PAUL C. DESMARAIS
174 Waldron Road
Farmington, NH 03835
(603) 755-9063
PC.Desmarais@gmail.com

Skills Summary

 

20 years of making Electrical, and Mechanical, projects come together.  Expertise includes PLC programming, software development, control and instrumentation system specification.  A skilled problem solver adept at keeping the whole picture in view.  Recognized for interpersonal skills, sound judgment, and organizational ability.

Experience

 

GTEquipment, Merrimack, NH

6/05-11/05

Electrical Engineer

·     Completed software analysis and modifications for Silicon Carbide vacuum furnace on time.  Project was a week behind schedule when I started.  Opto 22 controller and I/O was used on this project.

Martindale Associates, Inc., Bradford, Massachusetts

7/04-6/05

Systems Sales Engineer

·     Boosted Q1 2005 sales of engineering services by 40%.  Analyzed existing obsolete control system, then designed control retrofit for hydropower plant.

AME Inc., Acton, ME

3/00-7/04

Owner- Project Engineer 

·     Henschel, Inc., Newburyport, MA – Re-staffed behind schedule project, and coordinated the Object Oriented Design of a data monitoring system.  The application used CORBA Event Channels to gather data for a ship control and navigation display.

·     Fantini Baking Co., Haverhill, MA – Designed control system replacement for bread roll conveyor that saved approximately 68% of the cost quoted by the original equipment vendor. Automation Direct hardware was used.

·     Newick’s Seafood Restaurant, Merrimack, NH - Implemented new building HVAC controls for 2 current air handling units. 

Heidelberg Web Press, Dover, N.H.

8/97-8/99

Senior Project Engineer

·     Contributing team member for development of new generation Human Machine Interface (HMI), and process control system under Microsoft Windows NT and QNX operating systems. 

OSRAM Sylvania Inc., Glass Technologies, Exeter, N.H. 

6/89-8/97

Senior Project Engineer

·     Wrote ladder logic control program for glass batch mixing; used ROCKWELL SOFTWARE A.I. Series software for ALLEN-BRADLEY PLC-5 series controller.

·     Took responsibility for a partially defined project, and completed the updating rework of bulb QC machine controls and data collection after lay-off of engineer, reducing maintenance costs by 50%.

Hussey Seating Co., North Berwick, Maine

12/77-6/86

Product Development Engineer

·     Redesigned motor driven propulsion unit for telescopic platforms.  Developed power distribution and motor controls to meet National Electrical Code requirements. Achieved approximately 45% savings in unit manufactured cost and number of parts.

Systems Proficiency

 

Hardware

PC, DEC MicroVAX, Opto 22 I/O, Allen-Bradley PLC, Automation Direct (Koyo) PLC

Programming Languages

C++, Visual Basic, Fortran, C, BASIC, DirectSoft32, ioProject, TISoft, PLC5

Operating Systems

Windows XP, Linux, Windows NT, OpenVMS, DOS, Ultrix

PC Software

Microsoft Access, LOTUS Notes, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Developers Studio

Education

 

BSMET & BSEET - University of Massachusetts – No. Dartmouth Campus

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Undergraduate Computer Science courses

 

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