Declan McCarthy
Hong Kong
Summary
- Highly accomplished, multifaceted professional with extensive experience in SCADA & telemetry with over 20 years of experience in the water & wastewater, Oil & Gas and Electricity fields.
- Able to work independently or as part of a team managing customer projects
- Familiar with SCADA, IIOT, programming, virtualization, historians, Linux systems, project management and IT skills
- Good working relationship with colleagues and customers
- Well-travelled and adaptable to all cultures
Overview
4
4
years of post-secondary education
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior SCADA & IIOT Engineer
Nam Wah Intelligent Automation Ltd
01.2019 - Current
- Investigated & developed a new IIOT commercial offering using LoRaWAN devices, Chirpstack network server and an on premises Thingsboard platform running Ubuntu Linux.
- Developed a project using Ignition 8 (with Perspective HMI) as an application server collecting data from LoraWan devices from a Chirpstack network server over MQTT to monitor reservoir levels.
- Developed a LoRaWAN solution for collecting environmental conditions from a Marine Department (HK) vessel and uploading to AWS IOT for end user analysis.
- Supervised a condition based maintenance project to use machine learning to predict shaft misalignment, unbalance and loose foot of a pump using FFTs, Python and Keras.
- Migrated an on site Pi Server to Azure & installed a new Pi Vision system for Marubeni Power Asset Management.
- Performed cybersecurity system hardening on Cimplicty operator workstations for CLP.
- Assisted in setting up Factory Talk View SE & ME for a number of projects.
- Trained on Tenable OT (previously Indegy) cybersecurity platform and prepared a demo kit using multiple PLCs (Schneider, Siemens and Allen Bradley), which I then used to present the features to clients.
SCADA & Control Engineer
Freelance
01.2015 - 12.2018
- Installed a Pi Server, AF, Vision and associated interfaces to collect Water Supplies Department (WSD) SCADA & AMR systems to be shown on Pi Vision web pages.
- Installed and deployed a Zabbix Monitoring System on Centos for monitoring all machines (virtual & real) that are used by WSD on its server farm for both historian and SCADA.
- Installed and deployed a Spacewalk Patch Management System on Centos for patch management of all virtual machines in the server farm.
- Acted as a system administrator of the legacy mongoDB historian used by WSD.
- Supervised & acted as a consultant on a new historian development using mongoDB & DNP3 developed by ASTRI for Water Supplies Department (HK).
HK SCADA & Control Manager
GE Oil & Gas
07.2013 - 12.2014
- Lufkin Automation was acquired by GE Oil & Gas in July 2013.
- Responsibilities remained the same as before, primarily providing support (both technical and account manager) to the Water Supplies Department of HK.
- Assisted in migrating all WSD SCADA systems to a virtualized platform running under VMware ESXi.
- Performed a site survey on 2 potential Oil & Gas customers in South East Asian on the possibility of adding a SCADA system to their production fields. Gave a technical and sales presentation to management at the conclusion.
HK SCADA & Control Manager
Datac Control International (H.K.) Ltd (subsidiary of Lufkin Automation)
04.2000 - 07.2013
- Stationed in Hong Kong in charge of local and regional operations.
- Supporting one of Datac’s largest customers, the Water Supplies Department (WSD), ensuring that all WSD installations functioned correctly, all new projects completed to satisfaction and helping to win new orders.
- WSD's telemetry system consisted of approximately 25 Datac SCADA systems (Realflex) and approximately 300 remote telemetry units (RTU) and programmable logic controllers (PLC) of which approximately two thirds were Datac manufactured.
- Met with customer regularly to identify any new potential orders, and identify areas where service could be improved.
- Liaised with the local support team to manage and rectify SCADA & RTU faults within WSD in a timely manner, as well as minor modifications of their SCADA & RTUs.
- Prepared quotations, invoices, and tender submissions and passed purchase orders back to head office and ensuring the ordered equipment was received in a timely and efficient manner.
- Supervised an IT company in migrating the WSD historian system to a virtualised VMware ESXi platform.
- Helped win and managed a major tender to completion to implement a real-time optimal pumping and control system in WSD using real time & historical SCADA data to intelligently predict the water demands of the water supply network and ultimately reduces electricity usage.
- Helped win and install a large order from WSD to develop and install a large scale but efficient historian using mongoDB, for collecting all SCADA data and making it available to non-SCADA users over the client’s intranet on a web browser or Excel.
- Made a number of overseas site trips to existing and new customers in Cebu Philippines (Electricity), Kuwait (Oil & Gas), Western Desert of Egypt (Oil & Gas).
Project Engineer
Datac Control International Ltd
Limerick, Ireland, Ireland
09.1997 - 04.2000
- Responsibilities I was tasked to write and modify the embedded software written in C to run on Datac Remote Terminal Units (RTUs).
- I was involved in upgrading all of the Realflex SCADA Master Stations from the QNX2 OS to QNX4 OS.
Education
Obtained Bachelor of Electrical / Microelectronic Engineering (BE (Elect) - undefined
01.1993 - 01.1997
Skills
Customer satisfaction
Problem Solving
Project Management
Teamwork
Communication
Critical thinking
SCADA
Automation
RTUs & PLCs
Virtualisation
Linux
OSISoft Pi
Technical Skills
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Telemetry Protocols: Modbus, AB DF1, DNP3, IEC 60870 101, MQTT
SCADA Platforms: Realflex, FactoryTalk, Ignition
Historians: OSIsoft PI
IIOT: LoRaWAN, Chirpstack, Thingsboard
Others: Zabbix, Nginx, Spacewalk, Git, pfSense, Tenable OT
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Affiliations
MIET, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Membership No. 1100407039
Quote
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Timeline
Senior SCADA & IIOT Engineer
Nam Wah Intelligent Automation Ltd
01.2019 - Current
SCADA & Control Engineer
Freelance
01.2015 - 12.2018
HK SCADA & Control Manager
GE Oil & Gas
07.2013 - 12.2014
HK SCADA & Control Manager
Datac Control International (H.K.) Ltd (subsidiary of Lufkin Automation)
04.2000 - 07.2013
Project Engineer
Datac Control International Ltd
09.1997 - 04.2000
Obtained Bachelor of Electrical / Microelectronic Engineering (BE (Elect) - undefined
01.1993 - 01.1997