Dennis, are you *still* out of work?!? I think you might be overqualified... ;-)
We have a position open for a Elec Eng with 3-5 years PLC/SCADA/Haz Areas controls experience - but that's a long way from where you are and for a lot less money, no doubt.
Cameron:-)
Wanted: NE IN & Midwest Projects / Position
> (will consider other locations, full time or contract)
> Electrical / Electronic / Elec. - Mech. / Product / Manufacturing / TEST /
> SCADA / PLC / PBC /MES / Instrumentation & Controls / Automation,
> Production - Product Tracking PROJECTS or related POSITION
> Project Management, Design, Build, Procurement and Commissioning.
> Production / Maintenance / Product tracking and data collection / R&D
> By Time and Material, By the Job or as Employee
> Have Passport Will Travel
> DENNIS LEE McHENNEY
> (260)-347-9164
> E-mail: snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com
>
> 5 to 15 Years Experience in following AREAS
> · Testing, test system design, building, procurement, and commissioning,
> follow-up support and customer service.
> · Tough troubleshooting problems & Controls - Instrumentation UPGRADES, PID
> loops and control systems.
> · PLC, PC and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data acquisition) systems.
> · TESTING: Motors, Gearmotors, PCB's, Electrical-Mechanical Parts, Aerospace
> (NASA TEST Facilities) and Automated Test Equipment (FUNCTIONAL, LIFE, ORT
> type TESTING).
> · MOTORS & Gearmotors: Subfractional - 5,000 HP, AC / DC / ECM
> · NO-Load, Loaded, dynamometer, Life, Lab, Production, ORT, Parts (Armature,
> Stator, Rotor), HI-POT, Surge.
> · PCB's: Design Prototype and TESTING.
> · Testers from low cost bench setups through multi-million dollar.
> · PLC's: GE Fanuc, AB-Rockwell, Modicon, TI, Keyence and Omron.
> · SCADA - HMI - MMI: CIMplicity and TRACKER / RCO's
> · Automatic Test Equipment: Meters, Scopes, Dynamometers, Noise & Vibration,
> HP-IB.
> · Conveyor and production Equipment Controls and Instrumentation, both new
> designs and upgrades.
> · Hazardous Location controls and instrumentation.
> · Project Management and costing.
> · Product engineering and support.
> · SPC, TQM, FMEA
> · Use AutoCad, MS Office Pro, CIMplicity, VB and many other software > packages.
>
> OPEN to any positions, first preference is NE Indiana, IN, MI, Midwest, SW,
> S, West and any U.S. I have extensive background in the electrical /
> mechanical areas as of Manufacturing / Test / Controls - Instrumentation /
> SCADA and product engineering work. Extensive hands on project management
> background. I worked my way up through the ranks being:
> Multicraft maintenance, A-B-C apprenticeship, Military Radar / Fire Control
> Equipment Tech, Electrician, Electronics Tech / R&D, MFG Eng. / TEST Eng. /
> Adv. MFG ENG.
> Senior Electrical Engineer (controls - instrumentation - HW - SW)
> Application Engineer / SCADA - HMI - PLC
> Corp MFG Engineer / Controls Engineer
> Electrical / Electronics Instructor
>
> Industries I have worked:
>
> Plastics, Automotive, Military, Aerospace, Motors / Gearmotors, PCB's, > TESTING
> I worked my way up through the ranks, having first graduating 3 rd in my
> class in USA Hawk Missile service school in radar and fire control
> maintenance and obtaining a rank of E-5 in 2 years. When out of service I
> completed an A-B-C Multicraft factory maintenance apprenticeship and later
> became an Electrician and Instrumentation technician / troubleshooter for a
> 24 / 7 plastics operation.
>
> During the last 3 years of the above I went back to school and obtained 2
> associates degrees with HI Honors (3.95 / 4.0) and then taught classes for a
> year at the college. Near the end of this period I was recruited to GE power
> supply in Ft. Wayne as an R&D technician. The majority of my almost 10 years
> at GE, I was a MFG / TEST Equipment Engineer in the Advanced Manufacturing
> Operation for the GE Motors group for 14 plants. I also took more classes
> and schools during this period.
>
>
> The main point I want to make is that I have worked my way up through the
> ranks from the production floor to being THE Corporate Manufacturing
> Engineer in a medium size company. I have an in-depth view of many aspects
> of production and product engineering. Other jobs, see resume, has given me
> background in several industries and cross-functional areas.
>
> I have extensive INSTRUMENTATION - TEST EQUIPMENT and FACTORY CONTROLS -
> AUTOMATION background that includes PROJECT MANAGEMENT outside
procurement,
design, build, commissioning, upgrading and troubleshooting. These range
> from manual bench top setups to networked SCADA systems. PLC, PC and most
> often combo SCADA systems using PLC stations w/ SCADA and PC for HMI - MMI,
> product tracking, test result, SPC and other data logging.
>
> Testing of:
>
> Motors and Gearmotor from sub-fractional AC / DC to 5K HP AC (NO-LOAD,
> LOADED and production / Lab Dynamometers), Mechanical Gaging, PCB's,
> functional testers, Aerospace propulsion testing, R & D, ORT (On-line
> Reliability Test), EOL (End Of Line) and product life test.
>
> Noise and vibration testing and source identification. New / existing
> products and machine PM.
>
> Also:
>
> Factory Controls, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) and
> Instrumentation. PID and other controls work, Production tracking, error
> proofing and data logging.
> DENNIS LEE McHENNEY
> 2117 CORTEZ DR., KENDALLVILLE, IN 46755
> Home (260)-347-9164, e-mail snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com >
> JOB OBJECTIVE:
>
> TECHNICAL / PROJECT MANAGEMENT, FIELD SERVICE / MAINTENANCE, ELECTRICAL OR
> MFG. ENGINEERING POSITION in TEST EQUIPMENT, AUTOMATION, INSTRUMENTATION,
> CONTROLS, PLC's, SCADA, HMI or SOFTWARE.
>
> EXPERIENCE:
>
> (2-04 to Present) PT Electrical instructor for Freedom Academy, 6 counties > NE IN.
>
> (5-00 to 4-03): Merkle-Korff Industries, Des Plaines, IL. Corporate
> Manufacturing Engineer for 5 plants in US and Mexico. Worked on testers,
> test systems and factory automation / manufacturing projects for
> sub-fractional HP motors and gearmotors used in the appliance, vending
> machine and several other industries. GE Fanuc Micro, 90/30, VersaPro &
> VersaMax, CIMplicity HMI, B & K Pulse Noise and Vibration equipment, AB and
> other PLC's and product / custom PCB design, development, testing. Used
> PLC's, PID & other controls, analog / digital design, MS Office Pro, W2K,
> AutoCad. Worked with product engineering department in area's of design and
> testing for several new venture products. Also revamped controls on 4
> production lines, converting 2 old ones with AB PLC2's and 2 with MicroLogix
> to GE VersaMax's. Downsized after 40% drop in sales over 3 years I was there
> and when a large 2nd source OEM icemaker project for GE ran into patent
> problems between GE and the 1st source OEM.
>
> CIMplicity SCADA HMI, MMI plant wide application programming work, also
> included GE Fanuc 90-xx and AB PLC2's/3's & 5's. Used to track and control
> production in GM plants, see below:
>
> (8-99 to 4-00) Premier System Integrators Application, programming in
> CIMplicity HMI (DEC/VAX, NT & Tracker) (HMI / CIM / GUI) SCADA at GM Saturn
> in Spring Hill, TN. Replaced promoted GM MES engineer who went to marketing
> and while SATURN was replacing all contractor companies to one (ended up > being EDS).
>
> (3-97 to 4-99) Contracted to GE Fanuc Automotive: Application programming in
> CIMplicity HMI (MMI / CIM / GUI) SCADA, Visual Basic (Windows 95 / 98 /
> Windows NT). Working at Ft. Wayne GM Truck and Bus and GM ATD, Indy.
> (Transmission lines).
>
>
> (11-95 to 2-96) Contracted to GE Motors as TEST / MFG. Engineering
> consultant at Murfreesboro, TN plant through TADS ( INDY ). GE PLC's Auto
> CAD 13 and MS Office Prof., Windows 95.
>
> (7-94 to 10-95) Contracted to Delco Remy America and NEW VENTURE GEAR
> through DuPouy and Associates (ANDERSON, IN 317-642-2962 ).( DRA / 7MO. )
> TEST / MFG. Engineer in the starter motor area. Working with MODICON PLC's,
> AutoCad 11/12, and TCP smart touch GUI's, $ 22 Hr. + O.T. ( NVG / 7MO. )
> MFG. Engineer, Worked with AB PLC-2/5 and SLICK-1XX PLC's on transmission
> assembly line projects, Auto CAD LT, Windows 3.x.
>
> (3-90 to 2-93): LOCKHEED ESC (PRIME CONTRACTOR to NASA/JSC/WSTF) Las Cruces,
> NM. SENIOR EE at White Sands Test Facility in the propulsion test
> department. Working on the rocket altitude simulation test stands for SPACE
> STATION FREEDOM and DELTA CLIPPER. Gained knowledge in the areas of TI 565
> PLC's, GUI's, and PID loops. BASE +OT = $ 48K+. Laid off due to SPACE
> STATION FREEDOM work transfer.
>
> (10-89 to 3-90): Technetics, Indianapolis, IN (contracted to Hamilton
> Standard Div. of United Technologies, Huntington, IN. (TEST EQUIPMENT
> ENGINEER) I helped design, develop and program the functional board testers
> for two different Intel 8051 microprocessor based Otis Elevator system
> PCB's. These were IBM PC based (running Turbo C) and using a HP-IB
> (IEEE-488) to control and monitor an HP 3235A switch/test unit and bed of
> nails fixture. I worked with OrCad, "C" and FlowCharting II. Quit for full
> time Lockheed position.
>
> (5-89 to 8-89): Rapid Design Service, Anderson, IN contracted to Delco Remy
> Div. of GM, Anderson, IN. ( TEST EQUIPMENT ENGINEER ) I worked on air and
> hydraulic custom solenoid tester specification / procurement
>
> 7-79 to 1-89 General Electric, Fort Wayne, IN
> (1981 to 1-89): GE Motors, (Dept.) Advanced Manufacturing Engineering
> Operation ( for 14 worldwide plants ), Manufacturing Engineer /
Specialist -
Test Equipment Engineering. I designed, developed, oversaw installation /
> start up / plant training and provided follow up support for custom and
> semi-custom testers and test systems used by GE Motors production plants and
> their local and central QA labs. These ranged for bench top material testers
> to motor dynamometers. Motors ranged from small dog bone types to 5000 HP
> AC, and included AC, DC and ECM. I was downsized.
>
> (7-79 to 81): GE Power Supply Oper., Developmental Engineering Technician. I
> worked one on one with a design engineer to develop, test, qualify and bring
> to production custom power supplies, photocopier industry.
>
> 6 Mo. to several years GE experience with the following items:
>
> o HP: 200/300/1000 computers, HP-IB and stand alone test equipment and
> test/switch units, GP-IO, SRM network and Rocky Mountain Basic.
> o IBM PC: DOS, BASIC, OfficeWriter, FlowCharting II, AutoCad 10,
> WordPerfect, Turbo C, SuperCalc-4, OrCad, Lotus 1-2-3 and Norton.
> o INTEL: 8048, 8051, 8085, 8086, PL/M, Multi-Bus I SBC & SBX boards.
> o PLC's: GE series 1 ( TI305 ), GE series 6 and TI 5x0 series.
> o OTHER TEST EQUIP: HP, Textronix, Fluke, Keithly, Data Precision and etc.
> o DESIGN: AutoCad, ComputerVision (CV), Manual Drafting, Analog and Digital
> circuits, Power circuits and PCB's. Circuit designs used linear IC's,
> precision function modules (Burr Brown, Analog Devices, and FMI), discrete > fixturing.
> o COURSES: HP-IB, ComputerVision, SPC, C, Pascal, UNIX and Robotics.
> o TESTS: UL, CSA, Thermal Cycling, Hi-Pot, Surge, Noise & Vibration,
> Humidity and other standard and specialized measurements.
>
> OTHER GE DUTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
>
> o Supervised 2 to 5 skilled crafts people for each in house project.
> o Trained 1-2 plant engineers and 1-5 technical support people for each
> major tester or test system installation.
> o I specified the equipment and provided the plant to vendor interface for
> outside vendor supplied testers.
> o I promoted PM and provided in-plant training and reduced the field service
> calls by over 50%.
> o I designed and managed two electrical/electronic development labs. >
> (11 Years): Monsanto Co., Ligonier, IN ( 800 employee plastic )
> ( bottle and film plant )
> ( 2.5 years here = ARMY ) ( 24 / 7 OPERATION )
> ( held hourly positions below)
> Electrician / Instrument Repair 3.5 years
> Maintenance Mech./trouble shooter 3.5 years
> Utility Worker / Shipping Clerk 2.0 years
>
> ACTIVITIES:
> INSTRUCTOR (PT), INDIANA VOCATIONAL AND TECH. COL. (IVY TECH)
> Taught 1 - 3 four-hour electronics courses per week.
Chairperson-Electronics
Advisory Committee. Quit due to GE job travel.
> U.S. ARMY, Ft. Bliss, TX and Korea. MOS:24F2H (Instructor Qual) HAWK
> MISSILE-Fire Control Maintenance, responsible for battery level
maintenance
of pulse acquisition / range-only radar and the battery control central
> van. Obtained rank of E5 and SECTION CHIEF.
>
> EDUCATION:
> PURDUE & IU, via IHETS, several non-credit and credit courses.
> IVY TECH, FT. WAYNE, IN. TWO ASSOCIATES DEGREES (Industrial Elect. and
> Communication Elect.), both = HIGH HONORS ( TOP 5% , 3.96 / 4.0 ).
> A-B-C Multicraft apprenticeship, completed and worked 3 years.
> U.S. ARMY, FT. Bliss, TX. 35 week service school, MOS:24F2H
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