Raymond Cultura
Extruded Process Technician - Australasian Experimental Stockfeed Extrusion Centre (AESEC)
Areas of expertise:
Raymond has 14 years industrial experience in the operation of mixing and milling equipment for the manufacture of feed. Raymond’s areas of expertise include the installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of a range of feed manufacturing machinery including:
• Wenger extruder: X 20, X 185, X 185b, TX 144, and Universal Pellet Cooker
• Californian Pellet Mill
• Wenger dryers (model V & Vl), and coolers
• Wenger pneumatic conveyors and blowers
• Champion and VanArsen hammer mills, rollers and crumblers
• Ribbon type horizontal mixers
• Atlas screw type compressors
• Fat coaters, feed crumblers, coolers
• Mechmar, Minster and Enertech boilers systems
• Norvidan batching systems
• Flat type conveyors and bucket elevators
• JCB loaders, forklifts etc.
Countries of work experience:
Australia, Philippines.
Experience:
Raymond's previous positions include working for Feedmix Specialist Incorporated in the Philippines and as a Senior Plant Operator / Maintenance with Gilmac Pty Ltd, Western Australia. Raymond was employed by Feedmix Specialist Incorporated to commission, operate and maintain a range of machinery associated with a high heat treatment extrusion (Wenger X 185) process in a feed mill in the Philippines.
Raymond also has extensive knowledge in operating and programming computer systems, and a range of systems required for the operation of a feed mill including pneumatic, hydraulic and industrial control operation systems and hydraulic power unit systems.
Qualifications:
2008 Meralco Foundation Incorporated, Manila, Philippines, Pneumatic Industrial Control (Instrumentation), Hydraulic Industrial Control (Instrumentation).
2008 Work Safe Western Australia, Australia, License to Perform High Risk Work (Forklift).
2007 Technical Education Skills Development Authority, Bulacan, Philippines
Industrial Electrician (Motor Controls).
1986 – 1994 Technological Institute of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering.
Professional appointments:
2009 – Present: Extruded Process Technician Australasian Experimental Stockfeed Extrusion Centre
SARDI Aquatic Sciences, South Australia, Australia.
2007 – 2009: Machine Operator/Maintenance, Gilmac Pty Ltd., Western Australia.
2005 – 2006: Piping Engineer/Inspector/Mechanical Commissioning Technician
Energy Investment Co. Ltd., Abu Dhabi, UAE.
1994 – 2005: Mechanical/Site Engineer/ Plant Supervisor/ Assistant Production Manager, Feedmix Specialist Incorporated, Philippines.
1992 – 1993: Maintenance, First Solid Rubber Industries Inc., Philippines.
1989 – 1990: Maintenance/ Mechanic / Operator, Compressed Air Machineries and Equipment Corporation, Philippines.