Gary — Contract Engineer

11/2014 - present Contract Engineer

9/1998-6/2000 GRINNELL FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS (division of Tyco)- Westlake, OH Senior Controls/Automation Engineer Senior Control Systems Engineer responsible for PLC and HMI programming and system configuration utilizing Allen-Bradley PLC5/40 ControlNet processors and Rockwell RSView32 HMI application software. Member of the Integrated Systems group focused on the Correctional Institution industry (Maximum and Super-Max prison control systems layout, design and commissioning). Part of the successful start-up team for a $80MM Super-Max facility in Milton, Ontario, Canada whose design included (12) PLC5/40C ControlNet processors, (37) RSView32 workstation clients, and multiple redundant "RAID5" servers, to handle 20,000 discrete I/O. Responsible for all PLC programming for the twelve (12) AB PLC-5 ControlNet PLC's, data table layout and HMI tag database layout design and layout

02/2012 - 11/2014 FLSmidth, Inc - Salt Lake City, UT Senior Electrical Engineer -Basic and detail engineering of Power distribution, Electrical controls and Instrumentation in an A&E team environment for heavy industrial mining and minerals projects. -Presently, the Lead Electrical Engineer on large local and international industrial Mining and Minerals projects. -New and retro-fit PLC and HMI design, specification, programming, and commissioning for large, industrial customer projects.. -Responsible for specification of new control and power generation (generators) and power distribution equipment

06/2011 - 02/2012 SUN PRODUCTS CORP - Salt Lake City, UT Senior Controls Specialist/Plant Electrical Engineer -Electrical/Controls/Instrumentation and PLC troubleshooting, programming, and engineering. Oversight and specification of all existing and new controls philosophy, design, and installation. -Project engineering and detail design on new and retro-fit projects. -Responsible for specification for all new control philosophies and upgrade/retrofit controls projects. -Provide weekly Training classes for all Plant Electricians on such topics as: PLC, HMI, Drives, and programming

07/2007 - 6/2011 KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER - Magna, UT Senior Plant Electrical Engineer Electrical/Controls/Instrumentation/Power detail engineering, design, installation, project management, troubleshooting, PLC/HMI programming, and equipment startup/commissioning for a 350,000 Tons/year Copper Smelter in Magna, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City. PLC and HMI programming, installation, troubleshooting, and Project Management for existing and new process equipment and systems including furnaces, OEM package equipment, Conveying systems, Pneumatic conveying systems, Ore stacking systems, Tailings pumps systems, 5KV VFD's, fans, etc. Interview of new engineering candidates as potential engineering dept. employees. Design, drafting, engineering and commissioning of simple Analog controls loops and Digital inputs/outputs for Emerson's Provox and DeltaV DCS system for Plant control and Data Acquisition with Kennecott DCS System programmers for approximately four (4) years

04/2006 - 06/2007 CARDINAL HEALTH - Albuquerque, NM Plant Electrical/Controls Engineer Electrical/Controls/Instrumentation/Power engineering design, installation, and troubleshooting for sterile pharmaceutical processes and equipment using GAMP4, 21CFR211 guidelines, and cGMP engineering practices. PLC and HMI programming, installation, troubleshooting, and validation of existing and new process equipment and systems including Lyophilizers, Environmental Monitoring systems, HEPA Filter control systems for Class 100 clean rooms, Maintenance Equipment Monitoring systems, Cappers, Washers, Packaging and Inspection, Autoclaves, and Depyrogenation tunnels. Familiar with the use of typical pharmaceutical software such as Trackwise, Documentum, Eduneering, and J.D.Edwards. Composition and editing of Pharmaceutical SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures) involved in the installation, operation and design/re-design of new and existing plant process equipment, systems, processes and procedures

12/2004 - 03/2006 INDUSTRIAL TURNAROUND CORP - Chester, VA Sr. Controls Engineer/Specialist Senior Electrical Engineer responsible for PLC and HMI programming, instrumentation and process control design, 35KV-480V/208V, 4000 A power distribution system design, switchgear design and configuration, and start-up of Power and Automation projects applying Allen Bradley, Square "D", and Modicon (Group Schneider) industrial equipment and systems. Experience with Operator Interfaces includes: Allen-Bradley Panelview PV550/900/1200, Allen Bradley "RSView32", Intellution IFIX, and Wonderware Intouch among others. Projects are heavy industrial systems for large industrial clients. Performed Power systems short circuit/arc flash analysis using SKM Software

1/2004-12/2004 KAISER ALUMINUM - Richmond, VA Plant Electrical Engineer Senior Plant Engineer responsible for PLC and HMI programming, field troubleshooting, power distribution system design, configuration, and start-up of projects applying Allen-Bradley SLC 500, PLC5, and ControlLogix industrial control processors. Operator interface design includes Allen-Bradley Panelview PV550/900/1200, Allen Bradley "RSView32", and Intellution IFIX. Projects are heavy industrial systems

1/2002-12/2003 GUSMER-ADMIRAL - Akron, OH Senior Project Engineer Senior Project Engineer responsible for PLC and HMI programming, power distribution system design, configuration, and start-up of projects applying Allen- Bradley SLC 500 and PLC5 industrial control processors. Operator interfaces used include Allen-Bradley Panelview PV550/900/1200 and Allen Bradley "RSView32". Projects are heavy industrial installations of "Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) systems ranging in size from $600K to $3MM. Responsibilities also include bills of material, customer interfacing, equipment specification, purchasing, on-site debugging and start-up. Present projects include large systems for Frigidaire (Electrolux Home Products), Amana Corp, and General Electric

7/2000-1/2002 MAYFRAN INTERNATIONAL - Cleveland, OH Senior Project Engineer Senior Project Engineer responsible for PLC and HMI programming, power distribution design, drafting, configuration, and start-up of projects applying Allen- Bradley SLC 500, PLC5, GE 90/30, and Telemecanique P57203 M processors. Operator interface design included: Allen-Bradley Panelview PV550/900/1200, Exor Uniop, Group Schneider Magelis and Allen Bradley "RSView32". Projects were heavy industrial installations of automated Chip Handling systems and Loading and Machine Tool Coolant pump back turnkey systems ranging in size from $150K to $2MM. Responsibilities included AutoCAD 14 drafting of all electrical drawings and bills of material (BOM), customer interfacing, equipment specification and purchasing, on-site debugging and start-up. Projects included large systems for Ford, Daimler Chrysler, and GM of Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, MI

10/1997 - 8/1998 STROUD ENGINERING SERVICES - Bath, OH (contract) Senior Electrical Engineer Senior Controls Engineer responsible for System Hardware design, configuration, Allen Bradley PLC/SLC programming and field start-up of client projects using Allen Bradley equipment. Such equipment included PLC 5 series processors, SLC 500 series processors, Panelview550/600/900/1200, and Allen-Bradley 1336 Variable Frequency drives. Projects included large, automated, machine tool equipment manufacturers and chemical process industries

12/1996 - 10/1997 ROCKWELL AUTOMATION / ALLEN BRADLEY - Mayfield Heights, OH Senior Electrical Engineer Senior Controls Engineer responsible for System Hardware Design, configuration, Functional Specification generation, Test Procedure generation, final panel testing, PLC/SLC programming and field start-up of client projects using Allen Bradley equipment. Such equipment included PLC 5 series processors, SLC 500 series processors, RSView32 and RSPower Man-Machine Interfaces (MMI), Panelview550/600/900/1200, Allen-Bradley 1336, 1336 Plus, 1331, and 1305 Variable Frequency drives, 1395 DC Drives, AB 1403 PowerMonitor II data collection instruments for Power System control, monitoring and Substation automation/Data Acquisition

12/1994 - 12/1996 DYNALOGIC ENGINEERING, INC.- St. Louis, MO. Senior Control Systems Engineer Senior Controls Engineer (Lead Engineer) responsible for estimation, configuration, PLC programming, PLC programming supervision and field start-up of large, industrial client projects using Allen Bradley PLC/SLC processors, Siemens/TI 545/555 processors, and CTI "Interact" and Intellution "Fix/Dmacs" Man Machine Interface platforms for process control and system automation. Large equipment / instrument index database generation utilizing MSAccess database software. Projects included Lead Electrical Engineer on a $30 million Tea Plant Relocation for Nestle Co. to Freehold, NJ from Granite City, IL and an automated Process Baghouse in Boss, MO for the Doe Run Lead Company

6/1993 - 12/ Louis, MO. Senior Systems Engineer As part of the systems Integration group my responsibilities included: estimation, specification, design, and start-up of automation projects for large, industrial customers utilizing Allen Bradley PLC5/15,20,40,and 80 processors, GE Series I, III and 90/30 processors, Allen Bradley 1336 Variable Frequency drives, Allen Bradley 1395 DC drives, Panelview 900/1200, DTAM Plus, and Redi-Panel operator interface platforms, as well as Allen Bradley DL20 Dataliner displays and Wonderware "Intouch" Man-Machine Interface software. Projects included design and start-up of a "Flying Saw"- an "on-the fly" pipe cutting system for Laclede Steel Corp. of Alton, IL., and the design and start-up of a multiple conveyor production line system for Nascote Industries of Nashville, Il

10/1986 - 6/1993 BIG RIVER ZINC REFINERY- Sauget, IL Plant/Project Electrical Engineer Responsible for all Power, Control and Instrumentation electrical design on new capital projects, retrofit projects, and preventative maintenance for the 95,000 TPY (tons per year) electrolytic zinc refinery as the Plant Electrical Engineer. Assignments included estimation, design, specification and installation of all electrical Power and Control equipment on the following projects: - $3.5MM Automatic Zinc Sheet stripping machine PLC controls - Total plant electrical demand monitoring and control (44 MW plant "On-Peak" demand) - Zinc slab palletizing machine control system - Automated zinc dust weighing and packaging system - Electrostatic precipitator wire rapping/dust control system - Automatic agitator lifting, torque and pumping control for large process tanks, vessels, and basins - Motorized system of traveling overhead 2-ton electric hoists - Plant wide system of multiple groundwater pumping stations for control, analysis, and collection of plant environmental data for the Illinois EPA Design, specification, purchase, supervision and in installation of a 2500 KVA, 13.8kv, 480v., 3 ph, 3W, outdoor substation including transformers, load break switches, feeder and tie circuit breakers. Complete electrical retrofit of (3) large Buell (G.E.) Electrostatic Precipitator control systems- (T/R sets and Automatic Voltage Controls) Responsible for writing of all electrical project scopes, and AutoCAD (Ver.12) design/drafting of all in-house Electrical drawings. Design, installation, and start-up of a GE 90/30 PLC system for the control of a multiple conveying and carton filling system for the packaging of the hazardous material Cadmium Oxide, in accordance with all OSHA safety standards for airborne particulate control. Responsible for the maintenance and operation of (6) 15,000 KVA Load-Break Tap Changing Transformers, (4) 10,000 amp thyristors, large electrostatic precipitators and (2) 13.8KV sub-stations, High Voltage switches and associated instrumentation (PT's, CT's,)

06/1983 - 09/1986 MALLINCKRODT, INC. - St. Louis, MO Electrical Design Engineer Responsible for new capital project electrical and instrumentation design, specification, drawing design, and field construction and start-up for the Mallinckrodt Chemical and Plastics plants in Raleigh, NC Responsible for writing of electrical specifications and standards for various Chemical and Plastics plant projects (Nema 4, 4x, 7, 9, 12/13) Design of capital project electrical drawings including: one-line diagrams, power layouts, instrument loops, motor schematics, and interconnect diagrams

06/1980 - 05/1983 FLUOR MINING AND METALS - Redwood City, CA Electrical Design Engineer As part of a project team my responsibilities included new capital project electrical design, specification, drawing design, and field construction and start-up for large industrial mining projects. Lead field Electrical Engineer on a $200MM "grass roots" Copper Flotation Plant in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Responsible for all electrical contractor interface and field design electrical solutions. Design of capital project electrical drawings including: one-line diagrams, power layouts, instrument loops, motor schematics, interconnect diagrams, and BOM's (Bill of Materials)