Scott Dude
-Lead Engineer for numerous projects including Substation Acceptance Testing for the City of Naperville, Switchgear Maintenance for Clarion Realty, Covenant Village, and Hines Interest.
-Extensive client interaction and responsibilities including: project management, acceptance and maintenance testing, trouble-shooting, proposals, training, report preparation, scheduling, and power quality measurement.
-Commissioned multiple substations with SCADA retrofits as well as a new 69kV substation for the University of Illinois.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
-Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Belford University
-Navy Nuclear field electrician’s school and prototype training, Orlando, FL
-NICET certified Electrical Testing Technician - Chicago, IL
-Level II certified Thermographer, FLIR Systems, Billerica, MA
-Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
-NETA Substation Maintenance course, New Orleans, LA
-OSHA and TRMA Certification Courses, Chicago, IL
-Ground Penetrating Radar and Advanced RADAN software training, -Geophysical Survey Systems Inc, N. Salem, NH
-High and Low Voltage Safety, Reno, NV
-Auto-CAD R14 course, CCSN, Las Vegas, NV
-Fischer-Rosemount school, Las Vegas, NV
-Woodward Governor school, Loveland, CO
-General Electric electronic governor school, San Diego, CA
WORK EXPERIENCE
June 1999 to September 2002, April 2003 to Present - Rolling Meadows, IL
Project Manager
Electrical Testing Technologies
-Managed and trained field engineers to perform electrical maintenance and acceptance testing per NETA standards.
-Implemented several standard operating procedures and techniques.
-In charge of budgets, proposals, billing, purchase orders, software implementation, and report writing.
-Handled multiple tasks at the management and field levels.
-Performed end to end tests on Schweitzer relays utilizing Doble test sets.
-Lead Engineer and Project Manager for numerous projects including C N A Data Center, Northern Trust Bank upgrade, Level 3 Comm Center, and the HSBC Project Glacier data center.
-As Project Manager, adhered to strict timelines and budgets concerning the DuPont Fabros data center project ($250MM)
-Performed Time Travel Velocity analysis on various Circuit Breakers and doble power factor tests for the American Transmission Company.
-Extensive client interaction and responsibilities including: project management, acceptance and maintenance testing, trouble-shooting, fault analysis, training, proposals, report preparation, scheduling, and power quality measurement.
Principal Engineer
Power Technical Services
September 2002 to April 2003 - Downers Grove, IL