EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering - June 2001

Knowledge and skill areas: Engineering, design, product development, bid support, design of BOS packages (design and development of construction drawings), control system design, commissioning, trouble shooting, report writing, documentation, different types of instrumentation, process control, AutoCAD, Visio, MS word, Excel, and SAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

City of Phoenix 04/2017 to Present

Instrumentation and Control Specialist

Well versed in SCADA systems engineering, design, hardware selection, product development, and programming

Responsibility includes calibration, programming, and troubleshooting of field instruments - FITs, LTs, PTs, TTs, FCVs, LS, PDIS, and different types of chemical injection pumps, VFDs, and blowers in order to reduce the down time of the process

Sequencing of field instrumentation to the PLC system and do the commissioning

Review of design drawings and provide technical corrections and acceptance

Conduct FAT process to evaluate the product/control panel acceptance

Provide technical direction and guidance to contractors for execution of the project

Creating O&M manuals, safe working procedures, and writing technical bulletin

Inspect the field installations of control panels and field instrumentation

Arizona Public Service (contract) 01/2017 to 03/2017

SCADA/Network Analyst

Responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and configuring RTUs. I was also responsible to help field personal to trouble shoot the network issues in order to reduce the RTU down time.

First Solar Electric Inc. 11/2012 to 10/2016

Instrumentation and Control Engineer

Engineering, design, and configuration of process control

Worked as an Instrumentation and Control Engineer for an EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) firm that do solar power plants

Responsibility includes bid support, engineering, design, control system development, SCADA system design and engineering, selection of instrumentation to meet performance guarantee, MET (meteorological) station design, and product development

Creating drawings for BOS/field construction, power system design, creating functional block diagram, and the design of electrical control panels

Participating in engineering meetings, new project kick-off meetings, weekly updates, and part of design modifications

Engineering and design of national and international solar power plants

Hydro Controls and Pump Systems (contract) 04/2012 to 09/2012

Instrumentation Engineer

Worked as a Field Service Engineer for a water treatment company that deal with City of Avondale, City of Phoenix, City of Goodyear, City of Buckeye, and number of other projects.

Responsible for the startup, performance validation, and final commissioning of water treatment plants

Well experienced with P&ID, loop checking, and troubleshooting of field instruments - FITs, LTs, PTs, TTs, FCV, LS, PDIS, working with different types of VFDs, and chemical injection pumps

Field instrumentation calibration and the scaling of Analog signals. Strong knowledge on AB PLCs and the configuration of SCADA systems.

Ecotality North America (contract) 10/ 2011 to 03/2012

Product Support Engineer

Product Support Engineer of Blink level 3 DC Fast Chargers for electric cars

This project involved the commissioning of the system, trouble shooting, and implementing modifications to the system. This project also involves preparing TSBs, supervising technicians, and the implementation at the client's place.

Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold, Miami, AZ 11/2010 to 07/2011

Instrumentation Engineer

Instrumentation Engineer for a copper mining company

In depth knowledge of data sheets, instrumentation drawings, I/O wiring diagrams, and P&IDs

Worked with different field instruments for temperature, pressure, flow, vibration, DP, and level transmitters

Knowledge of SCADA Systems and their configuration. I have good knowledge of programming and network communication, P&IDs, loop checking, and PLC programming

Field instrumentation calibration and the scaling of Analog signals

Layne Christensen Company, Chandler, AZ 09/ 2007 to 07/2009

Electrical Engineer

(Water treatment division)

PLC programmer in a water treatment industry

Reviewing PLC code and modifying for particular application

Sequencing field instrumentation, scaling for analog signals, and tuning the control loops

Allen-Bradley PLC controls the automatic operation and sequencing of the equipment

Worked on several sites that are for Arsenic and nitrate removal from well water.

Responsible for the startup, performance validation, and final commissioning of the LayneOx coagulation/filtration water treatment plants

Good knowledge of P&ID, loop checking and troubleshooting of field instruments like FITs, LTs, PTs, TTs, FCV, LS, PDIS and different types of chemical injection pumps

Field instrumentation calibration and the scaling of analog signals

Familiar with C-more and EZ Touch operator interface programs

EIC Engineers, Phoenix, AZ (contract) 03/2007 to 08/2007

Instrumentation and Control Engineer

I&C Engineer for city of Phoenix RTU replacement lift station project

Replacing the older control schemes like OPTO 22, chatterbox with MODICON systems

Designed the P&ID for modification, loop checking, FAT Test, and MOPOs

Contract project for six months

Fortech Software Tempe, AZ (contract) 07/2006 to 02/2007

Electrical Engineer

PLC Programmer on Allen Bradley Micro Logix 1100 programmable controllers with Wonderware Intouch HMI

Designed new windows and graphics, worked with Quick Scripts and Window Scripts, configured alarms, real time, and historical trends

Gained experience in I/O addressing, trouble shooting, and input/output communication

AArkay Instruments (p) Ltd, Mumbai, India 04/2003 to 01/2006

Instrumentation Engineer

Project Lead for modification of a petro-chemical plant

Gained experience in SCADA interfacing and online modifications

Installed junction boxes, mounting meters and performed all other work related to a running plant

Gained knowledge about various types of field instruments, pumps, blowers, and developed a familiarity with plant operations

TRAINING / EXPERIENCE:

Plant training in Distributed Control Systems and applications, SCADA, and PLCs at JRD Tata Automation training center, Pune.

TPS/TDC 3000

Implemented different control systems

Developed graphics using display builder and picture editor

Wrote control language program for batch processors

Developed report logs and journals

PLC - ALLEN BRADLEY 5/30, SLC 5/03, SLC 500

Architecture and hardware

I/O addressing

Developed ladder logic

SCADA interfacing

PLANTSCAPE SCADA

Building points

Developed graphics

Operation of schemes

Work Authorization: Citizen

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