Engineer Engineering

Rajashekar Venkatachalam

***, ******** ******, *** ***

State College, PA 16803

1-814-***-****

Skills Summary:

. Technical specialist in the field of Digital and Computed Radiography

. Unique experience in a narrow industrial field of Digital Detector Arrays

. Proven expert as a Level-3 (highest technical level in the area) trainer

for Digital Radiography with effective communication skills interacting

with customers on market needs

. Extensive working and applied knowledge in areas of x-ray imaging for non-

destructive evaluation including Physics modeling, Advanced Image

corrections, Automated defect Recognition, Volumetric Computed

Tomography, Image review and 3D Visualization

. Expert in Digital Image Processing applied to Industrial Radiography

. Industrial experience collaborating with BP, Exxon Mobil, PCC, Howmet and

many other key players on further improvement of inspection capabilities

. Industrial imaging experience on Digital Detector Arrays and Computed

Radiography with radio-active Isotopes and various high energy sources

for pipeline inspection

Education:

Fall 2001 - University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario

Winter 2003 Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer

Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Richard I. Hornsey

Thesis: Simulation of a Low Vision Enhancement System using

Multiple Cameras

And Displays

Aug. 1996 - University of Madras - Chennai, India

May. 2000 Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication

Engineering

. Secured Overall Second Rank

Aug. 1999 - Amrita Institute of Computer Technology - Chennai, India

Mar. 2000 Masters Diploma in Software Engineering

. Specialized in Data Structures and Algorithms - programming in

C, Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and C++, Java, Oracle

RDBMS, GUI: Developer 2000 and PowerBuilder

Work Experience:

Jan 2008 - General Electric Inspection Technologies - Lewistown, PA, U.S.A

Present Lead Design Engineer

. Presently the hardware engineering lead for all Digital Detector

Array products and considered as a technical expert

. Liaison for leveraging medical detector technology and

optimizing it for industrial needs

. Enabling the launch of several new product introductions for the

business such as the portable detectors and computed radiography

products

. Working with several customers to customize Digital Detector

Arrays for various applications in Refineries, Sub-sea

inspection, and infrastructure

Feb 2004 - General Electric, John F. Welch Technology Center - Bangalore,

India

Dec 2007 Research Engineer at Industrial Imaging and Modeling Lab

. Developed and documented techniques for corrosion quantification

in process pipes using Digital Radiography for GE Water and

Process Technologies

. Designed and Developed a completely automated defect recognition

solution for turbine blade inspection which is presently

deployed in one of the plants of GE Aviation

. Performed image quality evaluation studies on Computed

Radiography with Isotopes which enabled using this technology

for many new applications

. Lead initiative and developed a multi-camera solution for

inspection of tubes for GE-Aviation which are presently done

using hard gauges which enabled reduction in inspection cost

Fall 2001 - University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario

Winter 2003 Research Assistant for Professor Richard Hornsey

. Developed a Low Vision Enhancement System which helped people

suffering from low vision to see things better

. Completed the simulation of the system with three cameras, a

processor and multiple Monitor displays

. Worked on FPGAs to perform Image Processing on chip using Xilinx

ISE package and XSA-50 board

Fall 2002 University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario

Teaching Assistant for Professor Rudolph Seviora

. For the course Algorithms and Data Structures (E&CE 250)

. Requires expert knowledge of Java

. Assisted students in the lab, helped debugging programs, marked

assignments and exams

Winter 2002 University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario

& 2003 Teaching Assistant for Professor Yasser Hegazy

. For the courses Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (E&CE

100) and Electrical

Engineering for Mechanical Engineers (ME 123)

. Requires excellent working knowledge of Circuit Analysis,

Electromagnetics and

Electronics

. Assisted students in computer based tutorials, lab work, marked

assignments and held office hours to answer course related

questions

Aug. 2000 - Electronic Data Systems - Chennai, India

Aug. 2001 Information Programmer

. As a team, implemented and tested components of the Automatic

Banking System for Commonwealth Bank of Australia

. Involved in the entire software development cycle, ranging from

implementing new features, maintaining old codes, to all levels

of testing

Aug. 1999 - Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore, India

Aug. 2001 Young Engineering Fellow

. Selected among the top 1% of the fraternity for Young

Engineering Fellowship program

. Core of the project involved studies on "Image Compression using

Discrete Cosine Transforms" and requiring efficient use of

JPEG Algorithms

Publications:

. "Experimental Results on Digital Detector Arrays per ASTM E2597-07"

ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show 2008, Charleston

Convention Center Charleston, SC

. "Computed Radiography with Isotopes- Suitability for Weld

Inspection"

17th World Conference on Nondestructive Testing, 25-28 Oct 2008,

Shanghai, China

. "Comparative study of computed and film radiography for high energy

applications"

DIR 2007 - International Symposium on Digital industrial

Radiology and Computed Tomography, June 25-27, 2007, Lyon,

France

. "Performance characterization of amorphous silicon"

International Conference on Imaging NDE, Kalpakkam India

. "Digital detector arrays for gamma radiography"

12th APCNDT 2006" - Asia-Pacific Conference on NDT, 5th - 10th

Nov 2006, Auckland, New Zealand

. "Variants to Non-Linear Filter Techniques for Defect Segmentation

in Digital

Radiographs of Castings"

European conference on non dectructive testing 2006, Berlin

. "Adaptive Non- Linear Filter Based Approach on Developing Automated

Defect

Recognition Systems for Inspecting Castings"

ASNT Digital Imaging IX Conference, Foxwoods Resort, CT, US,

July 24-26 2006

. "Digital Radiography for On-Line Inspection of Weld Integrity in

Boiler Tubes"

ASNT Digital Imaging IX Conference, Foxwoods Resort, CT, US,

July 24-26 2006

. "Moving from Image Intensifiers to Flat Panels for Casting

Inspection"

Automotive Industry, Automotive Advancements with NDT,

Birmingham, Alabama US, June 7-9 2006

. "Performance characterization of computed radiography for

inspection of high-pressure

Boiler components"

Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation,

American Institute of Physics Proceeding, August 2006

. "Systematic approach for validation of x-ray automatic defect

recognition systems"

Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation,

American Institute of Physics Proceeding, August 2006

. "Digital Zoom for Low Vision Enhancement Systems"

IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2004, 18-22 January

2004, San Jose, CA USA.

Patents:

. Imaging system and method with scatter correction

Patent application number: 201********

. Method and system for identifying defects in a radiographic image

of a scanned object

Patent application number: 200********

. Method for automatic identification of defects in turbine engine

blades

Patent application number: 200********

. Converting a digital radiograph to an absolute thickness map

United States Patent 7480363, International Application

No.: PCT/US2005/032261

. Scatter correction from Digital Radiographs for Volumetric

Computerized Tomography

Application (Docket under review)

Book Chapter:

. Wrote the chapter "Digital Radiography for Non-destructive

Testing" for the book Computerized Tomography For Scientists And

Engineers ISBN: 978**********

Projects supporting national interest:

. Actively facilitating with BP to perform inspection and analysis

of sub-sea infrastructure using Digital Radiography.

Successfully completed the first phase of this project, which

involved proof of concept image quality studies of Digital

arrays in water and presently working with third parties to

integrate sub-systems for deploying Digital Radiography for sub-

sea.

. Conducted Level-3 Training for top approving agents in the

Aerospace industry as a part of the Metals Affordability

Initiative (MAI) initiative for customers including the US Air

force, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce and GE Aviation. MAI

is aimed at applying a collaborative effort to develop and

implement revolutionary aerospace metals technologies and

strengthen the aerospace metals industrial base. Recognized by

trainees and fellow trainers as a technical expert in this field

Memberships:

. Active core member of the E-07 (Non-destructive testing)

committee for Digital Detector Arrays in the American Society

for Testing and Materials International (ASTM). ASTM is an

international standards organization that develops and publishes

voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of

materials, products, systems, and services

awards from peers:

. Bravo Award from GE Inspection Technologies: For creating

training materials for the Digital Detector Array (DDA), Image

processing and industry guidelines. Received extremely positive

feedback on the teaching capabilities

. Champion Award from GE Inspection Technologies: For taking

extraordinary amount of work to fill in for a vacant position in

addition to mine

. Thanks to you award from GE Inspection Technologies: For

volunteering during "Bring your child to work " Day by taking x-

ray images of toys

. Thanks to you award from GE Inspection Technologies: For an

outstanding job on the DXR project and driving Rhythm modality

in to the market

. Level 4 Award on Expertise from GE Global Research: For

innovation, technical expertise and significant contributions to

the "Assisted Defect Recognition" programs which is a game

changing technology for GE Inspection Technologies and GE

Aviation

. Publication Awards from GE Global Research for exceptional

number of publications in the years 2005-2007

Others:

. Volunteered to teach students on Economics for Success, Our City

and Our Region at various schools in Lewistown, PA as a part of

Junior Achievement initiative. Received excellent feedback from

students and teachers.

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