Electrical Controls Engineer

Kushal Nargundkar

Experienced Electrical Engineer E.I.T (PE in Oct'17)

Phone: 847-***-****

Address: ***** ******** ******, ******** *******, MI 48127 Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushalnargundkar Email: ******.**@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Interest in working with technology to create various solutions and advancements with desire to work in a culturally diverse, team- based environment. Experience in Control Systems, Wireless and Telecommunications, and Hardware Design, Embedded Systems. Focussed on reducing downtime and increasing efficiency EXPERIENCE

AIS(for DWSD, Emerson, WWTP, Applied Power Controls), Detroit, MI Electrical Engineer II

May, 2013 to present

Lead complete migration of SCADAPACK PLC upgrade project for over 50 DWSD remote sites including ordering new controllers, programming, fabricating connectors, radio head-end update and communications Successfully implemented DNP3 pilot project in 2 weeks with existing SCADAPACK and Radios over DWSD Radio repeater network, and reported the advantages of cost saving of over $100,000 in efficiency, maintenance, programming and support over current Modified DF1 Protocol

Lead Field Support and maintenance for SCADAPACK PLC and Radio, PNT Communication and providing quick diagnostics on malfunctioning systems, equipment, communications and managing field technicians, coordinating with System Control Centre operators; Responsible for PLC/HMI code development, code installation, debug on job site, and commissioning of the complete system

Designed Graphics and Signal Diagrams for measuring Real-time and Average Power for Pump Stations to reduce spike in Pump's Power Usage to save over $500,000/year

Supervised all aspects of Power Monitoring System and troubleshooting causes of Power failure in upstream downstream for over 50 water and wastewater sites; generated load profile, energy & demand, event history reports Mastered diverse brand controls equipment (Rockwell, Siemens, ABB, Schneider Electric) such as PLCs, HMIs, servo drives, VFDs, motion controllers, power supplies, and sensors. SCADAPACK PLC, HMI integration/programming, trained in PLC5, RSLogix, Control Logix, Device net, FactoryTalk, RSLinx, Panelview, RSView Studio, Ethernet Controls, Siemens Step 7 Programming, Landis & Gyr Radio, Emerson Ovation, Telemetry Systems Wrote control strategy for pump stations, designed and built Electrical Control Panels with Allen Bradley PLC's, HMI's I/O's in AutoCAD, wire labels, acquired parts for panels

Applied controls engineering expertise to optimize equipment design and to achieve better design quality, maintainability, and reliability; Designed layout in AutoCAD for Meter pit with upgrade of UPS, Thermostat, Condensate Heater, AC/DC Motor, Explosion proof Lighting, Antenna; able to interpret NEC and local codes; read and understood electrical schematics, P&ID's Submitted reports for DTW Airport Authority with executive summary of street lighting, field inventory, and updated CAD drawings for circuit sheets; did field survey and reports of tunnel lights, Servo Motors, Jet fans Aperio a.k.a Leica Microsytems, Vista, CA

Repository Intern

May, 2012 to Dec, 2012

1. Completed research project including survey of patents for pathology imaging, image repositories, and visual search 2. Learned to program in PHP and C++, helped design user interface enhancements and formulate approaches to integrated visual search tools

3. Wrote a PhP script for extracting car images from a website to create test dataset for evaluating visual search engine, to create 10,000 pathology slide images 2000*2000 at 10X resolution to test visual search engine 4. Accomplished tests of visual search tools including building test datasets, created of different companies using the database of images created and presented status updates

5. Participated in strategic and tactical discussions regarding launch of new Repository service on designing visual search User Interface for ePathository considering placement of search results, order of importance, associated metadata with each image CERTIFICATIONS

ClearSCADA Basic Level 1 Course

Schneider Electric

PLC Programming from Scratch

Udemy

Siemens TIA Portal Fast Track

R&E Automated Systems

EDUCATION

04/19/2016

06/01/2017

08/14/2015

SKILLS

Languages: C, C++,Object Oriented Programming, PHP, Java, PLC/HMI Programming, Excel VBA Macros. Applications: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition(SCADA) Process Control,TELEPACE Ladder Logic, Rockwell to SIEMENS, RadioShop, OSI PI, ARCServe, Waterfall gateway, MS Visual Studio, Code composer studio, PSpice, Tera Term, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse, Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, Access, Outlook and SQL), Lync, WinSCP, PuTTY, Remote Desktop Access, SharePoint, MATLAB, SIMULINK, AUTOCAD. System Safety Standards: Basic Knowledge of ISO26262, functional safety fundamentals Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, Linux, MAC OS, RTOS. Device Drivers: ADC, RTC, Graphics LCD, Watchdog, Interrupts, Timer. Communication Standards: MODBUS,UART, CAN, LIN, USB, RS232, BlueTooth, WiFi, MOST. Networking skills: Knowledge of LANWAN, VLAN, TCP/ IP protocol, IP subnetting, Ipv4, Ipv6, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SQL server. Wireless Technologies: CDMA, WCDMA, OFDMA, GSM, 4G LTE. Northwestern University(Ranked among Top 20 Engg Schools) Master of Science in Electrical Engineering(Completed in 9 months) Sept, 2011 to Dec, 2012

Courses: Digital Filtering, Communications Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Analysis, Probability & Random Processes, Digital Image Processing, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Multimedia Signal Processing, Linear Systems Theory. GPA(major)-3.58/4.0

Digital Filtering Labs(Embedded Software Experience) Learnt to write C programs in Code Composer Studio; test, debug and run it on TI RMS320 kit with DSP5416 chip Wrote audio loopback program, added volume control by change of gain & switch Learnt to use TI's DSPLIB, callable from C Programs, that perform basic DSP functions like FIR, IIR filtering Used filter coefficients determined by Hamming window method in MATLAB for band-stop filter Learnt to call Interrupt Service Routine and implement FIR filtering on chip Automatic Speaker Recognition System (DSP Project) Created database for Recognizing speaker using feature extraction including frame blocking, windowing, FFT, MFCC, and feature matching by clustering the feature vectors using MATLAB Courses: Signals & Systems, Discrete Time Signal Processing, RADAR engineering, Radio Frequency Circuit Design, Digital Logic Design, Analog & Digital IC Design, PCB Soldering Hardware Design, Principles of Communication Engg, MicroProcessors&MicroControllers, Principles of Control Systems, Digital Communication Aggregate-69.1%(~GPA-3.8) Autonomous Flame Detection Robot(Bachelor's Final Year Project) Developed a robot using micro-controller PIC 18f452, motor controller L298, ultrasonic range finder, optical flame sensor and proximity sensors that could extinguish the flame within designated range Brainstormed ideas, set project deadlines, and shared responsibilities with team during weekly meetings and updated facultymonthly on design progress

Responsible for sensor selection and computational module development Electronics and sensor integration and packaging, system architecture layout, and sensor system verification Prepared technical specifications for the electrical/electronic components and system Received 5000 rupees scholarship for the project from K.J.Somaiya College Of Engineering PIC microcontrollers are used in numerous applications like smart phones, automobiles, audio accessories and medical devices PIC18F458 and PIC18F258 microcontrollers are widely used in automotive industry for Lighting, Anti-Theft, LIN, USB, CAN Communication ports

Mumbai University(K.J.Somaiya College of Engg) June,2007 to May,2011 Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Telecommunication

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