PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
January 1999 - April 1999 and July 2000 - Present
The Aim Group/Securenetrics, Vacaville, California.
Senior Automation Consultant – Supporting start-up, expansion and on-going automation projects at the Genentech pharmaceutical facility in Vacaville, California.
September 1999 - July 2000
Newmont Nusa Tenggara, Sumbawa, Indonesia.
Startup Engineer - Commissioned DCS, PLCs and expert system for greenfields copper concentrating facility.
June 1998 - Dec 1998
Dona Ines de Collahuasi, Collahuasi, Chile.
Startup Engineer - Commissioned DCS and instrumentation for Dona Ines de Collahuasi greenfields copper concentrating facility, at Collahuasi, Chile. Supervised pre-operational production runs culminating in client acceptance.
October 1996 - March 1998
Thai Copper Industries, Rayong, Thailand.
Principal Engineer, Kvaerner Metals - Configured and tested PLC/DCS control system for ground-up Thai Copper Industries Smelter and Refinery throughout engineering, factory acceptance, customer acceptance and commissioning phases of the project.
January 1995 - July 1996
VECTRA Technologies Inc., San Ramon, California.
Senior Process Control Engineer - Project Engineer on three copper concentrator expansions at Phelps-Dodge Morenci Inc. Designed, programmed and implemented automated control systems. Supervised customer acceptance testing, and field installation of equipment and instrumentation. Produced specifications and cost estimates for automated control systems. Evaluated vendor bid packages for control systems, instrumentation and expert systems.
July 1994 - December 1994
DELPHI AUTOMATION, Oracle, Arizona.
Added PID control to METSIM metallurgical software simulation package. Wrote tools to enable same software to move from DOS to Windows.
June 1990 - July 1994
ASARCO Incorporated, Ray Complex, Hayden, Arizona.
Process Control Metallurgist - Implemented ABB distributed control system for the Ray Concentrator Project, the construction of a ground-up copper concentrating facility. Ensured the internal integrity and external interfacing of the DCS with Allen-Bradley PLCs and field instrumentation throughout customer acceptance, pre-operational testing, start-up and continuing through normal operations. Successfully developed the world's first artificial neural network control of semi-autogenous grinding.
January 1990 - December 1990
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Researcher - Department of Materials Science and Miner...
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