Technical Qualifications

BTEC HNC Instrumentation Measurement and Control

BTEC ONC Instrumentation Measurement and Control

C&G 236 Electrical Installation C Certificate (1993)

C&G 236 Electrical Installation Part 2 (1991)

C&G 236 Electrical Installation Part 1 (1990)

Supplementary Qualifications:

PLC 5 Programming course

Seimens S7 PLC programming.

DCS (Delta V) Pre-commissioning

Delta V 7009 Implementation

DCS Honeywell Plantscape R500

ST&C Hazardous Area Working And Equipment Selection

ST&C Zone Classification

ST&C Pressure Calibration Course

IOSH Managing Safety

National Safety Passport

Brief Description

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My experience has been gained in a broad range of technical fields within the remit of electrical, controls and instrumentation engineering. This experience has been gained within the chemical and pharmaceutical industries as well as some experience in the power generation industry.

Shipley Commissioning Systems LTD-Date

I am involved in writing software on various platforms of PLC (RSlogix 5000,500 and Mitsubishi A1s and FX) and HMI's for use in the Water industry the work also involves the onsite commissioning across the country for waste and clean water. I am also undertaking work with a company that is involved in the environmental combustion-engineering field. My role is to travel across the country commissioning their machinery and also upgrades competitor's machinery with our control system so as to meet new regulation for emission monitoring. This involves the use of a Mitsubishi control systems and a wide range of environmental monitoring equipment.

John Smith Brewery February 2004-June 2004

I was employed in a contract position as the electrical engineer on site looking after the installation and commissioning of a new bottling line and associated process equipment such as the CIP set and tank farm. The plant is fully automated using devicenet and foundation field bus connected to a controllogix plc with an RS view front end SCADA system.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals February 2003-Feb 2004

I was employed in a contract position as the IQ protocol coordinator looking after all aspects regarding the IQ (Installation Qualification) of the MCS (manufacturing controls system Delta V DCS and Plantscape DCS for HVAC). In this role I had five people working for myself executing the protocols, also my role involved the organisation of the documentation and permits. As well as this i was also undertaking validation review on the HFAT and HSAT documents for cGMP compliance.

Linpac Containers June 2002 to February 2003

I was employed as electrical engineer on site I am responsible for the day to day running of all electrical activities on site. This includes planned and reactive maintenance as well as project work. I had three electricians working for me as well as contractors from time to time depending on workload.

Facultatieve Technology July 2001 to June 2002

I was employed as a senior commissioning engineer for a company that is involved in the environmental combustion-engineering field. My role was to travel across the country commissioning their machinery and also upgrades competitor's machinery with our control system so as to meet new regulation for emission monitoring. This involves the use of a Mitsubishi control systems and a wide range of environmental monitoring equipment.

Pfizer/Warner Lambert Ringaskiddy Ireland April 2000 to April 2001

I was part of an Instrument, Electrical and controls-commissioning team involved with the installation and recommissioning of thermal Oxidiser systems (Thermatrix and Durr) .My role involved giving help and advice on the instrument, electrical and controls system involved with this plant as well as operations advice. I have also been involved with the installation and commissioning of a fume handling system that was controlled by a Rosemount Delta V DCS system and new thermal oxidiser system controlled with a Siemens S7 PLC and In Touch front end SCADA system. This involved meeting the contractors and supervising their installation on site as well as pre commissioning checks on the associated equipment and making sure all the paper work was correct.

Lightning Engineering, January 2000 to April 2000

This was a contract associated with the power industry to undertake the installation, inspection and commissioning of a combined heat and power generation station for BP Amoco at Saltend in Hull England. My role involved the testing and inspection of the electrical and instrumentation systems on the boilers, turbines and water treatment plant and making sure all the relevant paperwork was up to date.

Thermatrix Ltd, Hessle. June 1998 to Jan 2000

I Joined Thermatrix Inc as Instrumentation, Electrical and Controls Engineer. Thermatrix are an American company with several locations throughout the USA and the UK. The company supplies package plant for the prevention, minimisation or destruction of broad variety of volatile organic compounds using a flameless thermal oxidation process.

Here are a few of the contracts I worked on at Thermatrix:-

Zeon Chemicals - South Wales

My role was to commission a Thermal Oxidiser unit, total capital value of approximately five hundred thousand pounds. This involved loop checks for electrical and instrument systems, function tests of the control system, which comprised of an Allen Bradley PLC and MMI interface screens.

Enichem - Italy

I was sent to Italy to commission one of the companies test unit which was on trial / approval at a clients' site. This included the pre-start-up maintenance of the machine, followed by commissioning the appropriate instrumentation and control system. I then provided training to the personnel on the site in its use and operational aspects.

Warner Lambert - Ireland

I was involved as a member of the Instrument and Electrical design team for two multi-million pound oxidiser unit for Ireland. It is my responsibility as electrical and instrument engineers, to design and procure the control and associated instrumentation for the plant keeping to a tight budget at all times. The design process included the generation of data sheets for the instruments and the review and alteration of the functional design specification and the user requirement specification. On the electrical design I had to produce cable schedules and vendor tendering documentation ready for procurement. This involves liaison with our offices elsewhere in the UK and with our main office in the USA. I was very heavily involved with the commissioning of these units. This included the pre-start-up testing of the machine, followed by commissioning the appropriate instrumentation and control system. I was then asked to provide training to the personnel on the site in its use and operational aspects of the unit.

Pfizer Pharmaceutical Production Corporation - Ireland

I was Instrument and Electrical design team leader on a multi-million pound oxidiser unit for Ireland. It is my responsibility as electrical and instrument engineer, to design and procure the control and safety shutdown systems for the plant as well as looking after other engineers and CAD people working for myself. The control system involved an Allen Bradley PLC and an Intellution SCADA system. This involved liasing with our offices elsewhere in the UK and with our main office in the USA. As the clients' specifications were quite stringent, a great deal of time was spent checking our design to ensure compliance to such standards as (Gamp 3,EMC directives and CE regulations as well as client specifications), there was also the need to check all equipment purchased for compatibility to the Pfizer specification as well as witness testing control and motor control panel before delivery to site.

Croda Chemicals, Goole. July 1987 to June 1998

Upon leaving school in July 1987, I started employment with Croda Chemicals as an electrical apprentice. A four-year apprenticeship was completed in July 1991.Upon completion of my apprenticeship; I was taken on as an electrical technician. My day to day duties included the following electrical plant and equipment maintenance; Fault finding on simple motor circuits to advanced boiler control panels using electrical schematics and various test equipment such as multimeters to signal generators and process source calibrators. Being a large modern plant I had to work on a large variety of process equipment, which included water treatment, boiler system, effluent plants, compressor systems, distillation columns and many other pieces of plant associated with a chemical installation.

In June 1993 I joined the instrumentation team at Croda as instrumentation technician. My duties included the following: - Maintenance and testing of instrumentation systems including pH meters, temperature, pressure level and flow transmitters and associated control devices on a modern automated batch process plant. The process was controlled by a large automated process control system. The PLC systems included galvanic barrier isolation from the safe area to associated field equipment in the hazardous area (e.g. control valves remotely actuated valves transmitters etc.). I was also a member of the safety committee team and gained a ROSPA certificate in safety to allow a greater understanding of the committee work I was undertaking.

In 1996 I was seconded to the project team as a junior electrical and instrument project engineer responsible for certain aspects on a wide range of projects.

During this time, I was responsible for the management of the following projects: -

Installation of a spray dryer system and clean room packing equipment.

As part of a multi-disciplined team, I was responsible for the design of the control system, from the conceptual front-end design of the operating software and operator interface screens to the detailed implementation of instrumentation and electrical motor and power feeds. The capital value of this project was £250,000. My role was to procure instrumentation and electrical equipment, design and manage the project including installation and produce a complete design documentation package.

Pastillation, packing and tank farm.

The capital value of this project was £10,000,000. My scope within this project was to implement a data communication system for field equipment known as "Devicenet" which at the time was the latest such system. This was introduced to reduce Installation costs and time. I was put in charge of the design, procurement and installation of the equipment. As part of this project I had to design a device net compatible MCC and witness test this before delivery to site. The installation was again to be done by a group of electrical and instrumentation staff under the supervision of myself. The budgetary aspect of the project was of particular significance to the company; overspend could have spelt disaster to the project. By choosing the "Devicenet" system, the electrical and instrumentation costs were greatly reduced, i.e. fewer cables, tray/ladder work, reduced PLC etc. The eventual savings in field instrument installation amounted to approximately twenty percent of the E&I budget.