Stephen C.

Experience

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  Keizer Chamber of Commerce

  Jan 2007 - Jun 2007

  Volunteer

  Worked a four line phone system and provided customer service and referralsCoordinated business information and vendor location for the Iris Festival in a team of

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  Associated Students of Oregon State Unviersity

  Sept 2008 - Jun 2010

  Volunteer

  •Provided bus information, time schedules and referrals to customers on a phone •Recorded raw statistic information of passengers on bus rides and transferred information onto excel spreadsheet •Listen to budget hearings and approve budgets from thirty two different student organizations on campus •Worked to prevent student budget from being used on plastic water bottles •Worked to reduce university’s coal consumption and overall energy consumption •Coordinated and organized energy competition between universities •Worked on bringing university family housing up to city regulation •Gathered and updated addresses, student services, and current information for a student handbook Show less

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  City of Corvallis

  Jun 2011 - Jun 2012

  Facility Automation Information System Intern

  • Provide support for controls system engineer critical for the City of Corvallis water treatment plants and wastewater plant. • Assisted in diagnosing and repairing SCADA broadband wireless network communication for various wastewater lift station and water booster stations • Corrected and install a security system vital for the protection of the water systems. • Built an engineering workstation needed to test automation software on a Windows 7 platform • Completed intern assigned project that involved research and development of SCADA alarm call systems that integrates with an ABB DCS (distributed control system) using Wonderware SCADA HMI (human machine interface) Show less

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  Blount

  Jun 2012 - Dec 2012

  Product Design Engineering Intern

  • Applied power electronics knowledge in designing a consumer gardening product prototype using LTSPICE • Designed a printed circuit board for a tester board using DesignSpark and developed communication code between board and computer using MPLAB and Visual Studio 2008 • Learned embedded system programing and development using MPLAB • Improved electronics soldering by soldering surface mount components onto boards for prototype products

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  AVANGRID, Inc. (formerly Iberdrola USA)

  Nov 2013 - now

  • Provided SCADA support for Avangrid's wind generation dispatchers using a large variety of computer, network and SCADA software including Visupro, VNC, Remote Desktop Protocol, OSI PI, PCVue/FrontVue, Matrikon OPC, Orion, SC Commander, etc.• Provided remote support to Avangrid technicians at wind farms in troubleshooting local HMIs (Human Machine Interface), SCADA equipment, and wind turbine discrepancies using the Radmin remote software• Troubleshot, documented (via JIRA ) and communicated technical issues experienced with CORE with other engineers, CORE developers and generation dispatchers• Troubleshot and resolved ICCP and XML issues relating to data coming from MISO, PJM, ERCOT, etc. using AX-S4 ICCP Monitor, OPC Systems.NET and VMware• Troubleshot and resolved meteorological tower and PI reporting issues using Campbell Loggernet, OSI PI, modscan• Conducted black box software QA testing for the biological curtailment protocol in an isolated dev environment using Python• Developed VBA script to quickly update remote site’s HMI credentials and send out email with credential changes to Avangrid technicians• Designed and updated graphic user interfaces (GUIs) to make them more user friendly for generation dispatchers • Wrote GUI design change documentations for CORE developers on how to implement changes in CORE• Used Microsoft Visio, Python and netstat to develop SCADA topologies for Avangrid’s wind farms• Collaborated on the development of a user acceptability test (UAT) for new wind projects and site HMI• Developed Python program to pull wind turbine PLC version and compiled result into an excel file• Used bash, batch, and 7za to maintain project backups and subversion repository for the majority of Avangrid wind projects and site HMIs • Maintained legacy nodejs webapp used by the department to look up OPC tags Show less

  • Systems Engineer

    May 2018 - now

  • Generation Support Specialist

    Nov 2013 - May 2018