FRED — Controls Engineer

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Over fifteen years of experience as a process/project engineer developing automated systems for improving equipment effectiveness: improving availability, repeatability, and capacity. Work often involved bringing new concepts into production and included elements of aerospace, electrical, industrial, and
mechanical engineering in a variety of industries. Primary focus of work has been on continuously lowering the total cost of ownership/operation in manufacturing plants, through improved process control and monitoring, variation and waste reductions, statistical methods, reliability improvements, and workforce development as appropriate. Scope of work usually included the entire project lifecycle from specification development and cost justification, analysis, design, documentation, vendor coordination, operator training, installation, and 24x7 production support.

Key competencies include:
• Process Control
• Project Management
• Automation Design and Development
• Troubleshooting
• Servant Leadership
• Statistical Process Control ( SPC )
• Value Analysis
• High Availability
• Human-Machine Interface ( HMI )
• Customer Focus
• Kaizen/Lean/Six Sigma
• Data Management/Integration/Analysis
• Mistake Proofing
• Workforce Development
• Programmable Logic Controllers ( PLC )
• Team Building
• Root Cause Analysis
• Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND APPLICATIONS EXPERIENCE
Third generation languages: ALGOL, BASIC, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL
Fourth generation languages: DATATRIEVE, FOCUS, IMAGE, PICK, RAMIS, SAS, SQL
CAE tools: AutoCad, Rockwell Automation AI & RSLogix, System Architect, System Builder
Programmable Controllers: Allen-Bradley PLC-2,-3,-5, SLC, ControlLogix, minor GE, Omron, TI
SCADA packages: SETCON and SETCIM from Setpoint, 7890 from Allen-Bradley
HMI packages: InTouch (Wonderware), AdvisorPC, ControlView, PanelViews, FactoryTalk View ME
Operating systems: OS/390(MVS), CMS, Pick, RT-11, UNIX, VMS, Windows
Desktop tools: Access, Acrobat, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word