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Julian Franklin
Austin
Summary
Dedicated utilities professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Seeking full-time remote engineering work in the Utilities Industry.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Additional Information
Two publications which I presented at the 2020 and 2021 Doble International Confernce of clients.
- 2020 - "POLYMER 8.4KV MCOV LOW-SIDE TRANSFORMER ARRESTER AND WILDLIFE MITIGATION"
- 2021 - "SURGE ARRESTER ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS: USING THE WHOLE TOOLBOX".
Certification
Licensed Texas Professional Engineer (TBPE certified July 2022)
Work History
Engineer/Engr. Associate, Transmission Reliability
Lower Colorado River Authority
Austin, TX
09.2018 - Current
- Serving as Isolation Equipment SME responsible for reliable transmission equipment (12.5kV-345kV) including high voltage circuit breakers; circuit switchers; capacitor banks; switches; interrupters; arresters; automatic transfer switches and insulators.
- Active in industry knowledge transfer through offering on-line and in-person conference presentation(s), surveys, and forum posts.
- Supporting projects to reduce lowside animal contacts on Power Transformers resulting in a 100% decrease (as of 8/22) in failed lowside arresters and eliminating mobile substation and maintenance mobilization due to wildlife since project initiation in 2019.
- Providing direction on diagnostic testing, maintenance procedures, and evaluating commission tests for (cumulatively) multi-millions in assets.
- Leading investigations on root cause analysis for substation equipment and maintenance issues.
- Training, supporting, and mentoring new engineers and interns.
- Current Vice Chair for System Reliability Team (SRT) that identifies and presents relevant engineering topics to be shared between Operations, Maintenance, Substation, and Design engineering at LCRA.
Engineering Associate I, Generation
Lower Colorado River Authority
Austin, TX
01.2018 - 09.2018
- Troubleshot plant issues with operations team to ensure plant reliability.
- Provided engineering support during non-staffed hours.
- Conducted feasibility studies on projects for plant and recommended cost-effective alternatives.
- Wrote Statements of Work, provided drawings, reviewed operational procedures, and issued design changes with PE supervised approval.
- Reviewed and revised Piping and Instrumentation Drawings as needed.
- Assisted in project management responsibilities during Spring 2018 outage including: cost-tracking, project supervision, and maintaining safety.
- Recommended, designed, and implemented piping, pumps, valves, etc. to fulfill plant needs.
Engineering Internship(s), Generation
Lower Colorado River Authority
Austin, TX
- Created training classes for plan staff in drafting equipment status dashboards. Training included VBA script to manipulate historian data.
- Verified as-built Piping and Instrumentation Drawings.
- Designed real-time plant health monitoring interface using P&IDs.
- Labeled missing and incorrect equipment to increase safety and reliability of system.
- Designed and published plant health dashboards using Schneider-Electric (eDNA) software.
- Provided operational support during critical weather events.
- Reviewed warehouse inventory and work orders to reduce inventory cost.
- Worked with Predictive Maintenance team to improve completion metrics on PM.
- Served on Project Management team on multi-million dollar DCS upgrade.
- Managed workflow processing and analyzed work-breakdown structures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX12.2017
Skills
- Technical Instruction
- Managing Multiple Projects
- Operating Procedures Implementation
- Process Management
- Root Cause Identification
- Teamwork and Communication
Timeline
Engineer/Engr. Associate, Transmission Reliability
Lower Colorado River Authority
09.2018 - Current
Engineering Associate I, Generation
Lower Colorado River Authority
01.2018 - 09.2018
Engineering Internship(s), Generation
Lower Colorado River Authority
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University
Hobbies
Indoor/Outdoor bouldering including deep water soloing. Plans to bow hunt an elk in Colorado within the next 2 years. Formerly decent chess player 1500+ rated.