Provide technical support for Fluid Cat Cracking, Alkylation, Continuous Catalytic Reforming,

Gasoline Desulfurization, Naphtha and Diesel Hydrotreating and Sulfur Recovery and Cooker Units.

Applied engineering theory and practices to optimize production and construction processes.

Participated in turnaround, catalyst change-out and unit startup / shutdown planning activities.

Process Control/Instrumentation responsible for the overall plant Control Systems management including control systems configuration, network maintenance, control systems custom graphics, engineering and operational enhancements, configuration of controllers, process managers, logic managers, inputs/outputs.

Responsible for Lead Electrical Engineering on Projects; estimating, designing, calculations, codes, engineering, budgeting, scheduling interface, specifying, inspecting, check out, and start up of electrical systems.

Responsible for the operations and maintenance support of electrical power distribution systems, including high voltage substations, transformers, switchgear, motors, motor control centers, lighting, grounding, electrical wiring, and hazardous area classification.

Troubleshoot failures of large equipment and made recommendations on path forward.

Performed electrical calculations, load flow, equipment sizing, short circuit analysis,

motor starting studies, relay coordination studies, relay settings, and preliminarily designs small to medium capital improvement projects.

Assisted in new plant and all turnarounds PSSRs and electrical start-ups.

Worked with Operations Improvement and Project Engineering on electrical substation projects and plant projects performing the required electrical work. Participated in engineering and process safety reviews for all projects and turnarounds.

Extensive OSI PI process book configuration programming on individual and total refining units for daily and monthly operation reports.

Extensive experience using MS VB, VBA, and C++/C#/C programming languages.

Ten years of experience using VB, VBA, Fortran, and C++/C#/C programming languages.

Ten years of experience using MS Visual Studio or other integrated development environment (IDE).

Strong in converting VAX APC code to Windows XP Application software platform for all process units.

All units were controlled by Honeywell TDC 2000/3000.

Extensive OSI PI process book application configuration Programming on all refinery process and utility units for daily and monthly operation reporting.

Key process variable monitored were % excess O2, Stack Temp, Flare gas, Charge rates, Heater efficiency and associated costs.

Crude heaters’ combustion control using available stack O2 analyzers. Crude heaters’ combustion control using stack O2 and CO analyzers.

Crude heaters’ outlet temperature control. CDU Overhead pressure minimization constraint pushing control.

The same controls were designed and implemented on the VDU, HDC, FCC, Reformer and unifier heater units.

General experiences of Pre-commissioning, Commissioning, start-ups, normal & emergency shutdown and turnaround in Crude Distillation unit, Vacuum Distillation Unit, Sulfur Unit, Amine Unit, Sour Water Unit, Hydro-treating Units, Hydrocracker Unit, Hydrogen plant, Delayed Coker unit, Vis-breaker Unit, Merox Unit, Distillation units, Boilers and Steam Generators.

Extensive experience with firing Heaters and Boilers using Fuel Gas system and Heavy Fuel Oil system (Pitch) with very high viscosity and very low API for the oil Burners.