Field Engineer Power Equipment
Resume:
Theodore A. Peterson
Scottsdale, Az 85260
Mailing Address:
PO Box 2803
Scottsdale, Az 85252
Email: ad6tbo@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Profile:
Profession background is focused on electrical equipment installations, maintenance, testing, trouble shooting, design and modification of controls and protection of power supply equipment (circuit breakers, protective relaying, transformers and associated equipment). Modifications included generating Auto-cad schematic diagrams.
Extensive experience in the installation and maintenance of medium voltage to high voltage rated equipment for utility company substations.
Professional Accomplishments:
Primary area of field work is working with utility and industrial customers to resolve and correct electrical problems. This may involve making modification to existing controls or making repairs to the primary electrical equipment (protective relaying, circuit breakers, transformers, generators, motors). Projects Include:
1. Modifications and installations of controls and protective equipment at hydro-electric generating stations. Updating existing controls, exciters and power equipment. 2. Design and installations of protective relay/control panels for primary utility substations. 3. Specifying power and protective equipment and materials. 4. Preventive maintenance testing of protective relaying systems, circuit breakers, power transformers, generators and grounding systems.
Experience:
2001 – Present:
Field Service Engineer
Ted Peterson field Services
Scottsdale, AZ, Grand Rapids, MI
Experience with industrial and commercial customers in testing and start-up of 600V to 138KV equipment. Experience is with Eagle Creek Renewable Energy a hydro-electric generating company based in Wisconsin.
Work includes trouble shooting the power equipment, modifications and installation of plant control equipment, specifying and installation of generator static exciters, testing and calibrations of the protective relay systems.
The power equipment included the power transformers, circuit breakers, panel boards, motor control centers, protective relays and control systems equipment. Plant one-line and schematic diagrams were generated on Auto-cad software for the plant power system. Projects included:
Installation and trouble-shooting of electrical controls and power supply equipment at Eagle Creek Renewable Energy hydro-electric installations at 25 sites in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Virginia, California and Colorado.
Retrofit, construction and installation of generator static exciters and associated equipment at the hydro plants.
Maintenance inspections and tests of the power supply systems (transformer, Circuit breakers, control systems) at the hydro-electric sites.
Auto-Cad schematic and wiring diagrams were updated and generated.
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2013 – 2017
Senior Field Engineer
Emerson ERS / Vertiv ERS (Electrical Reliability Services) Tempe, AZ
Experience with industrial and commercial customers in testing and start-up of 600V to 138KV equipment. This included testing of power transformers, circuit breakers, panel boards, bus ducts, protective relaying and control systems. Experience included the installation and start-up of the electrical power equipment. Also generated auto-cad drawings for the plant one-line and schematic diagrams. Projects included:
Testing power equipment including power transformers, circuit breakers to 345KV, power cables and associated substation equipment. This involved power factor testing, protective relay testing and calibration and power cable testing. Other testing of ground loop testing measurements on major installations and current transformer ratio tests in substations on circuit breakers and power transformers. Work locations in the Arizona area were mining installations, commercial buildings, major manufacturing facilities.
Also preformed maintenance inspection projects for the power system at solar energy projects in Arizona. 1964 – 2001
Senior Field Service Engineer
Westinghouse Engineering Services
Siemens Engineering Services
Grand Rapids, MI
Toledo, OH
Chicago, IL
Experience with electric utilities on the installations and start-up of 15KV to 345KV substations. This included specifying equipment and installations of the circuit breakers, power transformers, design of relay- control panels, installation of associated equipment and setting/calibration of the protective devices. Other experience included work with industrial customers and commercial customers, automobile manufacturing plant, steel mills and petroleum plants. This included installation, testing, trouble-shooting and modifying the plant power supply equipment.
Projects included:
Installation of 345KV Sf6 circuit breakers for Toledo Edison, Toledo, OH and Consumers Energy, Grand Rapids, MI.
Installation of 34.5KV & 138KV Sf6 circuit breakers and circuit switchers for Alpena Power co., Alpena, MI.
Maintenance Inspection projects for steel mills and oil refineries in the Detroit, MI and Ohio area. Installation of controls for steel mills in the Gary, IN. Plant schematic and wiring diagrams were updated and generated by Auto-cad. Work at instrument lab in Chicago repairing and calibrating power meters. Education:
BS, Electrical Engineering Technology
University Of Toledo
Toledo, OH
1977
AAS degree, Computer Technology
Milwaukee, WI
1964
Graduate
Moline High School
Moline. IL
1960
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