29 year trouble shooting and design of electrical devises for two major states ,Illinois/Missouri .
29 years Knowledge in troubleshooting and design of low voltage, medium voltage and high voltage projects
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Substation Electrical Engineer
AMEREN ILLINOIS UTILITIES(Retired 2019)
04.2019 - 06.2022
Responsible for 15,000 square miles of Southern Illinois substation maintenance for the Mt Vernon and Marion districts
Duties include providing full service substation maintenance; including monitoring substation outage events/performance, outage analysis reporting, testing for breakers, transformers, regulators, and switches.
Supervisor Distribution Design
AMEREN ILLINOIS UTILITIES (IP)
10.2005 - 04.2012
Supervisor for Hillsboro service area for all electric and gas design
Responsible for 5 employee engineering department daily activities
Interfaced with DDC group in order to provide uniform engineering practices
Team member for gas standards designs renovation for Hillsboro area
Implementation of system to provide contractor design for all Lilliputian investigation for Hillsboro area
Preformed weekly safety meeting and reviewed monthly FOCUS results for SAIF and CADI.
Supervisor Distribution Design
AMEREN UNION ELECTRIC
10.2002 - 10.2005
Supervisor responsible for providing electrical and gas engineering expertise for a 5 member group for Alton district
Interfaced with major customer such as Conoco Phillips to correct outage issues
Provide expertise to operations for design build projects
Interfaced with DDC supervision to correct design issues
Preformed weekly safety meeting and reviewed monthly FOCUS results for SAIF and CADI.
Customer Service Engineer - Geraldine-Berkley Territories
AMEREN UNION ELECTRIC
09.2000 - 10.2002
Project Manager responsible for providing the local St
Louis Service area with electrical expertise
Provided support for such companies as Master charge, Busch Stadium, McDonald Douglas, Chrysler and Metro link providing electrical solutions for electrical processes, and new installations
Project manager for 35 million dollar 25 mile Metro link project relocation project
Provided court room testimony in behalf of company interests for Metro link lawsuit.
Area Engineer Supervisor
ILLINOIS POWER
07.1996 - 09.2000
Supervisor for a 5 member engineering team providing electric and gas design for the Sparta area
Team leader for de-regulation power plant metering
Provided recommendations to senior management for corrective actions needed to correct power plant metering facilities
Provided projected metering revenues losses for Baldwin, Hennepin, Wood River, and Vermilion Power Stations
Preformed weekly safety meeting with group.
Area Engineering Supervisor
ILLINOIS POWER
10.1992 - 10.1995
Supervisor responsible for providing electrical and gas expertise for daily activities of 69 square mile Hillsboro territory which included a 5 employee engineering department
Duties include electric/gas distribution design, estimating project costs, assigning tasks, and managing/scheduling of crews for installation
Troubleshot various industrial mediums to high voltage systems, provided least cost solutions to electrical problems
Team leader for design of the TRIS payroll system
Team leader for implementation of the TRIS payroll system in all Illinois Power territories
Team member for the design of the gas compliance system for all of the Illinois territories
Responsible for implementation and training for gas compliance system handheld for all the Illinois territories.
Area Engineer
ILLINOIS POWER
10.1990 - 10.1992
Engineer responsible for the Centralia, Salem and Eldorado electric and gas design
Designed and troubleshot industrial and residential electrical system
Reviewed all projects for compliance of the National Electrical Code and National Electrical Safety Code.
Education
BS in ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY -
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
08.1981
BS in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - Power Engineering
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
08.1981
Skills
Over 24 years' experience working in various roles of Supervision for Ameren Utilities, to provides electrical and gas distribution system expertise (10 years)
Over 5 years' experience managing substation maintenance projects for MT Vernon, Centralia and Marion Territories (10 years)