Engineer Engineering

RAMAN, BIJU

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EDUCATION

Lamar University - Beaumont, Texas, USA, 1996- MS Chemical

Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani, India, 1992 - MS

Chemistry

Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani, India, 1992 - BS

Chemical Engineering

SUMMARY

Chemical Process Engineer with 5 years Unit operations and Unit

processes operational experience including distillation,

neutralization, bleaching, deodorization, lubricant manufacture,

process modeling and technical training

MISSION

Prove and demonstrate my chemical engineering skills in

petrochemical/chemical plant operations to enhance and optimize

operational effectiveness and implement best practices

TRAINING EXPERIENCE

Palo Verde College, Blythe, California, Jan 2002 - Present

Professor - Math/Physics/Chemistry

. Improve the current curriculum to fit into the community

needs

. Provide instruction in all areas of Math, Physics and

Chemistry

. Perform budgetary control, employee supervision, and

scheduling for the chemistry & Physics division

CHEMICAL/PETROCHEMICAL - PROCESS OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE

Agri - Trend - Yuma, AZ, April' 09 - August' 09; May' 10 - Present

Inorganic Fertilizer & Environmental Lab Testing

VP - Marketing/Chemist

Market the products and services of Agritrend to the Desert South

West Region

Use UV/VIS, AAS to test and analyze soil, plants and fertilizer for

chemical content

Develop website for the company

BP Castrol - Mumbai, India, Dec 1996 - July 2000

Blending and Filling of lubricants(engine oils, transmission oils,

gear oils, brake oils)

Deputy Manager - Materials and TQM

. Planning and procurement of raw materials/packaging

materials as per production plan to take into account least downtime

on blending and filling lines, manpower utilization, turnover of

inventory

. Coordinator of TQM project at Plant site

. Work with Quality Department to reduce variations in

supplier quality by taking suitable interventions, like monitoring

process parameters at vendors end randomly, introducing statistical

tools, determining standard operating procedures, assist in

maintenance planning

Deputy Manger - Planning and Logistics/ Senior Executive - Planning

and Logistics

. Work with 7 plants located all over India manufacturing

industrial lubricants to coordinate production scheduling, new

product introduction, trouble shoot quality concerns from market etc.

. Provide base oil forecast, raw material forecast to

materials

. Develop future demand projection for filled goods/SKU's with

marketing

. Examine on case by case basis reports from field of quality

concerns/deviations from desired performance with R&D/Technology

. Keep abreast of new projects development by coordinating

between Corporate Engineering and Plant Management

Senior Engineer - Production

. Manage plant activities for adherence to SOP's and ISO

9002:1994 guidelines

. Obtain better inventory control of base oils by pipeline

optimization and tank farm management

. Increase inventory turnover of packaging materials by

reducing downtime on filling lines

. Process troubleshooting to reduce blend to blend variation

Marico - Jalgaon, India, July 1992 - June 1993

Refinery of edible oils - Production Engineer

. Established operations procedure for 2 new filling lines

. Improved productivity of filling lines by 80% through

increased mechanization

. Commissioned refinery and was actively involved in trouble

shooting and stabilizing operations

. Studied distillation operations to change process parameters

for better quality

. Implemented program whereby routine testing was done on shop

floor by production technicians

RESEARCH ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

Lamar University - Beaumont, Texas, Jan 1994 - Aug 1996

Research Assistant

. Set up experimental study for photo catalytic oxidation of

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) to Nitric acid using Titanium Dioxide catalyst

to reduce NOx from 90 ppm to 5 ppm

. Determined optimum operating conditions of Plug Flow

Reactor, catalyst composition and method to regenerate catalyst

. Performed materials and energy balance to verify mechanism

of photo catalytic oxidation

Birla Research Institute of Applied Sciences, Nagda, Madhya Pradesh,

India, June 1991 - Dec 1991

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering - Internship Program

. Scaled up solvent recovery process for the production of

rayon using DMAC

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India,

Jan 1992 - June 1992

Masters in Chemistry - Thesis

. Studied behavior of fluids near critical point using

computer modeling

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

Proficient in JDE ERP, Microsoft Office including word, excel, Visio

and PowerPoint

Exposed and trained in Oracle, Visual Basic, Java, Web programming

languages

Typing 40 wpm

Comfortable with both Macintosh and Windows operating system

Familiar with HYSYS simulation in academic environment

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