Experience

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  SIS-TECH

  • United States
  • Engineering Services
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Project Director

    • Jan 2014 - Present

    Oversight of projects executed by SIS-Tech. Assign personnel matching project required activities with employee capabilities. Assist project managers with challenging business or technical concerns. Resolve issues between departments. Maintain and update company tools for tracking proposals, projects, and personnel. Use tracking information and provide employee workload forecasting. Provide technical support in business development (or sales) meetings with clients. Provide proposal cost estimates and maintain company proposal templates. Review proposals. Continue to execute tasks listed in Fellow and Senior Consultant roles when required.

  • Fellow - SIS Engineer

    • Sep 2010 - Present

    Make recommendations for revisions/updates to SIS-Tech’s IEC-61511 standards and practices used by SIS-Tech and sold to clients. Participate in the approval process to revise SIS-Tech’s IEC-61511 standards and practices. Assist clients in site implementation (integration and roll out) of the practices. Develop approach to non-typical SIS applications and participate in group to review applications developed by peers. Train employees to execute work per company practices and industry standards. Support SIL Solver development and periodic failure data review. Determine appropriate failure rate for non-standard devices not listed in SIL Solver. Interview potential employees and participate in hiring determination. Continue to execute tasks listed in Senior Consultant role.

  • Senior Consultant - SIS Engineer

    • Sep 2001 - Sep 2010

    Provide control and shut down specifications (including SRS and SIL Verification) ensuring compliance per ANSI/ISA 84.00.01, and ANSI/ISA 61511-1-2018. Program and test (FAT/SAT) PLC applications. Prepare validation/test procedures (FAT, SAT, and device testing). Lead test teams for periodic logic and/or device proof testing. Review documents developed by peers and design consultants. Facilitate PHA studies per OSHA 1910.119 and LOPA studies per IEC-61511. Develop tools and templates for company deliverable documents and programs. Obtain project scope from client and develop project proposals. Mange project teams to complete projects. Manage project budgets and change orders. Work with clients accounting to resolve billing issues.

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  Triconex

  • Project Engineer

    • Oct 1995 - Sep 2001

    Project Engineer design, program, test, start up, trouble shoot safety systems and turbine/compressor control systems.

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  Lockheed

  • Facility and Controls Engineer

    • 1987 - Oct 1995

    Test facility support for NASA's Crew and Thermal Systems division at JSC. Provided design, programming, testing, operator procedures/training, and troubleshooting for DCS, PLC, and ESD systems. Providing necessary environmental conditions for testing equipment to be used in space. Including thermal vacuum system support for astronaut sapce walk training and metabolic profile generation for testing space suit life support system in the un-manned condition.