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SeniorSoftwareEngineer

Tim Price

Bismarck,ND

Summary

Skilled Instrument and Controls Technician with 24 years experience maintaining and improving the process controls needed to efficiently and safely operate a coal fired power plant, and an additional 12 years in the Oil and Gas industries.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

I&E Technician Specialist

Chord Energy
New Town, ND
07.2022 - Current

Became part of Chords (Merger company between Whiting and Oasis) commissioning team. Responsible for developing and maintaining the latest HMI/PLC programs and ensuring that all field devices will interact and function properly with said contemporary programs; is also responsible for consulting with a main Control Room team to ensure the correct data is received.

Control Specialist

Whiting Petroleum Corporation
Dickinson, ND
06.2019 - 07.2022

In charge of setting up, maintaining, and continually updating our Rockwell Automation AssetCentre server. This process includes updating the latest CLX processor program with Rockwell Studio 5000, along with updates to our Allen Bradley Panelviews with the use of FactoryTalk Studio software. I also work directly with our IT department to setup and maintain our network from the field devices to our Engineering workstations (which includes the AssetCentre Server). All updates and software activation's for the Rockwell Software for our process laptops, to our servers are maintained through me.

Instrument Technician

Native Energy Solutions
Tioga, ND
09.2017 - 05.2019

Contract work for numerous companies in the Oil and Gas industry. I have been involved in site commissions, wrote cause and effects and created PLC logic from the C&E, and HMI graphics. I have also done site maintenance on all aspects of the Oil and Gas industry.

I&E Technician

Whiting Oil and Gas
Watford City, ND
09.2014 - 08.2017

Installation and setup of Automation equipment on oil sites, including LACT's, treaters/separators, flares, salt water and fresh water skids.

Maintain and update Allen Bradley Logix code, along with Rockwell ME graphics.

Configure and install Cisco routers for communication between SCADA and the field devices.

Update and maintain control room Wonderware graphics, and setup Kepware communication to field devices.

Setup of Well VFD control drives into XSPOC.

Instrument Technician

Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Stanton, ND
01.1990 - 08.2014

Upgraded and maintained all Allen Bradley logix, along with installation and maintenance of a 40 client Rockwell Studio SE server system.

Installed and maintained the VM servers that house the software mentioned above.

Maintained and updated the Emerson Ovation logic and graphics that controlled our boiler and steam turbine systems.

Provided all computer maintenance on PC servers and clients.

Maintained all field devices, including various transmitters and valves.

Failure Analysis Technician

Texas Instruments
Midland, TX
09.1986 - 12.1989

Analysis of integrated circuit chip failures by use of numerous electrical test equipment, microscope, and a Scanning Electron Microsope. This position required great knowledge of electrical circuits and gates, along with the use of chemical to strip down to failed layer within the silicone wafer.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Midland College
Midland, TX

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Odessa College
Odessa, TX

Associate of Science - Industrial Electronics

North Dakota State College of Science
1986

Skills

  • Rockwell Automation Studio ME and SE
  • Allen Bradley
  • Wonderware
  • Emerson Ovation
  • Red Lion
  • Rockwell Automation Asset Centre
  • Server/Client Computer Setup and Maintenance
  • VMWare Server
  • Solarwinds
  • Cisco and Ruggedcom Routers
  • FreeWave Radios
  • ABB Totalflows
  • Emerson ROC800

Timeline

I&E Technician Specialist

Chord Energy
07.2022 - Current

Control Specialist

Whiting Petroleum Corporation
06.2019 - 07.2022

Instrument Technician

Native Energy Solutions
09.2017 - 05.2019

I&E Technician

Whiting Oil and Gas
09.2014 - 08.2017

Instrument Technician

Basin Electric Power Cooperative
01.1990 - 08.2014

Failure Analysis Technician

Texas Instruments
09.1986 - 12.1989

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Midland College

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Odessa College

Associate of Science - Industrial Electronics

North Dakota State College of Science
Tim Price