Expertise

• Machine safety, including safety guarding, safe shut down, safety engineering, electrical interlocking, risk analysis, risk mitigation and process hazard reviews.
• Machine reliability engineering.
• Automation and process control system design and development.
• Allen Bradley/Rockwell AC/DC drives systems and control system development and control equipment, training and commissioning.
• Troubleshooting of electrical drives and controls.
• Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing - Green Belt Certified.

Experience

Independent Consultant, Electrical Engineer, Present

• Electrical and PLC control system development.
• Machine safety analysis.

E.I. DuPont de Nemours, 1978 - 2009

Non-Wovens, Inc., Richmond, VA, 1992 - 2009

• Project Electrical Engineering Manager for Integrated Non-Wovens manufacturing facility.
• Development of automaton and process control technology for research pilot facilities.
• Responsible for project management, design and commissioning of Tyvek® homewrap manufacturing facilities.
• Provided electrical and control system upgrades for DuPont non-woven manufacturing processes.
• Provided reliability and system training for manufacturing operations.

Engineering Development Laboratory, Wilmington, DE, 1978 - 1992

• Engineering design of integrated manufacturing.
• Medical instrument electrical design and reliability development.
• Commissioned automated manufacturing equipment including PLC and drive systems for DuPont industrial departments.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• IEEE
• ISA

Credentials

• Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing - Green Belt Certified
• Guest Lecturer - University of Pennsylvania

Publications

• "A Map for Automated Factories"
• "Microcomputer Controlled of optimum Stepper Motors"

Education

• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Widener University, Chester PA.
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, Widener University, Chester PA.