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I am a First Class graduate in Metallurgical Engineering, with business management, having held various senior technical, managerial & general management positions. I have led multi-disciplinary projects execution & management, in the Design, Engineering, Consultancy, Contracting, EPC, Project management, beside operations & maintenance of process plants for Metals, Mineral processing & Mining industries. I have in depth appreciation of national and international business environment in these industries.
More than three decades of professional career in the base metals mining and metallurgical engineering industry working on more than thirty multi – disciplinary Green field/ Brown field/ De-bottlenecking/ Expansion/ Performance improvement projects – from concept to commissioning and Operations & Maintenance of process plants in India and overseas. This experience includes:
* More than 22 years in consulting – management & engineering, projects execution – from concept to commissioning, due diligence, financial & economic appraisals, preparation of Site Selection/ Process Selection / Scoping studies/ Bankable Feasibility reports, technology selection & absorption, market surveys, EPC, Project Management, procurement, contract management, construction, and commissioning of zinc, lead, cadmium, gold, silver, copper, cobalt, nickel, tin, titanium sponge, Cast copper rod plants, Cement, hydrated & quick lime plants, and Natural Gas – Piped / CNG supply and distribution systems. I have been rewarded with number of appreciation letters & rewards for executing projects within budget and ahead of time schedule.
* More than 12 years in operations & maintenance, PPC, technology & process audits, benchmarking, budgeting & cost control, including six years as Assistant Plant Manager working in Zinc & Lead Smelters and associated Pyro & Hydro Metallurgical process plants, Sulphuric acid, Mercury Removal and fertilizer & phosphoric acid plants operations. I have been rewarded with appreciation letters for trouble shooting during breakdowns and reviving back the plant into operation within the shortest period and highest productivities/ productions achievement during operations. I was also associated with the execution and commissioning of a pioneer Environmental Mercury removal project right from the discovery of mercury in the smelter's Sulfur dioxide off-gases utilized for the manufacture of Sulphuric acid at the Zinc Smelter Hydro metallurgical plant.
I have visited numbers of Pyro & Hydro metallurgical process based smelters & beneficiation plants for Lead, Zinc, Cadmium, Silver, Copper & Cobalt Solvent extraction & Electro win plant (SX-EW), Sulphuric acid, Mercury Removal & Recovery, Silver & Gold Refineries, Secondary Copper Refineries & Continuous Copper rod plants (CCR), abroad in Norway, France, Oman, Central Africa - DR Congo, and USA.
I have also been empanelled as an Independent Director by ONEID – Institute of Directors, India.
I have represented governing councils of Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), and Consulting Engineers Association of India (CEAI) – both an associate of FIDIC. I am also a member of CDC.
I have also served as Honorary Treasurer/ Secretary/ Joint Secretary, etc., of Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and organized number of International Seminars/ Conferences/ Exhibitions on Metallurgy, Metals & Minerals.
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