Luke Reznecheck

About Luke Reznecheck

Strong knowledge of automation, industrial process engineering, plant operations, and project management. Has participated in plant commissioning efforts several times in various roles of controls engineer programmer, lead, and SME. Designed and programmed control logic, operator interfaces, communication network links, instrumentation installation details, instrument loop drawings. Enjoys constantly learning new things about project management, plant processes, and automation.Currently licensed as a Professional Engineer in the states of Minnesota.

Experience

1. Lead Automation Engineer

   Cargill

   Apr 2020 — Present · Wayzata, MN, US

   Support the Ag & Trading North America (previously the CASC, GEOS, and CBI NA) businesses as an automation specialist and am guiding IT/OT discussions and direction. I primarily work with automation applications from ISA 95 Levels 1-3. This includes PLC and HMI programming best practices, internal object library maintenance, alarm rationalization & management, state-based control implementation, High Performance graphic standards and implementation. I am supporting plants with Rockwell PLCs, DeltaV, iFIX, FactoryTalk View, and Ignition. I am also heavily involved with administration for our OSI PI Data historians across my supported sites which includes 27 PI Data Archives with nearly 2 million tags in them. Data historian management includes aligning security access, tag cleanups for configuration alignment, lifecycle oversight, and site architecture review. Operational Technology (OT) components that I am provide guidance on are reviewing network architectures, fiber layouts, server system configuration and virtualization, application architectures, and triage support for the aforementioned items.

Education

• Dordt University

  Bachelor of Science, Engineering ­- Mechanical Emphasis; Chemistry Minor; Physics Minor

  2008 — 2012