RICKY SUTTON

17493 lake lindsey

brooksville fl. 34601
CELL-270-210-1447
HOME 270-534-4843
EMAIL-ricky7150@hcis.net

SUMMARY
• 35 years specializing in high voltage electrical maintenance, installation, testing and QA/QC
inspections verifying power distribution/generation equipment in fossil, gas and oil Power
Plants and Utilities up to 500Kv, as per technical engineering specs for customer support.
• Field testing experience has included (but is not limited to) maintenance, testing and
QA/QC verifying inspections of the following equipment:

Circuit Breakers (vacuum/oil/gas/air) Transformers (dry/oil-filled)

Generators (diesel/gas/coal-fired) UPS (GE/Westinghouse/Allen
Bradley)
Switchgear (Siemens/GE/Westinghouse) Batteries (low voltage) Protective
Relays (IQ 1000/GE/Westinghouse) AC/DC Motors & Controllers

• 20 years supervisory experience managing up 40 Electricians and I&C Technicians.

• 20 years involvement of the construction, commissioning, testing and inspection of
power distribution systems at seven chemical refineries and four oil refineries in Texas,
Kentucky, South Carolina and Louisiana.
• 20 years experience programming/troubleshooting Programmable Logic Controllers
(PLCs) - Allen Bradley PLC5, Westinghouse and Andover Controls.
• Journeyman Electrician, certified High Voltage Splicing.
• Adept at acceptance testing - Doble, Hi-Potential, Power Factor, Cable, Ductor,
CTMP, Meggar and Transformer Ratio/Ratio,wind farms Transformer,substation
switchgear.
• Strong knowledge and experience conducting Load Flow Studies, Load Surveys and
Infrared Thermographic Surveys.
• 22 years experience installing and commissioning electrical controls on GE and
Westinghouse gas/steam turbines.
• Computer literate: Microsoft Word Programs, Windows and the Internet.
• Stress resilient and capable of working under deadline pressures.
• U. S. passport.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

07/18-5/18 /08 KUWAIT, ENGINEERING /QA/QC DUBAI, RECRUITER CO.

contract gas turbines,switchgear,hv cable,hi pot,testing all transformer,mcc.
10/05-06/06 INTEGRATED TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, INC.electrical engineer
Contract switchgear,mcc,load test,commissioning,tranf,hi pot,start up.
04/05- 07/05 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUSTRIES , CLEARWATER FL.
contract Plant manager. Moved plant to Texas. Over one engineer.
15 directly reporting.
04/04-04/05 SOUTHWEST ELECTRIC, USEC, Paducah, Kentucky High
contract voltage and low voltage breaker engineer. Directly reporting 10.
11/03-04/04 COMPUTER SCIENCES RAYTHEON, Ascension Island,
POWER PLANT WIND FARM
12/02-05/03 FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER, PO_ WELL SWITCHGEAR,
Contract Houston,texas.Directly reporting 4 Maintenance & instlation of
Vacuum circuit breakers 5 -3 8 kv, substations, dc-switchgear, startup," bus
duct repair, sf 6 switches, transformer repair, 5-38kv retrofill breakers bus,
power controls, and inspected for customer support.
01/02-05/02
contract ELECTRICAL START-UP ENGINEER (Contract) BLACK & VEATCH
Eldorado, Arkansas
• Member of a two-man Start-Up Team at a 500 Kv switchyard
commissioning, testing and performing loop checks on vacuum
breakers (filling them with SF6), breaker timing, calibrating
transducers (4/20MA), setting up Kurtkey Lock-Outs and pole
discrepancy checks, as per technical design specs.
• Completed and submitted all Test Data Sheets and applicable
paperwork after QA/QC inspection,& walkdown.
03/00-12/00
contract GENERAL FOREMAN (Contract) KAMTECH, INC.
Anderson, South Carolina, 20 elect. Directly reporting to my self.
• Electrical start-up working for GE on a combined-cycle gas turbine,
associated Mark 4 computer, transformers, switchgear, lube oil
systems, AC/DC motors, battery chargers, inverters and QC
inspection walkdowns for SANTEECOOPER START UP.
• Conducted HIPOT, Doble, Power Factor and CTMP tests on the
power distribution systems
•
3/99-9/99 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING, RITZ CARLTON
HOTELS, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Directly reporting to director.
• Managed 10 Multicraft Technicians; maintained and performed
corrective/preventive maintenance on HVAC systems, Lift Stations, a
345Kv power plant and inspection of all associated power
distribution/generation equipment.

06/87-02/99 ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN SUPERVISOR, EG&G,

Kennedy Space Center, Titusville., Florida
• Maintained PLC-controlled chillers (2500 ton), boilers and air
compressors at the Utility Annex. Responsible for budget
• Performed electrical preventive/corrective maintenance, calibration,
testing and QC inspection of six diesel generators (13 8Kv), Rosemont
SMARTS, Bailey Boiler controls. 21 electrician
Directly reporting to my self.
• Two electrical engineer under my supervision.
`86-87 ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN, ORLANDO UTILITIES
COMMISSION, MULTI-AMP, INC., Orlando, Florida
`85-'86 HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEER, DAVIS ELECTRIC,
Orlando, Florida START UP.
1985 HIGH VOLTAGE ELCTRICAL FOREMAN, YEARGAN
 CONSTRUCTION, Orlando, Florida
'83 - '84 ELECTRICAL FOREMAN, TRIAD ELCTRIC &
CONTROLLERS, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
'82 -'83 MAINTENANCE ELCTRICIAN, PAYNE & KELLER CO., INC.,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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78- `82 ELECTRICAL FOREMAN, GENERAL TIRE COMPANY, Mayfield,
Kentucky
'74 -'78 ELECTRICIAN, AIRCO ALLOYS STEEL MILL, Calvert City, Kentucky

EDUCATION/TRAINING
1993 Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Course, York Institute, York, PA
1992 Allen Bradley PLC-5 Course, Kennedy Space Center, FL
1991 Andover Controls Course, Kennedy Space Center, FL
1986 RAYCHEM Certified - high voltage & splicer.AUTH,LOTO.
1976 JOURMEYMAN WIREMAN CERTIFICATE I.B.E.W
1969 3 years electrical trade school, Tilghman high,
2006 OSHA 10 SAFETY & HEALTH TRAINING.
2007 SINGLE,WITH NO CHILDREN.

REFERENCES.
MIKE HOLOMAN 386-295-3177
MASON O NEILL 352-799-0584
Jim craver 270-556-0295