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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
Has 18 years experience in various aspects of Control and Automation projects including Design, Implementation, application development, FAT, SAT, Commissioning, Trouble shooting etc on various types of DCS/ESD systems.
Project Management activities such as Planning, Scheduling, Resource Allocation, Progress Reporting, Invoicing & other commercial issues, Procurement & Expediting, Sub Contracting, Staging and Acceptance Testing, Packing & Forwarding, Documentation etc.
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, application building,HMI development, system integeration,commissioning 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.
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
Oct 2008 to Jan 2009 Honeywell Middle East, Abudhabi
Oct '2005 to Oct 2008 ABB Energy Automation, Abu DhabiProject Manager
2002-2005 Invensys Middle East, DubaiSenior Project Engineer
1998-2002 Invensys India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, IndiaManager – Projects
1996-1998 TATA Honeywell, Pune, IndiaDy Mgr Projects – Exports Division
1996 Foxboro Intercontinental, DubaiSystems Engineer
1994-1996 ABB, Bangalore, IndiaAsst Manager –Projects
1991-1994 TATA Honeywell, Pune, IndiaSr engineer – Customer Support
1988-1991 Taylor Instruments Co (I) Ltd, Chennai, IndiaSales / Service Engineer
Professional Experience
Oct 2008 to Jan 2009 Honeywell M.E., Abu Dhabi
Bourouge-1 Petrochemicals Final Acceptance coordination and implementation using TDC3000 systems
Oct 2005 to Oct 2008 ABB Energy Automation, Abu Dhabi
Project Execution of Turn key projects.
Completed 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.
Job involved site survey, Detailed Engineering (P&ID markup, Cause & Effect, I/O Lists, Installation drawings) and several other detailed documents.
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
Was responsible for all commercial /Technical activities, procurement, payment followup, vendor negotiation, Customer KOM, Generation of FDS, BOM, System Architecture, Logic, Panel drawings etc
Building application logic in composer, Plantguard toolkit and PPB, system integration 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, Generating of FDS, BOM, Panel drawings etc Building application logic in composer and PPB, system integration etc
2002-2005 Invensys Middle East, Dubai
Project execution for Industrial Automation related for TRICONEX Emergency shutdown system and Fire & Gas safety systems.
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.
1998-2002 Invensys India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
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.
Software development using Veritas Clustering, System software with Devices using C and VC++ with Oracle and SQL-Server databases with replication configured was implemented.
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
Cable schedule preparation, JB design and selection
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 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 Application Module. More than 200 programs written.
* LG Honeywell Korea for FAT support for DCS system for PP plant for Philips Petroleum
* Site survey for Honeywell US at Trinidad and Tobago for Revamp job
Previous Assignments
1996 Foxboro Intercontinental DubaiCommissioning Engineer at North Field Bravo for Qatar Gas for DCS systems
1994-1996 ABB, Bangalore, IndiaAsst Manager –Projects* ABB MOD300 and Advant DCS project execution and systems engineeringProject 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, IndiaSr engineer – Customer Support* TDC3000 site audits* Upgrades* Commissioning * Was Honeywell Technical Assistance Center 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
Has Orifice design experience and single loop controllers configuration and commissioning.
Commissioned Boiler packages, MOD300 DCS and MOD 30 SLPC's
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
HMI: Wonderware
OPC: Matrikon
Technical Field Instruments
Field Instrument: Transmitter selection, Temp elements, P&ID hookups, Orifice plate 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)
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