الكسيس هيريرا, Executive Director, I&C

الكسيس هيريرا

Executive Director, I&C

BEMCO

البلد
الإمارات العربية المتحدة - دبي
التعليم
ماجستير, Master of Science in Control Systems Engineering
الخبرات
36 years, 9 أشهر

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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :36 years, 9 أشهر

Executive Director, I&C في BEMCO
  • المملكة العربية السعودية - الرياض
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ ديسمبر 2010

Responsible for:
• Development of business plans.
• Improve, design and implement the strategic plans for the I&C organization.
• Scheduling and/or attending the meetings with the I&C Managers within the varies Power Plant Projects.
• Supervise over 100 Engineers and Managerial staff.

Under the above responsibilities, the following was implemented:
• Started training programs for every I&C Technician and Engineer to improve the Quality of the engineering design review and execution of the projects.
• Lead and Coordinate the preparation of I&C Engineering Standards.
• Created new Business opportunities such as:
o In House Instruments Calibration Activities on all the projects. This improved the Overall Quality of the projects and saved more than USD 500K a year.
o Assigned as Board Member of GEDAC Electric to help on developing quality standards for the manufacture and deliver of varies type of PLC Cabinets to BEMCO projects.
o Proposed the installation and calibration of all the Instruments use for the evaluation of performance of GTG and HRSG Units (Power and Heat Output rates) by our in-house I&C team. This contributed to a saving of USD 1 Million for the Performance Execution of the Combine Cycle Power Plant (PP10) in Riyadh.
o Establish a KSA Site Engineer team to design loop diagrams and as-built drawings for all KSA BEMCO projects. This contributes to the saving of more than USD 500K a year.
o Develop a real standard cost of the execution of I&C design, construction and commissioning activities. This allows the cost of the I&C activities, consider for bidding, to be lower than USD 3 Million, which helps BEMCO to win projects.

ACTING PROJECT MANAGER في SAUD CONSULTING SERVICES
  • المملكة العربية السعودية - الرياض
  • فبراير 2008 إلى ديسمبر 2010

Manage a staff of 40 engineers, consisting of 6 designers, Construction and Office staff. Responsible for overseeing the Design, Construction, Testing and Commissioning, Start-up, Warranty Issues and Project turnover and closeout of two Engineer, Procure and Construct (EPC) contractors consisting of two power plants: 20 GE GT Frame 7EA 1100 MW (20 X 55 MW) and 12 GE Frame 7EA 660MW (12 X 55MW) which included a Water Treatment Plant, Fuel Gas plant, Fuel Crude Oil Tank Farm consisting of 8 Tanks with total capacity of 400, 000 Cu-meters, Fuel Oil treatment Plant, Transfer Pumping Station, Diesel Unloading Station and a Distributed Control System totaling 1.5 billion dollars in project cost. Coordinate and participate in upper level management weekly and monthly meetings developing and presenting weekly and monthly oral and written reports on Overall Project status and Budgeting.

Instrument and Control Lead في SAUDI CONSULT
  • المملكة العربية السعودية - الرياض
  • مارس 2007 إلى فبراير 2010

Manage a staff of 4 engineers, consisting of a Senior I&C Design Engineer and 3 Field I&C Engineers. Responsible for the Design Review, Construction Supervision, Testing and Commissioning and Start-up for all Instruments, PLC and DCS of two power plants: 20 GE GT Frame 7EA 1100 MW (20 X 55 MW) and 12 GE Frame 7EA 660MW (12 X 55MW) which included a Water Treatment Plant, Fuel Gas plant, Fuel Crude Oil Tank Farm, Fuel Oil Treatment Plant, Transfer Pumping Station and Diesel Unloading Station. In addition, I was assigned as the Consultant Lead to supervise the Performance of 32 GE GTG Units and ensure that these tests were conducted according to ASME codes

Instrument and Control Superintendent في MARAFIQ: Power and Water Utility Company
  • المملكة العربية السعودية - ينبع
  • أكتوبر 2003 إلى مارس 2007

Supervise and coordinate all aspects of Instrument Maintenance for day to day and schedule shutdowns in the plant. Manage and coordinate all aspects of Instrument and Control maintenance work on the following areas:
1. Steam Turbine Generation and Gas Turbine Generation Units.
2. Desalination Units.
3. Load Dispatcher Center (LDC).
4. RO Plant

Besides above responsibilities, I am also assigned as the I&C commissioning leader for new projects, such as recently installed Steam Turbine Generation unit. Also, recommend, revise and approve Instrument and Control engineering design modifications and purchase requisitions for new instrument equipment prepare by the Instrument and Control Supervisors and Engineers. Specify and implement Instrument and Control maintenance procedures, such as Preventive and Predictive maintenance program, Incident Investigation, Equipment and Spare parts list, Loop Files program, etc. Other responsibilities include Tool Safety meetings, Create Key Performance Indexes and Prepare the budget for the department, etc.

Instrument and Control Section Chief Engineer في Saline Water Conversion Corporation (S.W.C.C.)
  • المملكة العربية السعودية - الجبيل
  • يونيو 1998 إلى أكتوبر 2003

Supervised and coordinate all aspects of day to day Instrument Maintenance in the plant. Recommend and revise Instrument and Control engineering design modification and purchase requisition for new instrument equipment prepared by Instrument and Control Engineers. Develop and specified Instrument and Control life extension projects (over 20 million SAR) to increase the reliability, production and cost effectiveness of maintenance services. Ensure availability of Instrument and Control related facility, systems and equipment in the plant by analyzing and reviewing Root Cause Failure Analysis reports. Implement special Instrument and Control projects such as:
1. Write specification and bid analysis for new Distribute Control system (DCS) for the existing obsolete Boiler and Desalination Instrument and Control System such as: BMS, ABC, Data Acquisition System (DAS) and Turbine Supervisory Control systems in the plant.
2. Improvement of existing Boiler Combustion Control System.

Principal Reliability Instrument & Electrical Engineer في Millennium Petrochemical
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • يناير 1996 إلى يونيو 1998

Design, maintain and troubleshoot existing instruments and electrical equipment in the plant including distributed control systems (Fisher Provox and Foxboro). Reliability leader of a task force team in charge to improve the overall quality production in the Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) plant, the overall maintenance cost of this plant was reduced by over $500K a year. Design complete process control loops: Size control valve, orifice plates, specify instruments and tune control loops like the Moore 352. Specify and install variable speed drives like Allen Bradley and Reliance

Plant Instrument & Electrical Engineer في FMC Corporation
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • سبتمبر 1987 إلى يناير 1996

Design, maintain and troubleshoot existing instruments and electrical equipment in the plant including distributed control systems (Honeywell) and programmable logic controllers (Allen Bradley, Honeywell, Siemens, and Westinghouse). Design of medium voltage equipment (15KV or less): fault calculation, grounding, surge protection, and coordination of system protective devices. Design and purchase distribution, power, and control transformers, switchgear equipment, motors (up to 3000HP), and motor control centers. Purchase and design of instrument and control equipment for new and existing chemical industrial processes. Coordinate and manage engineer projects of up to $500K, everything from scope development through project start-up. Understand and have used the National Electric Code, the National Electric Safety Code, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics engineers recommended practices (IEEE Red Book and IEEE Green Book). ANSI and NEMA Standards. The life Safety Code, and the Occupational Safety and Heatlh Administration (OSHA) Federal Regulations

الخلفية التعليمية

ماجستير, Master of Science in Control Systems Engineering
  • في Oklahoma State University
  • مايو 2012
بكالوريوس, Bachelor Science in Electrical Engineer minor in Physics
  • في Gonzaga University
  • مايو 1987
الثانوية العامة أو ما يعادلها, Small (office) and Large Computer Technology
  • في NEC
  • أكتوبر 1979

Technical Degree in Computer Science.

Specialties & Skills

Instrument Control
Commissioning
Power Plants
Desalination

اللغات

الاسبانية
متمرّس
اليابانية
متوسط
العربية
مبتدئ

العضويات

ISA (Instrument Society)
  • Active Member
  • October 1987

التدريب و الشهادات

Please see my Linkedin or my CV too many to list here (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
July 2003
صالحة لغاية:
August 2003