Position Desired: Position of responsibility that will allow me to utilize my experience with automated controls and electrical systems on diverse, goal and safety oriented projects
Current Position: FCO/Commissioning Electrician, Udelhoven Oilfield System Services, Anchorage, AK
1/06-Present Functional Checkout and Commissioning activities for the power generation and distribution systems on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Strategic Reconfiguration Project for Alyeska Pipeline Services Company. Start-up of an ABB 138Kv Substation and transformer, the ABB AX1 13.8Kv Power Distribution Switch Gear with Cutler-Hammer Digitrip protected 480V switchboards and MCC’s. Verification and startup of 13.8Kv to 6.6Kv ABB transformers providing power for a Rockwell Variable Frequency Drive for a 6500 Horsepower motor driving a mainline Sulzer crude oil pump. Startup of 13.8Kv to 480V transformers for utility power. Startup redundant power schemes with Basler Synchronization relays, Hayley UPS systems and Caterpillar 2.25 MW backup generators.
Previous Position: Gas Turbine Lead Control System Field Engineer, General Electric Power Systems
4/01-6/06 Penpower USA, Tampa, Florida
Responsibilities: Provide technical advice for construction personnel during the construction, commissioning and startup of General Electric gas turbines. Coordinate different crafts and different subcontractors to insure timely completion of activities with safety as primary objective. Quality Control and inspection for all instrumentation and low voltage (below 600v) electrical systems associated with industrial power generation facilities. Insure all as-built drawings are complete and properly submitted to and accepted by the client.
Projects executed with Penpower:
Sierra Pacific Power Company-Sparks, NV Lead Controls TA during upgrade of the Mark V system from IDOS to HMI operating system, FCO new software and hardware, schedule and complete DLN1 tuning with combustion engineering group.
Cardinal Cogeneration-Stanford, CA Lead Controls TA during re-assembly and restart of Frame 6B on the Stanford University Campus, QA/QC for newly installed instrumentation and electrical equipment, coordinate DLN1 tuning.
Nitrogena de Cantarell-Cuidad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico Lead Controls TA during control and electrical system upgrades to isochronous load sharing arrangement utilizing four Frame 7 EA gas turbines. FCO of interconnected equipment and software. QA/QC inspection for new equipment and control loops.
Conoco/Phillips-Medicine Hat, AB, Canada Lead Controls TA for re-assembly, instrument and electrical inspection and commissioning of two GE Frame 5 split shaft gas turbines used in conjunction with gas compressors.
First Energy-Forked River, NJ Lead Controls TA for re-assembly, inspection and commissioning of Frame 6B gas turbine after major inspection, retrofit low voltage electrical system, perform inspections and FCO work.
Huntsman Chemical Corporation-Port Neches, TX Lead Controls Mark IV TA as startup support after major inspection that included axial compressor and 1st stage nozzle replacement of Frame 6B gas turbine. Coordinate customer and subcontractor activities during extensive DLN1 combustion issues during restart.
Imperial Oil Mahkeses Project-Cold Lake, AB, Canada Lead Controls Mark V TA as startup support with an HMI system after combustion inspection of DLN1 system. Significant combustion issues during restart.
Air Liquide-Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Canada Lead Controls Mark V TA as startup support system of DLN1 system on Frame 7EA. Significant remote breaker synchronizing issue, complete simulation and operation of main breaker during outage.
Portland General Electric-Boardman, OR Lead Controls Mark V TA during close out of original construction punchlist of controls HMI System for Frame 7FA. Coordinate subcontractor completion of outstanding items.
Portland General Electric-Boardman, OR Lead Controls Mark V TA during retrofit of controls system to HMI System. Startup support after major inspection that included rotor replacement of Frame 7FA. Rotor was dynamically balanced with Bently Nevada Adre System. Valve calibrations and startup support of D10 steam turbine.
Sempra Elk Hills Power Project-Tupman, CA Lead Controls Mark V TA during startup of two Frame 7FA with DLN 2.6 combustion system (remotely tuned), Steam Augmentation with a Hydrogen cooled 192 MW General Electric Generator using the EX2000 generator controls and LCI static starting system, monitored with Bently Nevada 3500 Vibration System in combined cycle service with a D11, 225 MW Steam turbine. Schedule startup and commissioning activities, coordinate client acceptance and turnover documentation.
Imperial Oil Mahkeses Project-Cold Lake, AB, Canada Startup of two Frame 7EA gas turbines in combined cycle service for oil process facility. DLN1 combustion tuning, electric starting means. Bently Nevada 3500 Vibration Monitoring System displayed on HMI.
PSEG Waterford Power Project-Waterford, OH Lead Controls Mark V TA during Phase 1 startup of three Frame 7FA with DLN 2.6 combustion sytem (remotely tuned) with a Hydrogen cooled 192MW General Electric Generator using the EX2000 generator controls and LCI static starting system, monitored with Bently Nevada 3500 Vibration System in simple cycle service. Unit 2 had a green rotor which was dynamically balanced during startup with the Adre Balancing System by Bently Nevada.
Cinergy, Wabash River Repowering Project-Terre Haute, IN Lead Controls Mark V TA during six week outage and restart of a Frame 7FA with dual fuel (Natural Gas and Syngas) Steam Augmentation with a Hydrogen cooled 192 MW General Electric Generator. Installation of temporary instrumentation used for troubleshooting.
Previous Employment: Lead FCO Technician, BPX North Star Project
5/00-4/01 VECO, Anchorage, AK
Responsibilities: Pre-commission the NorthStar Facility. There are 3 Solar Mars 90 gas turbines as power generation and 2 GE LM2500 turbines driving high-pressure natural gas compressors.
Lead the FCO effort of the Nikiski Co-generation project on the startup of a GE Frame 6 with a 50 MW GE generator.
Previous Employment: Lead FCO Technician, ARCO Alpine Project
10/99-5/00 Alaska Petroleum Contractors, Kuparuk, AK
Responsibilities: Participate in the development and orchestration of the FCO plan for the Alpine project. Supervise approximately 10 FCO technicians to insure the proper operation of all equipment for the project. FCO "hands on" the one (1) PGT10 and two (2) Frame 5 gas turbines supplied by Nuovo Pignone with the GE Mark V control systems which were interconnected with a Moore DCS. This equipment is monitored continuously with the Bentley Nevada 3500 vibration system. These units are used in power generation with Brush Generators and in gas compression with 3 stage gas compressors supplied by Nuovo Pignone. The generators are controlled by GE Generator Protection and Control System packages and the compressors are using Compressor Controls Corporation Series 3 Plus Antisurge controllers.
2/99-5/99 Bay Limited, Corpus Christi, TX
Responsibilities: Pre-commission the Nuovo Pignone supplied Frame 5 turbine and compressors with GE Mark V and CCC Series III Plus Antisurge controllers in Module C1 prior to shipping to North Slope staging area. Provide consultation during initial installation of all Nuovo Pignone equipment at the Fab site based on years of experience and recent pitfalls experienced during PGT 5 turbine and 3 stage series compressors installation at the Endicott Facility.
Previous Employment: Industrial Turbine / Instrument Technician
7/92-1/99 BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. Endicott Island Facility
Responsibilities: GE Mark IV for Nuovo Pignone Frame 1 gas fired turbine, Mark IV Plus for Nuovo Pignone Frame 5 gas fired split shaft turbine driving 3 stages of centrifugal compressors, vibration monitored with Bently Nevada 7200 Series. Turbine controls for the Ruston Tornado, which features the Rustronics Mark I. These units are single shaft in Power generation and two shafts on centrifugal pump drives.
New generation turbine controls from Nuovo Pignone, Souvimac System on Pignone PGT5 gas turbine with a complex 3 stage series compressor, enhanced with the Moore PLC based controls. Automated process control systems consisting of Allen-Bradley PLC-3 and PLC-5 interfaced with a Fisher ProVox Lcon system. Vibration monitored with Bently Nevada 3300 System. Pyrotronics and General Monitor Fire and Gas control panels, with a Dooley Tackabery Fine Water Mist system in the EOR module. Endicott Island is a self sufficient offshore oil production installation. Crude oil is extracted from the reservoir; processed to separate the water and gas which is then re-injected into the reservoir with additional amounts of seawater. The oil is metered and shipped to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. During my career at Endicott I have had the responsibilities of maintaining the process instrumentation and equipment from the wells through the shipping pipeline to delivery at Alyeska Pump Station 1.
Professional Affiliations
Current Member-Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society
State of Alaska fitness card for Journeyman Electrician
State of Oregon fitness card for Journeyman Electrician
Education
Diploma, Stigler High School, Stigler, OK, 1980
Associate Degree, Instrumentation, Electronics and Electrical, Oklahoma State University, Okmulgee, OK, 1982
General Electric Speedtronics Mark IV Plus, Schenectady, NY, 1993
General Electric Speedtronics Advanced Mark V Course, Schenectady, NY, 2001
General Electric Speedtronics Mark V, 7FA S-17 Protection Course, Schenectady, NY, 2004
References Available on Request