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Experience
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Senior Process Controls
Engineer / Engineering Manager / Assistant Engineering Manager / Technical
Service Manager / Senior Engineer / Software Engineer
1994-Present
ESE Incorporated, Marshfield, Wisconsin
Process engineering firm for the food and dairy markets (~25 employees)
Senior Process Controls Engineer
- Similar
responsibilities to the Senior Engineer position described below, except
with greater responsibility in all aspects.
Engineering
Manager / Assistant Engineering Manager
- Normal
management duties (hiring, firing, reviews, daily operations, ...).
- Develop
engineering staff through seminars, in house training, and challenging
projects.
- Develop
standards of operations for many aspects of in-house engineering.
- Develop
tools to automate and assist in project development (see Special
Projects below).
- Develop
stopgap measures to fill software holes in the food & dairy industry
(see Special Projects below).
- Limited
duties from the other titles as needed (see below).
- Perform
firefighter level customer support for automation and optimization (last
line of defense).
- I
found this position not to my liking, so returned to engineering as it
presents challenges more in line with my objectives
Technical Service
Manager
- Manage
(supervision mainly) the computer service department personnel and
equipment.
- Maintain
and upgrade the in-house Novell 4.11 network system.
- Perform
firefighter level customer support for computer systems (last line of
defense).
Senior Engineer /
Software Engineer
- Manage
engineering automation projects primarily in the food and dairy
industries (project management).
- Develop
standards of operations for many aspects of in-house engineering.
- Develop
tools to automate and assist in project development (see Special
Projects below).
- Develop
stopgap measures to fill software holes in the food & dairy industry
(see Special Projects below).
- Perform
as an engineering field trouble-shooter (fireman).
- Program
PC and related applications (in all areas: highest proficiency is
bolded, others are rarely utilized anymore).
- Visual
Basic, C++
- Allen
Bradley Coprocessor - OS9 (C)
- Web
page creation (html)
- Program
PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) applications.
- Allen
Bradley PLC-2, PLC-5, SLC-500, Micro Logix, Control Logix 5500, Soft Logix 5
- GE
Fanuc 90/30
- Texas
Instrument 40x and 50x
- Touched
on others as needed
- Program
HMI (Human Machine Interface) applications.
- Allen
Bradley PanelView 550, 900, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1400e
- Eaton
PanelMate 1000, 1500, 4000
- Allen
Bradley ControlView, RSView32
- Rockwell
Software FactoryTalk View Supervisory & Machine Edition (PanelView
+)
- Intellution
Fix32, touched on iFix
- WonderWare
5.1, 5.6, 7.0, 9.0
- GE
Cimplicity (OI and computer based)
- Program
Data Collection and Transaction Software
- Rockwell
Software FactoryTalk Transaction Manager (formally RSSQL)
- Program
and maintain database applications
- Microsoft
Access
- Microsoft
SQL Server
- Program
and maintain reporting applications
- Microsoft
Access
- Microsoft
SQL Server Reporting Services
- Crystal
Reports
- Create
layout, interconnection and electrical drawings, as well as pin charts
and bills of materials.
- AutoCAD
r11, r13, r14, 2000
- LISP
and VBA programming
Special Projects
- Perform
automation of the design process for standardization, increasing
productivity by 20-70% (concept, design, and beta by self; 70% of
implementation by self).
- Generate
AutoCAD LISP code (70% productivity increase in 90% of the jobs
performed).
- Generate
MS-Access forms and reports (20% productivity increase in 95% of the
jobs performed).
- Generate
MS-Excel reports for integration with Allen Bradley PLC logic (30%
productivity increase in 95% of the jobs performed).
- Develop
automation concept to further increase productivity (concept, design,
and beta by self; implementation by others).
- Eliminated
redundant work and increased standardization (10-20% productivity
increase in 80% of the jobs performed: engineering, PLC programming,
HMI programming).
- Potential
if continued to show an additional 200% productivity increase in 95% of
the jobs performed: engineering, PLC programming, HMI programming,
drafting, quotes).
- Develop
a replacement for Rockwell Software's RSSQL when RSSQL continuously
failed in the field [ese Data Mover] (concept, design, beta, and 50%
implementation by self).
- Setup
time is 15 minutes compared to 90 minutes with RSSQL.
- Handles
bidirectional ODBC communication without any special code or
procedures.
- Allows
event driven, time driven, or scheduled transactions.
- Anticipates
failures in earlier versions of RSLinx to correct problems seen in
RSSQL.
- Develop
a solution for maintaining up to date information in hot / warm / cold
backup processors to fill void (concept, design, and beta by self; implementation
not complete).
- Develop
a solution for moving data from a proprietary database structure (.RLT)
to any ODBC database.
- Develop
a solution for moving data from a proprietary database structure (.RLT)
to any OPC server.
- Develop
a solution to read biometric data to perform application level security
in a production facility.
- Many
other less significant projects.
Field Service Engineer
1994
Automation Systems Integrators, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
Process engineering firm (~5 employees)
Short term contract
- Test
and trouble-shoot Water Utiltiy Control system on-site.
- Perform
wiring checkouts on panels.
- Enter
program code for PLC.
Special Project Engineer / Project Engineer /
Junior Engineer
1991-1994
Com-Tec Incorporated, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911
Detention market systems integration (~25 employees)
- Maintain
and install the existing Com-Tec Touch Screen control system (version
1).
- Maintain
and upgrade the in-house Novell 3.12 network system.
- Perform
as an engineering field trouble-shooter.
- Program
PC and related applications.
- Program
PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) applications.
- Com-Tec
9000 (Boolean)
- GE
Fanuc 90/30 (ladder logic)
- Program
HMI (Human Machine Interface) applications.
- Com-Tec
Touch Screen control system (version 1)
- WonderWare
5.6
- Create
layout, interconnection and electrical drawings, as well as pin charts
and bills of materials.
- Design
and trouble-shoot PLC related circuit boards.
Special Projects
- Developed
a concept for automating the in-house engineering (company decided not
to pursue).
- Specify
and manage the development of the Com-Tec Touch Screen control system
(version 2).
Second Shift Supervisor / Transducer Technician
1988-1991
MPC Products Corporation (RVDT Lab), Skokie, Illinois 60077
Motor and transducer manufacturing plant (~400 employees)
- Supervise
the second shift personnel in the RVDT lab.
- Manufacture
and repair RVDTs (Rotary Variable Differential Transducer).
- Develop
and implement training programs for first and second shifts.
- Assist
engineering with RVDT and LVDT prototypes.
Special Projects
- Develop
documentation to assist in standardizing and training.
- Glossary
of Transducer Terms.
- RVDT
Description Report.
- Hi-Pot
and Bonding Instruction Manual.
Air Traffic Control Radar Specialist
1983-1987
USAF, 3rd Combat Communications Group/LGMFR-MP, Midwest City, Oklahoma
Combat runway support and radar group
- Installation, maintenance, and repair of mobile
radar equipment.
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