTalk View ME and FactoryTalk View SE -Programming: Ladder Logic, Function Block, Sequential Function Chart, Structured Text

-Supported the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC II) Attitude Control Systems group-Focused primarily on identifying modeling methods for a state space boost guidance control system-Researched and assessed the feasibility of integrating aerodynamics, structural, and flight dynamics modeling methods into development of an in-house tool to simulate boost guidance phase of flight for control system stability analysis-Communicated within a multi-disciplinary team in order to advance the project within a short time frame resulting in a 298 page document capturing evaluated models, justifications for selected models, preliminary simulation results and recommendation for future work-Assisted with payload vibration, air bearing and sequence testing and tests utilizing a theodolite and auto-collimator-Experienced a block house countdown and launch environment

-Advised and educated 30 students in MATLAB programming during the Fall semester.

-Researched and created an algorithm for a linear, magnetic position and magnetization encoder for CNC machine applications.-Developed CAD models, Arduino programs and selected hardware components.-Presented a design proposal to the Taiwanese funding company and university professors.-Overcame language and communication barriers in order to adapt to a foreign culture.

-Assisted lead systems engineer in meeting program deadlines through debugging MATLAB code, developing test cases and performing requirement verification for a new and complex algorithm.-Quickly learned the DB-110 system in order to support multiple program lead engineers through testing, troubleshooting and scripting in bash.-Reverse engineered the pointing accuracy analysis tools and test set up documentation resulting in a 200-page document capturing the existing implementation and proposal of improvements to run and analyze pointing data with greater accuracy.-Created and maintained detailed instructions for tests to be used by lead engineers.-Analyzed system specification requirements for proper allocation to specific test case procedure steps for a customer witnessed acceptance test.-Lead a multidisciplinary meeting presenting lessons learned to encourage future value stream improvements.-Developed a DXL program enhancing the IBM DOORS to Microsoft Word export tool to increase efficiency of the document review process.-Collaborated with mentor to substantially reform the Systems Engineering co-op program.

-Independent problem solving-Customer assistance-Monitored inventory-Various tasks assigned by manager