Wendell C. Baker, P.E.

Senior Control Systems Engineer

EXPERIENCE

Twenty years experience in all aspects of instrumentation, including fifteen years supervising instrument and electrical design engineering.

FIELDS OF EXPERIENCE

-Distributed Control Systems

-Estimating

-Programmable Controller System & Networks

-Motor Control Design

-Direct Digital Control

-Process Control Logic

-Instrumentation

-Biotech/Fermentation Controls/Validation

-Plant and Furnace Safety Systems

-Carbon Absorption Systems

-Project Start-Up

-Servo and Stepper Motor Control

WORK HISTORY

Senior Control Systems Engineer and President, Able-Baker Automation, Inc.

Responsible for the supervision of all technical engineering functions and all phases of System Integration work. Quality control supervisor.

Designed and programmed a complete integrated PLC system for a paint manufacturing plant. The system included multiple PLCs, control panels and an operator intrerface unit. The system controlled Tank Farm storage, batch mixing, and packaging.

Designed and programmed a two axis ultrasonic welding machine control systems for a medical device.

Supervised, programmed and started up an integrated PLC/PC control system for a vinyl resin mixing batch process, including automatic weighing, mixing and deaerating in multiple batch tanks with inventory record keeping for validation purposes (FDA).

Modified a PLC program for Hazardous Material Storage.


Lead Control Systems Engineer, ESII-Control Systems Integration

Supervised all engineers and designers in the Control Systems and Systems Integration Groups.

Responsible for quality of engineering design, budget, and scheduling for control system and instrumentation support. Project sizes and types varied between small task orienting consulting, plant modifications, additions to retrofit to new construction up to 15 millions dollars. Overall project responsibilities included various combinations of engineering design, furnishing turn-key control systems complete with all hardware and software, construction supervision and start-up.

Designed, programmed, started up a control system (including PLC) for biotech fermentation, harvesting and secondary recovery (ultra filtration).

Instrument/Electrical Department Manager, Kinetics Technology International (KTI)

Supervised all instrument and electrical design. Projects included hydrogen reformers, gas processing plants, sulfur recovery plants, co-generation plants and industrial furnaces (values to $50 million). Responsible for specification, supply, and configuration of all the instrumentation systems including distributed control systems and programmable controllers. Participated in many plant start-ups.

Created an automatic control program for small hydrogen reformers including automatic start-up and shutdown routines.

Specified, purchased and assisted with configuration of a Yokogawa DCS system for a large Natural Gas Processing Plant.


Instrumentation Engineer, R.M. Parsons Company

Specified control valves, relief valves and level instrumentation for a large refinery expansion. Was assigned as liaison between instrumentation and piping groups on this project.


EDUCATION


University of California, Berkeley. BS in Chemical Engineering. Graduated with High Honors.


PROFESSIONAL LICENSES


Control Systems Engineer, 1985, California. #CS7051


SPECIAL SKILLS AND INTERESTS


-Past Editor of Northern California Newsletter, Instrumentation Society of America.

-U.C.L.A. Extension Courses in Microprocessors, Artificial Intelligence and LISP Programming.

-U.C.B. Extension Courses in C programming and UNIX.

-Allen Bradley 5/250 Programming/PI System Course.

-Management Action Program.

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