Eagle Automation
Corporation
SCADA Technician / Assistant Safety Coordinator
August
2008 Present
Contingent contractor for EnCana
Oil & Gas, North America's second largest natural gas producer, responsible for
installation and maintenance of SCADA equipment used to monitor its
natural gas infrastructure in the East Texas area. EnCana's SCADA
network includes a mixture of both wired and wireless monitoring
technology, and includes equipment such as gas flow meters, tank level
monitors, pressure monitors, discrete monitors, etc.
Familiar with industry standard
SCADA equipment from well-known manufactures, including:
- Fisher
- Control Microsystems
- Oleumtech
- Siemens
- GE Microwave Digital
Systems
- FreeWave
- Etc.
Experienced with hands-on PLC/RTU
programming of flow meters and equipment that uses the Modicon Modbus
protocol, and includes some limited experience with Control
Microsystems's "ladder logic."
Also responsible for assisting
Eagle's Safety Coordinator in maintaining its safety
program.
Nalcom Wireless
IT Technician / Network
Support
January 2004 July 2008
Position was originally split
between an IT position with Nalcom Wireless and a part-time Radio
Technician position. Although still an employee of Nalcom Wireless, the
position changed to a full-time Network Support position when Nalcom
Wireless merged its wireless Internet operations with East Texas
Broadband in August of 2007.
Trained in the installation and
support of Trango, Mikrotik, and Motorola Canopy equipment, for use in
WISP (wireless Internet service provider) venture. Responsibilities
include network and backbone equipment installation and support,
including some tower work; on-location site surveys to verify service
eligibility; programming of subscriber modules; installation of
equipment at customer premises, as well as providing end-user technical
support/service.
In addition to the above duties,
we are often involved in business network installation and support,
including wired and wireless networks, cable drops, wireless transparent
bridges, router programming, server installation, etc.
Responsible for the maintenance
and upkeep of the company LAN and its server systems, including several
FreeBSD servers, used for Apache virtual domain hosting, a Microsoft
Exchange e-mail server, and a Microsoft 2003 server, used for terminal
server purposes.
Also note that while I no longer
work in the business radio side of Nalcom Wireless, I was initially
cross-trained as a business-radio technician, with responsibilities that
include the programming, tuning, installation, and support of business
radios used in portable, mobile and base applications. This training
included the use of appropriate test equipment, as well as ongoing
training in very basic bench repairs. I also assist in management of the
customer code database required for a large-scale UHF trunking system,
and assist in basic IT management that includes keeping programming
software up-to-date on all programming laptops, among other
things.
Radio work experience includes
installation of remote speakers, tone and DC remotes, halo grounding
systems, installation of antennas on towers at up to 150 feet in height.
Im also proficient at installing cell phone hands-free kits, and have
some limited experience with the installation of police and emergency
response vehicle light bars, radio consoles, sirens, analog/digital
camera systems for police cars, etc.
Special Projects and
Achievements:
· Have climbed to
approximately 320 feet while performing tower maintenance.
· Assisted in
punching down, termination, and testing of cable in a voice and data
telecommunication system that included 45,000 feet of CAT-5 cable and
115 data jacks and 118 voice jacks.
· Participated in a
project to provide two large hotels with wireless Internet throughout
the entire customer premises.
· Received 24 hours of
MSHA Mine Safety training in order to help fulfill a contract between
Nalcom Wireless and Texas Westmoreland Coal Co., which requires Nalcom
to provide an employee one day per week whose sole duty is to provide
technical support and maintenance of the Jewett Mines radio system.
This system includes portable radios; mobile radios installed in drag
lines, backhoes, graters, water trucks, maintenance trucks, and other
very large equipment; and their base stations and repeater
systems.
Entertainment
Warehouse/Propager
Management
March 1999 January
2004
Experience included a good introduction to business
communications, with four years of experience managing all aspects of a
small satellite/pager business. Responsibilities included pager
inventory management, programming pagers, remote activation of pagers
through the use of terminal software, managing the pager capcode
inventory, and very basic bench repairs. In addition, as we were a
DirecTV dealer, too, I was also occasionally involved in the
installation and repair of satellite systems. Non-technical duties at
this job included IT management duties for a small Novell network, as
well as all billing and paperwork involved in a small satellite/pager
business. I was also responsible for building and maintaining the
company web site.
Wang Global (formerly I-NET, Inc.)
Data
Technician
November 1994 January 1999
Responsibilities included editing
and proofing technical order military documents to facilitate full SGML
tagging for various government contracts.
Executed the Avalanche FastTAG
program to create SGML tagged documents, which were then checked for
proper structure and to have tags added manually, if needed. Soft Quad's
Author Editor program was then used to parse the documents against SGML
standards.
Trained as a backup for the F4-ETP
(FMS) contract. Responsibilities included the initial edit/proof of the
documents using Wordperfect 5.1 software and the subsequent formatting,
proofing and performance Quality Assurance Inspections (QAs) utilizing
the FrameMaker 4 program.
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