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Degree Obtained: Instrumentation Engineering
Date of Birth 29/6/1966
University: Birla Institute of Technology Science, Pilani, India.
Year of Passout: 1988.
Career Profile
An experienced senior professional with over 18 years of experience in technical, project and general management obtained both in India and overseas for a range of organizations mainly in the Instrumentation and controls environment.
Experience in all aspects of Control & Automation design activities e.g. finalizing DCS/ESD and PLC Specifications, Fire & Gas Systems, Control Room Layout, Control and Shutdown philosophies, Loop drawings, Graphic Displays, Cause & Effect, Functional Logic Diagrams, Relay Diagrams, E/I Interfaces, Layout of Control panels & Auxiliary Room Cabinets, field RTUs, DCS/SCADA I/O listing, Detailed design & preparation of specifications for all types of Field instruments, Instrument Index, Instrument layout, JB drawings etc
Hand on experience in systems and application developments of several different DCS vendors and has done very complex applications including Level-3 automation with redundant servers and brokers. Experience in OPC servers and interfaces.
Well versed in International standards such as API, ISA, and IEC etc and in hazardous area instrumentation and design.
Conversant with SIL calculation for loop, IEC 61508 & IEC 61511 standards.
Was ABB Abu Dhabi IEC 61511 standards implementation Manager for safety systems
Third Party data control and drawing approval, co-ordination with client and other disciplines, site visits to collect existing data and extend construction and commissioning support etc.
Certified as TUV Certified Functional Safety Engineer (Safety instrumented systems) conducted by RISKNOWLOGY, Amsterdam in April 2007.
Career Summary
Mar 2009 to Aug 2009 Exterran, India
Oct 2008 to Jan 2009 Honeywell Middle East, Abudhabi
Oct '2005 to Oct 2008 ABB Energy Automation, Abu Dhabi
Project Manager
2002-2005 Invensys Middle East, Dubai
Lead Engineer
1998-2002 Invensys India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
Manager – Projects
1996-1998 TATA Honeywell, Pune, India
Dy Mgr Projects – Exports Division
1996 Foxboro Intercontinental, Dubai
Systems Engineer
1994-1996 ABB, Bangalore, India
Asst Manager –Projects
1991-1994 TATA Honeywell, Pune, India
Sr engineer – Customer Support
1988-1991 Taylor Instruments Co (I) Ltd, Chennai, India
Sales / Service Engineer
Professional Experience
Mar 2009 to Aug 2009 Exterran India
Control system Architecture and specifications for EPC activities.
Oct 2008 to Jan 2009 Honeywell M.E., Abu Dhabi
Designation: Technical Manager
Bourouge-1 Petrochemicals Final Acceptance coordination and implementation using TDC3000 systems consisting of LCN, GUS, PLC Gateway, NIM, HPM modules.
Oct 2005 to Oct 2008 ABB Energy Automation, Abu Dhabi
Designation: Project Manager
Team Size: 10
Project Execution of Turn key projects. Totally 15M USD worth of project handled
Completed and on going projects
* Completed EPC job for ZADCO for a major Control System Revamp job
Executed revamp EPC project (Value $1M USD) for ZADCO at ARZANAH Island for water Injection Plant. It was a control system replacement project from old SPEC200 to ABB Operate IT platform using AC800F controllers. Bently Nevada procurement, configuration and Interface
Job involved site survey, Detailed Engineering (P&ID markup, Cause & Effect, I/O Lists, Installation drawings) and several other detailed documents such as Cable tray layout, Instrument Hookup, Instrument Index, Datasheets etc.,
System related tasks such as Configuration, FDS documentation; Testing, Graphics etc were successfully implemented.
Plant successfully commissioned in May 2006.
* DCS and ESD system for Toyo for Takreer, Abu Dhabi for Flare Gas Recovery
End User: Takreer
EPC Contractor: Toyo
System: Bailey Infi90 and Plantguard ESD system for Compressors of Toyo
Was responsible for all commercial /Technical activities, procurement, payment followup, vendor negotiation, Customer KOM, Generation of FDS, BOM, System Architecture, Logic, Panel drawings etc
* DCS HMI upgrade and server –client segregation for Qatar petroleum
End User: QP
System: Bailey Infi90 and Process Portal B
Responsible for all commercial /Technical activities, Design freeze, reviews, procurement, payment followup, vendor negotiation, Customer KOM, Technical followup and guidelines like reviewing FDS, BOM, Panel drawings etc
2002-2005 Invensys Middle East, Dubai
Designation: Lead Engineer
Team size: 10
Project execution for Industrial Automation related for TRICONEX Emergency shutdown system and Fire & Gas safety systems and Wonder ware.
Executed the design, engineering, erection and commissioning of ESD & F&G systems for ZADCO at Zakum offshore platform (Total of 11 systems) with hot change over including criticality assessments, hot change over methodology statements, SIL3 validation etc.
Detailed Engineering (P&ID markup, Cause & Effect, I/O Lists, Installation drawings) and several other detailed documents such as Cable tray layout, Instrument Hookup, Instrument Index, F&G Datasheets etc.
1998-2002 Invensys India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
Designation: Project Manager
Team Size: 25
Was responsible for handling all Terminal Automation projects.
Total project worth 7M USD was executed successfully.
Was responsible for budgeting, manpower planning, team building, customer relationship and profitability of the projects.
Responsibilities also included all project management activities consisting of project scheduling, costing, vendor negotiation, contractual interpretations and manpower planning, engineering reviews with customer.
IA DCS consisting of INT30, CP60, FBM's and AW51 series stations.
Also designed Windows based Control systems for BPCL r projects based on Windows 2000 Operating system. Front End designed using VC++ and serial protocol for Batch controller communications. The Servers were made redundant using Veritas and backend database based on MS Sql server which also was redundant using database replication.
Complete EPC scope of job was executed
Basic Design for Terminal
Detailed specifications for Density meters, Level Gauges, Prover systems, Batch controllers, flow meter, PD meters, Set Stop valves
Cable schedule preparation, JB design and selection, Instrument Index, Cable routing, Hookups, MTO, Datasheets
Hazardous area Instrumentation
Projects executed
Terminal Automation System for IOCL Barauni
Terminal Automation System for IOCL Kochi
Terminal Automation System for BPCL Sangrur
Terminal Automation System for BPCL Mahul
Terminal Automation System for BPCL Irugur
Terminal Automation System for Reliance Jamnagar
1996-1998 TATA Honeywell, Pune, India
Responsible for execution of Automation project in Asia Pacific region on Honeywell systems. Successful client interface, scheduling, close out (FAT) etc.
Projects Executed
* DCS (TDC3000) and ESD (Triconex) system engineering for LNG at Sonatrach Algeria for Yamatake / IHI consortium. Japan and Algeria deputation for supervision and completion. Self implemented the plant efficiency calculation and reports using TDC3000 Application Module. More than 200 programs written.
* LG Honeywell Korea for FAT support for DCS(TDC3000) system for PP plant for Philips Petroleum
* Site survey for Honeywell US at Trinidad and Tobago for Revamp job
Previous Assignments
1996 Foxboro Intercontinental Dubai
Commissioning Engineer at North Field Bravo for Qatar Gas for DCS systems (IA Series)
1994-1996 ABB, Bangalore, India
Asst Manager –Projects
* ABB MOD300 and Advant DCS project execution and systems engineering
Project Executed
* Terene Fibers India Ltd, Batch plant Automation
* FDY Plant – Reliance Patalganaga, India.
* MEG-II – Reliance Hazira, India (Triconex and ABB MOD300 Advant)
1991-1994 TATA Honeywell, Pune, India
Sr engineer – Customer Support
* TDC3000 site audits
* Upgrades
* Commissioning
* Was Honeywell TAC engineer
* Was Post commissioning support engineer for LLDPE at IPCL nagothane
* TISCO blast furnace G commissioning engineer. More than 8000 I/O's.
DCS System Site audit at China for 15 petrochemical installations.
1988-1991 Taylor Instruments co (I) Ltd, Chennai, India
Service and commissioning engineer for entire Taylor electronic and pneumatic range of instruments
Job involved selection and specification of field instruments such as Pressure Transmitters, I/P converters, Local and remote controllers, recorders and hook ups of same
Orifice plate sizing, control valve selection & sizing and single loop controller's configuration and commissioning
Commissioned Boiler packages, MOD300 DCS and MOD 30 SLPC's
* Commissioned Polybutene plant at Chennai India
* Commissioned a Fluidized bed boiler for sugar plant
* Commissioned Rotary Kiln at Burn Standard, Salem
* Commissioned Arc Furnace at Salem steels.
* Commissioned Training system at Photo Films plant
Management skills and Training
* Primavera project planner
* MS Projects
* Project Management – Key areas – 5 day course at Dubai
* TUV Certified Functional safety engineer
Technical DCS/ESD/PLC skills
DCS: Foxboro I/A, TDC3000, ABB MOD300, ABB ADVANT, Bailey Infi90, ABB AC800F with Process Portal B. Composer
ESD and F&G: Triconex, ABB Plantguard
PLC: Honeywell IPC 620 Series PLC's, GE Fanuc 90-30 series PLC's
VMS: Bently Nevada
HMI: Wonderware
Technical Field Instruments
Field Instrument: Transmitter selection, Temp elements, P&ID hookups, Orifice plate sizing, Control Valve sizing, Controller loop tuning. Hands on experience on entire Taylor range of electronic instruments.
Technical IT skills
Languages: Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, C, C++, JAVA2.0, JSP, HTML, PL/SQL, Pro*C., Delphi, ASP, XML
Database: Oracle Enterprise edition (8.0.4), SQL-Server7.0
Software Packages: Veritas for clustering, Primavera project planner, Humming Bird Exceed software, rational rose, CVS, VSS
Application Servers: Sun Ultra Sparc 30, Sun Ultra Sparc 60, SUN-Sparc 5, Compaq Proliant series, HP infinity series.
Operating Systems: Sun-Solaris, NT, WIN95, SCO-Unix
Tools: Sun C code de bugging packages.
Hardware: Sun/Compaq/HP9000
Countries visited: China, Japan, Korea, Algeria, France, Qatar, Dubai, Trinidad, Italy and USA (10 years multiple entry visa B1/B2)
List of Projects Summary
S.no Customer Type Field Company Year Supply Activity Role
1 Kothari Petrochemicals Polybutenes Petrochemical Taylor Instruments 1990 MOD300 DCS Commissioning Lead
2 Ignifliud Boilers Fluidized Boiler Paper Taylor Instruments 1991 MOD30,Taylor Transmitters,I/P converters,Field gauges, Control Valves etc Commissioning Lead
3 Wellman Incandescent Furnace steel Taylor Instruments 1991 MOD30,Taylor Transmitters,I/P converters,Field gauges, Control Valves etc Commissioning Lead
4 HPF Photo Films X-ray Photo Films Photo films Taylor Instruments 1991 MOD300 DCS Commissioning Lead
5 TATA Steel Oxygen Plant Air Honeywell 1992 IPC620 PLC Commissioning Lead
6 TATA Steel Blast Furnace Steel Honeywell 1992 TDC3000,Honeywell smart Transmitters Commissioning Lead
7 IPCL Nagothane LLDPE Petrochemical Honeywell 1993 TDC3000,Honeywell smart Transmitters Commissioning Lead
8 Reliance FDY Petrochemical ABB 1994 ABB Advant DCS Projects Lead
9 Reliance Black Polymer Special Chemicals ABB 1995 ABB Advant DCS Projects Lead
10 Reliance MEG-2 Petrochemical ABB 1996 ABB Advant DCS / Triconex ESD Projects PM
11 Qatar Gas Platform Oil&Gas Foxboro 1996 Foxboro I/A DCS,Foxboro Field Transmitters Commissioning
12 IHI/Sonatrach/Yamatake LNG Oil&Gas Honeywell 1997 TDC3000,Tricnonex Projects Lead
13 IOCL Barauni Terminal Petrochemical Invensys 1998 Foxboro I/A DCS, Allen Bradley PLC, Rosemount Transmitters, Density meters, Flow meters, Ex. jb'S, Control Valves, cables etc Turnkey EPC Lead
14 IOCL Kochi Terminal Petrochemical Invensys 1999 Foxboro I/A DCS,GE Fanuc PLC,Rosemount Transmitters,Density meters,Flow meters, Ex jb'S,Valves,cables etc Turnkey EPC PM
15 BPCL Sangrur Terminal Petrochemical Invensys 2000 HP Servers, GE Fanuc PLC,Wonderware & field instruments Turnkey EPC PM
16 Reliance JAMNAGAR Terminal Refinery Invensys 2001 Post commissioning close out Post commissioning PM
17 ZADCO,UAE Platform Oil&Gas Invensys 2002 Triconex ESD and F&G, GM Flame,Toxic,Gas detectors,sounders,Beacons, smoke detectors Turnkey EPC Lead
18 ZADCO,UAE Offshore Oil&Gas ABB 2005 ABB AC80F DCS, Process Portal B, Bently Nevada VMS Turnkey EPC PM
19 Takreer, UAE Offsites Refinery ABB 2006 ABB Infi90 DCS, ABB Plantguard ESD Projects PM
20 QP,Maseeid,Qatar Gas processing NGL ABB 2008 ABB Infi90 DCS Projects PM
21 BIPC Olefins, Iran Petrochemicals Petrochemicals ABB 2007 ABB Conductor NT, AC800F Projects PM
22 Bourouge Petrochemicals Petrochemicals Petrochemicals Honeywell 2009 TDC3000,LCN,GUS,HPM Projects TM
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