OBJECTIVE
Seeking a challenging position as an Instrument Technician in a quality and safety driven environment where my skills and experience will add maximum value to the client's equipment.

EDUCATION
Oberlin High School - Oberlin, La. ITI Technical College, 2 year associates degree - Baton Rouge, La.

EXPERIENCE
May 2007 to Present Instrument/FCO Technician Alyeska Pipeline, North Slope, Alaska for Udelhoven Oilfield System Services. FCO on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline's Strategic Reconfiguration project. Responsible for calibrating, loop shooting, and documenting instrument loops on this major capital upgrade.

Oct 2006 to Mar 2007
Operations and Maintenance Technician
Minnesota Municipal Power Agency – Dahlen Berg , Faribault, Minnesota.
Contract Operations and Maintenance responsible for all field aspects of operating the plant and maintaining the instrumentation and control systems at this peaking power generation plant. Mark VI turbine controls and Delta V DCS with smart transmitters.

Jun 2005 to Oct 2006
Instrument/FCO Technician
Alyeska Pipeline, North Slope, Alaska for Udelhoven Oilfield System Services.
FCO on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline's Strategic Reconfiguration project. Responsible for calibrating, loop shooting, and documenting instrument loops on this major capital upgrade.

Jan 2005 to May 2005
I &C Field Engineer
Minnesota Municipal Power Agency – Dahlen Berg , Faribault, Minnesota.
Commissioning of a GE Frame 7FA gas turbine in a simple cycle and dual fuel configuration. Mark VI turbine controls and Delta V DCS with analog and Hart Protocol instrumentation for Balance of Plant Operations.

Dec 2004 to Jan 2005
I&C Field Engineer
Hovensa Oil Refinery, St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands.
Assisted with system walk-downs and completion of turnover packages on a reactor replacement project.

Mar 2004 to Dec 2004
Instrument/FCO Technician
Conoco Phillips, Alpine, Alaska for Veco.
Start-up and commissioning of seawater injection expansion project designed to increase oil production from 100,000 to 130,000 barrels per day for Alpine and Kuparuk oil fields.

Jan 2004 to Mar 2004
Instrument/Startup Field Engineer
Exira Station Power Project, Exira, IA and Cornbelt in Spencer, IA for Barlow.
Provided field support associated with 2 LM 6000 turbines with Mark VI controls. Delta V and Foundation Fieldbus controls used on BOP system. Start-up of one GE Frame 7 EA Gas Turbine, Simple Cycle. Mark V Controls.

Sep 2003 to Jan 2004
Lead I&C Field Engineer
Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical, Indianapolis, Indiana for Emerson Rosemount Process Management.
Witnessed calibrations, recorded testing data and tracked contract man hours spent at test facility for an insulin upgrade project which consisted of an addition of 7 autoclaves.

Jul 2003 to Aug 2003
I&C Field Engineer
Lauhauff Cogeneration facility, Danville, Illinois for Barlow Group.
Rebuilt control valves and calibrated instrumentation associated with 20 megawatt steam turbine generator and boiler for annual turnaround.

Aug 2002 to May 2003
Lead I&C Field Engineer
Tenaska Energy, Billingsly, Alabama for Barlow Group.
Start up and commissioning of 3 GE 7 FA Gas turbines, combined cycle with Deltak HRSG’s and 1 GE D11 Steam turbine utilizing Mark VI and Bailey Infi90 controls.

Oct 2001 to Jul 2002
I&C Technician
Pinnacle West Energy , Phoenix, Arizona for Barlow Group.
Start up and commissioning of 4 GE Frame 7FA Gas turbines, combined cycle with NEMS HRSG’s and 2 Alstom steam turbines utilizing Mark V and Bailey Net90 controls. This was a 1000 Megawatt facility.

Sep 2001 to Oct 2001
FCO/Controls Technician
BP Northstar Island, Alaska for Udelhoven Oilfield System Services.
Start up and commissioning of 2 LM 2500 turbines with Dresser Rand Compressors and 3 Solar gas turbines for British Petroleum at North Star Island.

July 2001 to Sep 2001
I&C Technician
Lauhoff Cogeneration Facility, Danville, Illinois.
Overhaul on a Siemens steam turbine, 20 megawatt generator. Calibrated instrumentation for turbine and boiler.

Mar 2001 to Jul 2001
I&C Technician
Great River Energy, Jackson, MN.
Startup and commissioning of six GE frame 7 EA simple cycle gas turbines with Mark V controls.

Dec 2000 to Mar 2001
I&C Startup Technician
BASF, Port Arthur, TX.
Start up and commissioning of Cogeneration unit and Ethylene Plant.

Sep 2000 to Dec 2000
I&C Startup Technician
ITS, Intercession City, Florida
Start up and commissioning of three GE frame 7 EA gas turbines with Mark V controls.

May 1998 to Sep 2000
Instrument\Analyzer Technician
Westlake Petrochemicals, Sulphur, La.
Performed maintenance, repairs, calibrations, troubleshooting for instrumentation, electrical, and analytical equipment on site. New equipment installations, startups, commissioning of new units, monthly checks on area combustible and toxic monitors. Repair of control valves, calibration of Fieldvue and other valve positioners. Calibration of Applied Automation and ABB gas chromatographs, and other analyzers. Responsible for function checks on furnaces, boilers, reactors, compressors, and process skids.

Oct 1997 to May 1998
Instrument\Analyzer Technician
Jacobs Engineering at Westlake Petrochemicals, Sulphur, La.
Performed maintenance for a styrene, polyethylene, and two ethylene units. Installations, repairs, and calibrations of instruments, electrical equipment, and a variety of analyzers. Responsible for upgrading documentation on equipment due to mechanical or process changes.

Aug 1996 to Oct 1997
Instrument Technician
Huntsman Chemical, Austin, TX.
Performed maintenance, troubleshooting, installations, calibrations and new project startups. Configured new I\O points for Foxboro DCS. ISO 9000 compliant calibration of lab equipment and plant instrumentation.

Jun 1996 to Aug 1996
Instrument Technician
Austin Industrial at Huntsman Chemical, Austin, TX.
Contract maintenance responsible for instrument calibrations and repairs, calibration of weigh scales, new project installations, tuning and programming controllers.

Feb 1996 to Jun 1996
Instrument Technician
Seco Industries at Conoco, Westlake, LA
Construction of new wastewater unit and PSA skid tie in. Instrument and electrical installations, I/O terminations, field terminations, tubing installations for control valves and transmitters. Performed loop checks and start up.

March 1993 to February 1996
Valve\Instrument Technician
Control Products of Louisiana, Lafayette, La.
Repaired and Refurbished Fisher control valves, pneumatic controllers, transmitters, and switches. Provided field technical service for customers.  Installed new boiler packages for companies such as Georgia Pacific, Boise Cascade, General Motors, Dow Chemical, and International Paper. Installation of new DCS systems along with the instrumentation, EPA stack monitoring and combustion control.

SKILLS OVERVEIW
Instrument\Electrical\Controls Technician. Skilled with the installation, repair and calibration of a wide variety of electronic and pneumatic instrumentation such as Honeywell, Fisher, Rosemount, ABB, Ohmart Vega, Applied Automation, Bentley Nevada, Bailey, Saab, Ametek, Foxboro, and many more. Designed new sample systems for oxygen analyzers, pH meters, conductivity meters, process gas chromatographs and maintained equipment after being put in service. Thorough knowledge in the repair and calibration of an extensive range of control valves and positioners. Experienced with ABB, Honeywell, Rosemount, Moore, Foxboro, Bailey Infi90 and Net90 DCS systems and GE Mark V and Mark VI turbine control systems. Have conducted commissioning of gas turbines, steam turbines, cogeneration facilities and other capital upgrades.

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING
Nicet level II certified (not active)
Applied Automation Analyzer training course - Houston, TX.
Ohmart Vega Nuclear Level training course - Sulphur, La.
API analyzer training school (1 year)
Radio communications training, US Army - Ft. Gordon, Ga.

REFERENCES
Available upon request