System Integration Symposia and Exhibits (SIS-EX2005)September 22 & 23, 2005 International Centre, 6900 Airport Road, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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Jason Riegert
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Solutions & Services Business Driver - Endress+Hauser Canada Jason
Riegert has spent nearly 7 years in a career with Endress + Hauser that,
has expanded beyond Canada, to Europe and back.
Jason’s background includes a strong field service experience
that has enabled him to evolve from troubleshooting instruments and
applications, into delivering systems and solutions.
He has experience integrating instruments with the various
fieldbuses and control systems found in the market place today. Jason
Riegert is a graduate of Mohawk College.
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Jack Rintjema Top Rockwell Rockwell Automation
Jack has over 25 years of automation experience in southern Ontario. He
has worked as a service engineer, product specialist, and design
specialist helping dozens of companies find solutions to various
automation & control challenges. Over the years, he has worked
with a diverse group of industries, including steel, pharmaceutical, food
processing, water & waste water treatment, mining, petrochemical and
automotive.
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Rendrag Solutions Inc. . Currie
is a Professional Electrical Engineer
with more than 30 years of varied hands-on experience in most areas of
Control Systems, Software and Instrumentation in the material handling,
process, gas and manufacturing industries. Currie is the President of
Rendrag Solutions Inc. a controls systems integration company supply
engineering expertise to a variety of industries. Currie’s
areas of specialization include systems integration, consulting,
design and implementation of
programmable logic controllers (PLCs), operator interface systems (HMIs),
SCADA, systems architecture, communications and software. He
has significant experience with; Food & Beverage, Gas Compressor
Stations, Custom Machinery, Manufacturing and Airport Baggage Handling
Security projects ranging from small to multi million dollar systems.
Many of these systems are integrated into plant DCS, MIS and
MES systems. Over the years, he has
provided industry with numerous
presentations on control system design, applying new technologies and
standards including PLC and application training courses. Currie’s experience
includes complete responsibility for; project management, technical
leadership, design concepts/philosophy, estimating/proposals, equipment
selection/specification, detailed design, control software, contract
administration, installation supervision, commissioning, start‑up
and training. He has worked with all the major brands of PLCs and HMI/SCADA
software packages. For
more than ten years Currie has also been responsible for the engineering,
including programming and training, of systems using the IEC 61131-3
Control Systems Programming Standard (such as: Modicon – Concept/Unity,
Siemens – Step 7 & Allen Bradley - ControlLogix).
He has been involved on many successful projects with the design and implementation using smart I/O communication device
level networks such as DeviceNet & PROFIBUS and control network
applications with Ethernet and ControlNet.
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Thomas
S Fekete, P.Eng. Senior
Application Engineer Tom
Fekete is a Senior Application Engineer working within the Applications,
Technical Support, and Training Group of Schneider Electric Canada. He has
been with Schneider Electric for sixteen years and his responsibilities
largely consist of pre-sales and post-sales product application support
across Canada of the automation products that are offered by Schneider
Electric. These responsibilities also included extensive product and
application trouble-shooting, application development, product beta
testing, conducting product training courses, and maintaining the Canadian
Technical Support Lab and Demo Centre at the Mississauga location. In
addition, Tom has presented papers covering various topics within the
field of industrial controls to the IEEE, ISA, and various continuing
educational programs. Previous
to his employment at Schneider Electric Tom worked as an Electrical
Engineer for General Motors in Oshawa. The responsibilities of this
position focused on various automation projects within the GM Battery
Plant. Tom
holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and
is a registered Professional Engineer with the Professional Engineers of
Ontario. Tom is also a member of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, the Standards Council of Canada (designated Canadian expert for “Modbus-Real Time Publish Subscribe” specification proposed within IEC subcommittee 65C Digital Communications, Working Group 11), and the School of Electronics and Computer Engineering Program Advisory Committee at Seneca College in Toronto.
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Gaetan
Cloutier
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Executive
Director Global Business Development, Intergraph Process Frank Joop is Executive Director of Global Business Development at Intergraph Process, Power & Marine. He is responsible for identifying worldwide sales opportunities, analyzing market needs, determining service/product requirements, and developing strategic alliances with industry vendors. Industry coverage includes the biopharmaceutical, petrochemical, and food and beverage segments.
Joop joined Intergraph in 1988 and has also served as marketing manager of Plant Design System and AEC products, Europe. Joop previously worked at Fluor Daniel as a control system engineer. His areas of expertise include control system engineering, electrical engineering, front-end engineering and design, and project management.
Joop holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Amsterdam University
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Donald
E. Mahony, P.Eng
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SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INC. don.mahony@ca.schneider-electric.com Inventor
of the Programmable Logic Controller "Modicon" Manufacturer of
the fastest PLC Hot Standby Systems "Quantum" Creator of the IEC
open software family "Unity"
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Kepware
Technologies, Sales Associate Tony began working in the automation industry as a project/startup engineer for Valmet Automation (now Metso). After leaving Valmet he joined Kepware as a software test engineer, eventually moved into technical support and is now dedicated to sales. His work experiences prior to focusing on sales have helped him better understand and appreciate the needs of customers in the industrial automation market space. Tony is an advocate of open systems and the OPC Foundation. Tony Hartford is a graduate of the Electrical Engineering Technology program at the University of Maine at Orono.
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James
Powell, P.Eng.
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Manager, Communications Siemens Milltronics Process Instruments Inc.
As
Product Manager, Communications, James Powell provides technical expertise
and leadership on industrial communications for Siemens Milltronics level
measurement instrumentation. He
has extensive knowledge of common industrial networks and in depth
experience with protocols including: PROFIBUS, Modbus, DeviceNet, Allen
Bradley Remote I/O, Ethernet, FOUNDATION Fieldbus, SNP, GENIUS, and HART.
He has more than 15 years experience in application design and research,
as well as many years of field experience. He has published articles in
ISA technical papers, Verfahrens Technik, PROFIBUS Newletter, PROFIBUS
Interface Center newsletter, and Control Engineering newsletter. He is an
active member of ISA both as a presenter (Expo 2004, Expo 2005) and
reviewer (Expos 2004, Expo 2005). He is an active member of PROFIBUS
International and Fieldbus Foundations serving as a reviewer for PROFIBUS
working group 7 and a member of the Foundation Fieldbus Transducer Block
Standard committee. He
hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Engineering,
Electrical Control and Communications Option from Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario (1987) and holds the Professional Engineer designation
from the Professional Engineers of Ontario. James is located at the
Siemens Milltronics factory headquarters in Peterborough, Ontario Canada.
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PLCopen
Jeremy
Pollard, CET, is a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and has
been in the Manufacturing Automation game for over 25 years.
After spending 10 years with Rockwell Automation, he has been
running his own systems integration company ever since.
Teaching, solutions, and software as well as writing for Control
Design, and Manufacturing Automation are on his resume. He
has been published in every major automation publication in the last 20
years. He is currently
writing software, writing columns, on the Editorial Advisory Board for
Manufacturing Automation, and the Managing Director of PLCopen in North
America, and is an ISA member.
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