David Meindertsma, Automation Engineer

David Meindertsma

Automation Engineer

CIMA+

Lieu
Canada
Éducation
Diplôme,
Expérience
11 years, 2 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :11 years, 2 Mois

Automation Engineer à CIMA+
  • Canada
  • mars 2011 à octobre 2011

- Review and approve design specifications for application validity
- Material/equipment selection, and system design
- Design, Program, and commission RTU and PLC power distribution substation control system.
- Client witnessed FAT testing
- Engineering coordination with other disciplines

Automation Specialist à Vector Electric and Controls Inc.
  • Canada
  • octobre 2007 à mars 2011

- Complete Programming of different PLC, HMI, And SCADA systems for various water system projects.
- Organize site commissioning on a project level and address concerns for all field personnel as they relate to specific process systems.
- Define solutions for unexpected equipment behavior within an integrated process.
- Service calls as required.
- Calibration, configuration, and loop testing of all project instrumentation.
- Projects ranging from Alarm monitoring to Water Treatment Plants with remote site integration and associated radio and/or serial communications.

Parts/Branch Manager à Absolute Instrument Supply
  • Canada
  • mars 2007 à octobre 2007

- Manage parts orders and inventory.
- Act as branch purchaser.
- Define solutions for organizational strategies due to rapid expansion.
- Recommend product alternatives for customer requirements.
- Responsibility for all employees.

Technical Sales Representative à National Process Equipment
  • Canada
  • mai 2006 à mars 2007

- Identify customer needs and recommend product specific solutions.
- Determine individual customer sales strategies.
- Report to sales team of possible leads to new opportunities.
- Keep detailed customer profiles.

Instrument Field Technician à Surepoint Services Inc.
  • Canada
  • novembre 2005 à mai 2006

- Construction of electrical, pneumatic, and satellite wellhead control strategies.
- Calibration and configuration of various instruments.
- Fieldwork including construction and maintenance as required.

Application Engineer à ESC Automation
  • Canada
  • mai 2005 à novembre 2005

- HVAC, access and lighting design accurate to client specifications.
- Implement various types of control architecture via Delta Controls BACnet product line.
- Plan HMI interface integrated with GCL programming.
- Commission programming algorithms against job specific I/O.
- Compile as built drawings for customer reference.

Instrument Technician à Petro Canada
  • Canada
  • avril 2004 à août 2004

- Plant maintenance.
- Calibration and configuration of various instruments.
- Work in a safe manor around plant hazards.

Heavy Equipment Technician à Union Tractor Ltd.
  • Canada
  • juin 1995 à août 1999

- Rebuild and repair electrical components, water and oil pumps.
- Make accurate customer estimates.
- Trouble-shoot and service on and off road machinery.
- Lead in the production of hose assemblies.
- Rebuild and repair complete track assemblies.
- Pick-up and delivery.

Éducation

Diplôme,
  • à Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (N.A.I.T.)
  • avril 2005

Honors with overall weighted average of 92%. - Argus Scholarship - Jason Lang Scholarship Scientific principles related to the flow of fluids. Physical and thermal properties of solids, liquids and gases; heat transfer in materials; pressure and hydrostatic head; surface tension; vapour pressure; buoyancy; Bernoulli's equation; fluid friction and pipe losses; gas laws; and thermodynamics of steam. Applications to orifice flow and metering. Smart instrumentation, and installation considerations. Single loop digital controllers; density; mass flow; flame detection; flow provers; level measurement systems; smart instrumentation; hazardous location and classifications; and intrinsic safety. Configuration and programming of PLCs and RTUs. Programs for both hardware platforms in languages defined by the IEC 61131-3 standard. Industrial communications and data networks. Transmission media, serial communication, networking devices. Operating principles, applications, calibration, maintenance and installation requirements of analyzers. Chromatography, mass spectrometry, IR & UV spectroscopy, and electrochemical methods. Design and evaluation of complete analyzer systems. Design, select and size instruments for level, pressure, temperature and flow systems. Project management skills of analysis, scheduling, estimating, economics and supervision. Company specifications and industrial and government codes. The skills and knowledge are developed to produce a bid package for the design, procurement and installation of the instrumentation required for a segment of an actual production plant. Theory and application of advanced control strategies including: adaptive, cascade, feed forward, ratio, selective, multivariable and statistical process controls. Control strategies employed in a number of common control applications including: compressors; boilers; distillation columns; chemical reactors; and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.

Specialties & Skills

Installation
Instrumentation
Production
Pressure
Direct SOFT5
Unity Pro
Proworx NXT and 32
RSLogix 5000
CX-Programmer
Wonderware
Instrument Specific Configuration Software
Proficy Machine Edition
Network Comm Software
RSLogix 500

Langues

Anglais
Expert