Sami Daw, Transmission Engineer(T&C)

Sami Daw

Transmission Engineer(T&C)

Saudi Electricity Company

Location
Saudi Arabia - Dammam
Education
Master's degree, Power Engineering
Experience
18 years, 0 Months

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Transmission Engineer(T&C) at Saudi Electricity Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since July 2016

I am a Transmission Engineer in Saudi Arabia. My technical role is testing and commissioning of EHV & HV substations(380KV/230KV/115KV/132KV) for Saudi Electricity Company. Key duties performed are:
 Testing and commissioning of GIS switchgear and associated protection panels
 Testing and commissioning of MV switchgear and associated protection panels
 Testing and commissioning of Power Transformers and associated protection panels
 Testing and commissioning of SCADA and SAS systems

Founder & Director at Middle East Trading Co.Ltd
  • Australia
  • September 2013 to December 2015

Middle East Trading Co.Ltd
Founder & Director of Middle East Trading CO Ltd, a small Company that served a wide base of customers. Main role:
 Designed and Specified LV Distribution Boards for subcontractors and Electricians.
 Budget management and financial forecast
 Managed small team of draftspersons
 Marketed and Exported LV Distribution Boards

Project Engineer at Schneider Electric(Australia)
  • Australia
  • March 2011 to August 2013

oDesign and construction of Switchgear for BHP & Rio Tinto
oDesign and construction of Switchgear for the Chevron Australia-LNG Project value $200
million

Responsibilities:

Primary system design(11KV&33KV switchgear)
Secondary system design
Project management.
Liaison with stakeholders
Management of Draftspersons and Graduate
Engineers

Supervision of FAT & SAT technicians
Production of final test Certificates
Punch lists and progression reports
Test plans and ITAs
Production of maintenance manuals and
maintenance guides.

Trouble shooting/Investigations of Incidents
Supervision of Relay testings
Trouble shootings
Transformers FAT & SAT testings
Testings of HV underground cables

Power Systems Engineer at Aurizon Ltd
  • Australia
  • August 2009 to February 2011

Rail Projects for Aurizon Ltd;
o Caboolture Substation -Project value $7 million
o Wotonga substation - Project value $8 million
o Wulkuraka substation- Project value $13million
o Taringa TSC-Project value $7 million
o Park Rd Substation -Project value $13million

Responsibilities

Construction, Design & maintenance of substations
-Periodic/predictive maintenance of substations
-Rapid response to failures/breakdowns in the networks
-Supervision and Management of Contractors
-Calculations of protection parameters for Relays
-Inspection of Civil and electrical construction
-Trouble shooting
-Progression report
-OHS briefings
-OHS site manual


Design of Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and fault
locators
-Kingfisher software design
-RTU wiring diagrams design
-Fault locators diagrams design


Protection Design for new substations
-Protection philosophies
-Calculations of protection parameters for Relays
 ‘Maintenance scheduling studies’ for overhead
switches
-Daily analysis and reports for faults of the overheadlines
and overhead switches


Uninterruptable Power Supplies
- UPS specifications
-Tender Evaluation for UPS
-Contract awarding

Electrical Design Engineer (MV &LV) at Aurizon Ltd
  • Australia
  • January 2007 to July 2009

Rail Projects for Aurizon Ltd;
o Roma St substation -Project value $15 million
o Bolingbroke substation - Project value $13 million
o Kuraby TSC - Project value $6 million
o Mindi substation -Project value $13 million
o Caboolture substation -Project value $7million
o Wotonga substation -Project value $8million


Responsibilities:

Design & Specifications for MV substations
-Produced specifications & Design for substations.

Earthing & Bonding Design
-Produced Bonding drawings for TRFs, Fences, masts and
switchgear.


Design of protection scheme
-Calculated protection parameters for relays.
- Involved in the design of protection philosophies for substations


Testing and commissioning
-Involved in factory acceptance tests of 25 KV and 50 KV
substations
-Involved in factory acceptance tests of 132KV/50KV power
transformers.
-Involved in factory acceptance tests of 50KV/25KV
autotransformers
-Involved in site acceptance tests of 50 KV and 25KV substations


Civil design
-Earth grids
-Underground conduits and cable pits
-Transformer bund walls
-Oil spell tanks design



Lighting design
-Lighting design for buildings and stabling yards & car parks
-Low Voltage design for buildings and stabling yards


Simulation softwares
-Matlab:Designed and coded one thousand lines program, the
program performed DSP analysis on harmonics
- PSS/Sincal: Load Flow analysis, harmonic analysis
-CDEGS: Earthing Design


Project Management
- Day-to-day management of two PSC projects.
-Managed all aspects of the two PSC projects from finance to
construction.
-Produced quarterly financial reports for power consumption bills worth $45 million dollars

Researach Engineer at Eurovox Ltd
  • Australia
  • December 2005 to December 2006

-Research & development of Digital Reception System for
mobile TVs
-Managed an industry project for Eurovox Electronics with the
supervision of La Trobe University.

Education

Master's degree, Power Engineering
  • at Queensland University of Technology
  • August 2010

Postgraduate certificates in Power Engineering

Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering(Honors)
  • at La Trobe University
  • December 2005

Specialties & Skills

Manufacturing
Power Systems
Electrical
Matlab programming
C++ programming
Microsim
Simulink
Kingfisher Tool
PSS/Sincal
Power Point.
AutoCAD
Assembly Language C programming
Microsoft Word

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
Russian
Beginner

Memberships

Engineers Australia(EA)
  • Member
  • March 2000

Training and Certifications

First Aid (Training)
Training Institute:
Blue Dog Training
Date Attended:
November 2012
Duration:
3 hours
Saftey in Construction (Training)
Training Institute:
Blue Dog Training
Date Attended:
April 2008
Duration:
72 hours
Low voltage switchboard rescue (Training)
Training Institute:
Blue Dog Training
Date Attended:
November 2012
Duration:
24 hours
Health Surveillance (Training)
Training Institute:
TAFE-Government of Western Australia
Date Attended:
June 2012
Duration:
48 hours

Hobbies

  • Soccer
    1-Member of several teams 2-Coach of women's team (La Trobe University)
  • Chess
    Member of Chess.com
  • Reading
    Member of reading club