James — Instrument & Controls Engineer

NUSCALE POWER CORPORATION (2010-2011) Instrument & Controls Engineer PATON CONTROLS (2010) Systems Design for EXXONMOBIL scheduled outage TALSON ENGINEERING INC (2009) Lead Control Systems Engineer CDI CORPORATION (2005) Project Engineering Specialist E.I. DUPONT (2002) Allen-Bradley/WonderWare programming SIEMENS WESTINGHOUSE (2002) Field Service Engineering GILMAN ASSEMBLY CORPORATION (2002) Siemens/International Navistar Project PETROFAC BOLIVIA (2001) San Alberto Gas Plant Phase II Commissioning BIOPORT PHARMACEUTICALS (2001) Visibar Database validation PHARMACIA-UPJOHN (2001) C.A.S.T. LYO line validation SIEMENS WESTINGHOUSE (2000) Baytown equipment F.A.T. testing LYONDELL-CITGO REFINERY (2000) Maintenance Engineering MALLINCKRODT CHEMICALS (2000) ASI (bldg 504 Iversol) Upgrade FARMLAND INDUSTRIES (1999) Coke Gasification Project [Pritchard Eng.] STYROCHEM INTERNATIONAL (1999) Various capital projects M/D TOTCO Inc. (1999) Galaxy III and Peregrine IV offshore drilling projects STYROCHEM INTERNATIONAL (1998) Dyno 100 project & IWT water project

MOTOROLA (1997-1998) MOS 12 acid water reclamation [Black & Veatch Eng.] ARAMCO (1997) Value engineering study, J-22 isomer unit [Black & Veatch Eng.] CONTINENTAL CARBON CO.(1997) Bag filter upgrade and thermal oxidizer I & II

AIR-LIQUIDE INC.(1996-1997) Geneva steel proj. [Continental Controls, Houston,Tx.]

IMPERIAL CHEMICALS INC. (1995-1996) Grass roots plastics plant [Fluor-Daniel Const.] MONSANTO CORPORATION (1995) APAP unit control upgrade (Pharmaceutical) VISTA CHEMICAL CORP. (1995) Unit instrument survey MOBIL CHEMICAL CORP. (1994) Monomer recovery unit debottleneck INTERFINANCIAL CORP. (1994) Grass roots CO2 recovery unit MILES POLYSAR INC. (1993) EP unit reactor control upgrade (rubber) CHEVRON OIL REFINERY (1992) Fractionation unit control & elec.upgrade [Brown & Root]

SANDOZ CROP PROTECTION (1991-1992) Grass roots water treatment unit elec.& controls STAR ENTERPRISES (1991) Distillation column replacement electrical estimate

EXXON REFINERY USA (1990-1991) Hazop group supervision (Sulfur & MEA units) [Jacobs] SHELL CHEMICAL CORP. (1990) EA unit control room expansion

EXXON REFINERY USA (1989-1990) Grass roots paraffin unit [Jacobs Engineering Group]

SHELL OIL INTERNATIONAL (1987-1989) Boiler control upgrade, M Unit relay logic upgrade

JAMES RIVER PAPER CO. (1985-1987) Steam plant, recovery boiler, pulp digester unit GEORGIA-GULF CHEMICAL (1978-1984) PVC, VCM, caustic chlorine, methanol, phenol, ammonia and steam plant experience

Talson & Associates Engineering - Destrahan, LA - May 2017 to October 2017 E & I Project Manager - Chevron Oronite, MgO Bulk Handling Project Engineer and E&I project manager for a new product additive unit. Managed design efforts to produce a construction bid package including; instrument specification, MCC combination starters, transformer and breaker panel, wiring design conforming to Chevron requirements. Oversaw grounding and lighting for the new unit. Performed calculations for new restriction orifices and electrical cabinet coolers for field cabinets requiring same. Managed design and specification of cable tray, plus routing and major conduit home runs. Coordinated with vendors to ensure correct field installations were included in the design package as many were incomplete. Attended progress meetings at Chevron to assure budget and schedule milestones were met

Florida Power and Light - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - March 2016 to January 2017 Commissioning Engineer - FPL 06 Peaker' Simple Cycle Power Project Commissioning Engineer for a new power plant project using GE PLC control equipment working in concert with GE Mark VIe turbine controls. Directed installation of the plant control network to facilitate the arrival of various vendors thus minimizing their time on site and the impact to project schedule and budget. Plant network was both fiber-optic and Ethernet. Designed and supervised installation of engineering and client adders. Field designed and directed modifications to vendor electrical equipment to work correctly, such as 4160 breaker maintenance mode indication, plant emergency siren operation and plant street and area lighting contactors. Manned the operations control station for LOOP check until I trained operations personnel on the system. Incorporated configuration changes to the PLC and HMI software for BOP. Worked with GE to ensure proper communication of GE equipment to the BOP control computer system

AECOM Engineering Services - New Orleans, LA - June 2014 to Jan 2016 Instrumentation Engineering - Kinder Morgan, First Energy, Enterprise Products Design Engineering for various instrument projects. Motor/Switchgear power monitoring design using Schweitzer Electrical monitoring equipment over a Modbus I/P network to a Yokogawa logic solver. Verified the network design and assigned Modbus register/Tag numbers to insure proper communication between the logic solver and electrical monitoring gear. Functioned as checker' for department instrument packages. Wrote Functional and Instrument Specification for DCS hardware and configuration. Specified equipment and coordinated bid process (four bidders) of single stream light hydrocarbon component analyzers for product quality assurance (ethane injection to propane). Supervised installation design including electrical plus specified new Honeywell Experion remote cabinet installation to accommodate new DCS data. Re-tuned Valve operation using Rockwell software on Allen- Bradley system plus modified existing WonderWare graphics and added new screens to accommodate new equipment for client in Kentucky

Turbine Air Systems - Houston, TX - Apr to June 2014 Control Systems Engineering - Various Customers Controls Engineering and troubleshooting for self-contained chilled water skids including configuration using Rockwell Control Logix software. Software setups for all second party equipment (AFD's,motor controls monitoring and chiller controls). Established all network communications over Ethernet using Modbus TCP/IP protocol. Insured all equipment additions and modifications were recorded in the design package drawings. Suggested design changes including unnecessary component removal which resulted in savings for the company and simpler installation

S&B Engineers - Freeport, TX - June 2013 to Jan 2014 Instrumentation Engineering Specialist - Various Clients Served as specification engineer for both BASF and INEOS projects. Duties included P&ID development and checking. Specified all instrumentation and utilized INTools software to create both Instrument Indexes and specifications for the client's records system. Performed all necessary calculations to insure accuracy related to instrument selection. Suggested multiple control design strategies and technologies to the client as required, Acted as liaison for the customer with all approved vendors and verified the accuracy of vendor quotes. Supervised the addition and creation of appropriate installation details for construction and coordinated all design with mechanical design. Performed all duties within allotted project hours, schedules and budgets which were extremely limited

AE Solutions Inc. - Baton Rouge, LA - Feb 2012 to May 2013 Safety and Control Systems Principal Specialist - Various Clients Safety Audit Specialist for several dual-fired and gas fired product heaters to insure compliance with API 556 and NFPA 85 and NFPA 86. Identified non-compliance issues and made appropriate control recommendations to insure compliance to national standards. Also made requested technology and control strategy recommendations in regard to compliance. FAT Test Safety Observer for Worley-Parsons Honeywell testing conducted in Houston Tx. Checking duties regarding BP Alaska projects included network topology design and hardware installations relative to DCS expansion and new safety system installation. Participated in SIS efforts for various clients using Markov Modeling based software and created and checked both TEST and SRS documents

Orion Engineering Services - Mobile, Alabama - July 2011 to Jan 2012 Control Systems Engineer - Various Capital Projects Served as Instrument Specification Engineer for Clients such as Arizona Chemical in Panama City, FL, Noramco Pharmaceutical and Huntsman Chemical Company. Specified all instrumentation for several capital projects for all the clientele mentioned including Sensors and Valving. Performed Calculations to replace any valves that were choking flow to facilitate the client's desire to increase material through-put in an existing plant unit and gathered empirical data to obtain vendor quotes. Completed I&C Estimates for several expansion projects and compiled all necessary documentation for project instrument implementation

Pinova Solutions Inc. - Brunswick, Georgia - Apr to June 2011 E&I Project Engineer - Various Small Capital Projects E&I Outage Project Engineer at a resins manufacturing plant. Implemented several small capital projects during outage which included Instrument specification, installation design, loop tuning and system configuration/modification for existing Foxboro IA (ICC and Foxdraw) and Emerson Delta V (Control Studio) systems. Designs efforts included using found' items and creative fabrication suggestions resulting in project material savings. Participated in scheduled plant outage activities including installation supervision. Trouble shot and corrected several unit instrument problems as requested, E.G. loss of network instruments, instrument undervoltages, corrections to various system malfunctions including valve tuning

NuScale Power Corporation - Corvallis, Oregon - Oct 2010 to Feb 2011 Instrument & Controls Engineer - NuScale NRC Licensing Effort Control Systems Engineer at a nuclear start-up company in pre-licensing phase of a new APWR reactor design. Involved in review and writing of Functional Specifications insuring adherence to 10 CFR 50 App. A & B, NUREG 0800, and applicable chapters of EPRI URD and IEEE. Also reviewed newly created P&ID's and alarm management philosophy (conformance to ISA 18.02). Systems included Spent Fuel Pool monitoring, Process Leak Detection System, RAD Waste and LWM Systems, and Building Air Handling and Filtration Systems monitoring

TALSON Engineering Inc - New Orleans, Louisiana - Jan 2009 to Jan 2010 Lead Control Systems Engineer - Hunt Refinery Capital Projects, Gaylord Chemical Corp, Chevron Oronite Lead Engineer for numerous small capital projects for Hunt Refinery located in Tuscaloosa, AL. encompassing all aspects of instrumentation and electrical design. Wrote procedure, specified and requisitioned all instrumentation equipment. Designed and monitored installation of all necessary electrical equipment. Gaylord Chemical: Specified instrumentation and managed all design and drawing production for a unit expansion. Directed required modifications to an existing Honeywell TDC3000 DCS system and guided construction effort. Project included coordinating recycling effort to reuse unused instrumentation and including it in the new unit design therefore saving project money. Chevron Oronite: Supervised production of design packages to install VFD's, large HP motors, various instruments and interfaces with DCS and PLC systems. Designed modifications to existing MCC's to accommodate installation of new motors

CDI Corporation - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Fall 2005 to Dec 2008 Lead Control Systems Engineering Specialist - IMTT Grass Roots Tank Farm, Chevron Refinery and DOW projects Lead Instrument Engineer. Grass roots tank farm facility (IMTT), (190M$). Oversaw instrument specification, advised client on control devices/control implementation. Wrote DCS and other functional specifications (Foxboro I/A system). Implemented cost saving ideas from personal experience base to reduce installed costs, E.G. provided the client greater flexibility for truck and rail loading functions at lower cost. Liaison between client and vendors. SIL level design, project status reports and coordinated US office and Mexico office project efforts. Chevron client, Specified instruments and configured PLC's for several small projects including alarm panels, pump controls and tank car loading overflow prevention. Designed instrument insertion system to facilitate tank car level measurement. DOW client Instrument specifications and instrument engineering for all in-line instruments relating to capital projects handled by CDI/BR office for DOW client (Saint Charles Operations). Used PROPIX software, IPDS data sheets and EMETL documentation

E.I. DUPONT - Beaumont, Texas - Fall 2002 to Fall 2005 Control Systems Engineer/ PLC Specialist - Various Projects CS Engineer and PLC Specialist for all new site PLC installations. Allen-Bradley PLC5 and SLC-500 equipment with RSLogix Software. Specified all PLC equipment for site, created and configured programs and commissioned all new PLC systems for site. Developed complex control strategies (PID, Cascade, etc.) using PLC equipment for many new projects including product steam heater control, plant air compressor control, safety system monitoring, boiler feed water pump control, data gathering/monitoring and plant wide emergency monitoring network. Interfaced with existing plant data network (SCADA) and local networks using A/B DF-1, DH+, DH-485, RIO protocols as required. Developed all new HMI operator control screens using WonderWare and RSView32 software development tools. Participated in project PSA's as a team member representing Instrument and electrical

SIEMENS- WESTINGHOUSE - Atlanta, Georgia - Spring 2002 to Fall 2002 Field Service Engineering - Various Projects Field Service Engineer participating in several system F.A.T. tests for CALPINE and DYNERGY clients. Programmed combined cycle turbine generator monitoring equipment and effected TXP database changes. Troubleshot problems and implemented required design changes at the Atlanta assembly plant and at client jobsites (Texas and Michigan). GILMAN ASSEMBLY CORP. - Janesville, Wisconsin - Winter 2001/ Feb 2002 Siemens/International Navistar Robotic Assembly Project Controls Engineer /PLC Programmer on a project for automated assembly of fuel injectors for diesel engines. Developed and implemented logic for robotic assembly lines using Siemens Step 7 software (typical assembly line routines, E.G. register bit shifts, position verification, test accept/reject). Also programmed robotic movements and precision locations of custom scissors style equipment and grippers using Wheaton DSP servo drive controllers with remote handheld (UNIOP ePalm10 pendant) devices. Also performed troubleshooting and debugging duties

PETROFAC BOLIVIA - San Alberto, Bolivia - Summer 2001 to Nov 2001 Petrobras Gas Plant Phase II Commissioning Commissioning specialist on a gas plant expansion instrumentation control system commissioning effort. Control equipment was Allen-Bradley w/ControlNet. Assisted in troubleshooting system networking problems and led a team of South American technicians in commissioning activities for approximately 600 field devices. Troubleshot problems relative to any non-functioning equipment and directed repairs as required. Interacted in basic Spanish

SIEMENS- WESTINGHOUSE - Atlanta, Georgia - Winter 2000 to Mar 2001 Calpine - Baytown Combined Cycle Turbine Control Systems Test Commissioning Specialist required to test control equipment for a Combined Cycle Turbine Driver. System was UNIX based SIEMENS ES680 workstation forward to SIEMENS TXP and S7 PLC control equipment. Assisted in system setup using PG equipment and supervised F.A.T. for approval by client. Configured card rack network addressing and trouble shot PROFIBUS communications and all I/O card problems

MALLINKCRODT CHEMICALS - St. Louis, Missouri - Spring/Summer 2000 to Fall 2000 ASI (bldg 504) IVERSOL Project. Control Systems Specialist on a pharmaceutical plant project. Implemented project design for conversion of existing unit control from Rosemount RS3 system to a Fisher Delta 'V' control system. Assisted in commissioning effort of loops. Maintained FDA required records for installation (IQ) and calibration (CQ). Set-up and commissioning of various systems such as ABB VFD's, pH meters, ozone generators and UV type bacteria destruction devices in a high purity water operation

FARMLAND INDUSTRIES - Coffeyville, Kansas - Sept 1999 to Feb 2000 Farmland/Texaco joint venture Coke Gasification Project Implementation CS Engineer. Supervised night shift loop validation efforts (achieved 75% of dayshift's production rate with 80% less personnel). Control system was a HONEYWELL TPS SYSTEM (TDC3000). Implemented configuration changes to the DCS system and Allen- Bradley PLC's. Coordinated troubleshooting and assisted in training new operators

M/D TOTCO INC. - Austin, Texas - Apr 1999 to Aug 1999 Galaxy III and Peregrine IV Offshore Drilling Projects I & E Engineer. Supervised the completion of two partially done project packages for offshore drilling rig control houses. Control equipment was SIEMENS S7 with PROFIBUS communications protocol and SCADA philosophy. Designs included electrical and control wiring for drilling functions and communications network fiber optics with associated optical link modules (FDDI), also RG59 coax video links for cameras located around the rig. Assisted field technicians with troubleshooting support

STYROCHEM INTERNATIONAL - Fort Worth, Texas - Jan 1996 to Apr 1999 IWT Water Project I & E Project Manager on grass roots water treatment project. Specified all instrumentation, valving, electrical and MCC equipment. Wrote premise of bid and did estimates for I&E disciplines. Helped develop control strategy for the unit, specified all computer equipment required, designed unit graphics and assisted in development of HMI graphics using ALLEN-BRADLEY RSVIEW software. Wrote SOP for several systems. Supervised commissioning and start-up. *This project was installed for 18% less than budget estimate! Dyno 100 Project Project Manager on a research & development reactor project. Specified instrument equipment (valves, meters, switches etc.) and designed piping installation. Detailed configuration requirements w/contractor for HONEYWELL PLANTSCAPE MICRO DCS system. Wrote SOP for unit procedures and new equipment use. Redesigned foreign equipment to meet client's unique process requirements. Supervised multi-contractor construction effort and unit start-up including loop tuning, configuration modifications and troubleshooting. *This project met project estimate!