Irwin — Controls Engineer

September 2016 - December 2017 Duties & Responsibilities: - Software programming and design. Siemens s7 and TIA Portal - Hardware troubleshooting and repair on the Automated Guidance Vehicle programme for Boeing 777X currently - Implementation of changes and upgrades. - Software programming and design as well as hardware troubleshooting and repair on the Automated Guidance Vehicles for Boeing 777X. - I am directly involved with the AGV systems doing the installation, servicing, maintenance, upgrading, and modifying of the AGVs to be used with specified machine tooling and process equipment. - My many years of experience and extensive technical knowledge is used to maintain existing procedures while also developing new procedures while also utilising the internal or external resources at my disposal to diagnose, repair and correct system and equipment malfunctions and faults. - I currently have to modify, test and calibrate all applicable system configurations. These changes are documented to meet compliance requirements. - To achieve successful results, I use various types of computing systems and electronic/electrical test equipment to test accuracy of electronic/electrical components/systems and to determine accuracy of equipment. - Part of my duties is to work with Management, Engineering, Equipment manufacturers, Vendors, and other organizations to analyse and make recommendations on facility and equipment design requirements, capability and improvements - Service and I&C support. - Training of other plant personnel. - Liaising between support team and production team and other engineering sectors. Field Service Technician | NOV | IT and Control Systems | Permanent | Port Elizabeth

SNR TECHNICAL CONSULTANT BUSINESS CONNEXION 2012-2014 The above information is declared to be true and correct. All certificates available on request. Next job Desired Job Title: Programme manager/supervisor Willing to relocate: Yes Job Type(s): Permanent/ Contractual Desired Salary: Negotiable

Period: 08/16/2015 - 09/20/2015 Rig/location: Deep water Nautilus/ Brownsville Keppel Amfels Shipyard Main activities: Full SDI Commissioning. Pit Sensors installation and Calibration. Siemens PLC faultfinding and signal conditioning. Mudpit Sensor calibration and commissioning. Mud Shakers signaling. Cyberbase HMI signal setting and correction 2. Position: NOV_FST-TRANSOCEAN Period: 10/29/2015 - 12/12/2015 Rig/location: Deepwater Thalassa/ Onsale from Cape town to GOM Main activities: Full DFR Installation and Commissioning. Pit Sensors Calibration. Siemens PLC faultfinding and signal conditioning. ACS calibration and commissioning. AR signaling, calibration and commissioning. Full talkback control faultfinding and commissioning. Cyberbase HMI signal setting and correction and Hotfix Installation with HMI software update. 3. Position: NOV_FST-NOV_R&D_NAVASOTA Period: 01/25/2015 - 03/19/2015 Rig/location: Prime 1/ On land in Navasota Main activities: Full Amphion control system maintenance and upgrading and testing. NOVOS assistance. Drillshark assistance.SBC faultfinding, replacement and reprogramming. Wago control interrogation and fixing. New firmware and varball upgrades and installation. Rig breakdowns and maintenance. LANGUAGES SPOKEN/WRITTEN 1. English: spoken - good; written - good 2. Afrikaans: spoken - good; written - good

2008-2011 SNR CONTROLS TECHNICIAN DANA SPICER AXLE

2005-2008 MAINTENANCE TEAM LEADER TENNECO

Coordination of the Implementation of changes and upgrades. Create Onsite Project Budget Estimates. Source Vendors. Negotiate Onsite Contracts. Manage Employees and Contractors. Promote and Manage Onsite Project. Service and I&C support. Training of other plant personnel. Upkeep of the MBSC Integra Standard. Liaising between support team and production teams, on both the Customer and Kuka organizations and other engineering sectors. Introduced swing shift initiative, to improve service availability and decrease man hours. Negotiated service personnel hourly rate increase. Designed and implemented software to control production demand. Negotiated onsite billing savings for services. I am currently employed as a Contractor and would like to find a more permanent role.

Software Design and Controls Engineer | KUKA Robotics - Detroit | Software Design and Control Systems | Contractual | Detroit February 2018 - Current Duties & Responsibilities: - Software programming and design. Rockwell Allen Bradley - Hardware troubleshooting and repair - Implementation of changes and upgrades. - I currently have to modify, test and calibrate all applicable system configurations. These changes are documented to meet compliance requirements. - To achieve successful results, I use various types of computing systems and electronic/electrical test equipment to test accuracy of electronic/electrical components/systems and to determine accuracy of equipment. - Part of my duties is to work with Management, Engineering, Equipment manufacturers, Vendors, and other organizations to analyse and make recommendations on facility and equipment design requirements, capability and improvements - Service and I&C support. - Training of other plant personnel. - Liaising between support team and production team and other engineering sectors. Software and I & C Engineer | Protocol Automation for Boeing | IT and Control Systems | Contractual | Seattle

NOV EMPLOYEE SINCE: 03 November 2014 CELL PHONE NO: E-MAIL ADDRESS

November 2014-August 2016 Duties & Responsibilities: - Software and hardware troubleshooting and repair. - Implementation of PIB changes and upgrades. - Service and I&C tow support. - Training of other FSTs in Amphion and certain fault-finding scenarios. - Liaising between South African FST team and other offices/Clients. - Procuring of jobs and other opportunities. - Ensuring the NOV Code of Conduct and supporting policies are being practiced, as well as the standards and applicable process documentation. - Making sure duties are done right the first time around - Ensuring any equipment documentation is kept up to date and easily accessible - Maintain, update and improvement of the job done and experience database, so as to help other engineers who might need a reference to a problem they might be encountering in the field. - Equipment failure prediction analysis. - Analytical and technical support and backup for the subsea support group. - Develop and manage project plans. Senior Technical Consultant | Business Connexion | IT | Permanent | East London

January 2012 to December 2013 Duties & Responsibilities: - Eastern Cape, East London (Buffalo City) Senior Level Permanent IT (IT sector) (Software development /programming) position in the Information Technology (Software) industry Energy and Power Management - Project Management - Project Design Duties - Full project implementation and development of Industrial IT solutions to better facilitate the smooth running of various production systems. - Also full Energy Management and Savings solutions, from concept though to installation and management; - Consolodate various software applications into one streamlined solution accessible from Management to Operator level Automation and Controls Technician | Dana Spicer Axle | Engineering | Permanent | Uitenhage, Eastern Cape

November 2008 to December 2011 Duties & Responsibilities: Duties: * Managing and overseeing projects; - Engineering projects from start to handover; - Scada and software programming; (Siemens, Wonderware and GEFanuc) - Some electrical installations and design; - Project: * Gear Furnace Upgrade; * Cost: R15M; * To fully automate the gear furnace so as to increase the uptime and production Output.; * This is the biggest furnace in the southern hemisphere.; * Also involves a lot of thermodynamic calculations which I am also very involved in.; - *Energy Project; * I have also started implementing cost saving initiatives in that the air compressors used were not running efficiently. I, together with one of our automation companies, solved this by developing a program whereby the two generators will only run on demand. The saving was then taken even further when I implemented a variable speed drive application to the motors on the compressors. This will give us annual electricity saving of R160K.; - Consolidate various software applications so that the energy readouts at the various remote stations can be streamlined into one data collection solution accessible to Management and Engineering Maintenance Team Leader | TENNECO INC | Automotive | Permanent | Port Elizabeth

November 2005 to November 2008 Duties & Responsibilities: Duties: * Managing and overseeing projects.; - Managing a crew of 15 artisans.; - Anticipating machine breakdowns and drawing up of maintenance schedules.; - Ensuring that preventative maintenance schedules are completed; - Making sure that PMS are carried out in time and correctly.; - Making sure that the continuous improvements are carried out successfully.; - Scada and software programming.; - Some electrical installations and design; - Ensuring critical spares lists and spares are kept up to date; - *Counseling and disciplining my staff; - Initiating cost saving ideas; - All office admin; - Purchasing of necessary equipment and machine spares; - Specialized fault finding; - Liaising with management regarding overall plant efficiency; - Liasing with automation and software development team and implementing engineering changes and testing new equipment and reporting on findings Project Coordinator | BC Automation SA | Automotive | Permanent | Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape

October 2004 to October 2005 Duties & Responsibilities: Projects: - Saffil Production Plant (Japan); * Cost: R8M; - I was involved in the full manufacturing and programming of the Saffil Plant in Japan. The machines were built at the BC workshop locally and were shipped to Japan.; - Daimler Chrysler Catalytic Converter Automated Production Line (Tenneco); * Cost:R3.2M; - I was involved mostly in the programming of equipment and commissioning of this project.; Junior Project Engineer | Service Electrical | Engineering | Permanent | Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape

October 2003 to October 2004 Duties & Responsibilities: Duties: - Managing and overseeing projects.; - Engineering projects from start to handover.; - Scada and software programming; - Some electrical installations and design; - Projects: * Fish Water Flats Waste Station Upgrade; * Cost: R1.2M; - I was put in charge of the electrical panel building and of the automation upgrading of this facility. - This included ordering and buying of components, insuring timeous completion of milestone targets and liaising with the customer. - was also instrumental in the handover and commissioning process. - I also helped with the design of the digital input, digital output and analogue cards for the signalling involved in the telemetry system. - This whole project is all controlled via a remote SCADA system using Digital Radio Control and RTUs, which I helped, set up and program.; * Uitenhage Waste Station Power Factor Correction; * Cost: R520K; * - Overseeing and managing project to improve power factor. - This was done by redesigning the old substation panels and increasing load capacitors. This eliminated the harmonic noise traveling down the neutral line and affecting the other devices connected to it

JAN/MAR 2016 SHARK,NOVOS,STV,MP,TD,T D MCWS,PIPE CAT,PS ONSHORE /OFFSHORE

CAPE TOWN-GOM NOV R&D NAVASOTA OCT/DEC 2015 LAND RIG AMPHION,DRILL 672 HOURS

eHAWK S MAY/JUNE 2015 NOV SHIPYARD CYBERBASE AND SDI. 490 HRS TRANSOCEAN NOV TRANSOCEAN AUG/SEPT DRILL SHIP CYBERBASE,DFR, AHC, TD, AR 420 HRS

APRIL/MAY 2015 NOV NEW IBERIA WORKSHOP IRON ROUGHNECK-AMPHION 72 HRS APRIL

ELECTRONIC DRILLING SYSTEM (EDS) LEVEL 0 NOV COLLEGE HST 24 HRS 27/03/2015 OFFSHORE TRAINING PETROFAC 72 HRS 01/04/2015 HANDS ON EXPERIENCE LOCATION TYPE OF FACILITY PRODUCT WORKED ON DATE & NO OF HRS NOV HOUSTON, SHP ASSEMBLY AMPHION 420 HRS

AMPHION CONTROLS SYSTEM LEVEL 0 NOV COLLEGE HST 80 HRS 20/03/2015 NOV COLLEGE HST 16 HRS 24/03/2015 KINETIC ENERGY MONITORING SYSTEM (KEMS) LEVEL 0

HYDRA TONG ELECTRO NOV COLLEGE SA 40 HRS 30/01/2015 OFFSHORE CRANE ELECTRO NOV COLLEGE SA 40 HRS 06/02/2015

PLC PROGRAMMING - ADVANCED SIEMENS NOV COLLEGE SA 40 HRS 16/01/2015 AC DRIVE FUDAMENTALS & MAINTENANCE - ABB NOV COLLEGE SA 40 HRS 23/01/2015

INDUSTRIAL PRACTISE / BASIC HANDSKILLS NOV COLLEGE SA 24 HRS 24/01/2015 BASIC HYDRAULICS NOV COLLEGE SA 40 HRS 09/01/2015

ELECTRO PNEUMATICS FESTO 40 HRS 12/12/2014 PLC PROGRAMMING - APPLICATIONS OF SIEMENS NOV COLLEGE SA 40 HRS 19/12/2014

FIRST AID AT SEA RIVERPORT 24 HRS 28/11/2014 SAMSA BASIC SAFETY FAMILIARISATION NOV COLLEGE SA 8 HRS 01/12/2014

PEC SAFETY NOV COLLEGE SA 24 HRS 19/11/2014 JPO/TRACKER NOV COLLEGE SA 16 HRS 21/11/2014

SAFETY 24/7 NOV COLLEGE SA 40 HRS 05/11/2014 WORKING AT HEIGHTS SCAFF TRAINING 40 HRS 14/11/2014

CYBERBASE CONTROLS SYSTEM LEVEL 0 NOV COLLEGE HST 120 HRS 05/06/2015

2015 NOV BAMMEL CALL CENTRE- 150 HRS AMPHION,CYBERBASE,KEMS,CRANE