Richard Paes

Experienced technical professional with a proven track record of delivering effective solutions to enhance operational efficiency. Valued for emphasis on team collaboration and ability to achieve tangible results. Recognized for adaptability, reliability, and specialized skill set in troubleshooting and optimizing systems.

During the course of my career, have been involved in and led projects which were key to the success of the Rockwell Automation Medium Voltage Business. Notable projects were

First liquid cooled drive which was designed in the Cambridge facility. The successful completion and implementation of this drive for Shell Canada ensured the continued manufacturing of the Medium Voltage drive and success of the MV Drive Business

Application engineering lead supporting the development of the PowerFlex 7000 MV Drive product. This was an innovative drive design was a leading edge product introduced in 2000 and remains in production to this day in 2025

Development of the design which won the CNOOC Bohai Bay project. A project which involved about 300 PF7000 MV Drives on FPSOs deployed in the South China Sea. The design concept which was superior to any competing offerings. The magnitude of the project led to several years of production in our Cambridge MV facility.

• John, Kay, jakay@rockwellautomation.com, 1 (519) 740-4734, Rockwell Automation
• Frank, Dewinter, fadewinter@ieee.org, 1 (724) 472 7392, Siemens
• Bill, Lockley, lockleyb@telusplanet.net, 1 403 239 2164, Lockley Engineering
• Myron, Bell, myronbell@shaw.ca, 1 403 875 4255, Syncrude – retired

• Chair of the Large Adjustable Speed Drive Standard IEEE1566
• Past Chair of IEEE IAS PCIC Transportation Subcommittee
• Past Chair of the IEEE IAS PCIC Marine Subcommittee
• IEEE IAS Senior Member
• OACETT - Certified Engineering Technologist
• APEGA - Professional Licensee – Engineering - PL (Eng)

• Patent 1995 - SyncPro synchronous motor protection and field application relay
• Author of approximately 50 IEEE papers – a few examples are given below
• IEEE PCIC-94-26 paper “Harmonic Torque Considerations of Applying a 6000HP Induction Motor and Drive to a High Speed Compressor” - authored for and presented at the Vancouver conference 1994
• IEEE PCIC-99-33 paper “Methods for the Control of Large Medium Voltage Motors; Application Considerations and Guidelines” – authored for and presented at the San Diego conference 1999
• IEEE PCIC-2000-31 paper “Maximizing Large Drive Availability” authored for and presented at the San Antonio conference 2000.
• FIELD ORIENTED CONTROL OF A SYNCHRONOUS DRIVE D. Beliaev, A. Weinger - Rockwell Automation, Russia R. Paes, S. Weigel – Rockwell Automation, Canada
• A Guide to Matching Medium-Voltage Drive Topology to Petrochemical Applications Navid R. Zargari, Fellow, IEEE, Zhongyuan Cheng, Member, IEEE, and Richard Paes , Senior Member, IEEE
• Discrete-time SMO based Sensorless Control of CSC-fed PMSM Drives with Low Sampling Frequency U Ding and Yun Wei Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Navid R. Zargari, Medium Voltage R&D Department, Rockwell Automation Cambridge, Canada Richard Paes, Global Industry Technical Consultant, Oil & Gas, Rockwell Automation, Calgary, Canada
• Sensor-less Control of CSC-fed PMSM Drives with Low Switching Frequency for Electrical Submersible Pump Application Li Ding, Member, IEEE, Yun Wei Li, Fellow, IEEE, Navid R. Zargari, Fellow, IEEE, and Richard Paes, Senior Member, IEEE
• OPTIMIZED PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR CONTROL FOR ELECTRIC SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS USING LV ASDs Richard Paes, Tim Rowan, Semyon Royak, Jingbo Liu - Rockwell Automation