Project Assistant

SILKY ABBOTT

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Ruston, LA 71270

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SUMMARY

Research Assistant at The Institute for Micromanufacturing, LA Tech University, Ruston,

LA, USA.

Business Care Executive at Globerian India Pvt. Ltd, INDIA.

Senior Scientist at SVA Industries Pvt. Ltd, INDIA.

Vocational trainee at Engineers India Limited, A Government Undertaking, INDIA.

Project trainee at the R&D Center of Indian Oil Corporation Limited, INDIA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SVA INDUSTRIES LTD.

(December 2005 – February 2007)

Senior Scientist

CLIENTS: VLCC, MODICARE

In-house and client production of personal care, household cleaning and laundry

products.

Excellent working knowledge of batch and continuous blending processes for the

production of liquid/gel cleaning products.

Wide knowledge and experience of processes such as saponification, evaporation,

refining, vacuum spray drying and extrusion.

Working experience with devices such as amalgamator, rolling mill, static mixers,

vacuum filling, blow/seal machines, crushing, grinding, mixing and blending machines,

dosing, metering equipments and combined granulators and driers and plodder.

Good management skills that involved delivering clear presentation to the marketing

clients to ensure the effective promotion of the in-house products.

GLOBERIAN INDIA PVT. LTD.

(April 2007 – July 2007)

Business Care Executive

Providing voice to text service to the disabled US customers.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

INSTITUTE FOR MICROMANUFACTURING, RUSTON, LA, USA

(November 2007 – Current)

Working as a research assistant on the Electrodeposition of High-Tc superconducting

Bi(Pb)-Sr-Ca-CuO in the form of Nanostructures.

Poster presentation at an Electrochemical Society’s International Conference in October

2008 at Honolulu, Hawaii.

Published a manuscript in the Electrochemical Society Transactions.

Project funded by NASA EPSCoR grant.

ENGINEERS INDIA LIMITED

(January 2005 – April 2005)

Worked as a vocational trainee on the project “Different Numbering Systems and

Distillation Calculations.”

The project defined the extent of separation as the difference between the ASTM 50

volume percent temperature of the fractions using the conventional Packie Chart.

Compared the separation degree between the overhead and the highest sidestream and

the adjacent sidestreams obtained from the Packie Chart with the gap/overlap values

from PRO-II simulation technique and proved the need of a correction factor

Helped in the preparation of the line schedule for the P&IDs of the Residual Fluid

Catalytic Cracking Unit of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.

INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED

(July 2004)

Literature review on the Effect of Nitrogen Inhibition for the production of Ultra Low

Sulphur Diesel (ULSD).

Project report and presentation on the project at the Indian Oil Corporation Limited and

Manipal Institute of Technology, INDIA.

ACHIEVEMENTS & SKILLS

Expertise in Microsoft Office and MATLAB

Wide knowledge and experience of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and EDAX,

Potentiostat, a voltage source, Sputter Coater and Optical Microscope.

Present Secretary of the Graduate Council of College of Engineering and Science,

Louisiana Technical University, Ruston, LA.

Helped in reviewing grant proposal under the STIR program of US Army.

Excellent technical writing that helped in getting the NASA EPSCoR grant for the project.

Active member of Electrochemical Society for the year 2007-2008.

Member of Chemical Engineering Association for the year 2002-2003.

Teaching assistant at Louisiana Tech University for Chemistry labs from

2007 to 2009.

EDUCATION

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, USA

Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering (Graduating in November’ 2009)

CGPA: 3.5/4.0 (Additional courses taken in Microsystems Engineering)

Manipal Institute of Technology, INDIA

Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering

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