Alfred Ongiro

Application Engineer at SnoFox Sciences
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Houston, Texas, United States, US

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Experience

    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Application Engineer
      • May 2023 - Present
    • United States
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • Engineer
      • 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

    • France
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Application Engineer
      • 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

Education

  • Dalhousie University - Sexton Campus
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering
  • University of Nairobi
    Master of Science (MSc), Mechanical Engineering
    1988 - 1991

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