Experience:
System specification, design, development, project management and technical consulting
services of various size projects ranging up to tens of millions
of dollars for such projects as SCADA, CPM, DCS, Network
Management and Control Systems.
Intimately involved with the entire SCADA project life cycle, from project
conception, specification, design, implementation, through
installation,
deployment, and maintenance many times.
Many of our consultants have been on both sides of the fence as
both vendors/system integrators and consultants they all are degreed professional engineers or computer
scientists with many years of experience in the industry.
Some
of the our recent or current projects:
Occidental
Petroleum
January 2006 - Present
  
SCADA system. This system utilizes Telvent's DNA
SCADA software for its pipeline operations.
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
November 2002 - March 2003
 
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Evaluated Alyeska's requirements and developed a detailed
Statement Of Work (SOW), including detail technical specifications,
project methodology, project plan, detail vendor and system performance
requirements, payment criteria and performance milestones to provide
for replacement of Alyeska's current SCADA and real-time historian
systems.
ConocoPhillips
Corporation November 1999 - 2002

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Supporting Conoco as SCADA consultant with the upgrade,
maintenance, and enhancement of Conoco's Operations Control Center
SCADA, Leak Detection and Batch tracking Systems. This large distributed system consists various redundant
nodes. This system is one of the most automated SCADA systems in
the industry used to run the large and complex network of Conoco's
pipelines throughout the United States.
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Provide 24/7 on-call
operational support for the system as a whole.
ExxonMobil Corporation February
1998 - Present

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Supporting
ExxonMobil Pipeline as a technical consultant with the upgrade, maintenance, and enhancement
of the Operations Control Center SCADA, Leak Detection (CPM),
Batch Tracking, Scheduling, Pipeline Nomination and Training
simulation systems. This large distributed system consists of more
than eight hundred PLCs, RTUs and flow computers, more than twenty
mini (Hub) SCADA Systems (many redundant), large redundant centralized
system, on-line SQLServer User Support System, a Training/Development
System, and a remote Disaster Recovery System, all interconnected
via high-speed LANs and WANs (Frame relay and dedicated high speed
lines).
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Providing technical services as SCADA consultant to expand the
original Exxon system to about double the size to cover the Mobil network.
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Responsible for design review, configuration, integration and
deployment of the system and various subsystems interfacing with this large
distributed SCADA System including: real-time Leak Detection and Batch Tracking
System, Scheduling System, WEB based Pipeline Scheduling Nomination System,
various WEB based applications, automated ticketing and meter prover reports,
external real-time data transfers and corporate real-time data interfaces.
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Provide 24/7 on-call support for the entire
system and network.
Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power April 2001 - Present

Development of serial Modbus scanning subsystem
to help scan various instrumentation and equipment.
Provide technical services to LADWP
such as development of configuration and data extraction code to help migrate from
the current SCADA system to a new system.
Provide technical services to expand LAWSDAC's
secure network, making the system accessible remotely through VPN in
a generic fashion.
Genesis Energy, L.L.C,
November 1999 - 2002

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Provide Genesis Energy with on going specialized support
services to assist in maintenance, testing, evaluation and support
of their real-time Control System.
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Perform seasonal audits of the system, provide technical
recommendations and on-call support.
Buckeye Pipeline Company
April 2000
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Performed a full advisory audit and developed a Project
Methodology for Buckeye's future SCADA upgrades. The Advisory Audit,
specifically reviewed Buckeye's SCADA operations relative to DOT's
OPS Advisory # ADB-99-03 and 49 CFR Part 195 (API 1130) dealing
with leak detection systems and safety issues.
Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power March 1999
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Audited LAWSDAC SCADA system's Y2K test results. This centralized
SCADA system is used to control the water distribution/filtering
system for the city of Los Angeles.
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Wrote a utility module to extract database RTU point contents.
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Wrote a utility module to extract historical sample data
as CSV files.
SCADA,
Hydraulics packages and other related software expertise:
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Expert Level knowledge of Telvent's OASyS
DNA product, DNA's component management, component integration,
graphical user interface and OBEL programming language, ACE (DNA 7.4 on Windows)
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Familiar with
CCS (formerly Simulutions) Leak Detection and Batch Tracking product
PipeWorks and scheduling product PipeScheduler.
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Familiar with
and a participant in specification and design of Telvent's batch
nomination product PipeShipper.
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Familiar with Telvent's Allen-Bradley/Modbus/Tano data acquisition server, spoofer and device
simulator.
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Familiar with
SAIC's TSS SCADA package and ESI's Batch Tracking and Leak Detection
product.
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Expert level knowledge of Telvent's IRIS7 SCADA
package on Open VMS (formerly a product of Sandwell - DATAP - TCEnet) - (former developer on staff)
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Expert level knowledge of Control Applications - Teledyne Brown Vector SCADA System - extensive knowledge of gas and liquid apps for this system on both Open VMS and Linux - (former developer on staff)
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Knowledge of various SCADA packages such
as Intellution, Wonderware, ABB's Total Flow.
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Expert level experience in PLC programing/automation with various products such as Allen-Bradley, Modicon, GE and SCADAPack PLCs
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Expert level knowledge of Alstom - Ariva - formerly ESCA's SCADA package,
ESCA FG and Habitat Database. (Open VMS)
Software/OS
expertise:
Experience with various Operating
Systems such as: Unix,
Linux, AXP VMS, Windows, various programming languages such as C, C++, other high level and assembly
languages, Client/Server architecture, Various databases,
Web Application Development using ASP, PHP, Java, MySQL., Microsoft
SQLServer.
Hardware, networking
and equipment
expertise:
TCP/IP and DECnet Networking, Redundant LAN and WAN architectural
design, VSAT, X.25, FDDI, Fiber
Networks and equipment, Cisco Routers, Digital RouteAbouts, Other
Routers and Switches, Bridges, Hubs, Modems, RTUs, PLCs, various
networks, Protocol Tunneling, etc.
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