Experience

Nucor Steel Louisiana, LLC

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Control Systems Engineer

  • Mar 2015 - Present

  1) Lead Control Engineer of the Distributed Control System (DCS – Emerson DeltaV) and Safety Instrumented System (SIS – Emerson DeltaV SIS) of Nucor Direct Reduction Plant (biggest in the world) and its unit operations, such as Combustion furnaces, Distillation Column, Reactor, Sulferox unit, Steam boilers, Compressors, among others. 2) Improved plant Reliability by Implementing Process upgrades, Advanced Controls and their robust/optimize tuning, Sequential Logic, Instrumentation sizing that significantly increased plant performance, continuous operation and reduced utilities costs in the order of $M USD/yr 3) Developed the Functional Safety Plan of the plant following IEC 61511, that included leading the HAZOP review, LOPA and SIL calculations, Alarm Rationalization and SIS logic/instrumentation schemes upgrades that improved the plant safety, avoided spurious shutdowns 4) Collaborated in Major plant projects upgrades (Furnace Convection section revamp, Reactor Shell monitoring, New Ore yard handling system) by Managing the Control/Instrumentation/Safety Engineering from designing P&ID, FEED, supervising engineers to commissioning with successful results and in budget 5) Served as Subject Matter Expert by mentoring E&I in Instrumentation/DCS/Networks/Analyzers troubleshooting; Operators in Process and Controls; Senior Process Engineers in Root Cause Analysis of plants upsets 6) Improved plant technology by implementing Industry 4.0 that allowed reliable Assets monitoring and predictive maintenance Show less



Tenova

• Italy
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Automation and Control Engineer

  • Oct 2010 - Aug 2014

  1) Developed Advanced Process Control Strategies, FEED, P&ID, Instrumentation sizing and DCS and SIS Software implementation (Emerson DeltaV, Siemens PCS7) for Direct Reduction Plants worldwide (USA, Egypt, UAE, India, China, Indonesia, Saudi) 2) Supervised Automation Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) for different projects, Collaborated in the Commissioning and Start-up of Direct Reduction Plant 3) Served as a Subject Matter Expert in Mathematical calculations for Nonlinear controls linearization Control System (DCS) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) 4) Instrumentation and Control Instructor Show less



ITESM Campus Monterrey

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research and teaching assitant

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2009

  1) Developed new control strategies on physiological systems, nonlinear systems identification method and Mathematical modeling for Advanced Control Algorithms 2) Published a peer-reviewed paper in IEEE Mediterranean Conference in Control 2010 “Feedforward compensation of exercise in diabetes” 1) Developed new control strategies on physiological systems, nonlinear systems identification method and Mathematical modeling for Advanced Control Algorithms 2) Published a peer-reviewed paper in IEEE Mediterranean Conference in Control 2010 “Feedforward compensation of exercise in diabetes”