David Fernandes

Experience

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  GE Energy

  Jun 1996 - Jul 2002

  Manager of 30+ international power plant field engineers. Gas Turbine Controls Engineer for international and domestic new installations. Evolved into Technical Leader on DLN Controls including GE DLN 2.6, 2.0, 2.0+ and 1.0. Duties during tenor included field engineering assignments for controls and DLN tuning, training personnel and fielding technical questions from other field engineering and product service on 7FA and 7EA fleet issues.

  • Resource Manager - International Field Engineers

    Jul 2001 - Jul 2002

  • Field Engineer & Technical Leader (Controls)

    Jun 1996 - Jul 2001
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  Progress Energy

  Jul 2002 - Oct 2009

  Major Project Manager overseeing billion dollar combined cycle power plant siting, contract specifications, permitting, installation and commissioning. Overall responsibilities include all aspects of budgetary, personnel, operations, maintenance, special projects, safety and environmental protection and permit adherance of 4 combustion turbine plants in the St Petersburg FL area. Operations & Maintenance management of a 330 MW Power Plant. Production Manager: Responsible for Staffing new power plant and all aspects of start-up, planning and exectution of operations and maintenance for a 550 MW Combined Cycle Plant.

  • Major Projects Manager

    Apr 2008 - Oct 2009

  • Plant Manager - Suncoast Combustion Turbines

    Sept 2005 - Apr 2008

  • Production Manager - DeSoto Energy Complex

    May 2003 - Sept 2005

  • Production Manager - Effingham County Energy Complex

    Jul 2002 - May 2003
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  MD&A

  Oct 2009 - now

  Responsible for Gas Turbine parts strategy—including pricing, marketing, product development, project management, inventory management, and logistics. Focus is on accelerating growth of the GT rotor business, by leading cross-functional resources across sales, engineering, operations, and procurement. Responsibilities include the overall leadership of the Florida, Ohio and Massachusetts parts manufacturing facilities and the Production Controls team in New York. Responsibilities encompass strategic leadership responsibility for the efficient operations, planning, direction and coordination of all production control requirements and parts manufacturing activities and working closely with Engineering and Sales to improve product quality and delivery to meet customer commitments. Turn-key Steam Turbine and Generator outage initiation, planning, execution and close out for power industry customers. Included estimating, contract negotiations, outage execution oversight, sub-service management, P&L management, and project close out.

  • Program Leader, Gas Turbines, Parts Division

    Jul 2023 - now

  • GM-Operations, Parts Division

    May 2013 - Jul 2023

  • Operations Manager, Outage Services Division

    Oct 2009 - Apr 2013