James — PLC Engineer

2011-2013 GKN Wheels Armstrong, Armstrong, Iowa PLC Engineer - Worked with the Manufacturing Engineer, maintenance, CIS, production and safety on projects that were related to improving quality and production issues involving PLC, HMI and was learning about vision based inspection systems. - Assisted maintenance in troubleshooting PLC based equipment. - Coordinated with management, production, venders, contractors and electricians to ensure everything was in order before the start up of the new equipment or modifying existing equipment where production would have to be interrupted

2006-2011 Siemens Water Technologies Corp., Ames, Iowa Field Service Technician - Supported our field service technicians and customers by phone assisting them in troubleshooting and fixing any programming or hardware issues by dialing into their plant via modem. - Coordinated with venders, contractors, electricians, and programmers from other companies before and during the startup of the equipment. - Trained in the NFPA 70E arc flash suppression safety guidelines. - Started up our filter equipment which involved valves (electronic and pneumatic actuators), VFD's, MCC's, PLC controls, communicating with other PLC's or SCADA systems via Ethernet or Profibus communications. - Verified the proper wiring and operation of electrical control panels

2005-2006 (Temporary Assignment) US Filter Memcor, Ames, Iowa Purchasing Assistant - Follow up with vendors on the status of orders. Sometimes having to try to expedite orders to ensure the order gets to the destination on time or as soon as possible. - Work with the engineering department to verify or recommend parts that may be more suitable to the application

1999-2003 US Filter Control Systems, Ames, Iowa Project Engineer - System integration design work for the water/wastewater industry. - Control panel testing, PLC programming and startup. - Generated bill of materials (BOM's), coordinated with purchasing to release materials for purchase and for the panel shop to manufacture enclosures. - Primarily utilized Allen Bradley PLC's and electrical equipment for installation. - Setup computers, often times these were on a networked system, printers, installed operating systems and software (Wonderware, RS Logix, and other programs) before shipping to the client

1998-1999 Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Ames, Iowa - Utilized CAD software to make 3D models of various objects that were used in an in-house x-ray simulation program. - Used x-ray equipment to do real time imaging (radiography) as well as computed tomography (CT) of various objects made from different materials. The results were used for research projects or for clients. - Wrote some Windows application using Visual C++ Version 6 that generated a data table and graphed in real time x-ray attenuation of a given material. - Setup and repaired computers and installed operating systems on a networked system

1994-1997 Engineering Animation, Inc. Ames, Iowa - Utilizing various CAD software to make 3D models and animated vehicles, buildings, etc. for litigation purposes - such as copyright infringements, auto accidents, as well as other types of animation requests. - Helped with research and data acquisition for some projects