Ryan J. Leyba
W. Valley
Summary
Safety-oriented Journeyman Electrician with strengths in installing equipment. Dedicated to maintaining safe work environments through implementing OSHA standards. Collaborative team player with strong analytical skills.
Proficient Journeyman Electrician adept at mentoring junior electrical workers and training on correct safety procedures, building codes and finishing strategies. Motivational leader solves routine and complex problems with resourceful and experienced approach.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2002
2002
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Journeyman Electrician
Cache Valley Electric
Salt Lake City
10.2024 - Current
- Daily safety pre-task planning: evaluating the changing work areas / environment. Re-evaluating when the scope of work changes.
- Conduit bending with mechanical benders and hand benders
- Use of 12K wire tuggers to install larger gauge conductors in three-inch EMT
- Insulation meter testing
- Lock out tag out safety procedures used whenever electrical potential was present.
- Cleaned up as the work day progressed and kept organized to keep a safe work area.
- Novva Data Centers
Foreman Electrician
Cupertino Electric, Inc.
San Jose
05.2024 - 10.2024
- Daily morning stretches and communications from the general contractor on site specifics and safety hazards for the day.
- Daily whiteboard safety meetings with full team participation.
- Weekly review of Standard Work Instructions, put together by foremen from Job Hazard Analyses and the company safety manual for each specific job.
- Daily review and corrections / suggestions of each team member's personal risk assessment book
- Direction and specific assignments laid out for each team member.
- Daily time spent in preparation to stay ahead of team with information, materials, P.P.E., and power tools.
- Daily attendance of coordination / planning meetings with the G. C.
- Daily follow up with team members to ensure safety procedures / P. P. E. being used, quality installations to job specifications / national electric code, and active production output from team members.
- Four-inch PVC raceways, fittings, and support installations for MCUP power distribution equipment.
- Ground ring and grounding well installations
- Various sizes of PVC for branch circuits and controls.
- Contractual swabbing of every raceway to verify proper installations.
- Periodic safety walks with the safety team to look for areas of improvement.
- Periodic coordination of assigned safety team walks.
- Facebook: UCO project 1 & 2
Journeyman Electrician
Cache Valley Electric
Salt Lake City
05.2023 - 05.2024
- Rigid conduit raceway installations and use of mechanical conduit benders
- Worked on branch circuits, controls, feeder raceways, heat trace, and stranded copper conductors for roof top water chiller units
- Starline bus, supports, fittings, connections, tap terminations, three-inch raceways from PDUs to tap boxes, and disconnect installations
- Lock out tag out whenever voltage potential was present
- Aligned and Novva data centers
Foreman Electrician
Cupertino Electric, Inc.
San Jose
05.2019 - 05.2023
- Same daily team and safety expectations as previously stated for C.E.I.
- Branch circuit installations: conduit raceways, wire pulls, receptacles, switches, power disconnects, motor circuitry / controls, variable frequency drives, mc cables, unit heaters, roof top units, exhaust fans, unit heaters, lighting, lighting control panels, panel terminations, transformers
- QA /QC inspections of completed installations
- Modular power distribution systems for the main electrical rooms feeding the PDUs in the data halls.
- Crane coordination, scheduling, and safety planning
- Installations of all cable jumpers between distribution equipment, grounding all cable trays inside the modular skids
- Reconfiguration of modular cable tray change orders
- Two months look ahead expectation for materials and parts
- Regular monitoring of my team's safety and well-being on scheduled modular skid delivery and crane rigging days. We would have to work through all breaks to keep the crane going from start to finish.
- Use of heavy-duty casters under modular skids, high torque tuggers, hydraulic pumps to get metal shims under skids to level them up, and anchoring skids onto the uneven concrete floors.
- QA / QC all team member installation to the job specifications
- Coordinated third party inspections of all power distribution equipment installations
- Cupertino Commissioning Team: tilt testing, power rotation testing, voltage verifications, load banking of power distribution equipment, breaker inspections, switching, complex lock out tag out, regular single line review, NFPA-70E training, and CPR / first aid training
- Facebook: EAG project 1-6
Journeyman Electrician
Rosendin Electric
San Jose
02.2019 - 05.2019
- EMT raceway installations for branch circuits, lighting, controls, and motor circuitry
- Worked in the Penthouse working on air handling power, VFDs, control cabinets, and panel installations
- Facebook Data Center: Prineville, Oregon
Foreman Electrician
Skyline Electric
Salt Lake City
05.2016 - 12.2018
- Crew direction, layout, and safety pre task planning
- Worked on various industrial sites: Water treatment plants, US Welding
- Commercial site: Regal Movie theater, ran a fire alarm crew
Foreman Electrician / Journeyman Electrician
Cache Valley Electric
Salt Lake City
09.2011 - 05.2016
- Foreman over fire alarm systems on the Utah Data Center
- EMT raceways, FA cables, horn strobes, NAC panels, smoke heads, elevator shunt trip, RTU- duct detectors
- First foreman job on the UDC data centers: heavy commercial
- CVE commissioning team running load banks at UDC
- Nucor Steel Plant: industrial electrical work, repairs, and troubleshooting
Education
Associate of Science -
Salt Lake Community College
Taylorsville, UTUtah Joint Apprenticeship Program - electrical power systems
Ogden-Weber Applied Tech Center
Salt Lake City, UTSkills
- Quality assurance inspections
- Electrical system installation
- PPE compliance
- Team leadership
- Safety management
- Project coordination
- Material planning
- Codes and standards
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Time management
- Risk assessment
- Project planning
- Diagnosis and troubleshooting
- Power distribution
- Electrical troubleshooting
Timeline
Journeyman Electrician
Cache Valley Electric
10.2024 - Current
Foreman Electrician
Cupertino Electric, Inc.
05.2024 - 10.2024
Journeyman Electrician
Cache Valley Electric
05.2023 - 05.2024
Foreman Electrician
Cupertino Electric, Inc.
05.2019 - 05.2023
Journeyman Electrician
Rosendin Electric
02.2019 - 05.2019
Foreman Electrician
Skyline Electric
05.2016 - 12.2018
Foreman Electrician / Journeyman Electrician
Cache Valley Electric
09.2011 - 05.2016
Associate of Science -
Salt Lake Community College
Utah Joint Apprenticeship Program - electrical power systems
Ogden-Weber Applied Tech Center