Alfred Ongiro
Application Engineer at SnoFox Sciences- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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SnoFox Sciences
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Application Engineer
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May 2023 - Present
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Calpine Corporation
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United States
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Civic and Social Organizations
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Engineer
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Aug 2010 - May 2023
Calpine corporation owns and operates a fleet of gas fired power plants in US and Canada. The group I work in is responsible for developing, deploying and maintaining thermal models to support plant dispatch, monitoring equipment health, tracking degradation and troubleshooting. The specific areas are: - performance prediction tools used in fleet budgeting and dispatch - determination and tracking major process/power equipment degradation - performance testing and optimization - models for new power plant designs and major upgrades and retrofits - gas turbine model decks for the company’s fleet To accomplish the above tasks, over the years has acquired expertise in the following software packages: -Thermal analysis - EBSILON®Professional, GateCycle, NPSS - Optimization - ModelCenter, Lingo - Data analysis - R, Tableau - Mathematical – Matlab and Octave - APR tools - PRISM The group is also very active in development of in-house software tools and extension and customization of commercial tools. In a nutshell we are group with broad capability in thermal modelling and a minor in engineering software development. Machine Learning - Equipment health monitoring and diagnostics to take advantage of rapidly expanding field of machine learning, Show less
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GE Energy
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France
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Application Engineer
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Oct 2002 - Aug 2010
Worked in the development and deployment of power plant monitoring solutions and optimization: - Development and deployment of of online monitoring solutions for power plants - Development of software tools for plant operation optimization - Development and testing of thermal analysis software tools Worked in the development and deployment of power plant monitoring solutions and optimization: - Development and deployment of of online monitoring solutions for power plants - Development of software tools for plant operation optimization - Development and testing of thermal analysis software tools
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Education
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Dalhousie University - Sexton Campus
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering -
University of Nairobi
Master of Science (MSc), Mechanical Engineering