Water Quality Control & Instrumentation Go Back Name: Fred Brooks Contact Information E-mail: frebro_us@yahoo.com Phone Number: 916-424-2900 Target Work Locations: #1 - Sacramento, CA #2 - Within 70 Miles of Sacramento, CA Willing to Relocate? No Date Available: 03/01/2005 Resume: FREDRICK A. BROOKS ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST Home Telephone/Fax: (916) 424-2900 Cellular: (916) 715-6640 Email: frebro_us@yahoo.com CAREER GOAL STATEMENT: To attain a long-term technical / engineering position in Forward Thinking Company. In this Position, Assume a Role that is Mutually Rewarding, Productive, and Profitable to that Company. RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT RELATED EXPERIENCE: Water Quality Control Technician - County of Sacramento, Regional WWTP, Elk Grove, CA July 2004 – Jan. 2005 Daily routine maintenance and emergency repairs of most instrumentation associated with wastewater treatment plant operation. Duties included repairs, modifications, preventative maintenance, drawing updates, and job planning. Areas worked included Influent, Hi-chemical / Effluent, Oxygen Plant, Primary Deck, & Solids Senior Engineering / Sales Specialist - CFM-SF Inc., Martinez, CA Sept. 2000 – July 2004 CFM is a major value-added factory representative for system controls, instrumentation & actuators in the Northern California marketplace. In my position I work with existing & new clients / applications. Products, applications, and engineering sales vary from small items to several hundred thousand dollar contracts. Product knowledge/application includes flow, level, temperature, pressure, analytical measurement and control of all elements and phases. Key industries are Power Generation, Boiler Control, Food Processing, Wine & Beverage Production, Water/Waste-Water Treatment, & Pulp and Paper. Area Manager (Western Region) -Honeywell-Measurex Systems, Hayward, CA Jan. 1999 – Mar. 2000 Paper Quality Systems Sales & Applications; Variation and quality control of final product of virgin and recycled paper machines. Computer based Consultative and R.O.I. studies related to sales greatly increased the sales in the region. Business Development Manager - EnTech Control Engineering, Toronto, ON Jan. 1998 – Jan. 1999 EnTech is a unique successful process control design, implementation, and improvement company. Duties include new account development in the pulp and paper community, as well as expanding EnTech’s customer base to other industries. Utilized EnTech’s process control training, equipment, & services to assist paper companies to greatly reduce product variably (profit improvement) created by control system design and implementation. Performed detailed “loop” & “area” control performance tuning audits for various customers. Senior Account Manger - Foxboro Canada Inc., Thunder Bay, ON July 1996 – Oct. 1997 Influential in major DCS application sales, utilizing quality control experience and application skills. Top account manager in the Central Canadian Region, exceeding my budget of $6.5 million. I was also employed with Foxboro as a Sales Engineer in Calgary Alberta for the period of 1983 to 1985, covering the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry, during which I was the top Sales Engineer in the region. Successful campaigns included a first sale of a DCS (Spectrum) system between Fluor and Foxboro in many years as well as magmeter application and pneumatic controller projects. Regional Account Manager / Mgr. Of Apps. Eng. - Valmet Automation Inc., Norcross GA Oct. 1988 – May 1995 I held 4 positions in applications, sales and sales support. Responsibilities included system support, system variability reporting, direct sales, product design & management, and applied engineering of specific products (development, testing, application, set-up and reporting of new sensor systems and products), setting up and documenting quality control systems, documentation design and layout of SCADA systems, setting standard product costing, and proposal costing, applications, & generation, pricing and preparation of DCS/QCS system quotations, pre & post sales support, and application engineering reports). Two-Year World Travel Project July 1986 – Oct. 1988 Southern Regional Manager - G.S. Hitech Controls Inc., Calgary, AB Jan. 1985 – July 1986 Duties included pre-sales engineering, sales, and after sales start-up. Much of the time was allocated to the development of new key accounts and principle product growth of this newly formed, and continued successful instrumentation & controls representative company. Technical expertise in instrumentation was used extensively. Technical Sales Manager - Westburne Electric Ltd., Calgary, AB June 1979 – Aug. 1983 Responsibilities included setting up and presenting monthly 3-day client schools for P.L.C.’s, assisting engineering of systems, and sales of A-B P.L.C.’s. In 2 years took Allen-Bradley P.L.C.’s from a virtual unknown player to the Alberta market leader. Instrumental first worldwide PLC application sale to a major Petro–Chemical customer, which in turn led to the first million dollar PLC system sale in Alberta. Additional EXPERIENCE: During my College period, I was employed on work programs which added greatly to my on the job training. 1. Analytical Start-up & Repair with MSA Canada, Downsville, Ontario, Canada · Basic gas monitoring fundamentals and Sampling Systems. Gas laws and principles. 2. Down hole Electronics Repair Technician for Schlumberger Oil Well Servicing, Red Deer Alberta. · This advanced electronic technician position duties included troubleshooting and repair of analog and digital down hole well logging equipment including sonic, nuclear, caliper & mechanical devices and data signal processing. 3. Repair Technician / Home Customer Service Technician for Calgary Cable Television. · Troubleshooting and repair of weak & absent cable Television Signals for much of the south side of Calgary. FORMAL EDUCATION: Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts & Technology – Three Year Electro-Mechanical Engineering Program i. Feedback Control Systems ii. Process Control iii. Digital Systems iv. Electronic Design v. Pneumatic Systems vi. Business Accounting vii. Mechanics of Systems viii. Engineering Mathematics **Received the Matthew’s Conveyor Award for the best overall grade average & Diploma Awarded. Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts & Technology - Two-Year Electronic Technician Program i. Electronics Troubleshooting ii. Basic Electronics iii. Fundamental Principals iv. System Mathematics v. Circuit Design **Diploma Awarded ON THE JOB TRAINING: i. High Frequency System Signal Loss / Troubleshooting with Calgary Cable. ii. Major Component Level Troubleshooting with Schlumberger Oil Well Servicing. iii. PLC programming & Troubleshooting (Allen Bradley) with Westburne Electric iv. Control System Application with Foxboro Canada, Honeywell-Measurex, Valmet Automation, & EnTech v. Quality Control Measurement & Analysis with Valmet & HMX vi. Instrumentation Set-Up & Troubleshooting with MSA, Foxboro, Hitech, EnTech, & CFM vii. “Loop” & “area” tuning training / audits of process control systems with EnTech. viii. Intrinsic and explosion-proof classification studies with Foxboro & CFM ix. Advanced (neural networks, fuzzy logic, smart systems) controls with Foxboro, Pavilion Technologies, & CFM x. Computer training with Valmet, EnTech, & CFM xi. Hi Level Field Communication software, Foundation Fieldbus, Modbus, Profibus, Enet, etc. with all of the above xii. Intellution & Wonderware training with Hitech & CFM xiii. Analytical Systems with MSA, ROYCE Technologies & Sierra Monitor Corporation xiv. Valve & Final Actuator Applications with EnTech & DeZurik Valve xv. Wireless Signal Set-up & Transmission xvi. NTT training in Low Voltage Safety (3 days) xvii. NEC 2005 Code Review Training (3 days) COMPUTER (PC) SKILLS: High knowledge level of most Presentation, Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Data Base, Graphic Design, Project Management, Sales Management Packages. Good working knowledge of Internet Communications, Programming in Basic, and Professional Organizers. REFERENCES: References will be supplied upon request.