Instrument Design Specialist

Posted on: 2008-12-20

DOMINGO C. CORONEL 1600 READING CIRCLE CARPENTERSVILLE, IL 60110 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Tel. (847) 426-0669 (Home) Email: [email protected] EDUCATION: BS Electronics Engineering University of Santo Tomas Manila, Philippines CITIZENSHIP: USA WORK EXPERIENCE: MANGAN INC. Long Beach, California, U.S.A. (Dec 2008 – Present) Instrumentation Design Specialist Duties include working with Project Engineers and Project Managers to execute instrumentation and automation projects. Duties include field walkdowns at clients sites, attendance at client meetings, participation in project scoping and estimating, the development and review/approval of Instrumentation and Control packages for heavy industrial, refining, pipeline or similar facilities, attending project team meetings and status meetings, participation in FAT / SAT , project loop checks and startups. Participate in the occasional training and development of less experienced staff members. Develop simple and complex loop diagrams, instrument indexes, and wiring/connection diagrams. Specify control system instruments and develop construction scope for client specifications. Design DCS and PLC installations, including control room layouts, networking systems, I/O Marshalling and Terminal Cabinets, power supplies, interposing relays, transducers and other instrument and control hardware and installations. Detail electronic and pneumatic instrument installations and develop conduit routing in existing facilities. Sr. Instrumentation and Controls Engineer Develop and provide front-end engineering design (FEED) of I & C in industrial and municipal water & wastewater arena which includes engineering specification, system control narratives, valve sizing, flow metering sizing, etc. Design I & C system package which includes P&ID’s, process control & motor control circuit schematic diagrams, instrument loop diagrams (ILD’s), logic diagrams, instrument index, and cable schedules. Work involves integration of hardware and software, project cost estimations, and hardware selections which includes computers, programmable logic controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interface (HMI), Variable frequency drives (VFD), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems and Remote Terminal Units (RTU), Instrumentation, and Analyzers. Support construction, witness and verify I & C test in preparation for plant start-up and ensure the test procedures are in accordance with manufacturers’ manuals. Verify readiness of I & C system equipment for start-up such as punch list items are corrected, calibration & loop checking are completed. Troubleshoot and resolve problems incurred during installation and start-up of process control systems. US FILTERS/GAS TECHNOLOGY Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A. (Sept. 1997 – March 1999) Sr. Instrumentation and Controls Engineer Involve in Engineering, Procurement, & Construction (EPC) of H2S Removal and Sulfur Recovery Plant. Specific responsibilities include conceptual front-end engineering design (FEED)., such as developing control philosophy & P&ID, engineering scope of work, man-hour/cost estimates, data sheet/scope specifications, performing instrument selection, and valve and flowmeter sizing, programming PLC, configuring HMI, material procurement & inspection, bid tabulations, and quality checks and verification of compliance of instrumentation-related construction drawings. Designing alarms, emergency and shutdown systems, logic descriptions and diagrams. Support construction, performed commissioning, field checkout which includes calibration of smart transmitters, H2S detectors, interlocks and alarms checks, and plant startup. Provide I & C installation such DCS, SCADA, RTU, Instrumentation, and Analyzers which includes HMI configuration, and PLC programming. Provide maintenance support services such as process control troubleshooting, and Instrument and Analyzers calibration. BAXTER & WOODMAN INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS Crystal Lake, Illinois, U.S.A. (Sept 1990 – Sept 1997) Instrumentation and Controls Designer Developed and provided analysis and design of I & C in industrial and municipal water & wastewater arena. Designed I & C system package which includes system control descriptions, engineering specifications, P&ID’s, control circuit schematic diagrams, instrument loop diagrams (ILD’s), logic diagrams, instrument index, and cable schedules. SAUDI ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY (SAUDI ARAMCO), SHEDGUM GAS (LNG) PLANT, Saudi Arabia – July 1979 – May 1990. Maintenance Planner 1986-1990 Manage the Electrical, Instrument, Analyzer and Digital maintenance activities. Planned, scheduled and directed preventive and predictive maintenance activities, repair works and troubleshooting, engineering design change projects, and testing & inspection. Supported area maintenance supervisor in maintenance implementation. Estimated job scope, number of men by craft, total man-hours required for each job, and established material requirement. Prepared maintenance activities through computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) which encompasses all elements of maintenance functions such as work order system, planning and scheduling, material storehouse, material requisition, work execution and time recording, equipment records and history, and maintenance cost reporting. Lead Analyzer Technician 1982-1986 Assigned as Lead Analyzer Technician responsible for maintenance of LEL and H2S monitors, analytical instruments (such as density meter, pH meter, conductivity meter, turbidity meter), O2 analyzer, on-stream computerized gas chromatographs analyzers (such as Flame Ionization Detector, Flame Photometry, thermal conductivity detector), Tail Gas H2S/SO2 Air Demand Analyzer (Claus Process), CO2 Analyzer etc. Performed wide range of complex digital/analog electronic board level repair. Instrument Technician 1979-1982 Assigned as Instrument Technician responsible for maintenance of field instrumentation (such as flow, level, pressure, and temperature), single and multi-loop controllers, recorders, vibration monitors, multipoint temperature indicators. Was involved in digital, instrumentation, and analyzers commissioning and participated in plant start-up which includes compressors, turbines, boilers, etc. FILIPINAS SYNTHETIC FIBER CORPORATION Manila Philippines 1972 –1979. Electrical and Instrumentation Supervisor 1977-1979 Supervised plant electrical and instrumentation maintenance activities and directed 26 staffs composed of electricians and instrument technicians. Interpret data and advice appropriate control measures. I & C Installation Engineer 1974-1977 Responsible for I & C commissioning which involves extensive line by line check of installed I & C systems equipment against P&ID’s. Generated punch list to list all discrepancies such as missing instrumentation, control valves installed in wrong direction, reverse flow element impulse lines, incorrect ranges calibrated into local field instrumentation, etc. Prepared I & C system ready for start-up by calibrating and simulating instruments, impulse line test, temperature elements polarity check, visual check of level gauges, stroke control valves, functional loop check to verify the integrity of the wiring connections from the field transmitters to the main instrumentation and back to final control element. Instrument Technician 1972-1974 Assigned as Instrument Technician responsible for maintenance of field instrumentation (such as flow, level, pressure, and temperature), single and multi-loop controllers, recorders, vibration monitors, multipoint temperature indicators. OTHER SKILLS: Designing I&C using Auto Cad 2008. Computer Skills – Windows. Allen Bradley PLC/HMI Programming ROCKWELL AUTOMATION (ALLEN BRADLEY) TRAINING COURSES TAKEN: RSLogix 500 Building Software Proficiency Skills. Programming SLC500 Programmable Logic Controller Using RSLogix 500 Software. Advance Programming an SLC500 Programmable Logic Controller Using RSLogix 500 Software. Maintenance & troubleshooting an SLC500 System Using RSLogix 500 Software. Designing and Configuring DeviceNet Network. Maintaining and Troubleshooting a DeviceNet Network. Designing and Configuring ControlNet Network. Maintaining and Troubleshooting ControlNet Network. Developing Panelview 550/600/900 Apllications. Developing Panelview 1000e/1200e/1400e Applications. Fundamentals of AC/DC Drives. INTELLUTION TRAINING COURSES TAKEN: Fix Fundamental Plus (104) iFix Fundamentals (154A). JOHN CLEMENTS TRAINING COURSES TAKEN: Basic Management Course in Behavioral Approach. OTHER TRAINING COURSES TAKEN: Nova 3 Data General Computer Training. Delta V Fisher-Rosemount Systems (DCS with Asset Management Solutions). Endress + Hausser – Flow Metering. Data Radio COMPUTER LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING TAKEN: C++ (Elgin Community College) FORTRAN (University of Santo Tomas) FAMILIAR AND WORK WITH FOLLOWING INSTRUMENTS: Agar Density Meter. Ametek Thermox O2 Analyzer. Analytical Instrument Technologies, Dissolved O2, pH/ORP, Cl2 Analyzers. Applied Analytics H2S Analyzer. Bacharach LEL and H2S Monitors. Beckman CO2 Analyzer. Bendix Gas Chromatograph Analyzer. Bristol and Babcock RTU. BW Technologies LEL and H2S Detectors. Dynasonics Doppler Flowmeters. EI Dupont Nemours H2S/S02 Tail Gas Analyzer. Endress & Hauser instruments. FCI Thermal Flowmeters. Fisher & Rosemount – Delta V. Foxboro Smart Transmitters. Great Lake Analytical Instruments. HACH pH/ORP, O2, turbidity analyzers. Honeywell Smart Transmitters. Magnetrol Instruments. Micon Single and Multi-loop Controllers. Microwave Data System UHF Radios. Nova 3 Data General. Panametric Flowmeters. Rosemount Smart Transmitters. Rosemount Analytical Instruments. Royce Instruments Sludge Blanket, Dissolved O2 Analyzers. Siemens Instrumentation. WAGO – Profibus