Tim Lother

Experience

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  Bailey Controls

  Feb 1984 - Jan 1989

  Senior Commissioning Engineer

  Field service and commissioning supervisor for Bailey Controls covering the 5 state Minnesota-Wisconsin area, working across all product lines but primarily the Network90 DCS. Primarily involved power generation for the local power utility Northern States Power (NSP). Was lead commissioning supervisor for many facilities including Hennepin County refuse power generating plant, NSP Red Wing/Mankato refuse power generating plants, NSP King Station, NSP Bayfield, NSP French Island and others. Site supervisor for the main Mpls./St. Paul upgrades and City of Owatonna, MN new build waste water treatment plants. Also performed design engineering and programming for many of these plants. Worked for many other clients across the 5 state area. Show less

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  Harris Group

  Feb 1989 - Jan 1992

  I&C Consulting Engineer

  I&C consulting engineering primarily for pulp & paper for clients including James River, Boise Cascade and others. Also worked on shipboard advanced radar and navigation systems on large oil tankers.

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  Chiyoda America

  Jan 1992 - Apr 1994

  Instrumentation and Control Engineer

  Instrumentation & control systems design for the 3M/Daikin joint venture 3M manufacturing plant in Decatur, Alabama. Specified and purchased instrumentation including all analytical instrumentation for the project. This was a complex project with critical instrumentation operating in sometimes hazardous services with critical material compatibility.

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  Independent Contractor

  Apr 1994 - Sept 1999

  Electrical & Control Systems Engineer

  Worked as an independent contractor for a variety of employers including Texaco (Anacortes, WA refinery) Chevron (El Segundo, CA refinery), Process Solutions (Arlington, WA), Cryofuel Systems (Monroe, WA), Nicholson Manufacturing (Seattle, WA), Sinclair Marine (Mill Creek, WA), Inflation Systems (Moses Lake, WA)

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  GE Power

  Sept 1999 - Jul 2016

  Lead Engineer/Technolgist - Electrical & Control Systems

  Engineering lead for electrical and control systems designs for a wide variety of large scale water treatment systems. Design of low voltage electrical distribution systems, control system panels and networks, PLC/HMI/SCADA application development, site startup support and management, proposal development, subcontract development and management.Sample of accomplishments as a GE lead electrical & control systems engineer:• Proposal development for many successful GE bids, Sunpower Malaysia, Chandler Arizona Brine Reduction, Intel RA4 Hillsboro, GlobalFoundries UPW system, LA County Sanitation District, Solarcity, others• AEP DC Cook Nuclear Power Plant demineralized water system - power distribution, control panels and control networks• Riverbend (Solarcity facility, Buffalo, NY) new deionized water system, design of power distribution and harmonics mitigation, control system panels and networks• Bonaire Island containerized desalination system, containerized MCC and control panels• GlobalFoundries (Malta, NY) $55 million new ultrapure water system, managed large PLC integration subcontract and supported site startup. Programming support for Cimplicity SCADA integration into plant SCADA system.• Shenhua Direct Coal Liquefaction Project Water System (Shenhua, China) • Sulaibiya Water Reclamation system (Sulaibiya, Kuwait) - Site SCADA supervisor, approx. $80 million project• 8 Thermal Brine Concentrators & Crystallizer systems at a variety of locations, including plants in California, North Carolina, Utah, and Alberta-Canada • Desalination Plant for the island of Trinidad (Trinidad & Tobago), onsite startup support and control system programming, approx. $100 million project• Demineralized water makeup system for Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant (Kansas, USA), control system programming and site support Show less

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  Brown and Caldwell

  Sept 2016 - now

  Supervising Designer

  Design-build, consulting engineering and construction management for primarily municipal water distribution systems, wastewater and environmental projects. PLC/SCADA hardware selection, panel design, programming and electrical design, low voltage power distribution.PLCRockwell/A-B - Contrologix, MicroLogix - RSLogix 5000 and RSLogix 500 Software Siemens - S7-1200, S7-1500 - TIA Portal, Step7 Software, GE - Rx3i, Rx7i - Proficy SoftwareSchneider - SCADAPak - Telepace SoftwareSCADA/HMIRockwell/A-B - Machine Edition and Studio Edition Software (ME & SE) Siemens - WinCC OA CertifiedGE - Cimplicity, iFixSchneider - Wonderware System Platform, ClearSCADAControl Panel DesignSKM Electrical ModelingMotor Control CentersPower Distribution DesignVariable Frequency Drives (VFD)DC DrivesCommissioning Show less