Curriculum Vitae 

1.         Personal Details 

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            Date of Birth                            :           April 15, 1968 

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2.         Educational and Technical Qualification 

·         12^th class of 10+2 scheme from AICBSE with science subjects in 1^st Division in 1985. 

·         4 year Diploma in electronics technology from NITMA in 1989 securing B grade (overall 65% and above marks). 

·         Rockwell Certified Value Champion. 

3.         Industrial Training 

• Two week training at Siemens, Mumbai in PLC programming.
• One week training at L&T, Mumbai in PLC panel and software design.
• One week training at L&T, Mumbai in DC drives maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Two week capsulated course at Yokogawa Blue Star, Bangalore in receiver instrument application.
• One week training at GE Fanuc, Bangalore in PLC programming.
• Six week on job training in WonderWare programming and applications in England.
• Four week training in energy management networking systems at Bangalore.
• Two week intensive course on sales and marketing and human relations and behavior.
• One week training at Allen – Bradley in PLC programming.
• One week training at Allen – Bradley in PLC troubleshooting and maintenance.
• One week hands on training (RSTechEd) on RSI products each in 2000 to 2004.
• Two days training at Allen – Bradley on building projects and applications with sensors.
• Two week comprehensive training on all Allen – Bradley products.
• One week HOTT (Hands on Technical Training on latest technologies) in 2001, 2002 and 2003 each at Center of Excellence, Asia Pacific.
• One week “Strategic Selling” training.

4.         Professional Experience 

• Presently working as Project Engineering Manager with a European Company in Bangkok, Thailand.  This is a regional position managing a team of 60 engineers throughout the Asia Pacific.  Based out of the Regional Headquarters and reporting to the Regional Operations Manager, the job focuses on taking complete responsibility of the assigned projects in the Asia Pacific region, formation and guidance of project teams, communications with the customer and own management, timely and within budget execution of the assigned projects.  Additionally, active participation in problem solving, trouble – shooting and application software development is also part of the daily work.  The job also includes providing engineering / design services, consultancy, project management, hardware and software engineering, on – site commissioning, technical service, technical sales support and business development activities in the field of industrial automation and process control systems.  Proactive development and implementation of the above is prime.
• Worked as Senior Technical Officer (Power Group) with [snip]. (an AECOM Operating Company) at their Melbourne office between 29^th May, 2006 and 7^th August 2007.  They are a multi – disciplined engineering company serving clients in power and energy, transport engineering, advisory and planning, minerals and industry, defence and environment sectors.  My job was to program PLCs for the clients’ terminal stations.  Also I had to design control panels, write logic diagrams and control schematics.  I was preparing control mapping tables for the control and instrumentation as well as related primary and secondary equipment.  I had to prepare detailed schemes for integrating the PLCs with local HMI (Citec), RTU and remote SCADA.  Preparing detailed documentation in accordance with company’s as well as clients’ standards was also part of everyday job.
• Worked as Manager (Electrical) with [snip].  Thailand between 19^th April, 2004 and 20^th May, 2006.  They are designers and turnkey suppliers for ceramic plants, machines for agricultural industry and hospital equipment with offices and factories in Thailand, Italy, China, Iran and Hong Kong with around 90% of sales by way of export.  This position was the functional department head and prime responsibility was to design, plan and supervise production of electrical control panels within the time schedules.  The job scope included occasional interacting with customers for discussing and freezing electrical specifications and clarifying their queries.  The job responsibility also included writing PLC (Omron) programs and Touch Screen (Fuji / Omron) applications by integrating many 3^rd party equipment like AC drives (Fuji / Omron), weighing (MT) and flow (Danfoss) applications, purchase planning and starting up Ceramic factories.  Apart from this I had to supervise day to day administration, sending teams to sites and HR issues related to my team of 30 – included assistant managers, engineers and technicians.  The job also required involvement in catalogs and manual designing and providing training to customer personnel.
• Worked as head of Electrical and Automation department with [snip] Thailand between 12^th January, 2004 and 12^th April, 2004.  They are designers and manufacturers of SPMs and conveying and material handling systems with factories in Thailand, Malaysia and China and headquartered at Singapore.  The prime responsibility was to discuss the concept with the prospect / customer together with CFT’s sales personnel and supervise the costing and quote preparation.  After securing the job had to supervise the detailed engineering and drawing preparation, discuss the drawings with consultant / customer and get the drawings approved.  Supervised the manufacturing of panels / system, PLC software development, testing and inspection, installation, commissioning and after sales support at site.  Apart from this supervision of day to day administration and HR issues related to electrical team.
• Headed Control and Automation between February 1999 and 31^st December, 2003.  They are authorized engineering solutions provider for Allen – Bradley range of products.  Under my leadership, they grew with projects worth INR 4m in the first year of operations to INR 18 million at the time of my quitting.  The applications handled range from stand – alone machine automation to automation, networking and integrating the shop floor with MIS packages.  The job entailed extensive engineering, third party sourcing and integration and providing trainings (both general and customized) to customers’ as well as own staff apart from day to day office administration and personnel affairs and keeping the enterprise profitable and growing.  Also added some new ventures to the existing business.  The Company was started and I joined them before even the company was formed.  I had set the hi – tech office for the company and built the team of over 20 people in all disciplines.  I also brought in various collaborations, including Rockwell Automation, and did all the vendor development.
• Worked with [snip] Limited between 1^st January, 1998 and 31^st January, 1999 as Manager – Applications.  The job required designing panels using the new concept of clip – on type bus bar systems of [snip] and train customers on this innovative technology brought to India for the first time.  Managing day-to-day activities of the Indo – German JV’s Delhi office as the senior most executive was my additional responsibility.
• Worked with [snip] between 1^st May, 1996 and 31^st December, 1997 as Deputy Manager – Engineering.  The job required me to take care of complete execution of E&I projects taken by the company.  These included both pre-sales and post-sales activities.  In addition, I prepared the production, purchase and payment schedules besides heading company’s manufacturing unit.  The Company was started and I joined them before even the company was formed.  I set the hi – tech office and state of the art factory for the company and built the team of over 40 people in all disciplines.
• Worked with [snip] (Delhi) Private Limited between 1^st September, 1993 and 30^th April, 1996 as Project Engineer – Automation.  The job required me to design, supervise manufacturing and commission the automation and electrical panels at site.
• Worked with [snip] Limited between 27^th June, 1989 and 25^th August, 1993 as Assistant Service Engineer.  The job required me to test incoming material, assembled PCBs and DC Drive panels, commission these at site and provide after sales support.  The applications ranged from single colour offset printing machine to cold rolling mills with tension control.

During these over eighteen years of rich and extensive hands on experience, almost all projects were executed under close scrutiny and inspection of large consulting giants and project owners like EIL, PDIL, RITES, NTPC, SP Ausnet, Howe, Uhde, Holtec, Desien, Bechtel, Flour Daniel, TCE, MECON, Reliance, TCL, MRL, IFFCO, ONGC, GAIL, Emerson and the likes.  And all projects were executed well ahead of the project deadline.  These projects are well spread across the globe. 

5.         Few Well Known Projects Handled

The projects listed above are some of the 300 + projects successfully executed, well ahead of project schedule, in the past. 

6.         Software Proficiencies 

• Siemens PCS7 Version 6.
• Programming, SCADA and MMI packages of all leading brands of PLCs
• WonderWare (Intouch) and Intellution (iFix) MMI packages.
• LabView
• ACAD R14, ACAD 2004
• ePlan 5.50.3
• Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows NT
• MS Office XP / Professional
• MS Project Professional
• MS Visio for Electrical Schematics
• Maximo CMMS Package

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