Experience

Pacira BioSciences, Inc.

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Associate Director - Automation Engineering/Instrumentation

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  Manage Automation Engineering and Instrumentation Manage Automation Engineering and Instrumentation



Mangan Inc.

• United States
• Engineering Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Controls Engineer/Project Manager

  • Aug 2011 - Jun 2013

  .Control Systems Engineer-Project Manager • Biotechnology/Pharma Hillsboro Oregon. Project management to realign all process automated equipment to new corporate standards for information technology. Leading company in Biotechnology. • Successfully completed installation/programming/commissioning of a 12.7 megawatt turbine generation plant. Green project in Leola PA utilizing landfill off gas to drive turbine generation units that fed heat recovery steam generation units supplying 42000lbs/hr process steam. Show less



Amgen

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Automation Engineer/ Project Manager

  • May 1993 - Jul 2011

  •Site technical lead for cGMP Facilities and Engineering department on their Global Automation Team. •Design, configuring, trouble shooting, and maintaining of Rockwell Automation systems in a cGMP environment. Collaborated with different departments including QA, QC, Validation, and Facilities to improve manufacturing operations. •Designing, configuring, trouble shooting, and maintaining of ControlNet and DeviceNet bus technologies. •Commissioning and validation of automation and process technologies on bulk clinical, fill and packaging, and small molecule control systems. •Lead automation engineer on supplier factory acceptance tests. Equipment includes aseptic fill system, bioreactors, chromatography skids, RO water units, water for injection and clean steam generators. •Retrofit controls for upgrades on Lyophilizers, Cozzoli syringe filler and Steris autoclaves. •Successfully completed assignment for Amgen’s OPUS project in Puerto Rico. Instrumentation and controls lead for a commercial manufacturing building for deep tank cell culture production and purification. •Successfully completed assignment for newly acquired Lake Center Facility in Boulder Colorado. Retrofit commercial manufacturing facility for new product introduction. •Startup, programming and commissioning of a central utilities facility to provide RO water distribution, industrial air, high pressure steam and process chilled water to multiple manufacturing facilities. •Programming, installation and troubleshooting of clean-in-place, steam-in-place, ultra sonic washers, glassware washers and autoclaves in clean room environments. •Designed, managed and implemented a site wide critical equipment monitoring system in 14 facilities. •Developed automation lifecycle documentation including project scope, user requirements, detailed design, development testing, software and hardware design specifications, installation and operational qualifications. Show less



Texaco

• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Automation Technician

  • Jan 1983 - Jan 1992

  •Design, construction and installation of automated control systems. •Retrofitted a large water flood filtration plant used in water injection for secondary recovery. Replaced mechanical relay and pneumatic systems with PLC based automated controls. •Startup and commissioning of multi-compressor gas compressor plants used in gas injection for secondary recovery. Implemented a field wide system of automatic gas-injection well stations that monitored and adjusted proper gas injection rates to optimize recovery. •Programming and maintenance of PLC based controls for machinery used in oil field production systems. Experienced in large scale water reclamation, filtration and water injection, gas compressor and injection, and pumping stations. Show less



US AirForce

• Anchorage Alaska

• Sergeant - Security

  • Dec 1976 - Dec 1980

  Anchorage Alaska - Top Secret Clearance - Honorable Anchorage Alaska - Top Secret Clearance - Honorable