Amr — Maintenance Electrical Engineer

Presently Programing Schweitzer Engineering SEl-751 relay for a renewable Energy company. Programing protection and Ethernet Modbus communication.

Commissioning and Installation of Power Plants utilizing Wartsila Engines Dual and single fuel. And also Battery storage systems.

Extensive experience Hands-on - GE and AB PLC's(proficient AB systems such as RSlogix 5, RS logix 5000 Enterprise, RSlinks enterprise, Factory Talk view, Panel views, Power Flex Drives Guard Logics PLC). - Power Delivery Experience from Low to High Voltage including switchgear; transformers. - AC/DC/Synchronous/480V/2300 V/5KV fraction to 25,000HP Motors. - AC/DC/VF/Digital/Analog Drives of GE/AB/Reliance (Automax)/Toshiba. - Analog (Disk type) and digital Relays for GE, Westinghouse, Siemens, Schweitzer, and others. - Turbine Controls using GE Field Exciters (EX2100 and EX2000) Trained on GE MARK VIe, and Gas and Steam GE Turbines. Startup Numerous Emergency Generators with Paralleling Switchgear. - Management and supervision of various small and large projects including Embassy construction in Yemen. - Familiar with AB Motions. DCS(Foxboro). - CAD Software (2000). - Microsoft Project Management Software

1995 -2000 Sales/engineering manager Pyramid Logic and Controls Co., Consulting Engineering Firm. Preventative Maintenance and small project in Power Delivery. Elmhurst, Illinois

1989 -1995 Maintenance E&I manager FSC Paper Co., Alsip, Illinois 1989 -1995 Recycling Paper Company. Responsible for the maintenance and engineering for one newsprint machine and a tissue machine in addition for the recycling pulp mill and the power plant. In the present position, I was responsible for all the Preventative maintenance of all the rotary machinery. Successful in converting the E&I hourly electricians and instruments mechanics as two separate trades to one E&I trade, through training and negotiation with the hourly employees union. Successful in startup of a new tissue machine after Bechtel Engineering firm walked out of the project before the startup. And in hiring and training the new E&I hourly personnel for the new Tissue machine

1986 -1989 Senior Project Engineer Kimberly Clark Corp., Pulp and Paper Company. Responsible for all electric, instrumentation, and Controls engineering project for the Diaper, Tissue, Power plant. Was the lead Engineer to convert six diapers machine from AB PLC3 to PLC5 and add the elastic tape to the KC Huggies Diapers. Memphis, Tennessee

Maintenance Electrical Engineer Nov 2015 - Present Evergreen packaging Canton, NC Responsible for maintenance and small projects of Board paper machine #13. PM#13 production is in excess of 1000 tons/day of board paper for the food industry. Responsible for all E/I PPM/ PM/ daily troubleshooting of maintenance/process E/I issues. Planning/supervision of jobs for the downs using SPA software. Self-taught of all the equipment's and software required to efficiently perform my duties. Responsible for training (AB RSLogix 5000 Enterprise, PLC5, Facxtory Talk View ME SE, OPC servers and AB Links, and Reliance Automax Drives) the E/I group to excel in their technical capabilities. Trisen Controllers for Steam Turbines (vacuum and Line shafts). Heavily utilized PI system for troubleshooting The following was all short term contracts

1. Electrical Engineer May 2015 - June 2015 Power Plant Nigeria Responsible for maintenance of Turbine controls made by GE

2. Electrical Engineer Feb 2014 - March 2015 Ford, Bacon & Davis LLC West Monroe, La Responsible for projects for International paper, Client, ranging from $0.5M to $13M front loader FEL 1 through Installation. Projects which is still in FEL Stages such as upgrading two Paper Machine drives each is around $13Mill; upgrade/convert from AB PLC5 to Control Logic PLC (Both AB) around $200Mill in the FEL2 stage, Design and program a replacement Schweitzer relay (SEL 710) for 2300 Volt Starters a small portion of a $20M Medium Voltage power equipment upgrade. Few simple application using SKM software for coordination/ short circuit studies and Arc Flash studies

3. E & I &C Engineer Sept 2013- Jan 2014 Xcel Energy Earth, Texas Responsible for maintenance and projects. Upgrade the CEMs to the MATS rule. Add radio communication for the Water Wells. Repair Basler DECS 400 excitation for a 600 MW Generator with Westinghouse Steam Turbine, Repair the ID/FD fans of 3000 HP two channel motor, Robicon AC drive with Modicon PLC. Train the electricians on Basic PLC, and PLCDirect, Modicon, and AB

Process Engineer 4. March 2013- July 2013 SoundView Paper Manufacturer of Recycled Paper_ Responsible for all the DCS, PLC, Instrumentation, and Power Delivery Equipment, AC/DC Drives, as far as engineering, maintenance, projects, repair and design. Elmwood Park, NJ

5. Technical Advisers Aug 2012- Nov 2012 Orin USA (Contracted to General Electric Co., Longmont, Co USA) Itasca, IL Responsible for converting MarkIV and Mark V to the new MarkVIe for all Steam and Gas Turbines and Combine cycle applications. The turbines included converting old version of HMI to the latest version(using Cimplicity 8.2). Instrumentation included, pressure, temperature, and level transmitters; and control valves for the gas lines

Feb 2012- July 2012 Construction Engineer for Conakry, Guinea (Contracted) 6. US Power and Environmental (USP&E) Responsible for design, procurement, construction, startup and commissioning of a total 200 MW Containerized and Portable Diesel_Engine Generators that run on dual Fuel Oil (HFO/LFO) Celina, Texas

7. Construction -Electrical and Communication Engineer Nov 2010 - Aug 2011 Scientific Research Co (SRC) Contractor For USA State Department (OBO) Monitored the Electrical and communication construction of the consular building and entrance gate (CAC) and three residential building for the embassy. Designed/Modified a Technical Security System (TSS) for the embassy including the consular telecom system. Reviewed/Corrected the Building Automation System (BAS) System US Embassy, Sana'a, Yemen The following was all Direct Hire

Field Engineer Jan 2000 - June 2010 General Electric Co., Oakbrook, Illinois - Commissioned/Startup of three embassies.. Athens, Jamaica, and Haiti as a General Electric Representative. - Flow Engineer primary "flow" tasks. First responder on nearly all of the calls that come into Central district through our Customer Service Center. Routinely travels not only within our Central District, but also all over the World. - Proposed, developed, and implemented various engineering modification program to increase customer production. Such as an Upgrade to a water turbine system replacing an obsolete PLC controls with a newer PLC and modifying the system controls. Responsible for training the electricians of the customer to maintain the system. - Site Engineer for multiple water plants for the oil industry in Southern portion of Iraq. Installing the electrical portion of 2.5 MW turbines to supply power to the water plants. Water was injected to the oil wells to increase the pressure. - Managed the commissioning/startup of various Data centers installation, which included UPS system with backup generators and batteries banks. Typical customers were ATT, Quest, and others. - Startup Engineer for replacement of Medium voltage obsolete equipment. In various Medium Voltage substations around the Baghdad Metropolitan Area. - Startup Engineer of 3-3MW generators for the Baghdad Airport and its paralleling equipment. GE gas operated locomotive engines was the rotating equipment, which was part of the startup from the electrical side. - Managed various PM programs for data centers and power plants, and commercial and industrialized plants. - Sold various Service Contracts to various customers and then managed the contracts - Startup/commissioning varies drive projects for Paper Mills, Tire manufacturer and multiple smaller manufacturers. - Trouble shoot 2300 Volt AC drives in the gas business in Egypt (Apache oil company). - Involved in the R&D of a 3.3 MW drive used for the driving gas Compressors in Italy. - Managed projects with direct supervision of 8-10 Engineers and 40-50 Electricians. - Startup/Commissioning of Low and medium voltage switchgear for Delta South Injection Water Platform (DSWIP) offshore of the coast of Nigeria - Startup of 30 Pole, 5400 KW Synchronous motor for the steel industry in Dahongshan, China. - Startup of 25000 HP Synchronous motor driving compressors for the Gas industry in Aramco, SA