Vasant J. Lad.

Bedford, Texas *****

E-mail- hxhokz@r.postjobfree.com, Cell:817-***-****

Over 25 years of experience of project management, RTU development and application RTU/PLC/SCADA engineering and SCADA integration for the Electrical power utility, oil & Gas and process industries.

Objective :

Seeking a position as Sr. Manager/ Sr. Engineer allowing me to use my skills in the fields of SCADA/DMS, Control & Automation field pertaining to Project/system engineering, system integration and customer interface management.

Skill:

Good at Fault diagnostics, PLC/RTU/SCADA system engineering, System integration, PLC/RTU application engineering/configuration for Power Utility (substation SCADA/DMS) Oil & Gas utility.

Familiar with SAP ‘PS’ module, MS Office suit, Windows and SCADA/DMS application package, field instruments and devices selection.

ASE 2000 RTU/Master simulator and Protocol Analyzer for Interoperatibility validation for Data communication between RTU and SCADA master verification.

Utilized OMICRON test/calibration kit for relays and transducer calibration and testing.

Experience:

1.

Sr. Manager, Power Automation system. (Nov. 2010 to March. 2011)

Crompton greaves Ltd. (Power Automation System.)

Kanjur Marg, Mumbai 400071, India.

Offered technical proposal for the SCADA/DMS tender for “R-APDRP” project (SCADA/DMS) initiated by Power finance Corporation of India. This is first project out of total 65 project decided by power ministry in India.

Responsibility includes:

1)Meeting Customer with sales team for presentation and demonstration.

2)Deciding new state of the art technology for bid offering.

3)Updating existing customer of new technology and application for Migration and expansion so as to satisfy all stack holders.

4)Understanding and Reviewing customer technical and commercial specifications (RFQ).

5)Attending pre-bid meetings to sought clarification on missing/undefined information in RFQ and replying to customer quarries.

6)Reviewing the proposed system engineering design and specification of the BOQ.

7)Coordinating technical and commercial design activities with the appropriate sales personnel, legal counsel, technical support team, project and application engineering team and other support function team.

8)Obtaining Customer approvals for Design drawing, BOQ, test plans,FDS and project schedule and to ensure on time delivery.

9)Conducting factory acceptance test(FAT), Site installation/ testing/ commissioning and completing site acceptance(SAT).

2.

Sr. Manager, SCADA Project Engineering and Development.

NELCO LTD. SCADA Division

( now taken over by Crompton Greaves Ltd.) ,

Mahakali caves road, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400019, India

Core team member of the SAP implementation team at NELCO for the ‘PS’ module. Responsibility includes; preparing ‘as is’, finalizing ‘to be’ (Business blue print), completing UAT and conducting user training for project team.

Internal auditor for the ISO 2000 and representative of SCADA division for the SDM of NELCO.

As a design and development engineer, I developed Microprocessor based controller modules, various I/O modules, field interface modules, communication interface modules, production testing set up.

I also enjoyed providing technical support to customer support team to resolve site commissioning problems and marketing team for Tender offering, evaluating and adopting RTUs technology from different suppliers.

Hands on experience with following :

a) SCX6 SCADA package from Serck control.

b) G.E. Harris make D20, D200 and DART RTUs,

c) TALUS series RTUs from Westinghouse System, UK,

d) Proteus 2000 series from Serck control, UK,

e) DF1331 and DF1725 IED from Dongfang, China.

f) ASE 2000 RTU/Master simulator and Protocol Analyzer.

g) OMICRON relay/transducer test and calibrator.

h) Electrical Substation control and relay panels augmentation to interface with RTU/SCADA.

Interface used:

a) Protocol configured; DNP-3, IEC-101, IEC-104, MODBUS, WISP+.

b) Media used; PLCC, Fiber optics, wired, wireless and dialup.

c) IEC6113-3 Interlock logic, ladder interlock

d) Third Party interface; ABL PLC- controlling Head work at lake, Tata Honeywell PLC - controlling tail raise, SIEMENS PLC- controlling 3 x 24 MW generator, PML make energy meters and other protective relays on MODBUS protocol.

Lead a team of engineers for the execution of numbers of turnkey SCADA contract for the electrical substation control, monitoring, power distribution, offshore SCADA for ONGC and traction power control for Indian Railways.

The scope of contract includes; SCADA system engineering, design drawing and test schedule preparation, preparation of Bill of Materials, customer approvals, Conducting factory acceptance test, Site installation/ testing/ commissioning and completing site acceptance test.

Few of the SCADA contract I lead are highlighted here:

(a)

Remote operation of 400/220kV substations for Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(PGCIL), This were turn Key project includes augmentation of existing Control & Relay panels for remote operation.

(Contract Value- USD 0.67 mil.)

System integrated with IEC 101 & 104 Protocol for data transfer, using PLCC, Lease Line Modem and Fiber optics media. The RTUs are also used as Data Concentrator to collect the Data from GE Harish D20 RTU and IEDs.

(b)

Project Manager for Annual Maintenance Contracts for the ONGC SCADA supplied at 7 numbers OFFSHORE process platform of Mumbai High/Bassein field. The systems also have more then 210 numbers RTU located at unmanned wellhead platform. The system up time requirement was 99.9%.

( Contract Value USD 0.78)

(c )

SCADA System for ONGC OFFSHORE, Mumbai high and Basseien field.

(contract Value- USD 0.67 mil.)

System integrated with existing RTUs on Proteus 2000 & MKII Farranti protocol, installed at offshore un-manned well head platforms. The systems are connected on ONGC WAN network for passing information to the regional head office.

(d)

SCADA system for TATA POWER CO. LTD. , Mumbai.

(contract Value- USD 4.8 mil)

For Hydro power generating stations in Maharashtra state and 220kV,110kV, 22kV and 33kV Receiving/distribution substations within Mumbai city.

SCADA package XA21 of G.E.Harris USA, SCTS of Serck Control System (U.K.), WESDAC software from Westinghouse System (U.K.) are integrated using customer wide area network and communication infrastructure.

RTUs used for data interface are:

a) G.E. Harris make D20, D200 and DART RTUs and existing 350 numbers PR2000 series RTUs. These are Interfaced using DNP-3 protocol through PLCC, Fiber optics, wired, wireless and dialup communication media. The system has more then 100,000 input/output points.

b) 24 nos. TALUS series RTUs from Westinghouse System, UK, installed at different receiving station (grid tie points) around Mumbai. The protocol used is WISP+

Others Applications: The RTUs are configured with interlock logic and interfaced to ABL PLC controlling Head work at lake, Tata Honeywell PLC controlling tail raise, SIEMENS PLC controlling 3 x 24 MW generator, PML make energy meters and other protective relays on MODBUS protocol. The RTUs are also interface to EMS system at Tata Load dispatch center on WISP+ protocol.

(e)

SCADA for the railway Traction Power control in India.

(Contract value more then USD 1.1 mil)

South central, Central, Eastern, Western and South eastern railways total about 10 system for various division covering about 2500 kilometer section.

(f)

Worked with other firm as an engineer for

Design of transducer for electrical parameters, Temperature scanners, Recorders, power factor control relays, Under voltage/Over Relays and its associated circuit.

Education:

L.E.E. (Licentiate Electrical Engineer), (Elective Electronic)

(Maharastra Technical Board.) Four year diploma after completing High school.

VICTORIA JUBLEE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE,

Matunga, Mumbai, India.

Strengths:

-Team building, Motivating and understanding.

- Training people.

- Cost effectiveness and value engineering.

- Technical area pertaining to SCADA/ RTU application, control & automation.

- Project Management.

References:

1) Mr. K.A.Mahasur, ED.

Nelco Ltd., Mumbai, India.

hxhokz@r.postjobfree.com, Cell: 91-922*******

2) Mr. Sunil Kewalramani , Regional Sales Vice President - SE Asia

Survalent Technology Corporation

hxhokz@r.postjobfree.com :, Ph: 1-905-***-****

3) Mr. Jaykumar, AGM,

Tata Power Co. Ltd, Mumbai, India

hxhokz@r.postjobfree.com, Cell: 91-922*******

4) Mr. Abhinav Verma, Chief Manager,

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., India.

hxhokz@r.postjobfree.com , Cell: 91-942*******

V.J.LAD

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