Experience

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  The Integration Group of Americas Inc. (TIGA)

  • Three Rivers, Texas, United States

  • Automation Technician

    • Nov 2020 - Present
    • Three Rivers, Texas, United States

    Working as an automation technician repairing and performing preventative maintenance on various production and safety systems equipment, including flow computing and PLC platforms in our field (Totalflow, ScadaPack, and a small amount of Allen-Bradley work) - I also still help take care of the communications equipment in this asset.

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  Wood

  • Kenedy, Texas, United States

  • Communications / Automation Technician

    • Dec 2018 - Nov 2020
    • Kenedy, Texas, United States

    Repaired and installed communications on 600+/- well asset in S. TX, including ABB Tropos, MDS iNet, and Freewave radios and all applicable cabling, switches, interfaces, etc. – also calibrated pressure transmitters and did other automation related tasks as needed.

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  ESSI Corporation

  • Moore, TX

  • Communications Technician

    • Oct 2013 - May 2016
    • Moore, TX

    I began working on trenching and cabling crews, then preventive maintenance, construction, and device installation (wellhead and tank battery monitoring systems). For the past year, I have been installing, testing, and repairing GE MDS radios for a low-frequency network of Emerson ROC 107 / ROC 800 units, Lufkin Well Managers, Weatherford Well Pilots, and Ion meters.

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  Alpha Machine and Repair

  • Jourdanton, TX

  • Field Service Technician

    • Jul 2011 - Oct 2013
    • Jourdanton, TX

    I started as an engine mechanic, then moved to pump jack installation and repair, and haul truck driving. My job duties required me to operate forklifts, a bucket truck, and light crane truck.

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  Self-Employed

  • Greater St. Louis Area

  • Small Business Owner

    • Nov 2005 - Jul 2011
    • Greater St. Louis Area

    Self-employed from Nov. 2005 to July 2011 – primarily in the telephone and computer networking industry, providing installation and service of phone and computer systems for small businesses in the St. Louis area. I also worked as a contractor installing stores for Compass Group (a food service company) in various locations across the country, along with other construction related jobs locally.

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  Didion and Sons Foundry Company

  • St. Peters, MO

  • Maintenance Coordinator / Lab Technician / Production Manager

    • Mar 1998 - Nov 2005
    • St. Peters, MO

    -Maintenance Coordinator / Network Administrator for Didion and Sons Foundry, St. Peters, Missouri: March 1998 to Nov. 2005– Originally hired in as a metallurgy lab tech., I was moved to the maintenance department after a few months, where I maintained the database for all the equipment and inventory in the plant, and kept the preventative maintenance program running from day to day. In 2000, we implemented an ISO 9000 quality control program, and I served on the startup team (mainly providing database support, and writing some of the quality control manual, as it related to computerized maintenance managementProduction Manager with Didion and Sons Foundry, St. Peters, Missouri: Dec. 2004 to July 2005 – I was in charge of receiving, scheduling, and overseeing orders for iron castings from customers, (including John Deere, Kimray, Baldor, and Kawasaki) and maintaining relationships with these customers as well as the vendors who supplied our materials needed for production.