My Qualifications

"We should always strive to do the best we can, for ourselves and for others, while doing it correctly and learning every single day... "

What qualifies me to advise you?
I served as a technician in the field from 1998 through 2005 for one of the oldest and finest wind service companies in North America.

1998-2003: Field technician, Supervisor, (CA) Kenetech 56-100kW
2003-4: Manage windfarm in Bennington VT, Zond/Enron 550kW
2004-5: Troubleshooting specialist
2005-2011 I worked in the Technical Services Department wearing several different hats:
- Quality Control Technician
- Field Engineer
- Supervise/Train all field QC inspectors
- Manage entire oil program [Completed ”Lubrication for machine Condition Monitoring”
- Manage the “Transformer Maintenance via Oil Sample analysis…”
- Attended the highly technical Hydrotex “Lubrication University”
- Oil Sample Analysis:
  - Review, analyze and trend oil sample results,
  - Recommend course of action,
  - Review, revise and develop procedures to keep the program current.
- Condition Based Monitoring & Research:
  - I researched and tested several Condition Monitoring (CM) systems and coordinated their implementation, evaluating their ability to identify defects effectively.
Performed equipment inspections and provided reports for both O&M and Asset Management
Developed, reviewed and revised various documents under the control of the QC/QA

2011-2021 I continued in the Technical Services Department but graduated to "Performance and Reliability" group, with a focus on Prognostics
- Provided technical support related to condition monitoring analysis, engineering solutions, reliability problems, including retrofits and repairs.
Continued the management of:
- Oil Analysis reports evaluations/recommendations [Gear, Hyd etc]
- Grease Analysis reports evaluation/recommendation [Main Bearings, gen Bearings, Blade Pitch bearings]
- Transformer oil analysis reports evaluation/recommendation
Completed Mobius CMS classes 1,2,3 for vibration analysis

Certifications:

SCE “Low Voltag Splicing” 1999
Herguth Labs: Lubrication for machine Condition Monitoring 2007
GearTech “Gear Failure Analysis” 2009
Transformer Maintenance… 2009
Hydrotex “Lubrication University 2011
Enterprise Asset management (CMMS) 2012
SmartSignal Training 2012
STLE “Condition Monitoring…” 2012
Mobius Class I, II, II 2014-2016
Tableau Advanced Training 2016