Name : austin
Email Address : aakkari@msn.com
Telephone : 952-895-1799
Location : 13525 James Ave. So
Burnsville MN 55337
 
AUSTIN AKKARI
13525 James Ave. So.
Burnsville, MN. 55337
(Home) 952. 895-1799
(E-mail) aakkari@msn.com

OBJECTIVE: Position as Systems Engineer offering an opportunity for contribution and development.


SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION:
• Project Engineering Management and Design experience of various plant process modification, environmental control and major plant expansion projects.

• Extensive experience in Control Systems / Instrumentation and Electrical designs, including Process Control Engineering Instrumentation reliability.

• Hands-on Control Systems operating experience in variety of process plants, including operating instruction, process operation assistance and troubleshooting Control /Instrumentation problems.

• Experience in engineering applications, configuration, programming, and specification of PLC, HMI, Motion Control and Distributed Control Systems (DCS).

• Experience in both analog and digital systems, shutdown system design, safety interlocks, burner management systems, data acquisition systems, remote I/O, DCS to PLC interfaces, operator interfaces and process control communication network including SCADA and Telemetry.

• Working experience with Fisher, Foxboro and Honeywell DCS equipment and microprocessor based controller, DEC equipment including configuration and specification.

• Plant instrumentation and Control System design, specification, sizing, selection, recommendation and requisitioning.

• Process design / development and economic evaluation experience including upgrading plant
Supervisory Control System. Communication Protocols, converters and interface devices.

• Extensive experience in field installation, troubleshooting, commissioning and plant startup.

• Hands-on experience in operating and maintaining DCS equipment and Process Control
Instrumentation. Upgraded several control rooms from analog / pneumatic instrumentation to digital control Systems.

• Field and supervisory experience including job leadership and teamwork. Provided training and
supervision to engineers and technicians .

• Represented the company as a plant liaison to the engineering contractors to provide
engineering assistance and supervision.

• Electrical design experience, including ladder logic, MCC, power distribution, compressor control.
UPS, variable frequency drives, Control Panel design and Electrical / Control wiring diagrams.

• Standby Power System experience, including Generator Control Systems, Low and Medium Voltage Paralleling Switchgear, Protective relays, single and three line wiring diagrams.

• Experience with process Instrumentation in complex level measurements, flow, pressure,
temperature and process analyzers. Experience in developing specification and philosophy of plant Emergency Shutdown System.

• Developed Instrumentation / Controls standards, design details, redundancy guidelines,
preventive maintenance program, ISO , OSHA 1910, JCAHO and FDA
Six Sigma DFSS Belt certified and team member of lean manufacturing / focused factory.

• Working knowledge of PC hardware and software.

Industrial Process Control Systems Experience:

* AB PLC * Wonderware HMI * Fisher DCS * Ethernet
* GE PLC * RS View HMI * Foxboro DCS * Control Net
* Siemens PLC * Cimplicity HMI * Autocad * OPC
* Modicon PLC * Intellution HMI * LabView HMI * Visual Basic
* AB Drives * Advantech HMI * Lonworks * SCADA
* Siemens Drives * Promise E




EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science in Engineering


EMPLOYMENT:

2002- 2008 Sr. Control Systems Engineer (Manufacturing Plant))
Cummins Power Generation. Fridley, Minnesota

1996 - 2002 Sr. Control Systems Engineer (Manufacturing Plant)
Apogee Enterprises, Inc / Tru Vue. Faribault, Minnesota.

1995 – 1996 Sr. Control Systems Engineer
Advantage Point Group (Engineering Consultants) Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1993 – 1995 Sr. Instrumentation and Controls Engineer (Manufacturing Plant)
Bayer Corp. / Haarmann & Reimer (Food ingredients )Elkhart, Indiana.

1987 – 1993 Instrumentation and Controls Engineer ( Oil Refining )
Koch Refining Company (Oil refinery) St. Paul, Minnesota.


PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:
Six Sigma DFSS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Member ISA
Member IEEE
Member AICHE
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