STEVEN STRADER
(281) 935-1203
steven.strader@ventech-eng.com
stevestrader@sbcglobal.net
stevestrader.com
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position with a company that values proven skills and ability encourages achievement, safety, productivity
and quality.
QUALIFICATIONS
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34 Years Experience
Project Manager
Consultant
Engineering Technician
QC I / C Inspector
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Control Designer
I & E Designer
I & E Management
Coordination & Commissioning
Document Control Manager
EXPERIENCE:
2013 to
Present
Ventech Engineering
KAR 2, Erbil, Iraq
Instrument Engineer / Technician: Working Control design issues for Operations, assisting/training KAR2
Instrument Maintenance Department for calibration issues, produce tubing material standard for KAR,
produce Instrument Document Forms and generating Field Purchase Request for spare parts.
2007 &
2013
Burrow Global / Preferred Engineering
PRSI/Petrobras, Pasadena, Texas
Lead I&E Coordinator / Project Manager: Coordination and Inspection for Capital Projects / P&ID WalkDown Projects / Update P&ID’s and update instrument data to import into Smart Plant Instrumentation.
Developing I & E Standards for Engineering and Construction.
Valero Houston Refinery, Houston, Texas
Project Manager: Total Plant P&ID Verification Project. Manage field WalkDown Team. Update Line
Lists, Equipment Tag Information, Line specs, Control Logistics, Continuations. Develop a complete
Instrument Index. Develop new utility drawings. Coordinate plant drafting standards with home office
Drafting Department. Coordinate efforts with Valero Inspections, MOC Department, Reliability
Department, Control Group, and Operations.
2006 &
2007
Fishbone Solutions
PRSI, Pasadena, Texas
I & E Coordinator: Document Control Management System, Instrument Data Upgrade, Update P&ID’s, and
Implement Smart Plant Instrumentation.
P2S Fluor
Kennecott Utah Copper, Salt Lake City, Utah
I / C Technician: Critical loop-check out and calibrations. Documentation updates and redlines. Recommend
necessary corrections to control schemes.
B E & K Allstates Technical Services
Valero, Houston, Texas
Valero Inspector: I & E Inspection for all OSBL and USLD areas of the plant.
2005 &
2006
Austin
PRSI, Pasadena, Texas
I&E Technician: Working projects, I&E supervisor during turnarounds, maintaining, troubleshooting, and
repairing I&E equipment.
Triad
OxyVinyls, DearPark, Texas
I&E Cut Over Supervisor: Hot Cut Over of DeltaV to Central Control Room.
Amber
Crown, Pasadena, Texas
I&E Technician: Planner for the Demo of a Reformer Unit.
Zachry
Texasgenco, Rosenburg, Texas
I&C Forman: Projects @ W. A. Parrish Power Plant, 2,470 MW Coal Burner.
JEMerit
AtaFina, DeerPark, Texas
I&E Technician: Troubleshooting Loops, Loopchecks, and SellOffs during Train 9 turnaround.
Triad
Noltex, LaPorte, Texas
Lead I&E Technician: Changed Provox System to DeltaV, Loopcheck, and Sell-Offs.
Parsons
Carpenter, Pasadena, Texas
I&E Technician: Troubleshooting new DeltaV Controls, Loopchecks, and SellOffs of New P6 Unit.
2003 &
2004
TASC
Equistar, Channelview, Texas
Inst. Technician: Troubleshooting Loops, Loopchecks, and SellOffs during POSM 2 turnaround.
DeJean Company
Sartomer @ Equistar, Channelview, Texas
I&E Technician: Troubleshooting, upgrade PLC and Control Power for a Micro Screener.
SeaLion, TexasCity, Texas
StartUp I&E Technician: Troubleshooting Controls and Process of New GE Plastics Facility.
Amber
Crown, Pasadena, Texas
I&E Technician: Lead Tech. during Alky turnaround, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing,
I&E equipment.
Triad
Basell, LaPorte, Texas
I&E Technician: Trouble shooting Controls, Loopchecks, and SellOffs during a DCS upgrade.
2002 &
2003
TRS
ExxonMobil, Baytown, Texas
Fluor QC I&E Technician: Inspection, Troubleshooting Controls, Designs, Drawings, and Pre-Loop
Checks, on New Low Sulfur Mogas Unit
TASC
Equistar, Channelview, Texas
I&E Technician: Troubleshooting Loops, Loopchecks, and SellOffs during turnaround.
2001 &
2002
TRS
BP Amoco, Texas City, Texas
Fluor I&E Technician: Troubleshooting Controls, Designs, Drawings, Loop checks, and Sell Offs on New
Clean Fuels Unit.
2000 &
2001
Amber
Lyondell, Bay Port Plant
Lead Technician Nights: Turnaround work.
Crown, Pasadena, Texas
Lead I&E Technician: Engineered and Field Designed Upgrades of Units after fires.
Contech
BP Amoco, Texas City, Texas
I&E Technician: Troubleshooting Loops, Loopchecks, and SellOffs during turnarounds.
1998 &
2000
J E Merit
ExxonMobil Chemical MBPP, Mont. Belview, Texas
I&E Technician: Maintaining I&E Equipment in Lab, Loadout, Low Density Finishing, and High
Density Areas. Assisted with updating databases, and created procedures for their equipment. Exxon
trained on SAP, PLCs, and Micro Motions.
1989 &
1998
Amber
Crown, Houston, Texas
Lyondell, Channelview, Texas
Lyondell, Bayport, Texas
Instrument Technician: DCS upgrades during turnarounds.
ST2EP-Belcan
Beard Technologies, Hamilton Mine Morganfield, KY.
I&E Consultant for Operations: Coal Slurry Processing Plant; Designed, Field Engineered the Controls
for the plant.
Belcan
Brown & Root, Hamilton Mine Morganfield, KY.
Commissioning I&E Technical Advisor: Total commissioning duties of a Coal Slurry Processing Plant.
Belcan
Valero, Houston, Texas
Lead I & E Technician: Worked projects & completed unit work orders in maintenance.
Belcan Representative for Valero.
Apollo Industrial Service Inc.
Basis, Houston, Texas
Lead Instrument Technician: Worked projects & completed unit work orders in maintenance. Apollo
Representative for Basis
KCI
Amoco Chemical, Texas City, Texas
Instrument Technical Supervisor: Supervised Technical assistance for construction, commissioning
& start-up of Amoco PX-3 Control Room and Unit.
Bay Controls
Shell, Houston, Texas
Instrument Technician: Loop Check, Precheck, and Sell Off.
S&B
Amoco, Chocolate Bayou, Texas
Instrument Technician: Loop Check, Precheck, and Sell Off.
Wolfenson Electric
Mobil, Houston, Texas
Instrument Superintendent: Supervised Propylene Expansion.
Arco Pipeline, Channelview, Texas
Engineering Technician: Maintained, Field Designed and Field Engineered Upgrades to Metering Sites.
Amber, Inc.
Warren Gas, Galena Park, Texas
Lead Technician: Maintained and upgraded instrumentation. Provided Designs and technical assistance
in modernization of ethylene, propylene, refrigeration, Export Facility. Assisted in the training of
Operators and technicians for their facilities.
Rabalais I & E Constructors
Javelina Plant, Corpus Christi, Texas
I&E Superintendent: Investigated, designed, and estimated I & E Construction Projects. Material
takeoffs of I & E work to be performed. Managed and inspected the projects. Requisitioned
recommended spare parts, and assisted with the organizing of a new warehouse for the Javelina plant.
Instrumentation Contractors, Inc.
Houston, Texas
Instrument Superintendent: Performed technical works in Houston area with companies such as
Marathon, Oxy, Big Three, Ethyl, Hill Petroleum, Intercontinental Terminals, Diamond Shamrock, Rohm
Haas, Shell, Witco, and Exxon.
Rabalais I & E
Koch Plant, Corpus Christi, Texas
Instrument Technician: Maintained Plateformers, PXs, Cat, Crudes, Acid Unit, Boilers, Co-Gens, and
assisted with upgrades to all of the above units.