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Daniel R. Meigs, PE
Education
- M.S., Electric Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1988
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan,
1985
Professional Registration
- 1993 / Electrical Engineer / New Mexico / 12151
Memberships
- American Consulting Engineers Council (ACEC)
- American Water Works Association (AWWA)
- American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems
Society
Employment History
March 1996 - Present:
Timberline Engineering, Inc.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Principal Engineer
January 1991 – February 1996:
Leedshill-Herkenhoff, Inc. (now ASCG, Inc.)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Control Systems Engineer
January 1987 – December 1990:
Motorola Government Electronics Group
Scottsdale, Arizona
Electrical Engineer
Presentations and Publications
Other
- Born, Hutchinson, Kansas
- Resident, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Since 1991
General Overview
Dan has more than 15 years of broad practical experience
in Electrical Engineering. He is presently a Principal Engineer with
responsibility for system evaluation, analysis and design as well as Vice
President of Technology, with overall responsibility for design, development,
and operation of Timberline’s information systems. He has expertise in
system engineering including needs assessment, requirements definition,
alternative analysis, functional decomposition, system design description,
quantitative and risk-based decision analysis, system specification, testing,
and construction observation. Dan has applied this expertise to the design
of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, telemetry
and telecommunications systems, and security systems.
Dan
has designed and implemented web-enabled database technology for SCADA
system design and Configuration Management for construction support. These
tools are currently used by the Kauai, Milpitas, and Sweetwater project
teams for design and project management.
Technical Overview
As
a Principal Engineer, Dan has been involved in all SCADA and Security
projects at Timberline. Dan focused on computer system design in his master’s
program before working for Motorola as a systems engineer on the product
design team responsible for the Sectel 1500 secure telephone. In this
assignment, Dan gained valuable experience in the design of systems involving
embedded real time software. Dan has built on this systems engineering
background as a consulting engineer designing SCADA systems for water
utility applications, telemetry and telecommunications systems, and security
systems.
Dan’s
SCADA system experience has spanned the evolution of SCADA from closed,
proprietary systems on VMS computers through open systems based on commercial
off-the-shelf products such as PLCs and Windows-based software to wide
area network-based information systems designed to support the information
needs of an enterprise in addition to their basic control functions. Through
these SCADA designs Dan has developed an understanding of radio telemetry
issues, computer system design issues, local and wide area networking.
Dan’s
security experience began with a three-year, full-time involvement in
security system planning and conceptual design for Los Alamos National
Laboratory. This involvement provided Dan with both formal and informal
training in many aspects of security system operations and planning. Through
this training, he gained an understanding of threat assessment, vulnerability
analysis, physical security system design, perimeter and interior intrusion
detection and assessment system design, access control system design,
video surveillance system design, security alarm response, information
security, technical security countermeasures, chemical and biological
weapons detection and protection, force protection measures in building
design.
Project Listings
SCADA Projects
The following are examples of projects representing Dan’s
technical experience in SCADA system design.
- Kauai Department of Water, County
of Kauai, Lihue, Kauai, HI: Phase 1 and 2 SCADA System Study, Design
and Construction Support Services.
- City of Milpitas, Milpitas, CA: Phase I, II, and III Water/Wastewater/Stormwater
Utility SCADA Study, Design and Construction Support Services
- Sweetwater Authority, Chula
Vista, CA: SCADA System Study and Phase 1 and 2 Design and Construction
Support Services.
- Public Service Company of New Mexico Water Services, Santa Fe, NM:
SCADA / Telemetry System Study, Design and Construction Support Services.
- Sacramento County Water Agency, Sacramento, CA: SCADA System Design
and Construction Support Services.
- Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., Elko, NV: SCADA System Expansion
Design and Construction Support Services.
- University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
NM: Water SCADA and Equipment Surveillance System Design and Construction
Support Services.
- Farmington Septage Receiving Facility, Farmington, NM: Database Programming
in Support of Process Control System.
- City of Modesto, Modesto, CA: Water SCADA/Telemetry System Design
and Construction Support Services.
- City of Pleasanton, CA: SCADA Strategic Planning Studies.
- City of Hollister, CA: SCADA System Conceptual Design and Telemetry
Study.
Communications Projects
The following are examples of projects representing Dan’s
technical experience in communications and telemetry system design.
- US Forest Service, San Juan National Forest: Fire Dispatch radio coverage
analysis assessments (17 sites).
- Los Alamos County, Los Alamos NM: Utility Microwave Alternatives Study.
- Ducks Unlimited, Inc., Rancho Cordova, CA: Stillwater National Wildlife
Refuge Telemetry.
- Los Alamos County, Los Alamos, NM: SCADA Radio Telemetry Study, Design,
and Licensing Services.
- Public Utilities Commission / Hetch Hetchy Water & Power, City
& County of San Francisco, Moccasin, CA: SCADA/Telemetry System
Study.
- Placer County Water Agency, Auburn, CA: SCADA Radio Telemetry Study,
Design, and Construction Support Services.
- Mohave Community College, Kingman, AZ: Path Engineering for Microwave
Video Network Upgrade.
- City of Rio Rancho, NM: Lift Station Telemetry System Design &
Construction Support Services.
- Navajo Agricultural Products Industry, Farmington, NM: SCADA and
Communication Support Services.
Security Projects
The following are examples of projects representing Dan’s
technical experience in security system planning and design.
- University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
NM: Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrades Project – Phase
II.
- University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
NM: Security System Planning and Technical Support Services.
- Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Elko, NV: Security System Planning.
Other Experience
The following are examples of other technical experience
illustrating the breadth of Dan’s background.
- Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District spread spectrum MAS radio
and SCADA system, a turnkey design-construct project which supported
a 30-mile pipeline serving users along the Front Range between Loveland
and Denver, CO, including the Carter Lake gates and flow control stations
along the pipeline.
- Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority radio-based
remote monitoring system, including rain gauges and water level sensors
at 21 flood-control dams.
- Remote telemetry and control system for the Stockton (CA) East Water
District’s Goodwin Tunnel project, including solar-powered flowmeter
station at the tunnel outlet and remote control for the tunnel inlet
gate controllers, and fiber optic cable-in-duct through the tunnel.
- Seattle Water Tolt River Valley Flood Warning System, involving fiber
optics, closed-circuit TV equipment, IR floodlights, and a replacement
siren system to warn downstream residents.
- Microwave video network design for Arizona Western College in Yuma,
AZ, including requirements analysis, map studies, site surveys, path
engineering, and specifying radio equipment, antennas, and towers, plus
preparing FCC license applications.
- Contra Costa Water District, Concord, CA radio replacement project
including interference analyses to ensure reliable communications, with
primary focus on propagation analysis, path design, and system engineering
and insuring that the new digital equipment interfaces properly with
the existing SCADA system and that cutover has minimal impact on water
system operations.
- Nextel Communications cellular radio project in Elk Grove, CA involving
RF intermodulation analyses and coordination of multiple cellular and
MAS users at a common tower site.
- Digital microwave path survey reports and RF exposure studies in the
18 and 23 GHz bands for Bell Atlantic Mobile, a cellular radio service
provider.
- Secure telephone product development for Motorola Government Electronics
Group. Primary responsibilities included embedded real-time software
design, system specification and testing, and liaison with subsystem
product team.
- Prototype design of spread spectrum satellite radio for Motorola Government
Electronics Group. Performed systems engineering and designed, constructed,
and programmed the control subsystem for a direct-sequence spread spectrum
radio receiver.
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