Stephen Cates, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Veghel, Noord Brabant, Nl

Manager of the Electrical Engineering group for Warehouse Automation at Vanderlande North America.

Munich, De

Lead engineering teams and act as subject matter expert for designing, developing, and improving rail electrification equipment and systems. Manage internal and external equipment suppliers of a full range of equipment, such as MV AC Switchgear, DC Switchgear, Rectifiers, Negative Grounding Equipment, Traction Power Transformers, Battery and Battery Charger Systems, Prefabricated Buildings, Protection Relaying and Control Systems. All designs are based on international, federal, state, and local codes and standards to meet stringent design, service, maintenance, repair, and safety criteria.Position requires extensive and through understanding of the various safety (including life safety) and performance codes and standards, such as OSHA, ANSI, NFPA, IEEE, and UL. Emphasize cost effective designs.Manage all technical submittals to internal and external partners and customers. Act as the project technical interface to the customer. Manage staff and budgets for successful project implementation.

Munich, De

• Lead engineering teams for developing and improving turbine auxiliary systems for the global 50 and 60 Hz market for Large Gas Turbines (>100 MW), Large Steam Turbines (>100 MW) and Aeroderivative Gas Turbines (<70 MW).• Technical lead for development and application of the associated auxiliary equipment such as MV & LV Switchgear, AC & DC MCCs, DC and battery systems, excitation systems, gas turbine starting systems, generator and transformer protection relaying and settings, cable raceway and cable management systems, step-up and step-down transformers, hardware design of PLC control panels. Designs are based on both IEEE and IEC methodologies. • Lead engineering teams and technical lead for project implementation for the global 60 Hz market per customer technical specifications, including developing designs based on IEEE and IEC methodologies.• Lead engineering teams and technical lead for proposals support for the global 60 Hz market. Develop costs and designs per customer technical specifications. Meet with customers for technical clarifications• Lead engineering teams and technical lead for the development & maintenance of reference designs for Gas Turbine and Steam Turbine power plants to allow short schedules during project implementation• Mentor engineering teams and individuals on technical subjects, such as generators, generator circuit breakers, harmonics, NERC compliance, generator and transformer protection, converter/inverter drives, transformers, switchgear, motor controls, control philosophy, application of codes and standards (OSHA, ANSI, NEMA, IEEE, IEC, NFPA and UL)• Update and optimize designs for cost reduction and cost-out programs to remain competitive.• Support site equipment installation and startup, including detailed technical trouble shooting and problem solving• Support Project Management and Supply Chain Management in all phases of plant design and construction• Management of up to twenty electrical engineers and designers

• Lead Electrical Engineer for project implementation for Gas Turbine and Steam Turbine power plants. Included systems design, equipment ordering and supplier management of the electrical equipment associated with the Gas Turbine and Steam Turbine auxiliaries. • Reference design development and maintenance, including ordering specifications, Electrical and I&C schematics, physical designs and layouts, electrical raceway systems, equipment standardization. This allowed for efficient implementation of projects with short schedules.• Technical lead for all major electrical components, including Gas Turbine Static Start (SFC/SEE) equipment, excitation systems (static and brushless), transformers, electrical equipment containers, motor control centers, switchgear, generator and transformer protection panels and relay settings, battery systems, cabling systems, cable raceway systems.• Responsible for supplier development and maintenance for all electrical components to ensure the most efficient designs and cost effective designs. This included travel to supplier factories to review equipment designs and manufacturing processes, working with Quality Management to ensure supplier meets the Siemens Quality Assurance program. Attend Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT).• Proposal support on numerous projects for the global 60 Hz markets. This included detailed customer technical specification reviews, equipment costing and man-hour development, lead time and design concepts development for customer specials, travel to the customer for technical review and discussions.• Technical lead in global teams to develop new products and designs to help Siemens remain competitive, including the use of global suppliers for auxiliary equipment.• Lead Electrical Engineer on global teams to develop mitigation solutions to alleviate various gas turbine issues, including static start adjustments and equipment retrofits.• Three USA patents on various topics.

Performed electrical engineering design work for the wood products industry, including design of OSB process lines.

Responsibilities included the operations and maintenance of the electrical and controls systems in a 150 MW slow speed Diesel power plant. Responsibilities included the following:• Supervision of about 10 technicians in scheduled and emergency maintenance work.• Supervision of on-site generator rewinds, brushless excitation upgrades, static excitation upgrades, generator protection upgrades, on-site oil filled transformer repairs.• Developing and executing a maintenance programs for oil filled transformers, generators, motors, pumps, motor control centers, generator protection, generator monitoring, engine monitoring, fire protection systems.• Industrial firefighting training and plant fire brigade lead.• Develop and manage department budgets.• Onsite support of the construction of a power plant expansion.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree - Bsc, Electrical Engineering