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Professional objective
Research and Development
Career highlights
* 2.3 years of research and development experience in upstream energy services
* Strong background in the areas of reaction engineering, computational fluid dynamics, experimental fluid mechanics and mathematical modeling.
* Flair to lead teams and have less than a year of experience in building and guiding team.
* Excellent problem solving, interpersonal, mentoring, presentation and communication skills.
Professional summary
Technical Professional (Engineering Team Lead)
Drilling Fluid Services,
Halliburton Technology India Private Ltd., Pune, March '07 - to date
Job responsibilities
* Develop, evaluate and execute strategies related to drilling operations
* Mentoring team members
* Ensure on time project completion
* Maintain ISO records for all projects
* Incorporates reliability, service quality and project management techniques in all job processes
Projects
* CFD model for mud cake removal
* Mathematical model for transient multiple fluids heat transfer.
* Strategies to drill and circulate fluids in well geometries having narrow annulus.
* Optimization of selection criteria for Lost circulation material
* Development of Rheology modifier
Training & affiliations:
* Completed training on "Petroleum Technology", organized by Halliburton Training & Excellence Centre, Malaysia, August - 2007.
* Completed "WellCAP" IADC Well Control Accreditation Program, organized by Halliburton Technology Centre, Houston, April-2008.
* Completed training on "Drilling Fluids Technology", organized by Halliburton Training Centre, Houston, May-2008.
* Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2008
Education
* Doctor of Philosophy, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, March-2007.
* Master of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, June-2002.
* Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Bharathidasan University, May-2000.
Research publications
* S. Sriram, M. Harini, Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Variation of spatial and temporal characteristics of reactive flow in a periodically driven cavity: Gelation of sodium acrylate" Physical Rev. E, 78, 2008.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Characterization of viscoelastic fluid flow in a periodically driven cavity: flow structure, frequency response and phase lag" Polymer Engineering Science, 2008.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Analysis of spatio-temporal variations and flow structures in a periodically driven cavity," Journal of Fluids Engineering, ASME, v 128, 3, pp. 413-420, 2006.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Experimental and computational investigation of kinematic mixing in a periodically driven Cavity," Advances in Fluid Mechanics VI, WIT transactions on Engineering Sciences, v 52, pp. 101-111, 2006
Technical presentation & proceedings
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Flows in periodically driven cavity: Flow structures and mixing behaviour of Newtonian, Visco-elastic and reacting fluids", International Conference of Polymer Processing, May-2007, Beijing, China.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, E. G. Tulapurkara, "Experimental and Computational investigation of flow in a periodically driven cavity", International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Jan-2007, Miami.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Experimental and Computational investigation of kinematic mixing in a periodically driven Cavity," Advances in Fluid Mechanics-2006, Greece.
* Harini, M., S. Sriram, Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "PIV measurements of flow of reacting gels in periodically driven cavities," MACRO - 2006, National Chemical laboratory, Pune, India.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Flow structures and mixing analysis of a Newtonian fluid in a Periodically-driven cavity," CHEMCON-2005, Delhi.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, E. G. Tulapurkara, "Flow in a three dimensional cubical cavity with oscillating lid using Particle Image Velocimetry," National Conference on Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Power, Dec-2005, Osmanabad, India.
* Sriram, S., Abhijit P. Deshpande and S. Pushpavanam, "Experimental Study of Annular Flow of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluid using Particle Image Velocimetry," CHEMCON-2003, Bhubaneswar, India. (Awarded Best paper presentation in the Instrumentation and Process Control session)
Software Skills
Operating Systems: Windows
Languages: FORTRAN
Graphics: MS Excel, Sigma plot, Origin
Packages: MS Office, MATHEMATICA, MATHCAD, MATLAB.
CFD Software: Gambit 2.0, FLUENT 5.0/6.0/6.2
Domain Specific Tools: Drilling Fluid Hydraulics, WELLCAT, WELLPLAN
Extra-curricular Activities
* Served as Sports Secretary at IIT Kanpur and organized sports events.
* Represented Cricket team for Inter-Hostel tournaments.
* Performed in college orchestra and won many prizes as a singer.
References
Available upon request
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