Air-Rail-Oil
Career Profile
Air-Rail-Oil
Career Profile
CURRICULUM VITAE
STEVE SULLIVAN
JOB TITLE: SENIOR INSTRUMENT DESIGNER
DATE OF BIRTH: 23RD DECEMBER, 1960
NATIONALITY: BRITISH
EDUCATION: STRAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL
'O' Levels - English, Maths, Physics, Technical Drawing, Geography, Economics
FURTHER EDUCATION: CROYDON TECHNICAL COLLEGE
ONC (TEC) – Electronic EngineeringRICHMOND-UPON-THAMES COLLEGE
HNC – Process Plant Engineering
COURSES: PETANS LIMITED
Combined offshore survival & fire fighting course
Intergraph PDS training course
CAD/COMPUTER SYSTEMS: AUTOCAD 13/14, MICROSTATION 95/SE/J, INTERGRAPH PDS (Raceway), DOGS APPOLLO & CADAM drawing packages. INTOOLS 4.1C Process Instrument Design Package.
ACCESS, SMART, FACET Databases.
EXCEL & LOTUS Spreadsheets.
WORD and WORD PERFECT 6 Word-processing packages.
CAREER SUMMARY 18 years design experience generally in the Petrochemical Industry, including onshore and offshore installations, nuclear/reprocessing, cryogenic, pharmaceutical plants and rail systems.
Work undertaken covers all aspects of instrumentation plus fire and gas detection/protection, HVAC and telecommunication systems. Site experience includes construction and plant upgrade of both onshore and offshore facilities in the UK and overseas.
CAREER HISTORY
DATE: 2000 to present
COMPANY: THALES TRANSLINK (formerly Racal Translink)
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: WATERLOO STATION CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEM (CIS) RENEWAL FOR RAILTRACK/SOUTH WEST TRAINS
Responsible for all aspects of the design, engineering and installation of the new customer information system at Waterloo station. This entailed interfacing with electrical, mechanical and Installation site contractors to ensure that all work carried out was conformant with engineering and design requirements. Control, supply and requisition of required materials and production/control of all required drawings. Work scope included the installation of with new plasma and CRT display monitors driven via control cabinets from the new control system interfaced into the existing control. Use of Microstation ‘J’, AutoCAD 2000, Excel and Word. DATE: 1998 to 2000COMPANY: FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: PFIZER PHARMACEUTICAL PC – ORGANIC SYNTHESIS PLANTMERCK - PHARMACEUTICAL PROJECT, SINGAPORE
Responsible for wiring and interconnection diagrams utilising the Fisher-Rosemount DeltaV Control System, cable routing, power distribution, electrical interface and loop diagrams. Use of Intools 4.1c and Microstation SE, Access, Excel and Word. DATE: 1996 to 1998
COMPANY: BRITISH OXYGEN COMPANY – PROCESS PLANTSPOSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: AIR SEPARATION UNITS (various) Responsible for the design of complete ASU (air separation unit) plants. Work includes production of PLC (Texas), relay shutdown and analyser panel wiring diagrams through to a vendor inspection and testing. In addition, the production of instrument layouts, hook-ups (process, pneumatic and analytical), cable routing, panel layouts and interconnection diagrams. Use of Autocad 12 & 13 (DOS/Windows), Excel and Word.COMPANY: ASTILLEROS Y TALLERES DEL NOROESTE S.A. (ASTANO-SPAIN)
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: FLOATING, PRODUCTION, STORAGE & OFFLOADING (FPSO) VESSEL FOR TEXACO CAPTAIN PROJECT.
DATE: 1995
COMPANY: MW KELLOGG
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: CONOCO – HUMBER REFINERY UPGRADE
DATE: 1994 TO 1995
COMPANY: FLUOR DANIEL
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: SHELL GABON - RABI GAS GATHERING PLANT SYSTEM UPGRADE
DATE: 1993
COMPANY: JOHN BROWN ENGINEERS & CONSTRUCTORS
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: THAI PETROLEUM - SRIRACHA/SARABURI MULTI PRODUCTS PIPELINE
DATE: 1992
COMPANY: KVAERNER HUMPHREYS & GLASGOW
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: SHELL – GALLEON GAS METERING & COMPRESSION PLATFORM
DATE: 1991
COMPANY: JOHN BROWN ENGINEERS & CONSTRUCTORS
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: SHELL - SOLE PIT GAS COMPRESSION PLATFORM
Involved in all aspects of design including F&G, Telecom and HVAC systems, termination details, cable block diagrams, cable routing and transit details, vendor packages, MTO's, weight estimates, loop diagrams and IMIS production. Use of Smart Database and DOGS Apollo CAD system.
DATE: 1990
COMPANY: GLOBAL ENGINEERING (New Zealand)
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: SHELL, BP & TODD - MAUI STAGE II DEVELOPMENT OF OFFSHORE GAS PLATFORMS
Maui `A' - Design of construction work packages for the disinvestment of existing control room equipment and subsequent installation procedures for new equipment. Design changes to existing field/control room equipment with respect to installation of new equipment and Maui `B' tie ins.
Maui `B' - Design of new satellite platform. Including Instrument/F&G layouts, connection diagrams, schematics and cable routing.
DATE: 1989
COMPANY: HUMPHREYS & GLASGOW ENGINEERING
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: BP - MILLER OFFSHORE OILFIELD DEVELOPMENT
Responsible for the layout, installation and cabling of equipment within waste heat recovery, power generation, utilities and CCR areas of platform.
DATE: 1988
COMPANY: BABCOCK WOODALL DUCKHAM
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECTS: BRITISH GAS - AUTOMATION OF GAS HOLDER STATIONS
BNFL – NUCLEAR INSTALLATION
Design of general arrangement and wiring diagrams for transducer racks/cabinets, local panels, cubicles and consoles.
DATE: 1987
COMPANY: WIMPEY ENGINEERING
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: ESSO – REVAMP OF BOILER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AT FAWLEY (JOB SITE)
Modifications to existing steam plant. Work included site surveys to determine requirements for new and existing installations and the subsequent production of process and pneumatic hook-ups, layouts, loop and wiring diagrams.
DATE: 1986
COMPANY: AIR PRODUCTS
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: APL – CARBON MONOXIDE PLANT
Design of electrical interconnection diagrams, barrier cabinet and panel layouts, process, pneumatic and analytical hook-ups, instrument layouts, cable and connection schedules and checking of vendor packages
DATE: 1986
COMPANY: BABCOCK WOODALL DUCKHAM
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: PSA – NUCLEAR INSTALLATION
Involved in the production of process logic diagrams, cable and connection schedules and instrument layouts.
DATE: 1986
COMPANY: FLUOR GB
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: ESSO – FLEXICOKER REFINERY REVAMP HOLLAND (JOB SITE)
Completion of outstanding design work, resolving design/construction problems, including site surveys and production of As-Built drawings.
DATE: 1985
COMPANY: GLOBAL ENGINEERING
POSITION: SENIOR DESIGNER
PROJECT: ARCO – THAMES COMPLEX OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT
Design of instrument layouts, interconnection diagrams, cable routing, pneumatic and hydraulic line routing and hook-ups.
DATE: 1981
COMPANY: FLUOR GB
POSITION: DESIGNER
PROJECTS: SHELL - REFINERY REVAMP FOR ELIMINATION OF WASTE HEAT STEAM GENERATION
ESSO - FLEXICOKER, REFINERY REVAMP, HOLLAND
PSA - NUCLEAR INSTALLATION
SHELL - LEMAN 'F' & 'G' OFFSHORE FACILITIES
ADNOC - THAMMAMA 'C' GAS GATHERING & LIQUIFICATION PLANT
Design of instrument layouts, hook-ups (process, pneumatic, electrical, steam tracing), loop and wiring diagrams, cable routing, trench layouts, transit/penetration details, tie-in/removal schedules, MTO's, model work and computer aided design (Cadam System).
DATE: 1977
COMPANY: LONDEX
POSITION: CONTRACTS ENGINEER
The engineering, design and specification of control and annunciation systems including all aspects from receipt of customer enquiry to final commissioning.