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Most recent - 1-5 th April 2019 KUKA Robotics Ltd. - Robot Programming KRC4 - Sofware KSS 8.x

Jan 2019 - Mar 2019: Swift-Cut Automation Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry: Supplier of CNC Plasma Cutting Machines Brief job desc: Sub contract to Install / Test and Commission various machine types as supplied

19th - 21st June 2018 - TwinCAT 3 PLC Programming 2 days + Motion 1 day Glasgow

Nov 2018 - Jan 2019: RADECAL Machine Sales Ltd. Industry: Supplier of CNC Laser / Router machines Brief job desc: Sub contract to Install / Test and Commission various machine types as supplied ^---------------------------------------------------------- Latest entry-----------------------------------------------------------^

Oct - Nov 2018: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc: Test / Commissioning / plc software. This position was a "Follow up" contract to perform "Start up" tests on a Thyryster controlled Cooling Water Heater installed Offshore - Australia. INPEX-Ichthys Project CPF The plc's involved were Schneider Electric "Twido" range. Software TwidoSuite V2.31.04

August 2018: Stolle EMS Group Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Special Purpose Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to test and commission a bespoke Coolant Filtration System feeding can and end-making machinery for the global canmaking industry. The controls were all Rockwell Automation or Allen Bradley. Software RSLogix 5000 / Factory Talk View Studio and included 6 off Powerflex 753/525 Inverter driven pumps. PLC Compact Guard logix HMI Panelview plus 7 Location; Port de Sagunt - Valencia, Spain

Dec 17- Feb 2018: Field International (Shanghai) Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Ground Support Equipment Brief job desc: Electrical installation, Control Panel Test and Commission, to including plc / hmi software. This position was a short term, contract to electrically install, test, commission and modify both PLC and HMI software for 2 off A380 Landing Gear Install / Removal Trolley's. The project was a virtual repeat of two previously completed units with a number of design upgrades / modifications

Nov - Dec 2017: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls for a number of Thyryster controlled Fuel Gas Heaters installed at the Timimoun Field Development Project (SU2720) Algeria. Repeat of previous work

Aug - Sept 2017: Mechtek Automation Ltd. Industry Battery Manufacturing Brief job desc: This was a short term contract to assist in the final testing and commissioning of a battery assembly line before final shipment to site. The comprised some 35 off Kinetix 5500 * 5700 EtherNet/IP Servo Drives. The software involved was Allen Bradley RSLogix 5000 The HMI RS View, machine edition

Nov 16 - Apr 2017: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Final installation / commissioning. This position was a series short term contracts to perform final installation / commissioning on a number of thyrister controlled heaters. They included 7 control panels as installed at the Zauliyah Gas Plant near Haima, (Oman), 3 off control systems onboard "GINA Krog" platform (offshore - Norway), 6 control panels - heaters onboard FPU LIKOUF (offshore - Congo). 2 control systems onboard the Talisman Fulmar (Offshore-North Sea).All required interfacing to DCS via Modbus-TCP or Ethernet or physical IO points. To include Modicon Momentum plc controllers, IP20 monoblock I/Os for distributed control. Concept, IEC Programming Software. IEC 61131-3 development environment

Sept - Oct 2016: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls for a number of Thyryster controlled Fuel Gas Heaters installed at the Khalda Petroleum Co. gas compression site in Egypt's western desert. Repeat of previous work

July - Aug 2016: Swift-Cut Automation Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Technical Support. This was a short term contract to provide technical support on a range of Swift-Cut CNC Plasma cutting tables, and their associated CNC, CAD / CAM application software. The tables were Stepper / Servo motor driven and controlled by bespoke hardware / software (Mach3 based) Employment History continued

Apr - June 2016: Carmichael Mobile Bottling Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Bottling Equipment Brief job desc. HMI / PLC Software This position was a short term contract to modify software onsite in Poland. The software was written using GX-WORKS2-V01-2LOC-E in structured text form on an FX Compact plc FX3GE + various expansion modules. The HMI was Mitsubishi GOT2000 Series Software DESIGNER2

Jan - Feb 2016: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Oil Production (Topsides) Brief job desc. This position was a short term contract to "Proof Test" a SIL rated safety plc system. The equipment (Hardware) Modicon Quantum Unity CPU (fail safe) 140 CPU 671 60S, 2 off Dual-width, TUV certified, configured to provide a Hot Standby' full redundancy system with serial Modbus and Ethernet communications to high level systems. Software, Unity Pro XLS V4.1 Location BP Skarv FPSO offshore, Norwegian waters

Nov - Dec 2015: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. This position was a short term contracts to test and commission the controls for 5 off Thyristor controlled Fuel Gas Heaters installed at Sadara Propylene Oxide Project site, Al Jubail Saudi Arabia. Repeat work

July - Aug 2015: Motion Control Products. Industry: Motion and Control Systems Integration. Special purpose machinery. Brief job desc. CNC retrofit / Rebuild. This position was as a sub - contractor role. A previously working m/c failed during service, the failed parts were obsolete and so a decision was made to upgrade the machine. I was employed to complete project within a fixed timescale as the machine was a vital part of a production process. The rebuild required hardware design, panel assembly / wiring, plc and motion control software

May - June 2015: Field International Ltd. UK based Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Ground Support Equipment Brief job desc. Control Panel Test and Commission, to including plc software. This position was a short term contract to electrically install,test, commission and write both plc and HMI software. It was a virtual repeat of a projected completed almost a year previous

Apr - May 2015: ADRO Ltd. UK based (Now in Liquidation) Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Purpose Machines Brief job desc. Plc Software / Test / Commissioning. This position was a short term contracts to write, test and commission the software for a Packaging machine, The software was Omron CX-One, plc CP1L PLC CPU, 24 VDC including interface with F3S-TGR-CL Light Guards and G9SB Safety Relays

Jul 14 - Apr 2015: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. This position has been a series short term contracts running consecutive to test and commission the controls for a number of Thyristor controlled, Fuel Gas Heaters installed both On and Offshore at various locations around the world. Various plc's / control systems are used on each of the individual control systems mainly customer specified. To include specialist controllers / instruments / Earth current measuring devices. Setup and configuration being an integral part of the control

Jun - Jul 2014: Booth Welsh Automation Ltd. / Veolia Water Industry Oil Production (Topsides) Brief job desc. Pre-Commissioning of a Sulphate Removal System. This position was a short term contract to pre- commission a Sulphate Removal Process comprising a number of High Volume / High Pressure Pumps and their associated instruments. The system was installed on board an FPSO Vessel anchored off Porto Amboin (Angola). The period of work was a straight 28 day rotation. The Control system comprised a dual redundant pair Siemens S7 400 processors running PCS7 and a pc running WinCC. Communications to remote plc's was via profibus ET200M modules. This was a repeat of an earlier project completed by myself in 2007

May - Jun 2014: Field International Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Ground Support Equipment Brief job desc: Control Panel Test and Commission, to including plc software This position was a short term contract, to test, commission and write both plc and HMI software controlling a remote controlled vehicle used in the installation of aircraft landing gear. The control system comprised a Mitsubishi FX 3U 48M plc / GOT 1000 (handheld) HMI Plc. 5 off Schneider Electric Integrated Servo drives moving the loading platform and 4 off Lynch Axial Gap DC brushed motors for each of the wheel axis. Software was PLC, GX IEC Developer FX / HMI, MELSOFT GT Works3 / Comms to each of the drives was via profibus

Apr - May 2014: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc: Test / Commissioning. This position was a series short term contracts to test and commission the controls for a number of Thyryster controlled Fuel Gas Heaters. Both On and Offshore at various locations around the world the main being the RASGAS Alpha platform. Doha, Qatar

Dec 13- Jan 2014: Rockwell Automation Ltd. (ICS Silvertech Ltd.) Industry Offshore Oil /Gas Brief job desc. Electrical Control System (ECS) upgrade. This position was a short term contract (4 weeks) onboard the TOTAL "Dunbar platform" offshore North Sea. The system being replaced, an April PB400 Controller "Merlin Gerin" now obsolete. The scope of work was not limited to installation / commissioning of the new system but included modifying the engineering documentation to "As built", vendor interfacing, procurement of additional parts. Each of the upgraded slave nodes were replaced and each ECS node was then migrated to the ControlLogix hardware in turn, with transfer of the HMI functionality without the need for any production loss or shutdown or loss of electrical supplies. The system was connected to multiple Networks via Ethernet modules (EtherNet/IP). Comms to the DCS was via Pronet Modbus MV156-MCM modules (ProSoft) The controllers were. ControlLogix 1756-L75 controllers Software: RSLogix 5000 Software Version 19.01.00

Nov - Dec 2013: Rockwell Automation Ltd. (ICS Silvertech Ltd.) Industry Offshore Oil /Gas Brief job desc. Software modification. This position was a short term contract (4 weeks) to modify an existing ESD F&G Shutdown System onboard the Chevron "Captain WPP-BLP" offshore North Sea. The system was a full Safety Integrity Level (SIL)-certified integrated safety system. The "online" modifications and SAT were completed as per strict documented guidelines. Equipment: Fail Safe Controller (FSC). Software: Honeywell Safety Manager and FSC Navigator V7.20

Sept - Nov 2013: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. This position was a number of short term contracts to test and commission the controls for Thyrister controlled Fuel Gas pre-heaters. Onsite at various locations across the UK to include the Breagh BVC on Teesside and Intel Processing Plant, Ireland

Aug - Sept 2013: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Rubber Processing / Steam Production Brief job desc. This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls for a Burner Management System (BMS) The two BMS systems were a retrofit / upgrade to a now obsolete system controlling two multi fuel Nebraska boilers. Each system comprised an XPSMF60 Safety plc, an ABB AC 800M plc and a Proface GP2300 HMI Software, XPMFWIN (Elop II) Compact Control Builder V5.1, GP Pro Ex 3.0

Oct 12- Feb 2013: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. 2 projects, Both positions were short term contracts to test and commission the controls for Fuel Gas preheaters. The first in Port Harcourt, Nigeria was part of a major Gas Expansion project managed and constructed by Daewoo Eng & Construction in the Niger Delta. The second in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, was to finally bring into service a High powered 3- Phase Thyristor Controlled Fuel Gas pre-heater installed and pre-tested onsite at Chevron Phillips in Aug 2011

Aug - Sept 2012: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Gas Processing Brief job desc. This position (Phase 2) was a short term contract to continue and complete the commissioning of the controls / Burner Management System (BMS) of a Gas Fired Regen Heater onsite at the Etzel Cavern Storage Facility near Wilhelmshaven Germany. It included the "Dry Out" of the internal refractory. As defined by specific procedures

July - Aug 2012: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. Brisbane, Australia. This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls for a Fuel Gas preheater, part of a Gas Compression project to transport gas across the east coast of Australia. The panel had been severely damaged in transit and as a result required a complete rebuild. This work was under taken at site, it included a re-test as F.A.T. and an S.A.T. site acceptance tests and trials

Nov 11- Feb 2012: HG Systems Ltd. Industry Waste Water Treatment Brief job desc. Commissioning. Onsite, Abu Dhabi, UAE. This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls / user interface for 3 off Cummins Bio Gas Generators and 6 off Cummins Diesel Generators including all their ancillary equipment. The Generators were located at the Wathba / Saad Waste Water Treatment sites in the UAE, The plc's involved were 2 off Schneider Premium TSX H57 44M running in Primary and Standby mode, the programming software was Unity Pro XL V41, The HMI interface was Citect SCADA V7.10 r2 package running on a MAGELIS Industrial pc. The remote I/O was configured using ADVANTYS V4.7.0.1 and consisted of 4 I/O Racks interconnected via Ethernet(Modbus /TCP)

Oct - Nov 2011: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Process Brief job desc. Test & Commissioning. Onsite, Kollsness, Norway. This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls for a Burner Management System (BMS) installed at the Statoil Gas Processing Plant. The 3 Low NOX Burner control system comprised a Full redundant ABB AC 800 controller, redundant I/O and power supplies. Upon completion of the commissioning phase, training was provided to some 30 off operators and technicians

Sept - Oct 2011: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Process Brief job desc. Test & Commissioning. Onsite, Alexandria, Egypt This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls for an Offshore Subsea Safety System, comprising 4 off Hima-Sella HIMatrix Safety controllers and remote I/O modules each located on a separate platform. Communication between devices was achieved using the integrated ethernet switch configured between a single central controller (Onshore) and local remote I/O modules (Offshore). Safe ethernet communications allows safe and non-safe data to be combined on a standard ethernet network without compromising safety Software ELOP II Factory tool

Aug - Sept 2011: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia This position was a short term contract to test and re-commission the controls for a High powered 3-Phase Thyristor Controlled Fuel Gas pre-heater onsite at Chevron Phillips. Employment History continued

Jan - May 2011: Loop Technology Ltd. Industry Automotive Brief job desc. Electrical design / Assembly / Test. This position was a short term contract to Design build and test a control system for a number of automated conveyors used to feed product to a robotic work cell I was involved in all aspects of the control from the design through to software and testing. Altogether there were 14 off conveyors, 2 Inverter (Variable speed) driven and 4 Servo driven (Positional control). Interconnect was via Ethernet interface HMI programmed using RSView, Compact Logix plc programmed using RSLogix5000, the four positioning drives were Kinetix 300 Servo drives and the inverters. The software was constructed utilising Rockwell Automation's modular programming standards

Nov 10- Jan 2011: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Process Brief job desc. Test & Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to commission the controls for a Burner Management System (BMS) onsite at the Al Bayroni fertilizer plant, Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The equipment comprised an Invensys, Triconex Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) Trident controller, NFPA85 certified for Burner Management. Programmed using TriStation 1131 (TS1131) Ver 4.6 an IEC1131-compliant configuration and application development environment for Triconex fault tolerant controllers in Function Block format. As part of the configuration a Sequence of Events data retrieval software application was configured to retrieve events / trips as recorded by the Tricon/Trident controller and organized into a user readable form for analysis. The 5 off burners were of a SpinMix type supplied by John Zinc (USA)

July - Oct 2010: Chromalox UK Ltd. Industry Manufacturer of Specialist Heating Equipment Brief job desc. Test / Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to test and commission the controls for a number of high powered 3-Phase Precision Thyristor Controlled Fuel Gas / Steam Super Heaters up to 300Kw. The heaters were certified for use in hazardous area's (zones 1 and 2)

June - July 2010: Applied Industrial Systems Ltd. Industry Construction Brief job desc. FAT Test / Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to commission the controls for Phase 2 of a Tunnel Ventilation Control System (TVCS) installed at London Heathrow T5, the system comprised of two Siemens S7-400 plc's configured as a redundant pair controlling six Inverter Driven Fans and there associated Air Flow Dampers. Operator interface was via 2 off SIMATIC HMI KTP600 Basic color Displays running WinCC flex. The complete system was interlinked via multiple profibus networks. This position required Airside Security Clearance, Employment History continued

Apr - June 2010: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Process Brief job desc. Test & Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to commission the controls for a Burner Management System (BMS & FRCS) onsite at the PETROM oil refinery at Ploiesti in Romania. There were two control systems, a 14 Burner control and a 4 Burner control.The plant level control interface which includes local alarming, trends and plant visualization was via a Wonderware (Intouch) Scada package. The Control Systems employed were Siemens (S7- 3/400) the CPU417-2 was connected via profibus to a number of ET200M distributed I/O modules (IM 153-2 Redundant) comprising S7-300 digital / analogue Failsafe signal modules

June - Oct 2009: ICS Silvertech Ltd. Industry Offshore Oil /Gas Brief job desc. On site technical support. This position was a short term contract, providing technical support onboard a Dive Support Vessel operating in the North Sea. 28 day rotations. The control system managed the Safety of Deep Sea Dive Teams during dive compression / decompression. The control systems comprised a number of Siemens S7-300 / S7-400 plc's, 13 Units in total each with their own Safety plc running PCS7. The operator interface was via a Wincc Scada System and a number of HMI units programmed using WinnCC Flexible

Aug 08 - June 09: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Process Brief job desc. Commissioning. This position was a short term contract to commission the controls for a number of Burner Management Systems (BMS). The systems were installed in Slovakia and Vietnam. The Control Systems employed were Siemens (S7-3/400) and Allen Bradley (RS Logix 5000) and other specialist components ie. Flame Scanners and Igniters with some limited exposure to a Triconex integrated F&G Software control system. The position required long periods on site both liaising with and supporting the client to both amend and interface the control system to meet the process requirements. The position in Vietnam was the commissioning of a CO Boiler on a new and very large Oil Refinery project which proved very demanding

July - Aug 2008: Solios Thermal Ltd Industry Thermal Industry, Novelis Location Sierre, Switzerland Brief job desc. Commissioning of a Melting / Holding Furnace. This position was a short term contract to assist in the commissioning of Phase 2 of a large installation within the thermal industry, utilising high technology equipment used in the aluminium industry. The equipment comprised of AB Ethernet linked Plc's, Logix L5562 / Flex I/O modules. Software platforms RSLogix 5000, RSView Studio V4.50

Apr - July 2008: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Process Location KOC, Kuwait Brief job desc. Control panel assembly. This position was a short term contract to commission a control system for Burner Management Systems (BMS). The equipment comprised a Honeywell Fail Safe Control System with Dual Redundancy interfaced to the Heater comprising Dual Burners via intrinsically safe barriers. The software platform was Honeywell FSC Navigator V7.01. The work also included interfacing with a Desalter supplied by others and the main control DCS. A full test of the control system and wiring was performed before functional operation testing was carried out. Employment History continued

Aug 07 - Apr 08: Booth Welsh Automation Ltd. / Veolia Water Industry Oil Production (Topsides) Brief job desc. Pre-Commissioning of a Sulphate Removal Systems. Pre- commission role to ensure equipment functionality prior to the process engineers arriving onboard. The Control system comprised a dual redundant pair Siemens S7 400 processors running PCS7 and a DCS running WinCC

Jan - June 2007: Charter-Tech Ltd. Industry Process Brief job desc. Control panel assembly. This position was a short term contract to assemble a control panel for Burner Management Systems (BMS).The work included both mechanical and electrical assembly and final testing

Nov 05- Jan 07: Lyntott Control Systems, Norwich Industry Water Treatment Brief job desc. Contract, ICA Engineer. Commissioning of both hardware and software on various water treatment sites throughout the UK. Mainly Mitsubishi "A" Series plc's some Allen Bradley RSLogix 500

Aug - Oct 2005: Arcall Wright Pugson, Industry Cheese Processing Machinery Brief job desc. Contract Commissioning Engineer. Onsite installation, test and Commissioning of Cheese Process Machinery which included Cutters, Handling and Wrapping Machines

Feb-July 2005: Tyco Wormold, Norwich Industry: Sewage Treatment. Brief job desc. Contract, ICA Engineer. Commissioning both hardware and software on various sewage treatment sites throughout East Anglia and the Midlands. setup or interfacing

Jan-Feb 2005: Biwater International Limited, Industry: Water Treatment. Brief job desc. Contract, ICA Engineer. Commissioning both hardware and software on various water treatment sites in the Devon / Cornwall area

June - Dec 2004: Drilling Systems (UK) Ltd. Industry: Oil/ Gas. Brief job desc. Contract, Plc / Controls Engineer. Commissioning and setup of training simulator comprising nine S7-416-2 CPU's software Siemens S7 V5.3

Feb - June 2004: Courtaulds Engineering Ltd. (C.E.L.) Industry: High Speed Food Machinery. Brief job desc. Contract, Plc / Controls Engineer. Commissioning hardware and software on food (crisp) production and packing lines. Employment History continued

Nov - Dec 2003: Kesan Automation Ltd. (In Liquidation) Industry: Automotive Brief job desc. Contract, Plc Engineer. Modification of existing fixture control software in Robotic Manufacturing Cells. Aug.- Nov 2003 Molins ITCM Industry: High Speed Packaging Machinery Brief job desc. Contract, Plc Engineer. / Electrical Documentation Production of General Arrangement Drawings, Manufacturing Drawings, of Materials, Schematic Wiring Diagrams, Parts Specification and Procurement" using AutoCAD 2002 and RS Wire V4.01. May.- Aug 2003 Fluor Daniel. Fluor Corporation is one of the world's largest, publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance service organizations. Industry: Pharmaceutical (BMS site, Dublin) Brief job desc. Contract, Plc Programmer / C&I. Programming and modifications on a range Siemens S7 300 / 400 series and TSX Modicon Momentum plc's

Feb 2003 Siemens Dematic Ltd. A major supplier of Material Handling and Automation Equipment Industry: Material Handling Brief job desc. Contract, Plc Engineer. / Electrical Documentation Plc software programming and modifications on TSX-Modicon Quantum & Momentum plc's

Jan 2003: Pharmatec Procip Ltd. (In Liquidation) A supplier of process control equipment to the Pharmaceutical Industry Industry: Pharmaceutical Brief job desc. Contract, Controls and Instrumentation. Electrical design of control panels for a Pure Water Systems

Nov 2001 Geo. Kingsbury Machine Tools Ltd. Manufacturer of Special Purpose Machinery, Transmission Test Rigs Industry: Automotive Brief job desc. Contract / Permanent, Controls Engineer. Plc software, testing and commissioning of what were complex transmission test rigs. Employment History continued

April 1996. R.W. t/a STEP DESIGN. Industry: Motion and Control Systems Integration Brief job desc. Self Employed. Control Systems Engineer specialising hardware design, plc, motion control software, panel assembly / wiring on special purpose machinery

Jan 1993. C.E.T. Automation / Electronics Ltd. (In Liquidation) Industry: Robotics and Motion Control Systems. Brief job desc. Control Systems Supervisor. Aug. 1990. Systematic Control Ltd. (In Liquidation) Industry: Motion Control Products and Systems. Brief job desc. Technical and application support engineer, Drives and Controls

July 1986. Unimatic Engineers Ltd. (In Liquidation) Industry: Automation Products. Brief job desc. Field Service engineer

May 1979. P.K.S. Digiplan Ltd. Industry: Stepping Motor drives and Controls. Brief job desc. Systems Test Engineer

Mar 1973. H.M. Forces, R.E.M.E. Brief job desc: Telecommunications Technician CV END