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Ronald Michael

Spring Lake

Summary

To develop new skills and enhance my present knowledge to benefit my career, my employer, and society.

Systematic Electrical Engineer experienced in managing electrical project lifecycle from design phase to delivery and implementation. Polished in analyzing, troubleshooting and developing solutions. Consistently delivers engineering services to meet company, customer and statutory and regulatory specifications on time and within budget.

Electrical Engineer familiar with all major engineering standards associated with control gear components and electrical power stations.

Focused Electrical Engineer with background in power systems, automation and controls. In-depth understanding of control and power-delivery systems. Experienced in developing technical studies and investigations.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Electrical Engineer

Alpek Polyester, LLC
06.2007 - Current
  • Managing Site Controls and DCS: Foxboro IA, Allen-Bradley PLCs, Siemens PLCs, WonderWare, and Cimplicity
  • Managing Site IE Technical Staff and Dept Accounting.
  • Accountable for providing electrical and controls engineering support for Cedar Creek Site (Site Utility Services, Resins Ops, CPR Ops and Specialty Polymers) Maintenance & Engineering Department.
  • Initiate, scope, and implement capital projects that enhance, improve or replace site control and electrical equipment.
  • Provide technical leadership to the Control Electronics Technicians and provide second-level troubleshooting in support of Operations.
  • This position is also responsible for all electrical/controls reliability issues.
  • Support Operations and minimize equipment downtime
  • Site and Corporate Electrical Safety
  • Site and Corporate Energy Management
  • Develop and enhance plant predictive and preventive maintenance programs
  • Increase equipment uptime and reduce maintenance expenditures
  • Determine and authorize required specialized equipment and other non-typical resources needed to perform maintenance-related tasks
  • Ensures efficient use of resources and stays within approved expense and capital spending guidelines in completing assignments
  • Assist Maintenance Team Leaders and technicians in trouble-shooting equipment, as required
  • Provide 'hands-on' leadership to the maintenance shops
  • Plans, directs and supervises outside contractor and vendor services when required to supplement work force
  • Obtains competitive bids for vendor services
  • Plan and execute capital improvement projects
  • Adheres to procedures that promote safety, health and welfare for employees and contractors within the facility
  • Assists with maintenance training and development activities used to enhance the department's technical base and core competencies
  • Participates in safety and environmental initiatives that will contribute to compliance of State/Federal regulations and improve existing company programs
  • Assist in tracking and reporting maintenance-related costs
  • Evaluate diagnostic technologies, setup condition monitoring and analyze accumulated data, and perform Failure Mode and Effect Analyses
  • Contributes to the establishment of optimum part inventory levels
  • Maintain updated equipment files ensuring equipment records are accurate and updated

Engineering Systems Manager/Administrator

Purolator Filters NA, LLC
07.2005 - 06.2007
  • Company Overview: (Joint Venture of Bosch and Mann+Hummel)
  • Implemented new 3D CAD system UGS Velocity Series.
  • SolidEdge 3D CAD, Teamcenter Express PLM, and NX CAM CNC and tooling
  • Responsible for all CAD and Engineering Systems assets and functions for Advanced Product Engineering Group
  • Sun Solaris Administrator
  • Developed Intranet Website for Product Engineering Dept
  • Identify, Implement, and Purchase Engineering Automation Tools
  • Drafting and Modeling with SolidEdge (Velocity Series), I-Deas 10NX, Catia V4/V5
  • PLM and PDM with Ford Teamcenter, UGS Teamcenter Express
  • Training includes: Ford’s C3PNG, Teamcenter Engineering, Cfdesign FEA, TS16949, Unix Administration, Autoweb
  • Prototype production for new and patented products for all of Facility’s Engineering Depts with Dimension 3D printer, model shop, test lab services, OEMs, and 3rd party services
  • New and Purchased product development for automotive air, oil, and fuel filters. Facility produces 130 million annually.
  • IMDS, AllData Administrator
  • APQP, FMEA, MSA, PPAP, SOR, WBS, SOW, SPC, SREA, 7 Step, 8-D, Prisim
  • (Joint Venture of Bosch and Mann+Hummel)

Product Applications Engineer

Eaton Electrical
01.2003 - 01.2005
  • Develop and assist in the creation and application of new products consisting of digital communications with molded-case circuit breakers, electro-mechanical starters, variable frequency drives, reduced voltage soft starters, and PLCs
  • Multitasking to include support of production, manufacturing, sales, internal/external customers and consultants, and end-user applications and warranty
  • Participate in conceptual and production development, design specifications, estimating expense, capital, and resources, testing of domestic and international regulations, and end-user safety to meet business requirements and deadlines.
  • Risk mitigation with productivity tools.
  • Develop and participate in cost-reductions and improvements.
  • Process and Value Stream Mapping of engineering and manufacturing processes for new and existing products with regard to Lean and Kaizen implementations.
  • Create and implement quality measurements to develop continuous process improvements and document for training purposes and reference.
  • Train Application Engineers, Order Engineers, and Satellite Service Centers for new products for various applications and Automation Software
  • Develop and advise standard electrical diagrams, mechanical assemblies, method sheets, standard principles and practices for various product lines
  • Develop Engineering and Manufacturing principles and standard practices for motor control products and digital communications
  • Engineering/Automation development and support for customer order engineering software tool
  • Additional projects include factory Motor Control and Network facilitization.
  • Interpret one-line and customer schematics
  • Introduce new industrials networks in industrial equipment – Fieldbus, Modbus, and Ethernet
  • Achieved $5M (net) for production in 2004
  • ISO9001-2000, ISO140001, NEC, NEMA, IEC, UL, ANSI, CSA, SEMI

Application/Project Engineer AMAT Product

Eaton Corp/Eaton Electrical
01.2002 - 01.2003
  • Product Development and Release for semi-conductor industry for end user - Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc.
  • 300mm Wafer Product Development and Manufacturing
  • Standardize 200mm Wafer Products
  • Engineering/Automation development and support for customer order engineering software tool for Applied Materials
  • Develop and enforce workmanship standards in conjunction with end-user and SEMI industry regulations and code

Engineering Systems/IT Support Engineer

Eaton Corp/Cutler-Hammer
01.1999 - 01.2001
  • Engineering/Automation development and support for customer order engineering software tool (Bid/MI Manager)
  • MS Access, Visual SourceSafe, and Visual Basic applications to develop database on SQL server
  • Database and Web support for Product Development, Customer, and Engineering drawings and diagrams on Oracle 8i database via CMMS
  • AutoCAD development/support for automated wiring diagram tool (ViaWD, Synergy Solutions)
  • Control Automation development and support (Devicenet, PLC, AFD)
  • Software catalog creation and maintenance for Enclosed Control product line

Engineering Technician/Customer Order Engineer

Eaton Corp/Cutler-Hammer
01.1996 - 01.1998
  • Primarily responsible for designing Motor Control Centers for OEM customers: Powell Electrical Mfg Co, Praxair, Point Eight Power, Electrical Power Systems.
  • Alliance customers: Bechtel
  • Electrical and Mechanical Designs using AutoCAD
  • Maintained highest production rate and Extra Effort Recognition Award

Manufacturing Technician

01.1996 - 01.1998
  • Assemble, wire, test, and audit enclosed motor control units and pumps.
  • Acquire materials and establish production requirements

Education

BS - Computer Engineering

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
01.1995

Skills

  • Power systems
  • System-level electrical design and integration
  • Research and analysis
  • Object component-oriented software

Certifications Memberships

  • Professional Energy Manager (PEM)– North Carolina State University
  • NCSU Industrial Extension Services
  • Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals
  • Infrared and Ultrasound Inspection
  • NESC – Standards Committee
  • IEEE, IEEE Standards Assoc
  • National Society of Professional Engineers and NCSPE

Continuing Education

  • Infrared Thermography Level 2 Certification
  • Ultrasound Level I Certification
  • Project Management Certification from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • PLC parts 1 and 2 from Fayetteville Tech Community College
  • MS Access Intermediate from Fayetteville Tech Community College
  • HTML 4.0 and TCP/IP for NT from Ziff Davis (online)
  • AutoCAD 2000 from CADRe/Cutler-Hammer
  • AutoCAD Rel 13 from CAD Plus
  • Electromechanical System Tester Training from FTCC
  • General Manufacturing Electromechanical Certification from FTCC
  • Technical Writing/Briefing Training
  • MS Office Proficiency Training
  • Registry Programming (API, VB) for MS 9x, NT, and 2000
  • Visio, PM, ERP, CRM, Balanced Scorecard (SAP, PeopleSoft, etc.)
  • Eaton University: Advanced project management, and communication skills development; Eaton Business Systems and Lean implementation

Timeline

Site Electrical Engineer

Alpek Polyester, LLC
06.2007 - Current

Engineering Systems Manager/Administrator

Purolator Filters NA, LLC
07.2005 - 06.2007

Product Applications Engineer

Eaton Electrical
01.2003 - 01.2005

Application/Project Engineer AMAT Product

Eaton Corp/Eaton Electrical
01.2002 - 01.2003

Engineering Systems/IT Support Engineer

Eaton Corp/Cutler-Hammer
01.1999 - 01.2001

Engineering Technician/Customer Order Engineer

Eaton Corp/Cutler-Hammer
01.1996 - 01.1998

Manufacturing Technician

01.1996 - 01.1998

BS - Computer Engineering

North Carolina State University

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