Noel Amper, Engineer

Noel Amper

Engineer

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
Experience
18 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months

Engineer at Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since October 2013

Responsibilities and Achievement:
Handles and maintain protection relay database used for reference in protection scope preparation and relay maintenance through RCM.
Prepares protection scope of work for 132/11kV 3-50MVA substation.
Conduct tender evaluation for new substation projects and line circuit modification in protection modification aspects.
Perform routine relay maintenance and testing for transformer protection and line protection.

Section Head at Trident Energy Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Al Ain
  • June 2012 to August 2013

Test and Protection
Trident energy systems is a high voltage maintenance company here in UAE dealing in maintenance and repair of Overhead Lines, power transformer, Switchgears including testing of control and protection system.

Responsibilities and Achievement:
Gain competency within the local utilities.
(AADC Project for A-4643//Supply, Installation, Testing & Commissioning of Control & Protection System components)
Ensure that the test equipment is calibrated and in a fit state to be used at all times;
Schedule staff allocated to the test department;
Perform project management for project completion on time;
Relay calculations and configuration for 11kV to 33kV feeders;
Injection testing of various relays;
Fault finding and modification of various control and protection scheme;
Adhering to company and client procedures;
Liaising with clients to solve their problems;
Expanding the test department with the guidance of the general manager.

Electrical Engineer at Crystal Sugar Company, Inc
  • Philippines
  • June 2011 to June 2012

Crystal Sugar Company, Inc. is a sugar milling company located in Maramag Bukidnon. It produces top quality sugar for local and foreign use.

Responsibilities and Achievement:
Supervise engineering and technical staff for troubleshooting of motor controls and generator protection;
Supervise, prepare, review and design protection, control and monitoring of 14.9MW, 13.8kV Steam Turbine Generator installation;
Make and prepare design drawings to existing electrical set-up and controls at 13.8kVusing AutoCAD;
Perform testing and maintenance of 1.5MW, 4MW, 5MW, 10.5 MW Turbine Generators including protection such as differential, over/under voltage/frequency and overcurrent all at 13.8kV system;
Handles government monthly and annual requirements for the Department of Energy (DOE) and Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC

Manager at Sunertech Corporation
  • June 2009 to October 2010

SUNERTECH is a trading company distributing electrical equipment like protection relays, test equipment, meters, and line equipments catering cooperatives, electric utilities, IPP’s and generating plants covering the entire country.

Key Responsibilities and Achievement:
Plan for the department developments and activities.
Schedule and conduct training to its personnel and customers.
Evaluate and enhance test procedures and practice.
Promote Testing Department to customers such as cooperative and electric utility.
Perform test on protection relay function such as overcurrent, power transformer differential and generator protection using Omicron Test System (CMC256 and CMC356) for 13.8kV, 23kV, 69kV and 138kV.
Perform test on high voltage equipment testing using Omicron Test System (CPC100) for Power Transformer at 10MVA, 30MVA and 50MVA at 13.8kV to 69KV voltage.
Design and retrofitting of protection and control for old generator 10MVA at 13.8kV protection to be upgraded with the latest digital protection relay SEL300G.
Compute, set, and configure relay settings for SEL, ABB, Siemens, GE and Areva relays for feeder and power transformer differential protection at various voltage levels ranging from 13.8kV to 138kV.

Design Engineer at Visayan Electric Company (VECO
  • April 2005 to June 2009

Visayan Electric Company is an electric distribution utility. It is one of the largest in the Philippines located in the heart of Cebu province.

Key Responsibilities and Achievement:
Design of protection, control and monitoring diagram of 138KV switching station and 100MVA 138/69 KV substation.
Design protection, control and monitoring diagram for new substations (69KV to 23KV).
Specify materials and equipment such as relays, CT’s and PT’s.
Simulate and conducted fault study using ASPEN OneLiner.
Prepare protection and coordination scheme using ASPEN OneLiner and SynerGee software.
Set and configure relays at the following: (voltage levels 23kV and 69kV)
Feeder protection like GE-IFC77, SEL351A, GE-DFP100, Siemens, and ABB DPU2000 series of relays.
Transformer protection like GE-electromechanical relay, ABB-TPU2000 series, Siemens7UT612, and SEL387A relays.
SubTransmission protection like SEL311L relays (69kV).
Conduct research and development to present protection practice and design.
Perform relay testing (secondary injection) using DOBLE instrument with F6000 software.
Conduct post fault analysis based on downloaded fault data and events recorded.
Conduct semi-annual line protection maintenance (line reclosers) at 23kV and annual maintenance for substation (69kV/23kV) protection devices.
Testing of Power Transformer(25/33MVA, 69/23KV),
Testing and commissioning of new substation. Commissioned five-25/33MVA, 69/23KV Power Transformer complete with protection, control and monitoring.
Make substation as built plans for old substations at 69kV/13.8kV and 69kV/23kV.
Respond to government and customers request such as:
a. Load Shed scheduling for Transmission Company’s requirements (TRANSCO Request) using over/under frequency.
b. Prepare system impact studies for Key Accounts Representatives, new application customers with bulk load. (KARS request).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at Central Mindanao UniversityBukidnon National High SchoolAglayan Elementary School
  • January 2004

BS course

Master's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at San Carlos University

Major in

Specialties & Skills

MS Project
MS Office tools
Maintenance Engineering
AUTOMATION
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
ENGINEERING
GOVERNMENT
SIEMENS NIXDORF HARDWARE
TEST EQUIPMENT
TRANSMISSION

Memberships

Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers (IIEE)
  • Active Member
  • September 2005