Electrical Power

SHISHIR SHEKHAR

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SUMMARY:

Highly motivated engineer seeking exciting Internship/Coop opportunity to effectively utilize my strong technical

knowledge and organizational skills for advancement and innovations in the Electrical Engineering field.

EDUCATION:

Boston, MA

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering-Power Systems May 2012

GPA 3.333/4.0

Relevant Courses

-Power System Analysis and Design – Analysis of Power System Transients -Energy Harvesting Systems - Electrical

Machines and Transformers -Power System Control and Protection - Power System Economics - Project Management

Chennai, India

SRI RAMASWAMY MEMORIAL (S.R.M) UNIVERSITY

Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering July 2005-June 2009

GPA 7.712/10.0

Achievements:

1. Selected among top 100 students for Summer Research Fellowship Programme in 2008 by Jawaharlal Nehru

Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India.

2. Successfully Completed project on “A Signal Processing Module for the Analysis of Heart Sounds and

Heart Murmur’s “which is used to analyze heart diseases from variations in heart signals.

Presented a technical paper on Securing Electricity supply in the 21st Century at IEEE Power and Energy

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Conference at Detroit in July 2011.

4. Presented a technical paper on Mobile Communication Interception-Defects in IEEE 802.11 at a National

level Technical Symposium held at S.R.M University, India in May 2008.

WORK/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Boston, MA

Research Assistant-Power Systems Operations under guidance of Professor Sarma Mulukutla. January 2011-Present

Project Details:

1. Design of Electrical Machines Tool Box for Transient and Steady State Analysis of Electrical Machines

using MATLAB.

• Designed a tool box for Analyzing Electrical Machines under various conditions.

2. Modeling of Wind-Solar Energy Hybrid Power Generation System using Micro Grids and Multi-Agent

Technology under the guidance of Prof. Nian X Sun.

• Proposed a Hybrid Model which runs under a Microcontroller and effectively uses the solar wind resources and

Reduces the demand on National grid.

• Improved the pre existing Hybrid model with the introduction of Multi Agent Technology.

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• Analysed the effectiveness of using t Multi Agents to perform Load and generation control and serve as a flexible

Protection Alternative.

3. Local and Wide area Network Protection System to Improve the Power System Reliability.

• Analysed new monitoring protection and communication technologies that allow us to implement economical

And wide area system protection that minimise risk of wide area system disruptions and total system collapse.

• Presented a solution that uses programmable logic capabilities, faster communication and synchronised

Phasor measurement and protective replays to prevent system disruptions.

Cognizant Technology Solutions: Chennai, India

Programmer Analyst Trainee January 2010 – July 2010

Project: Automation of regression testing for Hartford Life Insurance cash management product.

Developing test plan and test strategy.

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Review of the test cases written for unit and integration level.

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Analyze and write detailed specifications and Test Requirements.

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Generate test matrices, test protocols and resulting test reports.

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Essar Steel Limited: Surat, India

Vocational Summer Trainee May 2007 – June 2007

Projects:

1. Study of Variable Voltage Variable Frequency Drives & Its Implementation

2. Study of Variable-Speed Induction Motors for Auxiliary-Drive Applications in Rolling Mills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

: C, MATLAB, SPICE, SIMULINK,VHDL

Programming Languages

Power System Analysis Tools : 1. Working Knowledge of Power World Simulator for Power System Analysis

2. Working Knowledge of SimPower Systems 5.0 for Power System Analysis

3. Working Knowledge of AutoCAD Electrical 2011

: Proficient in Microsoft Office

Tools

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

1. Member of IEEE USA 2. Student member if IEEE Power and Energy Society

3. Student member of Indian Wind Power Association 4. Association of Energy Engineers, USA

LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES:

1. French (Beginner)

2. Hindi (Fluent)

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:

1. Working as Managing Director for the Consulting Group at Northeastern University Science & Engineering Club.

2. Volunteered at Everest (NGO), Supported by Cognizant Technology Solutions, India.

3. Lead and organized Technical and Cultural events at SRM University, India.

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