Electrical Engineer Power Plant

KONALA VENKAT REDDY

Contacts Permanent Address

Mobile: 269-***-**** 39 Buckland Street, Apt 222 2

Email: ******@****.*** Manchester, CT 06042

To obtain a lead Electrical Engineer position in the field of power electronics, hard wire relay controls design

and applications.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficient in Electrical Instrumentation, Data Acquisition, Signal Integrity and Data Integration tools

from Analog/Digital Equipments.

• Proficient in design of hardwired Control Systems, Relay Logic Circuits, Master Safety Control,

Interlock, Grounding and Bonding Circuits.

• Hands on experience in product design, development, testing and troubleshooting.

• Experience in Class 1 Div 2 electrical systems

• Experience with NEC, UL and SAE standards.

• Proficient in creating 1 line, 3 line electrical drawings in AutoCAD as per standards.

• Proficient in Design of Power Distribution Architecture, Protection of Medium and Low voltage AC/DC

systems.

• Experience in Design, Process FMEA and RRCA.

• Proficiency in PLC programming of SIEMENS coupled with extensive experience in Troubleshooting,

Maintenance and Electrical documentation.

• Proficient in Wire sizing, derating, protection devices for Medium and low voltage systems as per

NEC standards.

• Conducting Arc flash Analysis using SKM and ETAP

• Extensive experience in the field of Process Controls and Technology.

• Proficient in OSI soft and Matrikon suites from the end user and the administrator.

• Proven ability to motivate, lead large teams producing results in record times.

EDUCATION

• Currently pursing M.S. in Power Electronics, University Of Wisconsin, May 2012.

• Currently pursuing M.A.S in Aeronautics and Safety Systems, Embry Riddle

Aeronautical University, May 2012.

• M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western Michigan University, December 2005.

• B.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Madras University, 2001.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Position: Sr.Electrical Engineer

UTC Power, South Windsor (09/17/2007 till present)

Responsibilities –

Electrical Engineer Purcell 400KW Stationary Fuel Cell Power Plant

• Identifying and adapting electrical control systems for the Electrical Systems Module (ESM) and

the interfacing Modules for the development of a 400kW fuel cell power plant.

• Design of Power Distribution architecture, low and high voltage for interface modules and the

Electrical Control Systems (ECS) section of ESM.

• Design of Safety Master Control, Interlock circuits, and hard wire logic backup shutdown and

burner controller interfaces.

• Definition of the wire harness and routing scheme for the power plant.

• Interfacing and Integrating I/O and wiring harness with modules in the power plants.

• Electrical Testing, troubleshooting for the prototype and production power plant.

• Cost reduction and design Optimization implementation of the production power plants.

• Performing Accuracy and I/O audits.

• Participated in the Design and Process FMEA through the design phase of the product.

• Supported the UL 508 and 1741 certification tests.

Responsibilities – Lead Electrical Engineer Fleet Hybrid IT Power lab

• Replicate the field bus drive cycles to better understand the Power Management System between

Fuel Cell, Siemens drive train and Enerdel battery

• Design of Power Distribution architecture, low and high voltage of the Power Lab.

• Design of Safety Master Control, Interlock circuits, and hard wire logic backup controllers.

• Definition, Selection of the Electrical Components and Instrumentation for the Siemens inverters,

motors, Enerdel battery and Dyne.

• Definition of the wire harness and routing scheme for the power Lab.

• Interfacing and Integrating I/O and wiring harness with Siemens inverters, motor drives and the

Enerdel battery with the NI controller for Data Acquisition.

• Electrical Testing, troubleshooting.

• Conducting Design and Process FMEA’s.

Responsibilities – Lead Electrical Engineer Accelerated Lifecycle Testing Power plant

ITP

• Design of Power Distribution architecture, low and high voltage for ALT.

• Design of Safety Master Control, Interlock circuits.

• Definition, Selection of the Electrical Components and Instrumentation

• Definition of the wire harness and routing scheme for the power plant.

• Interfacing and Integrating I/O with the system controller and wiring harness with I/O components.

• Electrical Testing, troubleshooting.

Position: Fossil Generation Electrical Engineer

DTE Energy, Detroit (03/06/2006 till 09/14/2007)

• Primarily responsible to ensure that the Bailey(ABB) INFI 90 Distributed Control System controlling

each of the power plants supplies continuous working parametric information in the form of tags, in

real time to the plant information interface computer and subsequent transfer of formatted data to

PI servers.

• Actively and remotely monitor critical parameters like those related to working of plant subsystems,

data links, and health check of all plant sites, corporate headquarters and performance center.

• Reviewing remotely and on the site, incidents, sequences, events and responses by

using Process guard equipment alarm monitoring system.

• Data analysis of performance data from various power plants by using Plant

Information data historian.

• Investigating and performing root cause analysis of valid and nuisance alarms down to the unit and

subsystem level. Initiate corrective action while estimating the consequences of a mishandled

alarm

• Reviewing incidents, sequences, events and responses by using the Smart Signal Forecasting

Model. Initiate preventive action before the incident occurs.

• Maintaining an integrated energy management (UCF) system by providing real time data links

between system dispatch and the power plants

Position: ASST. Controls Engineer

HINDUSTAN CABLES LIMITED, Central Government of India Undertaking, INDIA

(December 2000-December 2002)

Automation of “REEL HANDLING AND CHANGING SYSTEM” using “PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC

CONTROLLERS”

• Analysis and Designed the algorithm for the process to be automated.

• Determined the parts and Estimated the total cost for parts and labor.

• Designed the ladder program and built a prototype as part of the demonstration.

• Upon approval with installed Siemens Modicon PLC and the software provided, downloaded the

ladder program. Installed the inputs photo sensors and outputs actuators, pneumatic and

hydraulic systems to the PLC.

• Tested the System for all conditions of working, installed and running till date 24hrs and 365 days

throughout without any human intervention.

• Provided support and Electrical documentation.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Printed Circuit Board Design for Reduction in Size, Power Loss and Increase in Efficiency of POWER

INVERTERS using ORCAD SUITE in Surface Mount Technology.

• Designed and Simulated Efficient Filter Design for a Stable Control System using MATLAB in Digital

Signal Processing.

• Designed, Developed and Simulated on FPGA chip (Arithmetic Logic Unit) for faster calculation of 32

bit floating point addition, subtraction, divison and multiplication using XILINX and MODELSIM in

Application of Specific Integrated Circuits.

• Data Acquisition from Digital/Analog Equipments using LABVIEW tool in Mechatronics.

• Presented a research paper on “Application of Haptic Interfacing Devices for Nanohandling

Robots”.

• Presented a research paper on the “Voice Over Internet Protocol”.

• Application of MIPOWER package “Load Flow Analysis” in Power Transmission and

Distribution.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows95/98/2000/XP, Windows 2003 Server, UNIX.

• LANGUAGES: C, C++, Visual Basic, ASP, ASP.NET, MS Office Suite, VISIO, HTML.

• DATABASES: Oracle, PL/SQL, Windows SQL Server 2005.

• ENGINEERING TOOLS: DOORS, ETAP, SKM, Ladder Software(PLC) Siemens

MODICON,ORCADsuite,MATLAB,MATHCAD,XILINX,MODELSIM,LABVIEW,AutoCAD,PI System,PI

ProcessBook, Process Net.

References Available on Request

Willing to Relocate

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