Ryan McKenna
Pleasant Hill,CA
Summary
Electrical engineer with hands-on experience in electrical design and instrumentation for oil and gas projects. Background includes load flow studies, cable sizing, motor control design, circuit breaker support, and documentation for new equipment installation, with recent work leading a pump installation and control design package.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
Electrical Engineer
Hargrove Engineers & Constructors
Concord, CA
03.2023 - Current
- Chevron P-1022 Installation, Richmond, CA - Prepared complete electrical design package for new pump installation, incorporating single-line diagram, motor schematic, wiring diagram, cable routing, and cable sizing.
- Chevron 2024 H2 Pit Stop-H2 Reliability, Richmond, CA - Developed engineering work orders for new instrument installation and compiled comprehensive documentation, including SPI datasheets, installation details, demo sketches, loop diagrams, and IO lists.
- Chevron El Segundo DPD Relief, El Segundo, CA - Developed E&I EWO packages for new lighting and instrumentation scope.
- Chevron Crude Injection, Richmond, CA - Supported SPI spec sheet and ERW package preparation for pressure transmitters, control valves, pressure gauges, and thermowell/temperature element(s).
- Prepared power distribution studies for industrial client facilities.
- Coordinated electrical work with process, mechanical, and instrumentation discipline teams.
- Developed one-line diagrams, wiring drawings, and equipment layouts for power systems.
Electrical Engineer
U.C. Davis
Davis, CA
2020 - 2022
- Senior Project: Autonomous Vehicle Design Project – Designed autonomous lane following RC car with object avoidance feature. Utilized OpenMV (computer vision), Arduino, and Ultrasonic Sensors.
- Sequence Detector - Designed sequence detector on DE10-Lite FPGA Board. Designed using a Mealy finite state machine, shift registers, and counters.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA01-2022
Skills
- C/C
- Python
- Verilog
- OrCAD
- SPI
- Photolithography Lab Experience
- Pspice
- Oscilloscope/Function Generator
- MATLAB
Timeline
Electrical Engineer
Hargrove Engineers & Constructors
03.2023 - Current
Electrical Engineer
U.C. Davis
2020 - 2022
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of California, Davis