DRAKE CHALMERS
DeSoto
Summary
Objective to be hired as an Intern in a position which offers key participation, team oriented tasks, immediate challenges, and further career opportunities. Skilled electrical engineer with background in designing, developing, and testing electrical equipment. Experience includes working on complex projects involving power systems and, ensuring safety and efficiency. Strengths include analytical problem-solving, team collaboration, and adaptability to new technologies.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Transmission Construction Coordinator Intern
Oncor Electric Delivery
06.2025 - 08.2025
- Learned under Construction Manager, Transmission/Field Construction Coordinators.
- Worked on Sequence Drawings, going over the Timeline of the Project, Outages, NOMCR, One-Lines, Clearances/Holds.
- Understanding the parts of Substation/Switch Station
- Used Oncor applications for work PETE, ITOA, OTIS, OSI for planning of work.
- Worked on Summer project: Presentation over CCVTs
- Worked on KMZ
- Ridealongs with CM, TCC, and FCC over projects, Pre-Construction Mettings, Engineering walk-throughs.
- Attended on-site meetings with subcontractors and clients per month.
- Learned Oncor Standards that comply with Construction plans.
Electrical Field Engineer Intern
Blattner Energy
05.2024 - 08.2024
- Production Tracking
- Receiving/ Production us(Excel)
- Tracking all Cable receiving, Cable lengths, PMT receiving, PMT inspections, Box Pads, Junction Boxes
- Tracking all receipts for all items, cable, PMT, miscellaneous items like t bodies, grounding studs, insulating caps, box pads, Junction Boxes
- Collection Maps( Microsoft Visio); creating maps for site team that clearing label collection cable runs and all locations of work, splice, bores, grounding splices, junction boxes, collection lines, and creating production map for progress
- Reviewing and editing map if changes were made as well
- Field Work; GGR(Ground Grid Resistance Testing); checking each turbine site with Electrical Superintendent that the site was properly grounded and gather data to verify that was true based on the required test
- Collection Benchmarks; When benchmarks came around for task, went out to get pictures and filled out benchmarks with Field Engineer to make sure everything was done correctly
- Quality Documentation
- Collection Surveying; (1) Driving collections lines and marking out areas that need to be mowed down so the plowing crew can work and not deal with tall grass
- (2) Driving collection lines to find eliminations for bores or plowing areas(site evaluation)
- (3) Unidentified Overhead power lines, cultural areas, etc
- Other Management Task - Creating 3 week look ahead
- Week by week agenda of future production
- Looking over Engineering drawings seeing if anything didn't match up
Electrical Field Construction Coordinator Intern
Blattner Energy
06.2023 - 08.2023
- Dcp testing
- Pod
- Nacelle prep(install crew)
- Setting rural area(civil crew)
- DTA benchmark (collections)
- Surveying Topography (civil)
- Trimble device
- Crane Walk lengths
- Tower climb trained
- Vivax metrotech vloc3-5000: cable locator
- Taking grounds off LV
- Scheduling with subcontractors
- Manager Duties: Updating production, Tracking, and Progress for collections
- Learning about the site, site conditions, site management, and eliminating problems that may occur with trade and how to mitigate problems
- Communication
- Working with teams towards common goal
- Leadership
- Problem Solver
- Initiative and flexibility for the future and future projects
- Agreements making sure I know everything that was expected to be done on our end and anything subcontractors needed they had in advance
Warehouse Associate
Amazon Sortation Center
01.2021 - 08.2021
- Responsible for sorting, scanning, and stacking packages to prepare for timely delivery
- Moving pallets to correct locations, and getting packages to correct locations to ship out; while meeting the companies standard production quota
Education
Bachelor of Science - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, SUSTAINABILITY
University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX05-2026
High School Diploma -
Desoto High School
DeSoto, TX05-2020
Associate of Arts -
Cedar Valley Community College
Lancaster, TX05-2020
Skills
- Energy management
- Power distribution
- Grounding systems
- Electrical safety compliance
- Field testing
- Cable sizing
Timeline
Transmission Construction Coordinator Intern
Oncor Electric Delivery
06.2025 - 08.2025
Electrical Field Engineer Intern
Blattner Energy
05.2024 - 08.2024
Electrical Field Construction Coordinator Intern
Blattner Energy
06.2023 - 08.2023
Warehouse Associate
Amazon Sortation Center
01.2021 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Science - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, SUSTAINABILITY
University of Texas At Arlington
High School Diploma -
Desoto High School
Associate of Arts -
Cedar Valley Community College
Websites, Portfolios, Profiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drake-chalmers-a57a10186
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