Qualifications, Training & Languages
Qualifications :
POLITECHNICAL University of BUCHAREST (1987) – Master Degree
Electrical and Electronics ENGINEER (6 years of university).
(graduation mark : 90%)
Training :
SPECIALISATION (Practical Training in Electrical Field – USA)
(USA-International Training – Florida, USA/ Certificate – available) – 1 and ½ years.
-BOSIET (offshore surviving courses) – Valid Certificate Available
-H2S Courses
-HSE Certificate
-PTW- Level 2 – certified
– Electrical Isolation (LOTO) Permit
– Respirator Fit Test Card
– Electrical Blue Book (group 4 of authorization including HV)
-DCS Automation Training – Delta V automation control software – for
EMERSON DCS (for refineries) – Training Center Ploiesti
-( Certificate in OIL&GAS available)
Languages :
English (fluent), Italian (good), Romanian (native), Russian (communication)
Career Summary
2014 – 2015
AMEC Ltd – PMC Team – Kuwait / Project Modernization & Construction for HV/LV Substations (11.3 kV, 4.3 kV) for Oil and Gas Plants and Facilities; Client : Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
Position : Lead Construction Engineer (E&I) – on behalf of the Client (KOC)
Area Responsible for E&I activities (PMC – Consulting on behalf of the Client) – monitoring :
– Contractors’ Electrical and Instrumentation construction activity
– Electrical Field Engineering activity of the Contractors :
Finding solutions for the Site Queries coming from the Contractors. Issuing Site Instructions (containing engineering solutions for the practical problems faced by the contractors in the field)
Cooperation with the Engineering Department
– Project Engineering activity :
Scheduling the activities of the contractors (supported by the planners) in order to obtain maximum efficiency, mediation, adjusting the work sequence, implementation the priorities plan coming from the management
Monitoring materials and construction costs (supported by the cost engineer, -procurement engineer and material engineer)
– Monitoring the construction work from QA/QC point of view, participation (supported by QA/QC Engineer) at Factory Acceptance Tests – in the Factory Yard, monitoring the fabrication process on behalf of the Client , Site Acceptance Tests; monitoring the vendors activity
– Reporting to the Management the status of the site, progress, other issues
– Liaison between the Client and the Contractor and proposing solutions to reduce the costs and to increase the efficiency
– Monitoring the Completion and Precommissioning works, handover activity, etc
– Approving shutdown packages and monitoring this activity in order to minimize the production loses
– Monitoring the energizing and commissioning activities
March 2011- July 2013
AGIP-Kashagan Offshore Project – D Island – Kazakhstan
Position : Electrical Construction Supervisor (Off Shore/ HUC-UP / Construction / E and IT Department)
(written recommendation available upon request)
Monitoring activity of the contractors from the Client’s Side (AGIP KCO) :
1) Supervising E&I construction activities (HUC-UP) – offshore
– Cable tray and cable ladder installation
– Cable pulling
– Cable termination
– Transformers
– Electrical panels and switchgear installation (35 kV, 6 kV, 690 V, 380 V)
– Power transformers (35/6 kV, 6/0.69 kV, 6/0,4 kV)
– Electrical Substations for Process Utility Area, Process Support Area,
– Wellhead Area
– Emergency Diesel Generators
– Field equipment (various motors, fans, pumps, etc)
– Pumping Station for Oil / Oil Products (containing main pumps and booster pumps)
Oil Export Pumps, Chemical Injection Pump House, Methanol Injection Pump House, Oil Booster Pumps, Fuel Pumps, Nitrogen Compressors,
TEG Reclaimer, Vacuum SKID, Fuel Tanks, Heat Tracing panels and their JBs, heat tracing measurement and control instruments, etc
Wellhead Area : all the related equipment, specially electrical – motors, pumps, heaters, lights, etc
– Cable pulling and panel installation for the Fuel Gas Compressor , Fuel Gas SKID including gas heaters and for the related heat tracing system
– Installation of the panels and of the related switchgears for generators
2) Electrical Field Engineering :
– Finding solutions for the Site Queries coming from the Contractors
– Issuing Site Instructions (containing engineering solutions for the practical problems faced by the contractors in the field)
– Cooperation with the Engineering Department
3) Project Engineering Scheduling the activities of the contractors in order to obtain maximum efficiency, mediation, adjusting the work sequence, implementation the priorities plan coming from the management and supporting the commissioning activities
Assist contractor to punch out and report on completeness of systems.
Review work packs, system by system, for completion and readiness to complete.
Ensure that the correct revision of drawings have been worked to and from part of the packs.
Coordinate jobsites activities including contractors, and their representatives.
Provide support to other disciplines where required and form part of the integrated multidiscipline site team.
Ensure that all labor work in a safe manner and adhere to the PTW system.
Ensure that all prep work is identified and in place to allow scopes of work to commence as scheduled, ensuring that the site management team are advised of any delays
Ensure necessary HSE reviews are undertaken and any identified actions completed.
Solve the field engineering queries, offering and seek solutions.
Hold daily meetings with the site team.
Provide daily/weekly progress reports regarding the contractor activity.
Provide technical support to the project on construction activities.
Review Project Documents for construction, installation, and hook up.
4) Supporting the vendors’ activity in the Site
Jan. 2010 – Dec. 2010 –
ALSTOM Power Centrales – Shoaiba Power Plant – Saudi Arabia
(written recommendation available)
Position : Senior. Electrical Supervisor (Construction) – Power Plant
(written recommendation)
Coordinating electrical (and partially instrumentation) construction activity of the Subcontractor for all the Boiler Area and partially for ESP, FGD, Water Treatment Plant , Water Pumping Station.
MV and LV switchgear, MV and LV motors, pumps, valves, (MOV and solenoid valves), dumpers, heat tracing ,Fans (GR, FD, ID fans) ; Electrostatic Precipitator, etc); FGD Electrical and Control Room, ESP Electrical and Control Room, Boiler MCC Room
-Eloctrostatical Precipitator
– Flue Gas Desulphuration,
– MV/LV transformers – installation
– cable tray activity
– cable pulling activity
– E&I panels` installation
– E&I junction boxes installation
– E&I cable termination activity for the E & I equipment
– Installation of the transformers Installation of the cable tray (LV and MV)
– Cable terminations
– cable testing : continuity and Hi Pot (for MV cables)
– heat tracing
– run test for the motors
– following Turn Over Priorities and handover to the commissioning people all the systems
– supporting the commissioning requirements and cooperating with the Quality Department;
June 2009 – Dec 2009
Nuclearmontaj International (Algeria and Romania)
Position: Project Electrical Engineer – Power Plant (Construction)
Coordinating and supervising electrical construction activity of the contractors in order to fulfill all the Client’s requirements regarding :
– scheduling activity of the subcontractor and participating, at the completion stage for Handover activity, system by system, according to the commissioning priorities
-cable tray, cable pulling, installation of the electrical equipment in the field;
– installation of the substation equipment : switchgears, MCC, VSD, various electrical
panels, PLCs, installation of the turbine and generator panels, installation of HVAC systems
– cable glanding and termination activity
– involving in the field engineering activity and cooperation with Engineering Department;
– proposing engineering solutions according to the client’s requirement
– cooperation with Quality Department and pushing the subcontractor to clear the punch list items.
– cooperation with commissioning team following its priorities
2008 – 2009
Aker Kvaerner Process Gulf (AK Gulf) Yanbu Industrial City/ Saudi Arabia / Poliolefines Plant
Electrical Engineer – monitoring completion and precommissioning activity of the subcontractor (from the main contractor side)
– Polyolefines Plant (Polyethylene and Polypropylene Plant )– Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.
Responsibilities:
1) scheduling electrical completion and precommissioning activities based on the real situation from the field and
on the operations required by process engineers and supervisors.
2) Supporting the vendor activities on site
3) Issuing Permits to Work
4) Issuing Requests for Inspections, in order to arrange properly conditions for the pre-commissioning electrical tests
5) Organizing all the electrical tests according with Inspection Test Plan and
according with the number of technicians/engineers available for each activity.
6) Checking all the settings and parameters of the relays and VSDs, in order to make sure that the related electrical equipments will work properly.
7) Cooperating with process and operation engineers and supervisors to commission the equipments on their normal parameters
8) Participation jointly with instrumentation engineers and with process engineers for functional Tests
9) Coordinating activities of the subcontractor in order to obtain good results for commissioning tests, collecting the primary testing reports from the testing teams trough their supervisors, correcting the related papers, issuing and signing the final testing reports, handover the related documents to the client and to the PMT, keeping the outstanding situation of all the tested equipments;
10) Discussing all the discrepancies from the field with the designer and proposing practical solutions regarding to the field electrical equipment;
11) Liaison between the Client, our Company and PMT (Project Management Team).
12) Taking care about outstanding punch list and supervising the punch list clearing activity.
Electrical equipment related to the field:
– extruder aria finishing building : main motor from extruder, paletizer motor (driven by VSD), hot oil pumps, cooling water pumps, hydraulic oil pumps, auxiliary drive motor, screw feeders, rotary feeders, delumpers, blowers and driers ; many motors have been driven by VSD
– reactor area: cycle gas compressors, cycle water pumps, agitator motors, etc.
– purification area: ethylene and propylene pumps, water pumps, etc
– utility area: condensate pumps, water pumps and waste water pumps, cooling fans(one speed and two speed), etc
– incinerator area: blowers, fuel pumps, screw feeders (driven by VSD), heater, etc
– Nitrogen Compressors : main motors from N2 Compressors, their luboil pumps, their heaters;
– Catalyst Area: various pumps and agitators, vibration motors, etc.
All those motors and some other motors have been tested under my coordination, using man
power from the subcontractor.
Electrical equipment related to the substations (PE and PP Substation) :
13.8/4 KV , 13.8kV/ 470V, 4kV/470 V – power transformers
– Various switchgears related to the above voltages (Schneider)
– AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulators)
– Power Factor Regulators and Capacitor Banks
– Heat tracing system
– Various MCC for MV and for 470 V (Schneider, ABB, Siemens)
– UPS
– Various VSDs (Telemecaniq, K-tron, Coperion, Schneider, ABB, etc)
– PLC (controlling delumpers and other equipment – Miller)
2008
CONFIND Ltd (Kazakhstan)
Project: (Borankol and Opornaia/ Kazakhstan) – LPG Recovery Plant
Position : E&I Site Coordinator (Construction and Commissioning)
Coordinating E&I Construction and Commissioning activities on the two sites in Kazakhstan, parts of LPG Production Plant:
Borankol – Decarbonization Unit, Desulphuration Unit, Intermediar LPG Deposit and LPG Pumping Station
Opornaia – LPG Final Deposit and LPG Delivering Station
– Implementation of HSE procedures (assisted by HSE Engineer), participating for HAZOP reviews,
– Participation for Risk Assessment process
– Attending operational meetings and making the daily schedule for electrical superintendent and for instrumentation superintendent.
– Receiving the daily reports and establishing the priorities for the next activities
– Attending management meetings and reporting to the superiors achieved points,
– weak points, proposing the solutions, discussing with the main designer from
– TGE (German designing company and the main contractor).
– Making the weekly reports and justifications of some delays and taking measures for recovering of the delays.
– Checking the status of the works in the field and finding organizational solutions in order to improve the construction activity and productivity of the work.
– Cooperation with the piping and mechanical department in order to optimize electrical and instrumentation works in the properly moment.
– Electrical Substations ( Electrical Substation for LPG Recovery Unit,
– Electrical Substation for Decarbonisation and Desulphuration Unit,
– Electrical Substation for Intermediar LPG Deposit and Final LPG Deposit) –
– 6 kV , 10 kV and 0.4 kV Switchgears , MCC, UPS, Battery Chargers, VFD,
– Power factor regulators, transformers, AVR(automatic voltage regulation) various motors and pumps, coolers, etc.
– Gas turbines and turbo expanders, gas compressors, various generators, etc
– Various field equipment and various panels, distribution boxes, junction boxes, etc
– Various transducers, indicators and transmitters in the field (HART and Field Bus), installing System Cabinets and other cabinets related to the Relay Interposing Buildings
– (one RIB for Decarbonisation,, one RIB for Fractionating Unit) Installing DCS Cabinets, etc
2007 – 2008
Electrical Systems Ltd – Romania
E&I Coordinator
Construction & Modernization of 21 nos. of Electrical Substations 110 kV/20KV/6KV, containing ABB and Siemens Switchgears, UPS, Generators, Power factor control system, Power Transformers, SCADA System.
Refurbishment and Commissioning for Electrical substations and implementation of SCADA System for HV / MV / LV Substations
Construction, Completion and Commissioning schedule, Discipline acceptance Certificates, Handover Packages, Handover to the Client,
Keeping under control of : Costs, Manpower, Material Resources, etc.
Assisting the Client to Develop Maintenance Procedures and Improving the Maintenance Procedures applied for the Electrical Equipment previously installed by the EPC Company
Supporting the Procurement and Cost Control Department
Participating for Technical Proposals and cooperate for Commercial Proposals
2003 -2007
ELECTRICA PLOIESTI Ploiesti – Romania(Power & Distribution Electricity Company)
Position: Sr. Electrical Engineer ( Modernization, Commissioning, Maintenance and Reliability)
– Electrical Authority concerning the Contractors, Engineering Reviews Activity and the relation between The Client and Government Officials
– Participation for solving of the Technical Queries and Drawings Review
– Participation at Risk Assesment, Hazop , applying HSE procedures
– Supporting Procurement Department —-Analyzing Contractor Proposals and scope of Work
– Improving Quality Procedures
– Improving Maintenance and reliability procedures
– Improving PTW Procedures
Monitoring the activity of the contractors On behalf of the Client- providing refurbishment, commissioning and electrical maintenance for various electrical installations (transformers, switchgears, generators, transmission lines, power cables, junction boxes, measurement system) servicing electrical distribution system containing :
– 20/0,4 kV substations
– Power transformers 20KV/0,4 KV
– various switchgears, power factor regulators, UPS,
– distribution and control electrical panels
– capacitor groups for power factor control
– power switches for 20 kv and for 0,4 kv
– electrical network containing buried cables and aerial conductors, section boxes, distribution boxes and junction boxes
– 20 KV line cells , transformer cells, measurement cells
– protection and measurement panels containing energy electronically counters for industrial and residential customers
– Public lighting system controlled by programmable electronic clock
– SOME OF THAT EQUIPMENT IS MADE BY ABB , SIEMENS, etc
– knowledge about micro SCADA application
various switchgears, power factor regulators, UPS,
– Power Generators
– issuing work orders (using SAP Maintenance Module Software) for the maintenance contractor according to the Management priorities and according to the available budget
– following the electrical maintenance works in the field
– checking and approving the electrical maintenance invoices issued by the contractor and cutting the items that are not according to the real situation in the field
– issuing SAP maintenance reports and cooperating with the cost engineer in order to minimize the costs
– making the reliability studies and reports in order to obtain the necessary budget to improve the maintenance process and reliability of the Electrical distribution System
– calculating the power losses coefficient and identifying the root causes and power loss sources
– cooperating with the designing department for modernizations in the field, in order to reduce the power loss
– proposing and implementing the new measurement loops in order to identify the energy losses
– participating at the calibrations, settings and tests after the reparations of the electrical equipment
– proposing improving of the power coefficient of the distribution network
– cooperating with operation department
January 2001- May 2002
United States of America- International Training (Florida, U.S.A.) J 1-EXCHANGE PROGRAM
SPECIALIZATION in Electrical Field
COMPLETITION CERTIFICATE FROM USA-International Training and from the Host Company “ENCOMPASS “-FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, USA
WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION FROM “ENCOMPASS” COMPANY
Industrial electrical installations(construction, maintenance) including :
– power transformers and their protections electrical circuits and controls for electrical motors and pumps lighting system with electronically programmable switches
electrical panels containing relays and breakers
switched receptacles by programmable relays, GFI receptacles – air conditioned units, 2 and 3 ways switches, transfer and main switches, junction boxes
– ground protection systems with shooting welding joints,
– electrical circuits for fire alarm system with smock and flame detectors; three phased electrical generator
– Good knowledge about National Electrical Code NEC (Electrical American Standard)
SAFETY –good knowledge about AMERICAN SAFETY CODE ,wearing safety electrical equipment(steel toes boots, gloves, safety glasses) in construction and respecting all the safety rules.
– attending management seminars and safety seminars
1995 – 2000
PETROTRANS PLOIESTI (Oil &Gas Plant Pipe Transportation Stations)
Position: E & I Engineer ( Maintenance and Reliability )
OIL & GAS – Electrical and automation field as follows:
Working on behalf of the Client as follows :
1) Engineering and Supervisory activity for The Maintenance Department (E&I) : power transformers (20 kv/0,4 kv) ; switchgears electrical distribution substations, Variable Frequency Drives, A.B.B.- DCS equipment- micro SCADA, UPS, pumps, compressors, lighting system, fire alarm system, water cooling systems, pressure, temperature, level and flow regulators, batch controllers, Power Factor Regulator controlled by PLC (SIEMENS equipment); fire alarm systems, cathodic protection system (containing power control rectifier with thyrystors and voltage regulator, measurement system and conductors); transmission lines
Checking the activity of the maintenance contractors, checking the maintenance invoices issued by the contractors and cutting some unjustified costs, supporting the contractors for solving maintenance problems, recommending the optimum way to solve the maintenance problems (based on the ratio between the efficiency and quality, deciding on behalf of Company for major interest – to obtain a very good maintenance and maintain or improve the reliability of the systems by paying reasonable costs. Cooperating with the workshop responsible in order to obtain the best results.
2) Interdisciplinary Activity :
– Electrical Authority concerning the Contractors activity and the relation between
The Client and Government Officials
– Participation for solving of the Technical Queries and Drawings Review
– Participation at Risk Assessment, Hazop , applying HSE procedures
– Supporting Procurement Department —-Analyzing Contractor Proposals and scope of Work
– Improving Quality Procedures
– Improving Maintenance and reliability procedures
– Improving PTW Procedures
3) Cooperating with Production & Operation Department for minimizing dead times and supporting the shut down operations oil& gas production plant and pipe transportation system diesel and gasoline depositing station (special big tanks) cleaning station for butane gas railway tanks(by using steam pressure) thermal-plant ( using liquid combustible for providing thermal energy and steam) water pumping station
4) Reliability and Maintenance Suport based on the adequate maintenance software and on the practical observations regarding the electrical equipment. Indicating the weak points of the equipments and proposing acquisitions of the new equipment based on reliability and maintenance reports
5) Participating within on the job training program for the young graduates /supervisors/technicians
1981 – 1994
Petrochemical Company – PRAHOVA
Position : E&I Supervisor / Engineer (Maintenance and Reliability)
OIL & GAS Petrochemical Department- Electrical and automation field as follows:
electrical power transformer station (20 kv/0,4 kv) electrical distribution station motor, junction and measurement switching cells (A.B.B.- DCS equipment)- micro SCADA program (operating & engineering)
– UPS,
– Power Factor Regulator controlled by PLC (SIEMENS equipment)
Petrochemical Department containing :
pumps, compressors, AC systems, water cooling systems pumping pressure regulators(ABB PLC controlled) and transducers(FUJI-Japan), temperature measurement system, flow regulators and flow meters (Oval Corporation-Japan), three channel registering system using paper scroll and digital display, batch controller
Variable Frequency Drive, converters and various inverters for electrical motor control electrical panels with breakers, time relays, thermal-switches, short-circuit and overload protections, start stop circuits, electrical circuits for AC and DC motors, reverse- forward circuits, electrical circuits for lighting system
– pressure and temperature measurement system using Data Acquisition System
level measurement system based on radio echo (SAAB-Marine Corporation)
– level regulators
electrical circuits for level measurements, circuits for lighting system and for electrical valves cleaning station for butane gas railway tanks(by using steam pressure) motor speed control and gas detectors
– electrical circuits for AC and DC motors, electrical taps, electrical panels
– variable speed control for AC& DC motors, UPS Systems thermal-plant ( using liquid combustible for providing heat energy and steam pressure needed at cleaning station ) electrical panels containing relays and various controls for injection system and electrical valves, electrical panel for water pumps and for fuel pumps, lighting system chemical analysis laboratory electrical panel for feeding analysis instrumentation, various receptacles, lighting system circuits , breakers, rectifiers, thermal switches, temperature regulators
– electrical circuits for mechanical section and water pumping station, containing electrical motors, up-down limit switches, various controls
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM using smoke detectors, flame detectors, gas detectors, microcontroller electromechanical devices like electrical valves , electromechanical flow-meters, pressure transducers, electrical motors.
CATHODIC PROTECTION –service for electronic equipment containing power control rectifier with thyrystors and voltage regulator, measurement system and conductors
