Greater Aveiro Area
Senior Electrical Engineer with more than 21 years of experience designing LV and MV distribution systems for industrial plants as well as for conventional and renewable power generation plants. I’m a driven, hardworking and committed engineer who can analyze complex engineering problems and propose several detailed solutions and that is actively looking to further improve my personal and professional skills and to increase my technical knowledge. No. Portuguese Engineers Order (Central Region): 90192 (Active Member N2) No. Venezuelan Engineers Institution: 160796 (Active Member)
Responsibilities: - Engineering support to the Maintenance Service Center (MSC) team, with technical aspects like: Modules and Inverters replacement analysis, Inverters issues analysis and strings rewiring solutions proposals. - Analyzed several corrosion related issues in different plants and proposed solutions with BOM. - Performed technical market analysis of new technologies, preparing technical compendiums, brief presentations and standardized documentation for RFQ and tender processes. - Bid technical evaluation of DC and AC power cables. - Developed LV general one-line diagrams for several pre-sale proposals. Reviewed and updated as-built LV schematics.
Responsibilities: - Led and coordinated local and international technical teams located in different countries (up to 20 people per project team). - Scheduled discipline activities and prepared the Engineering Deliverables List per project and maintained a detailed control over the objectives and planning. - Interdisciplinary coordination. - Reviewed, commented and approved all the electrical technical documentation submitted by engineering subcontractors, electrical suppliers and mechanical packages vendors ensuring compliance with local standards and Abengoa specifications, before its submittal to the Client. - Ensured design integration between subcontractors engineering designs with Abengoa engineering design. Review subcontractors’ contracts, scopes, deliverables and planning. - As-built documentation supervision. - Site Support and led meetings with multiple subcontractors and suppliers acting as a liaison between them and the Client. Projects: - Fulcrum Sierra Biorefinery, NV, USA. Biofuels Plant. - EL420, CA, USA. Hydrogen Power Production System. - Atacama 2 PV Substation, Chile. Substation. - Cogeneration Plant CCA3T, Mexico. Cogeneration Plant. - Centro Morelos, Morelos, Mexico. Combined Cycle Power Plant. - Rentech, Pasadena, TX, USA. Cogeneration Plant. - Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas,Hugoton, KS, USA. Biofuels Plant. - Castilla-La Mancha Solar Complex, Ciudad Real, Spain. Power Generation Plant (Solar). - El Carpio Solar Complex, Córdoba, Spain. Power Generation Plant (Solar). - Extremadura Solar Complex, Cáceres, Spain. Power Generation Plant (Solar).
Responsibilities: - Performed technical and personal evaluations on the department staff (up to 10 people). - Followed up all the activities assigned to the personnel as well as supervised the electrical team performance in each project. - Assigned and distributed the staff properly per project according to each individual skills, projects requirements, etc., in order to maximize efficiency and to reduce time response. - Ensured that the department design standards as well as the company quality standards were met in each product that was issued to our different Clients. - Reviewed and kept the departmental design bases updated. - Provided prompt solutions for construction issues in several ongoing projects. - Oversaw multiple projects, scheduled the engineering activities, and followed them up and supported the assigned team when and where needed, closing all the projects on time, with the expected quality, within the budget and the Client’s immediate approval and satisfaction. - Prepared bid packages for several projects (electrical scope of work description, estimated man hours and deliverables list).
Time Period: September 2008 – May 2010 & March 2016 – September 2017 Responsibilities: - Conceptual, Basic and Detailed engineering design. Prepared drawings, calculations as well as other technical documentation, and MTOs for each electrical subsystem. - Procurement department support in the revision of all the electrical technical documentation submitted by engineering subcontractors and suppliers. - Trained new staff on the design of solar plants as per corporate and European standards. - Standardized several deliverables including drawings and technical documents. - Site support and Site Survey of as-built electrical raceways. Projects: - Waad Al Shamal, Tarif, Saudi Arabia. Combined Cycle Power Plant with an integrated Solar Field (Solar). - Norte III, Juárez, MX. Combined Cycle Power Plant. - Solana Solar Plant, Gila Bend, AZ, USA. Power Generation Plant (Solar). - Electrical specialist for the Departmental Improvements (internal project), Seville, Spain. - ENCE Biomass Plant. Biomass Plant. - Nuevo PEMEX, Tabasco, Mexico. Cogeneration Plant. - Ecija Solar Complex, Seville, Spain. Power Generation Plant (Solar). - Solnova 4, Seville, Spain. Power Generation Plant (Solar). - Solnova 3, Seville, Spain. Power Generation Plant (Solar). - Eureka 4, Seville, Spain. Power Generation Plant (Solar).
Responsibilities: - Detailed power and control cables engineering. Including cables requisitions and technical bid evaluations. - Proposed cost-effective improvements on the existing electrical raceways design. - Site support for cables routing and installation, wiring lists and schematics design based on the final vendor data. - Prepared a comprehensive procedure for detailed cables engineering that allowed project gross cables losses as well as site’s surplus reduction from 30% to less than 1% of the total. - Provided to the electrical team leader support with project’s and document’s control and project activities organization. - Submitted monthly electrical progress reports. - Improved cathodic protection and grounding constructive details. - Prepared bid packages for several subprojects, including: electrical scope of work description, estimated man hours for more several subprojects, and deliverables list. Projects: - Planta Josefa Camejo, Venezuela. Power Generation Plant (Gas). - Planta Ezequiel Zamora. Power Generation Plant (Gas). - Planta Termoeléctrica Termobarrancas, Venezuela. Power Generation Plant (Gas). - Sinovensa, Morichal, Venezuela. Petrochemical Plant.
Responsibilities: - Professor support on classes reviewing tests, etc. - Provided extra-classes and assignments to each student in order to help them out succeeding on the corresponding subject. - Participated in lab classes and assisted the students. - Prepared and scored mock-up tests for the mid-term and final exams. - Carried out labs maintenance, including: electrical equipment, computers and network. - Provided support to any other teaching assistant that required to use the labs. Assignments: - Physics teaching assistant. - Electric Circuits teaching assistant - Electronics teaching assistant. - Network Systems teaching assistant.