CURRICULUM VITAE
P D Newbury BA IEng MIET
Name& Address: Peter David Newbury
7 Welford Road
Filey
North Yorkshire
YO14 0AE
Telephone: 01723 515470
Mobile 07712 964 304
Web Site www.danefiley.co.uk
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Date of Birth: 25/9/46
Nationality: British
Education: Gillingham County Grammar School (1957 -
6 'O' levels
Mid Kent College of Technology (1962 -
ONC Electrical Engineering
HNC Electronics
HNC Maths, Statistics and Computing
Open University (1982 -
BA Maths
Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
National Grid authorized Competent Person
Employment History:
2002 – Now DANE Consulting Engineers
Sole Proprietor
Electrical and control systems design and drawing, PLC programming, commissioning (worldwide), project management.
Projects include: -
University of East Anglia: Serck Proteus RTU configuration for 3 Deutz 620 CHP generators.
Commissioning second hand Caterpillar 3600 generator in Cameroon. Included extensive control panel modification (drawings in French).
Commissioning 2 Perkins 1000kVA CHP gas engine generators in Bangladesh.
Solar Centaur gas turbine control system modifications in Holland (Mitsubishi A series PLC).
Programming Pelton water turbine generators (Allen Bradley 5000 and PanelView).
Beijers E900 HMI configuration and PLC programming for Kodak, Harrow, Solar gas turbines (Mitsubishi A series PLC).
Operation and maintenance manuals for Deutz 620 mines gas generators. Project included writing RTU interface for the PLC (Mitsubishi A1s series).
Beijers E900 HMI and Mitsubishi A1s PLC work on Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbine generator in Nigeria.
Site supervisor at National Grid Blyth, Northumberland, 275kV sub station. Project included installation and commissioning of standby generation and LV switchboard.
Lead electrical and control of a water treatment plant in an oilfield early production facility in Yemen. Included generation, switchgear, PLC control and HMI, instrumentation and cabling.
2000 – 2002 Proman Associates/Power Consulting Engineers
Senior Electrical Engineer
Engineering Manager (design team of four professional engineers)
Design Consultancy, gas engine generation, CHP, mines gas, landfill gas.
Projects include: -
Power Station Control Panel design, program, and commission. The control system is at a natural gas processing plant in the Andean foothills, Bolivia. (Modicon TSX PLC and XBT touch screen terminal)
CHP control panel for Cummins Diesel UK. (Modicon TSX Premium PLC and XBT touch screen terminal)
PLC control for HV switchgear. Fifteen switches (including neutral earth contactors) controlled by a Pilz PSS 3000 triplex safety PLC.
1995 – 2000 Dale Power Systems/Genergy PLC
Gas Turbine Electrical Design Engineer
Engineering Manager, Dale Gas Power (with a design team of four professional engineers)
Manufacturers of Diesel, Gas Engine, and Gas Turbine powered generating systems.
Projects include: -
Programming and RTU configuration of a range of Deutz gas landfill gas generators.
(Mitsubishi A1s-
Electrical design and program of a triple fuelled (natural gas, diesel, and LPG)
Solar Taurus 60 gas turbine generator set to be installed in Turkey. The first time
a Taurus 60 had run on all three of these fuels. (Mitsubishi A2As-
Total design of a Solar Taurus 60 gas turbine generator for Northumbrian Water at Bran Sands, Teeside. The gas turbine is designed to run on gasified sewage sludge. The emissions from the turbine exhaust are controlled by water injection into the turbine combustion chamber. The design also included for mixing the sewage sludge gas with natural gas. (Allen Bradley PLC5)
Total design, program, and project management of a 2.6 MW Paxman diesel generator
for Pfizer, Sandwich. The project included a power management system that controlled
151 HV and LV breakers in three locations on the site. (Mitsubishi A1s-
1992 – 1995 Dane Engineering
Partner
A small Electrical Engineering design and consultancy company.
General design and PLC programming.
PLC’s included Allen Bradley PLC5, Siemens S5, GEM 80.
1989 – 1992 Servelec Ltd.
Project Engineer / Principal Engineer
Suppliers of control systems specializing in SCADA, water industry and safety critical systems for the oil and gas industry. All projects conform to BS5750 part 1.
Responsible for: -
1. Emergency shutdown systems.
2. Fire & gas systems
2. Industrial control systems
1979 – 1989 APV Rosista Ltd (formally Burnett and Rolfe Ltd)
Senior Control Systems Engineer 1985 -
Control Systems Engineer 1983 -
Project Design Engineer 1981 -
Technician 1979 -
Company specialized in kegging machines and control systems aimed specifically at the brewing industry.
Responsible for: -
1. The design and implementation of a Unix based control and monitoring package for kegging systems (headed up a team of 5 software engineers).
2. Company certification as UL (Underwriters Laboratories) control panel manufacturers (a necessary step to get the plant installed in Los Angeles County USA). Successfully achieved in six months.
3. Project Engineering
4. Electrical plant design (including drawings, software, and final documentation)
5. Plant installation and commissioning (worldwide, mainly USA and Europe)
1977 – 1978 GKN Kent Alloys Ltd.
Electronics Technician
Repair and maintenance of GE controlled CNC controlled machine tools.
1971 – 1977 Lucas CAV Ltd.
Maintenance Electrician
Repair and maintenance of semi-
1970 – 1971 Burroughs Machines Ltd.
Field Service Engineer
Service and repair of computer peripherals: line printers, card readers, tape machines and disk stores.
1962 – 1970 Elliott Bros. (London) Ltd.
Apprentice Electric Technician
Junior development engineer
Electrical wiring, instrument repair, DTL logic design.