This curriculum vitae summarizes the qualifications and experience of Wynand Vermeulen, a 53-year-old South African citizen. He has over 30 years of experience in electrical engineering, working across various industries including steel plants, mining, and oil drilling. His experience includes maintenance, programming, commissioning, and optimization of industrial automation equipment such as PLCs, drives, instrumentation, and process control systems. He has qualifications in electrical engineering and trades such as millwright.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Wynand Vermeulen

2. PERSONAL DETAILS
FULL NAMES : WYNAND OCKERT CHRISTOFFEL VERMEULEN
HOME/POSTAL ADDRESS : Pakercresent 10 PO BOX 594
Saldanha Vredenburg
Western Cape 7380
CONTACT DETAILS : +27(0) 22 714 1792 (Home)
+27(0) 83 229 7191 (Mobile)
E-MAIL : wynantv@gmail.com
DATE OF BIRTH : 3 JANUARY 1963
SEX : MALE
AGE : 53
NATIONALITY : SA CITIZEN
DRIVERS LICENSE : CODE EC ( 14 ) with PDP
MARITAL STATUS : MARRIED
DEPENDENTS : 3
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: STD 10 - 1980 (with University exemption)
National N-Diploma (N6) Electrical - May 1989
Millwright - July 1989 (Iscor/ Olifantsfontein)
National Engineering Diploma (S4) Electrical - Nov 1997
(Heavy Current)
Brief Summary of Career Experience – Wynand Vermeulen
Although the major of my Electrical Engineering qualification is based on heavy current,
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3. the training, work and experience in different Steel Plants in South Africa were gained on
process instrumentation, electronic fault finding and repairs up to component level, PLC
troubleshooting and programming to optimize process (Siemens S5 S7, Modicon 584,
Allen Bradley PLC5--RSlogix5, Telemecanique and ABB- AC800).
Optimization and troubleshooting on different AC and DC drives (Siemens – Simovert
AC/Simoreg DC Master, Telemecanique, Cegelec- DG2000/4000). Troubleshooting and
repairing of proportional valve’s and actuators.
Cold and hot commissioning of newly installed and upgraded equipment in plants.
Reading and updating of electrical drawings.
Working for the last 7 years for an Oil Drilling company where further experience was
gained working on EX Equipment (Explosives) concerning installation, troubleshooting and
maintaining there off. Working and maintaining of 6.6KV breakers, generators and
dynamic positioning equipment (DP systems) on the drill ship’s bridge
Other duties included standby and working shifts.
See detailed experience with different companies below.
CAREER EXPERIENCE
ISCOR
VANDERBIJLPARK
TEL (016) 889-3177
MANAGER : MR J LOMBARD
DEPARTMENT : ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS (COKE OVENS)
JOB TITLE : TECHNICAL ASSISTANT
EMPLOYED : 7 JULY 1986 - 31 AUGUST 1992
Start Apprenticeship as Millwright on 7 July 1986 at Iscor and passed Trade Test on 3 July 1989.
On 1 August 1989 appointed as Electrical Technician in heavy and light current at Coke Ovens -
Electrical Systems.
DUTIES
1. Maintenance on AC Telemecanique, DC Saftronics as well as Vibro Feeder machines.
2. Repairing of:
- Electronic cards for example level sensor, Photo electric transmitter receiver cards.
- Modicon 584 PLC I/O cards.
- Microwave transmitters and receivers cards.
- Saftronics DC drive cards.
- Traic drives cards.
3. Change, fault finding and programming on Modicon and Telemecanique PLC’s.
4. High tension fault finding up to 3.3 kV.
5. Maintenance on radioactive sources.
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4. 6. The implementation of projects as follows:
- Attended meetings for discussion of scope on projects.
- Direct discussions with contractors and sales engineers.
- The commissioning and inspection of new installed equipment.
7. Installation and commissioning of new equipment on the plant.
8. Maintenance on Ward - Leonard systems.
9. Maintenance on Stacker Reclaimer at the coal storage yard.
10. Worked on the following PLC’s:
- Modicon 584
- Telemecanique
11. Projects done:
- Planning, designing of electrical drawings, wiring and commissioning of a test panel for
a Ward Leonard system.
- Installing of a new Telemecanique Altivar AC drive at the Ammonia Plant.
- Designing and commissioning of a DC machine test unit. The purpose of this unit is to
test all electronic cards, including field weakening.
COURSES
Telemecanique PLC
Telemecanique AC Drives
Radio Active course
First Aid
COLUMBUS STAINLESS
MIDDELBURG, MPUMALANGA
TEL (013) 247-9111
MANAGER : MR M KOLLMITZ
DEPARTMENT : HOT MILL
JOB TITLE : INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN
DUTIES
1. Work on the following PLC's:
- Allen Bradley (PLC2 /05 & PLC5/25)
- Honeywell 9000 DCS
- Stratus Dunn.
- Siemens S5
- Cegelec Gem 80(Alstom)
2. Maintenance done at:
- Water Plant
- Gas Plant
- Finished Products (CTL, Preheat Furnace, Pickle line, Cranes, Black plate leveler)
- Plasma welder
3. Maintenance on Instrumentation equipment at the Annealing Furnace and the Gas
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5. plant consist of the following:
- Calibration of I/P's
- DP cells
- Pressure transmitters
- Proportional valves
- Modular motors
- RTD’s
- Kent Recorders
- Gas analyzers (calibration and tests)
- Thermocouples (PT100, K and J )
- Miltonic’s ultrasonic sensors - calibration and programming
- Cegelec GD2000 drives – programming, troubleshooting and optimizing of the drives
4. Further training overseas during September/October 1994 at Rugby England at
Cegelec UK on Level 1 and 2 for the automation of the plant.
5. Cold and hot commissioning of new Coil Plate Line (CPL) Plant.
6. Wiring and rewiring of electrical panels and MCC’s.
7. Hydraulic Systems
- Maintenance, repairs and calibration on EMG systems (auto center guides, steering
unit, edge guides).
- Moog systems.
- Rexrof systems.
- Servo valves calibration
8. Videojet Ink Printer
- Installation and commissioning of new Videojet machines (170i and 170i UH).
- Calibration and repair.
- Training of Millwrights and Production staff.
- Writing of procedures on operating and calibration of Videojet.
9. Wiedenbach Ink Printer
- Installation and commissioning of new Wiedenbach machines.
- Calibration and repair.
- Training of Millwrights and Production staff.
- Writing of procedures on operating and calibration of Wiedenbach.
10. Projects Done
- The design of drawings, layout of panel, build of panel, interface with PLC, cold and
hot commissioning of Indramat single axes positioning control drive.
- The replacement of the Harland and Simon DC drive with Siemens DC (6RA 24) drives
which includes new drawings, panel design, interface with PLC and the cold and hot
commissioning of the drives.
- Fully automated a transfer car between ZM2 and CPL. Includes redesign of electrical
drawings, wiring and installing of new equipment, commissioning and test of new
automated transfer car.
11. Other Duties Performed on a Daily Basis:
- Intensive maintenance done on GD 4000 and GD 2000 drives.
- Proper fault finding and problem solving by using overdrive package.
- Intensive use of drawings and links to optimise drives.
- By use of CSP package to rectify and optimise indromat drives.
- Fault finding includes testing of stack, i/o customer board, SNPS, power interface
board, gate tiles.
- Identifying of fault codes on processor to the indicate status.
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6. - Maintaining of Multi-gem processors (MT 80)
- Ladder programming.
- Interfacing with Drives, CCU, Printers, Scanners and other PLC’s.
- Ladder programming to optimise plant.
- Programming and commissioning of new installations and updating of drawings
accordingly.
- Negotiation with Vendors and Contractors.
- Training preformed once a week for millwrights and learner techs on digits,
programming and basic fault finding skills.
12. The Following Systems Implemented Successfully as Follows:
- 20 Keys (Workplace Improvement)
- QS9001 (Quality Control)
- Pipac System (Procurement)
- RCM
- SWI (Standard Working Instructions)
13. Promoted to Senior Technician on 1 August 2001
COURSES
Gegelec (Jhb)
Introduction to PLC's (Micro Gems - 131 PLC)
Overview (Run software on Gem 80)
Cegelec GD 2000 and GD 4000 drives
Hoistec (Jhb)
Factory Link (MMI)
Hoistec (AC10, Altivar 5)
Honeywell (Jhb)
Honeywell 9000 DCS Programming
Bevcan (Kempton Park)
Videojet training on 170i and 170i UH
Siemens (Midrand)
Siemens DC Siemens step 5 (S10, S15, S20, S22)
Siemens step 7 (S10, S15, S20)
Siemens AC 10 + 80
Rockwell (Midrand)
Allen Bradley logic 5 software
Columbus Stainless (Middelburg)
DC 24 (6RA 24)
AC 10
AC 80
Assessor Course
DKS & Motion Manager 5.0
Pipac (Vendor System)
20 Keys (Workplace Improvement)
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7. REFERENCES
MANAGER : MR G DOVEY
DEPARTMENT : CUSTOMER SERVICES
JOB TITLE : SENIOR INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN
(C&I SPECIALIST)
EMPLOYED : SEPTEMBER 1994 – AUGUST 2002
DUFERCO STEEL PROCESSING
SALDANHA, WESTERN CAPE
TEL +27(0)22 709-7000
DEPARTMENT : ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
JOB TITLE : ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN
EMPLOYED : SEPTEMBER 2002 – AUG 2008
DUTIES
1. Programming, Developing and Fault Finding on the Following PLC's:
- Allen Bradley (PLC5/ 25).
- Siemens 115U + 135U + 155U with the 928B + 948 processor (step 5).
- Siemens S400 processors at Metsep (step 7).
- ABB Freelance PLC + Scada
- PLC Direct 205 at Waterplant
2. Maintenance and Repair on Overhead Cranes:
- Replacement of a Cattron remote with a Theimeg unit and includes the following NL.
Incorporate Theimeg drawings with demag crane drawing, layout of panel, build of
panel, interface with Theimeg controller, cold and hot commissioning on Demag
overhead crane.
- Fault finding, program and repair on Commander hoist, long travel and cross travel
drives
- Install of anti crash limits to slow down crane
- Replacement of mechanical load limit unit (30T) with a load cell with an electronic
display (Instrotech).
3. Experiences on Variable AC/DC Drives:
- Commander AC drives (Unidrive on overhead cranes-).
- ABB drives at oiler.
- Siemens AC/DC drives(Master).
4. Maintenance and Repair on Instrumentation Equipment on the Plant as Follow:
- E&H Magflow's (Promag 50 P) and Rosemount Conductivity unit (25% HCL acid)
- VAI DCS system on Furnace using LPG.
- Installation and commissioning of different level indicators using ultrasonic or radar
(Probe 2000, E+H Prosonic T units + Siemens )
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8. - Digital meters Indicators (Instrotech, Eurotherm, Red lion).
- Electronic cards up to component level.
- Maintaining and calibration of A&B and Rosemount (25% HCL acid) DP-cells
- Maintaining and calibration of different pressure transmitters (Vika, E&H. EFM)
- Maintenance on K + S type thermocouples and RTD's
- Optimizing of H2 + N2, LPG and Propane PID control on Annealing furnace
- Optimising furnace with Combustion Analyser for O2, Co, No and So2 (Madur GA40T)
REFERENCES
1. Mr. C (Coenraad) Louw
Plant Engineer – Engineering
Tel +27(0) 22 709 7055
Transocean
RIG MANAGER SEDCO EXPRESS : ALOK JHA
DEPARTMENT : MAINTENANCE DEPT
Rig : SEDCO EXPRESS (Semi)
JOB TITLE : CHIEF ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN
EMPLOYED : 26 AUG 2008 – 26 May 2012
DUTIES
1. Work on the following PLC's:
- Siemens S7 400/300
- Alspa Gem 80(Alspa 80-35 PLC’s)
- Allen Bradley Control logic 500 PLC( RSlogix 5 software)
- Cegelec GD2000/4000 drives – troubleshooting and optimizing of the drives
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2. Maintenance done on:
- DP equipment, gyro’s, anemometers, radios and antennas
- Fire and gas systems-- Autronics
- CCTV systems and entertainment –
- Telephone and EX equipment
- Overhead cranes – Seatrax including calibration of Mipeg 2000 unit
- CAT diesel machines – PM testing done on thermocouples, oil mist detectors, pressure
transmitters, Proxi and speed sensors
- PA and Talkback system
- Ballast System
- Top Drive(MD Totco), Drawworks and Baylor eddy current brake unit
- Cameron BOP mark II
- Riser recoil system ( Retsco System)
- Thruster : Cegelec Sigma control(11KV)
3. Maintenance on Instrumentation equipment consist of the following:
- Calibration of I/P's
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9. - DP cells
- Pressure transmitters
- Proportional valves
- RTD’s
- Valves
- Gas analyzers (calibration and tests)
- Thermocouples (PT100, K and J )
- Miltonic’s ultrasonic sensors - calibration and programming
- Beacons( Maxi Beacon MK II) – Software testing of battery life, battery pack and O ring
replacement if needed
- Kamewa Azimuth systems
Transferred to Jack Ryan on 28 May 2012
RIG MANAGER Jack Ryan : Crescent Mark
DEPARTMENT : Electrical MAINTENANCE DEPT
RIG : JACK RYAN (Drill ship)
JOB TITLE : CHIEF ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN
EMPLOYED : 26 May 2012 – 26 JANUARIE 2016
DUTIES
1. Work on the following PLC's:
- Siemens S7 400/300 Siemens S5 119U
- ABB AC800
- Allen Bradley PLC5 with RSlogix software
2. Maintenance done on:
- DP equipment(Nautronix L3), gyro’s(Sperry MK 37 VT), anemometers, radios and
antennas( feruno, Sailor)
- Fire and gas systems—Autronica BS100 system
- CCTV systems and entertainment – Hernis system
- Telephone and EX equipment
- Overhead cranes – Seatrax including calibration of crane through Mipeg 2000 unit
- Man B&W diesel machines – PM testing done on thermocouples, oil mist detectors,
pressure transmitters, Proxi and speed sensors. Calibrating of Heinzmann speed
governor
- PA (Spector/Lumenex) and Talkback system
- Ballast System(levelDatic)
- Top Drive(MD Totco), Drawworks(National oil well) and Baylor eddy current brake unit,
Pipe racking system (PRS-4i Varco system), Romar packer
- Cameron BOP mark II
- Thrusters -- ABB 3.3 KV MaggaStar drives – testing of stacks + replacing and
torqueing of GTO’s , Aquamaster azimuth thruster control
- CMC + ACMC(Shaffer)
3. Maintenance on Instrumentation equipment consist of the following:
- Calibration of I/P's
- DP cells
- Pressure transmitters
- Proportional valves
- RTD’s
- Valves
- Gas analyzers (calibration,repairs and tests)
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10. - Thermocouples (PT100, K and J )
- Miltonic’s ultrasonic sensors - calibration and programming
- Beacons( Maxi Beacon MK II) – Software testing of battery life, battery pack and O ring
replacement if needed
- Rigsence and MD totco DAQ control
- Pioneer air dryers
- Neurotics L3 DP system with Allen Bradley 5 PLC’s
- Seatel satellite comms – calibrating AZ and EL for highest AGC. Troubleshooting LNB
and replacing
COURSES
1. BOP Cameron Mark II --- Houston
2. Offshore emergency training with Huet and EBS valid to 2017 – Aberdeen Survivex
3. EX coarse --- Singapore
4. AKA droop control for generators --- Prince Edward Island Canada
5. Topset investigation coarse --- Greenwich UK
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