Abdullah Shahma

An accomplished and result-oriented engineering professional with 12+ years of impressive experience in ensuring proper installation, commissioning & maintenance of various instruments, and consistency of Control &

• Automation, along with competencies in learning and applying new technology systems in the industry. Providing management, leadership, and technical oversight of safety initiatives aligned with company policies, business objectives, and regulatory requirements to achieve continuous performance. Focused on maintaining a safe, hazard and accident-free workplace. Fluent in the field of Control &

• Automation, Operation &

• Maintenance, DCS &

• SCADA integration in the utility & process industry with Engineering &

• Management experiences.

▪ Ambitious, meticulous, hands-on Control Automation, Operation & Maintenance, DCS & SCADA integration specialist -skilled in SCADA programming, Tia portal, RTUs, PLC, HMI, AutoCAD, and SolidWorks as well as Building Management system BMS and KNX using ETS5 software.

▪ Resourceful, analytical, and detail-driven individual with capabilities in monitoring and controlling systems to ensure that their facilities are running at maximum efficiency and the highest safety standards.

▪ Success Story:

o Recorded success in managing a spent caustic treatment plant of 1.6 Million EURO from scratch with efficiently managed instrumentations in a hazardous waste treatment plant of 60 Million SR.

o History of leading a mobile lab of Air Quality Monitoring (7 Million SR) across Saudi Arabia, and managed a caustic treatment plant spend of (300K USD)

▪ Deft in applying various engineering concepts like programmable logic controllers (PLC), supervisory control & data acquisition (SCADA) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), Calibration & Testing, field Instrumentation & Pneumatics, Tia portal, etc. Having a sound knowledge of Safety factors within Hazardous locations and intrinsically safe equipment.

▪ A well-organized, self-motivated individual having effective technical and communications skills.

Career Progression

Instrument & Control Engineer Aug 2014 - Present

(Waste Management – Sustainable Environmental Works ltd. (Al-Mostadama) Saudi Arabia)

Accomplishments:

• Played a key role in designing a Mobile Application and Website to control access from the main gate by issuing a security QR code to have detailed reports of all access's.
• Proffered direction, leadership, and oversight for calculating electric loads, preparation of drawings/diagrams, calibrating instruments, designing new systems, generate and saving data to raise efficiency, speed, and performance of companies’ operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Championing the instrument cable selection and design and developing equipment strategies/maintenance plans for instrumentations and control systems taking into consideration safety norms, industry standards, regulatory requirement and manufacturer recommendations.
• Troubleshooting problems & provided complex technical solutions, supervised day-to-day activities of the department to ensure effective work control, and productivity are maintained while fostering increased productivity & reduced costs.
• Managing an array of activities involving supervision and troubleshooting of
  • Fully automatic incinerator for both Solid & Liquide hazardous waste
  • Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS)
  • Fully automatic Oxidation system for the spent caustic waste.
  • Half automatic stabilization system for the fly-ash waste.
• Ensuring that the day-to-day activities are carried out in a safe and healthy manner and that the impact of such activities on the environment is within acceptable limits.
• Providing vital inputs in preparing electrical load lists and power calculations, short-circuit calculations, earthing/grounding design calculations, etc.
• Preparing a variety of drawings spanning -cable routing drawings, duct bank designs, single line diagrams, layout drawings, instrument loop drawings, and electrical cable block diagrams as well as cause/effect diagrams.
• Compiling Input / Output lists, Alarm lists, panel board schedules, junction box schedules and wiring drawings, equipment data sheets (motors, instruments, etc.), instrument and motor hook-up drawings/details, etc.
• Validating and analyzing bill of quantities take-off from approved drawings, modifying the instruments and electrical drawings in addition to and simulating the mechanical parts (Flow, Pressure, and Temperature). 
• Providing technical support for reviewing technical proposals from vendors, monitoring installation on-site, system updates for speeding up the evaporation bonds process, and design updates for Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID)
• Commissioning and maintaining SCADA systems and troubleshooting failures: including network, hardware, data, and communications.
• Proficiently working on SCADA system from Siemens model S7 300, linking the HMI to CPU via ProfNet, connecting the input/output interfaces DI, DO, AI & AO, and joining the Sensors/Actuators.
• Responsible for maintaining and calibrating sensors such as Ultrasonic level, RTD-Thermocouple temperature, pressure, flow, O2, weight, limit-switch, voltage, and current.
• Maintaining actuators such as Motors (VSD inverters, Servo, Stepper, DC, AC single and 3 phases), pumps, lights, alarms, pneumatic-motorized-solenoid valves, ON/OFF solenoid valves, Pulsing valves, burners (controller, flame sensor, ignitors), and Schneider intelligent timers, etc.
• Maintaining and calibrating lab instruments such as Calorimeter, and maintaining stacks testing system CEMS room Brand Thermo Scientific model 60i & 51i, also dust monitoring system Brand LazerDust monitor and link data with main SCADA system
• Operating and maintaining 400 KW generators (Cummins). Installing CCTV system wire & wireless including the solar system, deploying cables, Networks (Ethernet, HART, and Profibus), and new systems as needed (EPlan Electric P8, Electrical, Solid works, SketchUp, Siemens WINCC, Schneider soft2 & Arduino).
• Providing leadership and direction in organizing instrument lists, tags, and specifications, eliminating damaged instruments, and fixing suitable ones.
• Ascertaining uninterrupted work processes by scheduling inspections, maintaining air quality mobile LAB, air quality analyzers (HORIBA, HONEYWELL, SPECTRATECH, GRIMM, LUFFT, and SIBATA)
• Supporting technical decisions such as field surveys, tracking and maintaining power sources (power provider, power gen, or solar system), warning taps, and signs).
• Authoring and maintaining global controls and automation standards, and templates including BMS/EPMS points lists, specifications, standardized controls bill of materials, etc.
• Working with innovative automation systems from large-scale industrial control vendors. Performing SCADA database development of field input/output points, alarming, and other database configurations required for control and saving all data rows in excel sheets.
• Supporting, maintaining, and enhancing the SCADA systems for seamless sequential shut-down once finish the monitoring, returning all equipment and handover of the site, and presenting detailed summaries and reports to Al-Mostadama company.
• Driving a Mobile lab truck and ensuring that all engineered solutions are endowed with the capability to meet project scope, budget & time constraints. 

Previous Professional Experiences:

• Feb 2013 - Aug 2014: Technical Support and Sales Engineer, Security & Access controls – ABALLEY Trading Est. Saudi Arabia) 
• 2010 - 2013: Electrical and Networks Engineer, Site Engineer – Alqarn Contractor - Yemen

Education & Credentials

Oum El-Bouaghi, University Larabi Ben Mhidi Algeria (2010)

Bachelor’s degree of State Engineer in Electronic-Control

Final Year Project:

• Designing & making an electronic circuit to detect faults in Integrate Circuits.

Key Course Content:

• Automation and controllers
• Troubleshooting
• System calibration
• Robotics
• Automated components
• Pneumatics and Hydraulics
• Automated Manufacturing
• Programmable Logic Controllers
• Process Control Devices.

Studied French as a preparation to study in Algerian universities (2004)

Academic Accolades:

• Ranked ninth in the high-school exams in 2003 over all Dhamar province and got a scholarship to study engineering in Algeria.