Omar Melo

About Omar Melo

Senior engineer with extensive experience in industrial projects in the Oil & Gas sector.…

Experience

1. Electrical Engineer

   Wood

   Aug 2017 — Present · Bogotá D.C., CO

   Support for the implementation and application of Project Management standards in the Colombia office in accordance with the company’s global standards. Monitoring risk management in the different work orders of the contract. Design action plan and WBS for the implementation of the project management office (PMO) in the framework contract. Project coordination activities with internal and external stakeholders of the electrical design for basic and detail engineering. Checking of vendor documents to verify the accomplishment of requirements. Assign work tasks and continuously monitor progress and quality over job developed by the electrical team. Ensure design compliance with relevant regulations, industry standards, and project requirements.Electrical design activities such as power system design, modeling, sizing, and analysis, developing load list summary, general single line diagrams and performing studies such as load flow, short circuit, and motor starting. Development of detailed single line diagrams including protection and control scheme. Development of control schematics and control integration for electrical substations. Development of telecom architecture for electrical systems including Scada and signal list. Sizing, and specification of electrical equipment. Electrical substation specification and design for prefabricated solutions. Design and support of the electrical team on engineering for electrical systems such as power distribution. Lighting, grounding, lightning and hazardous area classification.

Education

• Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito

  Postgraduate Degree, Project Management

  2008 — 2010

• Universidad Nacional de Colombia

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering

  1996 — 2002