Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Experience: Over 35 productive years in the Technical IT stream involving "Real-Time Data Flow" using a diverse set of professional roles. Known for my ability to grasp the bigger picture and my start-to-end implementation skills. Additional strengths are in troubleshooting, communications and documentation. Proven abilities in Project Management, Business Analysis, Technical Lead, Team Lead, System Analysis, Application Data Integration, Application Design, Database Design, Task/Resource Planning, Vendor RFI selection process, Project Deployment and Architecture. Subject Matter expert in EMS, SCADA, Energy Marketing, Plant Historians and Revenue Metering collections, particularly in the deregulated Alberta Generation sector, Software product experience includes OSI PI historians, Matrikon OPC, Aspen IP21 historians/SQL Plus/Aspen Calc, Business Objects Crystal reports, Oracle databases, TIBCO and BizTalk messaging. Email: [email protected]
• Senior Data Manager: Designed and built PI Tag Maintenance Application in SQL Server TSQL for Repsol. Allows instrumentation engineers to dump SCADA or DCS tag information and compare it to what’s in the PI server. PI Builder CSV files are automatically built to discover: New tags; Changed tags; Scan Off tags, Orphaned tags, New Digital Sets. This will benefit the speedy creation and maintainability of site’s PI tags. • Requirements thru workshops, designed and built PI Asset Framework (PI-AF) hierarchical model for ATCO Transmission system based on provided “Use Cases”, “Naming Standards” and Maximo Asset information. PI AF Analytics were built to monitor and trigger events for analysis. The ROI benefits will be realized in the creation of business applications against the PI AF. • To allow the PI MDB to PIAF migration, helped redesign AF and Excel VBA code in Well Testing application for CNRL • Estimated the work and cost of a Wind Plant design for SEPEnergy • Created Oracle SQL calls for daily and monthly csv file extractions of data from the Hythe Liquids Integration for Veresen • Using PI Builder, quickly built 881 AF elements using templates with associated naming, saving the AltaLink customer time and reducing data entry error. • Requirements thru workshops, designed and built PI Asset Framework (PI-AF) hierarchical model for ENMAX’s Carstairs Simple Cycle Jet Gas turbine plant. This was a Pilot to standardize hierarchy and attribute naming for the benefit of users and BI integration. • Designed and built TSQL SQL Server application to collect the ON/OFF active state duration and daily tonnage from a PARCVIEW historian, for a Pretivm Gold mine site. The JSON data is then POSTed to a JDE Web Site. Documented and automated the processes. The benefit is to automate Reliability data. • Designed and built VB custom code for PARCVIEW File_IO process, for a Husky site. Configured the SFTP access to remote Internet data. Documented and automated the process.
- Senior Technical Lead in Operational Integrity Program (OPS). A Process Safety dashboard with feeds from all major safety aspects of the company. Primarily oversaw dashboard infrastructure procurement and real-time field integration with respect to DCS Alarm Management and Control loop status. - Subject Matter Expert in interfacing to Alberta Electric System Operator participants. (AESO) - Subject Matter Expert and Technical Lead for large Revenue Metering application re-platform (PDS Project) - Technical Lead / Renewable Resource Engineer for Le Nordais SCADA selection, Proof-Of-Concept, design, RFI, RFP and Matrikon OPC installation for Wind SCADA replacement acquisition and deployment Project - Subject Matter Expert in Production Data Store, Reconciliation Tool, Monitoring, Interfaces to CAP, APBS, EIM. integration Projects - Technical Lead for Real-time Data / meter integration for brownfield Wind Generation acquisitions - Business Analyst and Technical Lead for Application Task / Resource estimations for multiple enhancement projects that utilize OPC, Apsen IP21 Historians, Oracle and BizTalk - Support Engineer for OPC data integration and Apsen IP21 historians
- Thermal Plant Optimization Program Pilot Core Team - Bridging Plant data into corporate information and optimizing the thermal Plant performance characteristics - Corporate Operations Diagnostic Centre Core Team - Integrating real-time operational data with centralized decision support using EtaPro for monitoring performance degradation and Smart Signal for holistic failure predictions. - Business Analyst and Technical Lead for Application Task / Resource estimations for multiple enhancement projects
Energy Marketing IT - Many roles, - Project Manager, Business Analyst, Technical Design, Technical Lead, Team Lead, System Analyst, Implementer - Build of Centralized Meter handling system of PML meters in preparation of Provincial deregulation in order to provide the AESO with our contracted meter values (PIRMET). - Built many of the original Web scraping applications and delivered data via messaging - Implementation team for planning and deployment of the ZAINET Trading system. (1st & 2nd generations) This team also created interfaces between corporate systems and ZAINET. - Implementing team for real-time trading using TIBCO information Bus, Microsoft and IBM messaging - Senior Systems Analyst, Energy Marketing Support - Energy Trade Entry and Risk Management system (ZaiNet) - Real-Time Decision Support applications - Project Manager, Designer, Implementer: EMS to Generation Hydro, Statistics interface - System Architect - Energy Trading & Services within TransAlta Energy Marketing - Supervisor - ERM, Engineering & Metering Projects and Support - Engineering Applications Specialist - Project Manager - PIRMET DB