United States
I am a systems engineer, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Go Buffalos). I have a Masters in Industral Engineering. I have 25 years electrical engineering experience, commissioning, programming, and managing industrial systems comprising of MES, HMIs, PLCs and SCADA systems. I am a Industrial Control Systems Engineer by trade but have the capacity to run a business, manage projects, do finances, and fix my Jeep. I have cyber security and network knowledge. I am a contributing editor for Control Design, an EMT and private pilot. I am a survivor and a fighter. Education: TwinCat Basics, September 2021. Emergency Medical Technician, December 2017. Siemens PCS7 Systems Engineer I, November 2017. FANUC: Vision Class, 2 Dimensional, February 2016. FANUC: Programming 2, September 2015. FANUC: Pendant Programming, August 2015. SNHU MBA Supply Chain and Operations Management with Quantitative classes, 2014. Siemens WinPM, 2013. Masters of Science, Systems Engineering at Iowa State, 2010. Lean Six Sigma Certification, Arizona State University, 2005. BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, 2003. Cisco Networking, TCP/IP, New Horizons, 2004. DMS 100/200, Lucent 5ESS switch, 2004. Tellabs,US West,2002. Communications Control Specialist, USAF, 1990.
Lead industrial capital projects specializing in brownfield upgrades. This includes specifying substations, disconnects, grounding, tray and conduits, PLC systems, fire retardation soecifications, construction specifications, scheduling crews, testing, commissioning, and validation Lead people with estimated budgets based on projecting activities of non direct reports that require inspired action.
Provided Codesys software support via Bosch hardware (Indraworks). Commissioned motion and process, to finish start up, and improve through-put on a new battery assembly line. Programed state machines. servos, and drives, along with network interfaces to include Profinet. Validated OEE, product handling, and throughput. Represented integrator on site. Provide Siemens TIA Portal programming services. Update piping and instrumentation, and other drawings, and create control systems specifications.
PLC Programming and machine architecture to include HMI and remote IO. Electrical drawings and hardware specifications. Process interface, BOM, and testing. Leading team control system standards. Codesys, Bausch, Mitsubishi, UR, Fanuc.
I was part of a team that was working in an Agile project environment and deriving design concepts for high-speed manufacturing with a TwinCat platform. I was tasked with integrating software standards with real practice so that we could merge code in a test environment that could be used for production. This involved analyzing requirements, coding and deriving process for rapid software development.
I performed systems maintenance and design, network maintenance, Siemens PCS7 programming, and Siemens TIA Portal. Lead electrical projects and electrician assignments and managing contractors.