Design Engineer Electrical

Akbar Chishti

Email: *****.*******@*****.*** *** Leicester Square Drive

Phone: 636-***-**** Ballwin, MO 63021

Professional Summary

Over 27 years of Electrical & Instrumentation engineering experience in the Food & Beverage (Anheuser-Busch), Petrochemical Refinery (ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil Company), Cement Plant (Lehigh Portland Cement Company), Chemical and Radiation Protection and Remediation industries (Department of Energy and Jacobs Engineering Group), residential projects (McConnel Air Force Base), Steel Mill projects (Granite City Steel) and Power Generation projects (Abengoa).

Lead Electrical Design/Project Engineer with demonstrated capability in analysis, design, material selection and equipment specification. Developed Specifications and authored Scope of Work for Construction Subcontracts, schematics, and technical engineering notes. Provided field construction support. Coordinated with other disciplines for smooth execution of the entire project. Skilled in all aspects of detailed engineering for capital projects ranging from preliminary scoping to final design through construction, commissioning and start-up.

Professional Experience

Sachs Electric Company

Sachs Electric Company, St. Louis, Missouri (2014 - 2017)

Electrical Design Engineer

Performed Arc Flash studies, Load Flow analysis, and breaker coordination using SKM Power Tools software. Performed cable pull calculations using Pull Planner 4000 software for various projects. Updated QA/QC manuals, prepared lighting and building services drawings using AutoCAD. Provided field support for the power plant construction. Updated existing conduit, cable and termination database to monitor project progress and assess the need of cables, conduits and labor, create project progress reports. Designed and developed power and control cable tray drawings for pet food plant.

Abengoa

Abeinsa Business Development, St. Louis, Missouri (2012 - 2014)

Electrical Engineer

Developed solar energy, biofuel conversion proposals for different clients in USA and abroad, determined proposal requirements, wrote technical specifications, created initial one line for medium voltage substation and low voltage and plan drawings for medium and low voltage switchgear for gas and steam turbine generator, obtained quotations from different electrical equipment vendors, estimated material and labor cost of proposals. Used different methods to determined labor and equipment cost including RSMeans database and in-house cost database. Developed detailed electrical equipment list.

URS Corporation / Washington Group International, St. Louis, Missouri

(1996 – 2000 and 2007-2012)

Senior Electrical Design Engineer IV

Responsible for project execution, scoping, estimating, designing, purchasing and providing field support for multiple clients. Full project life cycle involvement in projects food and beverage systems.

Electrical Design Engineer

Various Anheuser-Busch InBev Brewery projects, Monsanto Building Conversion Project, Granite City Steel Projects and Shell Oil Company Projects.

Prepared Single Line, Schematics, Electrical Equipment Arrangement (EEA), Lighting Panel Schedule, Grounding Layout, Cable Tray Layout, Lighting Layout (indoor and outdoor), Fire Alarm Communication Schematics, Loop drawings for control valves, flow meters, temperature, control valves and flow control valves, Lightning protection Layout, Motor Control Center (MCC) Layout and front elevation, Control Panel schematics and layout, Solenoid Cabinet schematics and layout, Security Systems schematics, Building Utilities/Services, HVAC control and power Schematics, Heat Trace layout, heat trace control panel schematic and settings, Video Camera schematic and Demolition drawings.

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Senior Electrical Design Engineer for various Brewery projects and plants throughout the U. S., including Brewing, Packaging, and Utilities Power and Control and MV and LV feeders. Design and startup projects included estimation for removal and replacement of electrical installations in stockhose 1, 7, and 9 to new location in Stockhouse 19, Finishing Cellar Modernization design and startup, Control Room, Raise Grains Unloading Header, Beer Recovery and Reclaim Beer System.

Monsanto

Created Master Utility plan for the entire Creve Coeur campus and for Airport hangar located at Chesterfield Airport. Analyzed, assessed and made recommendation for the ageing power distribution system component replacement like switchgears, breakers, transformers, power feeders, stand-by generators and UPSs at Creve Couer campus and at Chesterfield Airport hangar. System included one 34.5kV substation, four 5kV substations and forty-three 480V substations for power distribution.

Metropolitan Sewer District (Lower Meramec Disinfection Project

Provided construction phase services and field inspected and monitored electrical contractor’s work at Lower Meramec Disinfection facility. Created inspection reports, verified and implemented National Electrical Code requirements for all electrical and instrumentation installations.

MillerCoors

Lead Electrical Design Engineer for various Brewery projects. Scoped, estimated, designed and supported startups for Yeast unloading, new fermenter building and Glycol Chiller project Flex I/O conversion from Modicon.

ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery

Lead Electrical Design Engineer for various Refinery projects. Scoped, estimated, designed and supported startups for Zone Shop, Truck Scale, Instrument Heat Tracing, Fuel and Pilot Gas lines, Desalter Heat Tracing

Yoh Technology Staffing, St. Louis, Missouri (2002–2007)

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Senior Electrical Design Engineer for various Brewery projects and plants throughout the U. S.

Prepared electrical equipment design and specifications, such as, 13.8kV substation switchgear, breakers, 480V Motor Control Center (MCC), 480V Switchgear, 480VAC Motor Controllers, 480VAC Voltage VSD’s, Overhead and below grade Transmission Lines, Transformers, Motors, Packaged Control Centers, Control Panels design, bill of material (BOM), layout and Schematics, Solenoid Cabinet design, bill of material, layout and Schematics, PLC and PLC Communication Schematics, Lighting (calculation), Lighting design, Lighting fixture schedule, VESDA Fire Alarm design, selection, bill of material, Schematics, Layout and Fire Alarm Communication drawings and Heat Tracing design.

Some of the projects are listed below:

Merrimack Brewery: Boiler Re-control–Replaced old Control Panels with PLC based Control Panels and QA Lab Upgrade.

St. Louis Brewery: Stockhouse 16 Kathabar and Exhaust Fan Upgrade, Research Pilot Brewery CIP System Replacement, Research Pilot Brewery Packaging Modifications, Research Pilot Brewery Beer Cooler Addition, Natural Gas Orbit Valve, BERS Compressed Air Dryer upgrade and Stockhouse 17 Glycol System.

Fairfield Brewery: New Control Room- Scoping and Designing, Bulk Zinc Injection.

Cartersville Brewery: Air optimization – Air compressors control panel replacement and startup – Dgasifier, Carbon Filter and Chiller.

Newark Brewery:Off-Gas Scrubber.

Jacksonville Brewery: Keg Cold Room Space Conditioning and Bottle Line Modernization and Building Services.

Baldwinsville Brewery :Condenser Replacement, Phase 2.

Williamsburg Brewery: Compressed Air Upgrades – Air compressors control panel replacement and Air Dryer replacement and Compressed Air Upgrades – Copco Air compressor replacement.

Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri (2002-2002)

McConnel Air Force Base, Streetlights Replacement Project for 378 Housing Units.

Demolition of Street lights, Overhead Electric, Cable, and Telephone Lines. Performed Photomatric Study for new Street lighting. Designing Underground Electric supply line for 378 Housing Units and Streetlights.

FRU-CON Engineering, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri (2000 – 2002)

Confidential Client, Food Process Plant Expansion, Pryor, Oklahoma:

Electrical Design Engineer for Power system design 15KV, and 600V systems, installation of power transformer, switchgear, MCCs, substation grounding detail, PLC control schematics, motor control center (MCC) layout, specifications, schematics and connection diagrams, single line diagrams, lighting, lighting / receptacle, panel schedules, control panel, communication / alarm, and device location Drawings.

Heidelberger Technology Center Union Bridge, Maryland:

Lehigh Portland Cement Company, Plant Modernization.

Jacob's Engineering Group Inc. Weldon Spring, Missouri (1990 – 1996)

Field Engineer

Established Radon / Radon Daughter monitoring network. Wrote computer software to compile and present results of six Radon and six Radon Daughter monitors.

40 hours OSHA, radiation protection and field safety training every year and was member of First Responders team at the site.

Maintained and operated: 1) Kinetic Phosphorescence Analyzer (KPA-11) detects radioactivity in water samples. 2) Alpha Beta System (Canberra HT-1000) detects Alpha and Beta particles. 3) Radon monitors (RGA-40). 4) Radon Daughter monitors (WLM-30). 5) Low Volume Air Sampling stations. 6) High Volume Air sampling stations.

Also, prepared weekly, quarterly and annual reports.

Training

Sargent & Lundy

Substation Engineering Course (32 Hours)

SKM

SKM Power Tools, load flow, short circuit and arc flash analysis.

Ranken Technical College (January - March 1994)

Programmable Logic Controllers (21 hours seminar)

(PLC operation and programming)

Education

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering - May, 1990

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