TECHNICAL SUMMARY

B.E. (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) with over 14 years of technical experience in design, programming and commissioning of various makes of Industrial Automation systems:

1. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
2. Fire and Gas (F&G)Systems
3. Supervisory Control & Data Acquistion (SCADA) Systems.
4. Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)
5. Relay logic panels, signal conditioners, communication protocols and instrumentation.
6. Working for a Control Systems Integrator in Dubai since 1996. Executed PLC/SCADA design, build and integration for over 37 projects for customers in diverse sectors – petroleum, natural gas, aluminum, electricity and water, waste water, district cooling and conveyor systems.
7. Good computing skills and knowledge of networking, routing, operating systems, basic programming and ethical hacking.

EDUCATION

B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal 576119, Karnataka State, India
Mangalore University
1991-1995

Higher Secondary Education (Pre-University)
Mar Thoma Residential School, Thiruvalla 689107, India
Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi
1989-1991

School Education
Mar Thoma Residential School, Thiruvalla 689107, India
Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi
1979 - 1989

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cimac FZCO (formerly Cimac Automaton)
Jebel Ali Technopark & Free Zone
Dubai

Leading Industrial Automation & Control Systems integrator, based in UAE. Now a subsidiary company of Schneider Electric.

Job Responsibilities handled as Superintendent Engineer & Team Leader:

1. Attend project startup and technical meetings with the clients.
2. Preparation of Functional and Detailed Design Specifications, Bill of Materials, I/O Lists, etc. and ensure quality and timely submittal for client reviews and approvals.
3. Direct contact with Customers’ technical team for quicker and accurate project turnout.
4. Facilitate identification of techno-commercial validation of the material selection and follow through its requirements and materials from different sources, procurement in a timely manner.
5. PLC Programming and SCADA Development on larger and involved projects. Manage programming assignments with junior engineers.
6. Manage and ensure after-sales support, client personnel training, annual maintenance contracts and technical call-outs.
7. Mentor & monitor new Control Systems Engineers in their assignments.

Job Responsibilities handled as Control Systems Engineer:

1. Designed PLC, relay and control panels based on Client requirements/ specifications.
2. Prepared Functional Design Specifications, AutoCAD wiring drawings for client submission and approvals.
3. Hands-on experience in assembly and wiring of PLC, relay & control panels.
4. Hands-on experience in PLC programming, SCADA & HMI configuration.
5. Conducted Internal and Factory Acceptance Tests.
6. Conducted onsite loop-testing and commissioning activities.
7. Red-line markup of drawings.
8. Final as-built documentation preparation and submission.

VOCATIONAL / OTHER TRAINING

1. Graduate Apprentice Electrical Engineer - F.A.C.T. (Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited) - Cochin Division, India
2. Vocational Training Course for TV / VCR Technicians
3. Certificate Course in AutoCAD Rel.12
4. Certificate Course in Visual Basic 5.0
5. Product training on Modicon 984 family of PLCs.
6. Product training on GE Fanuc PLC & CIMPLICITY SCADA (Proficy/ Cimplicity Plant Edition)
7. ICND in Cisco Routers & Networking.
8. Certified ELOP II Engineer for HIMA range of SIL rated Safety Programmable Electronic Systems (Safety PLCs)
9. Product training on RTUNet Kingfisher range of RTUs.
10. Certified Wonderware InTouch 9.0 System Developer
11. Certified Wonderware Archestra Industrial Applications Server 2.1 Developer
12. Certified TÜV Functional Safety Engineer in the field of Safety Instrumented Systems, as per the TÜV Functional Safety Program. Engineer ID # 1285/08.
13. Product Training on Semaphore TBox MS range of RTUs.
14. Product Training on Bristol Babcock ControlWave RTU.
15. Product Training on Schneider Vijeo Citect 7.20 SCADA

SKILLS / AFFILIATIONS

• Lead Project Engineer on automation jobs, company’s point-of-contact to clients on project related activities, documentation and correspondence.
• IEEE Member. Membership # 90533562
• Developed 'EthFilter', a Modbus OPC Server in Visual Basic which is deployed as a modbus driver backend to Wonderware SCADA in one of my company's projects. (Control room for remote monitoring and control over PSTN, ISDN & GSM connections to over 164 drainage-water lifting stations throughout Doha & Rayyan Qatar)
• Configuration, control system design and programming of a number of makes of PLCs, RTUs & controllers:
  • Modicon range of PLCs (Micro, compact. 800, Quantum, Unity)
  • Telemechanique TSX Premium
  • Allen Bradley PLC5, SLC500, ControlLogix, Micrologix
  • GE Fanuc 90-70, 90-30, Versamax
  • ABB RTU211
  • ABB August Systems CS300 TMR PLC
  • HIMA 41q, 51q SIL-rated PES (Programmable Electronic Systems)
  • Kingfisher RTU CP-11, 21, 31
  • Tbox RTUs
  • Bristol Babcock ControlWave (limited)
• Development of SCADA project applications with the following SCADA HMI packages
  • Rockwell RSView32
  • CIMPLICITY
  • Wonderware InTouch
  • Wonderware Archestra
  • GE Fanuc (Intellution) iFix
  • Vijeo Citect
  • Visual Basic (Standalone, with own Modbus, GE SNP & OPC protocol handlers)
• Electronic hobbyist with exposure to component level assembly and trouble-shooting.
• Holder of Grade II Restricted Class Indian Amateur Radio Operator Certificate (Ham radio license).

IT SKILLS

• JavaScript, VB Script, HTML4, C, Active Server Pages, Microsoft IIS 4, Visual Basic 6, FrontPage 2000, Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0
• Networking: TCP/IP, Good knowledge of networking and routing.
• Microsoft Windows NT, XP. Debian Linux. VMware virtual machines on Linux and Windows host computers.
• Other packages: MSOffice Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Money, Schedule, AutoCAD Rel.14, PLC Programming packages, SCADA packages, BASIC, Fortran, Assembly Language, Visual Basic, Internet Applications, MindMaps, etc.