Kenny M. Taylor

8615 Pleasant Lane

Austin, Texas 78754
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Professional Objective

As a Chief Engineer I will provide team leadership - providing opportunity to share my knowledge and experience and develop Energy Star properties for Green leadership. This will align with the owners organizational and budgetary goals for better efficiency and will promote development of engineering staff and their professional growth.

Qualifications Profile:

Engineering Manager/Chief Engineer of facilities for 22+ years: Experience and related skills include:

Experience / Skills:

-Facilities management of high-rise and low-rise commercial office buildings

-Central Plant operations and maintenance (Chillers, boilers, cooling towers, pumps, etc.)

-Self-contained A/C Unit operation and maintenance

-Water treatment management

-High-rise life safety management

-Facility Indoor Air Quality management

-Facility Energy management

-Facility preventive maintenance management

-Tenant request and response management

-Equipment efficiency management

-Safety management

-Refrigerant management

-Hazardous waste management

-Critical parts management

-Contract bidding and selection

-Attention to details and quality management

-Code compliance

-Construction management

-Building Automation

-Air flow balancing

-Water flow balancing


Computer skills:

-Microsoft Excel

-Lotus 123

-Lotus Notes

-Microsoft Word

-Microsoft Outlook

-AWARE Manager (CMMS)

-CorrigoNet (CMMS)

-Angus Anywhere (CMMS)

-Micrographx Designer

-Siemens Apogee Building Control Programming

-Trane Tracer Summit Building Controls

-SAP (Spiridon)

-Yardi Accounting System




Administration:

-Personnel management

-Training and development of staff

-Year-end reviews of subordinates

-Maintenance and utility account management

-Work order management

-Tenant utilities and HVAC bill back management

-Utility tracking and variance reporting

-Facility budgeting for maintenance and utilities

-Development and implementation of facility capital expenditures

-Preventive maintenance records and procedures

-Project payback analyses

-Reconciliation of customer service contract performance

-Project management


Education:

Systems Maintenance Administrator (SMA), 1987

BOMI (BOMA), Houston, TX




License:

-2nd Grade Stationary Engineer City of Houston, TX


Highlights of Accomplishments / Strengths:

-Earned the EPAs Energy Star award for 501 Congress, built in 1961.

-Earned the EPAs Energy Star award for 515 Congress, built in 1975.

-Earned the EPAs Energy Star award for 401 Congress, built in 2004.

-Served as Southwest Regional Coordinator for Hines Energy Star program and assisted in earning the EPAs Energy Star Sustained Excellence award.

-Performed Engineering due diligence prior to purchase of 501 Congress and developed a 5 year capital expenditure outlay.

-Researched and supervised lighting retrofit resulting in 40 percent electrical savings in lighting consumption at no cost to the property due to obtaining a rebate.

-Researched and supervised plumbing fixture retrofit resulting in a 68 percent savings in water and wastewater and obtained a 23 percent rebate.

-Researched and supervised 920 ton chiller replacement / retrofit resulting in an average $4,000.00 per month savings in electricity.

-Researched and supervised the installation of variable frequency drives (VFD's) on cooling tower fan motors and reduced their energy consumption 50 percent.

-Developed internal insulation system to improve Indoor Air Quality for air handling units upon which mold will not grow. This system is now utilized, where applicable, throughout the firm of Hines.

-Developed method, using existing chillers and pumps, of free cooling in winter which delays or prevents operation of cooling equipment.

-Developed program code in the building control system to dynamically calculate outdoor heat index which is now utilized by Siemens Building Controls Division.

-Have written the following program codes in the building control systems:

Chilled water reset based on indoor enthalpy.

Cooling tower fan VFD control based on outdoor wet bulb temperature.

Dynamic chiller efficiency and heat balance.

Peak electrical demand limiting sequences.

Start and stop sequences of multiple equipment using one automatic input.

Static pressure setpoint reset based on highest damper position of multiple zones.

Supply air setpoint reset based on highest zone temperature deviation of multiple zones.

Air handling unit VFD speed reset based on leaving chilled water setpoint deviation.

-Assisted in designing Excel spreadsheet to track facility utility consumption, allowing facilities of varying sizes to be correctly compared.

-Designed Excel spreadsheet to bill back tenants for after-hours HVAC at actual cost per hour and fixed cost per hour.

-Designed Excel spreadsheet to bill back tenants for metered and estimated above standard energy usage.

-Designed Excel spreadsheet to calculate actual retrofitted chiller energy savings monthly.

-Resolved numerous 38 year old temperature control issues within one week after purchase of 501 Congress reducing temperature related calls to an average of two per month.

-Reduced electrical consumption at 501 Congress by 271,000 KWH, or $25,000.00, within the first year of new ownership/operation by changing Central Plant operations, while occupancy stayed the same, and tenant comfort improved.

-Designed a means to shut off fan-powered VAV boxes in cooling mode.

-Interpreted and converted SAP software numerical service codes into laymans terms and created a spreadsheet including allocated service hours for each service contract for the technicians under my responsibility.


Professional Experience

2008 to 2008
-Siemens Building Technologies

1835-B Kramer Lane
Austin, Texas 78758

-Service Account Engineer Managing performance and financials of service for fire alarm and automation contracts. Managed a service territory from Waco to San Marcos.

2007 to 2008
-ABM Engineering Services (Contracting to Thomas Properties Group)

401 Congress Avenue

Austin, Texas 78701

-Chief Engineer of Frost Bank Tower Class A high-rise office tower (33 stories; 542,000 sq ft; 515 ft tall)

2005 to 2007
-Cousins Properties, Incorporated

401 Congress Avenue

Austin, Texas 78701

-Chief Engineer of Frost Bank Tower Class A high-rise office tower (33 stories; 542,000 sq ft; 515 ft tall)

2005 to 2005
-ABM Engineering Services - (Contracting to Opus West Management Corp.)

101 E Old Settlers Boulevard

Round Rock, Texas 78664

-Chief Engineer of Crystal Park Plaza and Crystal Park Industrial complex consisting of one low-rise commercial office building (2 stories; 60,000 sq ft) and five low-rise industrial buildings (2 stories each; 800,000 sq ft combined).

2004 to 2005
-T. Stacy & Associates

515 Congress Avenue

Austin, Texas 78701

-Chief Engineer of Bank of America Center, consisting of one high-rise office tower, 515 Congress (26 stories; 290,618 sq ft; 315 ft tall), and one low-rise office building, 501 Congress (5 stories; 121,677 sq ft).


1987 to 2004
-Hines Interests Limited Partnership

515 Congress Avenue

Austin, Texas 78701

-Engineering Manager of Bank of America Center, consisting of one high-rise office tower, 515 Congress (26 stories; 290,618 sq ft; 315 ft tall), and one low-rise office building, 501 Congress (5 stories; 121,677 sq ft).


1984 to 1987
-Hines Interests Limited Partnership

2800 Post Oak Boulevard (Hines Corporate Headquarters)

Houston, Texas 77056

-2nd Grade Stationary Engineer at Transco Tower (now Williams Tower) (65 stories; 1,200,000 sq ft; 907 ft tall)


Excellent references upon request