Profile: Phil
Black
Phil has
over 23 years experience with electrical, instrumentation, and design
in Mining, Cogeneration, Petrochemical, Aerospace, Waste Incineration,
and Materials Handling. He worked industrial construction throughout
the 80s with TIC, the Industrial Company of Steamboat Springs.
With TIC he gained expertise in installation, PLC programming,
supervision, design, and project start-up as well as experience commissioning on dozens
of different project sites. In 1988 Phil began working for Hercules
Aerospace Facilities Engineering and helped with design, installation,
PLC programming, and engineering field support on the Bacchus West Facility.
In 1990 Phil was employed by Ford, Bacon, and Davis
Engineers until 1995 and then with CEntry Constructors and
Engineers until 1998. During this time, he helped with project design,
field engineering support, and plant automation on numerous projects
and sites including Flying J's Opto 22 and Wonderware DCS system. He
has been involved in automation efforts on various projects since 1991 and
has worked on many DCS and PLC systems including Honeywell TCD-3000
and AB PLCs. He enjoys the outdoors and music in his spare time.