Ram Shankar

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Stony Point, New York 10980

Home: 845-***-**** Cell : 845-***-****

e-mail : ac6mju@r.postjobfree.com

Position Desired: Sr. Project Engineer /Construction, Commissioning, Validation Engineer and/or Sr. Instrumentation & Controls Engineer or any combination thereof.

Experience: 10 yrs Project Engineering/Management- 5 1/2 years of Project Engineering/ Managing, Construction, Commissioning in pharmaceuticals cGMP environment enhanced with Graduate Certificate in Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing (NJIT 2009) and certification in Project Management (Boston University 2007).

Capital Appropriations Requests, Monitored, Controlled, Reported Capital projects progress, schedule and budgets; Achieved Dept. goals.

Completed Capital projects on-time and within budgets; Achieved Dept. goals including Construction, Commissioning & Startup.

Developed/Approved Project Documents including Project Justification, Scope, Work Breakdowns, URS, FRS, Cost estimates, Engineering & Design Firms’ work outputs.

Developed and Executed FAT & SAT Test plans, Commissioning Test Plans and IQ/OQ/PQ protocols and final reports.

Specified, Purchased Instruments and valves. Assisted Maintenance Dept. with PMOs and supervised union crew performing Instrument Calibration.

Familiar with US standards such as NFPA, NEC, ANSI, API, ISA, OSHA, FDA, ISPE, etc., and European standards.

plus 4 1/2 years of Project Engineering in oil refinery engineering, design, construction.

13 yrs total construction, commissioning and start up experience. Supervised Union and Non-Union crews.

29 + years as Senior/ Lead Instrumentation & Controls and Automation engineer(promoted to Project Instrument Engineer at MW Kellogg-2 years). Completed PLC and DCS programming training classes.

Responsibilities :

Establish control strategies, develop P&ID’s. Monitor, Control, Report project budget, man-hours and schedule.

Size control valves, safety relief devices and flow metering devices.

Specify, Select and Purchase Instruments, Valves, DCS, PLCs, analyzer systems including chromatographs, exhaust gas stack monitoring systems, weigh systems for monitoring, controlling and alarming of process equipment and systems.

Prepare Instrument data sheets for client review and approval and for vendor inquiry packages.

Evaluate vendors’ proposals and application of various types of measurement and control technologies and make selection.

Prepare and Submit O&M Manuals for client’s PMO generation.

Field assistance- installation and wiring, calibration, loop checks, commissioning and startup (supervised Union and Non-Union crews).

Develop Logic Diagrams, Loop Diagrams, Ladder Diagrams, Installation Details, check I/E drawings, control panels, mechanical packaged systems, interface with electrical equipment including, MCCs, VFDs. Familiar with 480 V and under power distribution.

Review/Approve Configurations and Test procedures for FATs & SATs performed on DCS, PLC and control panels. Programmed A-B PLC and Delta V DCS.

• Received “Excellent Service” Award from Linde- year 2000.

• Led up to six engineers and three designers on projects.

Oct 2015- Contract Instrument Engineer

June 2017 DuPont/ Belco Technologies., NJ- Engineering, design, BOM, procurement of Instruments, analyzers & control valves, PLC interfacing, for wet gas scrubbers for Refineries and Ships. Instrumental in setting up Instrument specs for ships pollution control projects. Emerson/ Fisher & E&H sizing programs. Company relocating.

March 2011- Contract Project Engineer/ Instrument Engineer (CDI Corp)

July 2015 Phillips 66 Refinery, NJ- Small Cap Projects including vessels, piping, valves retrofitting/additions -SPI InTools, Installation Cost and Manhour estimates, Project budget forecasts, scheduling, monitoring, FEL1,2,3 AFE documents, MOC’s, SAP (Procurment & Spares), engineering, design, procurement, construction and commissioning, completed projects within budgets and on time. Supervised A/E firms Engineering & Design. Completed projects.

May 2004- Title : Sr. Project Engineer II (acted as Proj Mgr)/ Commissioning Engr– Diversity Council Member

Nov. 2009 Wyeth Pharmaceuticals- Operations Group- Capacity Improvement Projects.

Material Improvement projects construction, Building Modifications, Tablet Press project, Vials Fill line and Packaging Line, Chromatography skid, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) interfacing, Facilities HVAC, BMS, New Serotypes Projects- both in cGMP and non-GMP areas. In addition to Project Engineering & construction work,

Specified and purchased instruments and valves with documentation for cGMP areas. Assisted Maintenance Dept. with PMOs and supervised union crew performing Instrument Calibration.

Wrote Commissioning Test procedures from scratch for variety of equipment including Vials Fill Line (Bosch vials filling, stoppering, capping, tray loading, air flow, clean room requirements, air flow) and Packaging lines.

Wrote/Approved IQ/OQ/PQ protocols, reports, approved Validation Master Plan for vials filling line, cleaning and performed Qualification of Chill rooms, balances, freezers, mixers, glass washers, chromatography skid, clean room design, verify Hepa filters certs, room hum/temp/press diffls, alarms with control system. Familiar with the new ASTM E2500 Standard. One of the two engineers that Reviewed and Commented on the ISPE’s Commissioning & Qualification Guideline (in 2008) on Director’s request.

Feb 2003- Title : Sr. Automation Engineer

May 2004 Crompton Corp.(Chemicals)- Operations Group- Capacity Improvement projects.

Prepared Instrument data sheets, Instrument List, Loop diagrams. Field

Delta V DCS Programming and implementation. Field assistance checking wiring, controls and Start up.

Corp. Re-organizing.

Oct 2000- Title: Lead Instrument Engineer

Jun 2002 BOC Process Plants, Murray Hill, NJ (Linde AG in 2002). ISO 9001 certified

Lead Engineer for large air separation with automatic trailer filling project to completion. Sized Control valves, Safety Valves and Flow meters, prepared Instrument Data Sheets, Purchased instruments and valves, developed Loop diagrams, checked installation details and wiring diagrams.

TI and Siemens PLC’s interfacing. Attended and participated in CGMP Training.

Company relocated.

Jan 1992- Title: Senior Instrument Engineer

July 2000 Lotepro Corp./Linde AG, Valhala, NY/Tulsa, OK. ISO 9001 certified

Lead engineer for Air Separation, Hydrogen PSA skid, Helium and municipality secondary wastewater treatment projects for city of Los Angeles and Boston with elaborate client specifications and contract requirements. Sized Control valves, Safety Valves and Flow meters, prepared Instrument Data Sheets, Purchased instruments and valves, developed Loop diagrams, checked installation details and wiring diagrams.

Field assistance and Loop checkout with Bailey Infi system for ASU plant.

Reviewed/Approved Bailey infi 90. Foxboro I/A, Moore Apacs DCS Configurations and performed Allen-Bradley PLC 5 programming modifications. Company relocated.

Nov1989- Title: Senior Instrument Engineer

Jan 1992 Akzo Nobel, Dobbs Ferry, NY

Revamp and expansion of existing plants. Sized Control valves, Safety Valves and Flow meters, prepared Instrument Data Sheets, Purchased instruments and valves, developed Loop diagrams, checked installation details and wiring diagrams. Field assistance and supervision of union crew (2 mos). Engineering and design of a new pilot plant instrumentation and controls.

Dec 1988- Title: Senior Instrument Engineer

Nov 1989 Treadwell Corp., Moonachie, NJ

Biofilter and activated carbon project. Sized Control valves, Safety Valves and Flow meters, prepared Instrument Data Sheets, Purchased instruments and valves, developed Loop diagrams, checked installation details and wiring diagrams. Field assistance and startup (2 mos).

Moore Mycro system.

Company closed.

Dec 1984- Consulted as a Senior Instrument Engineer (direct position unavailable)

Dec 1988 Sized Control valves, Safety Valves and Flow meters, prepared Instrument Data Sheets, Purchased instruments and valves, developed Loop diagrams, checked installation details and wiring diagrams at following companies.

Lever Brothers, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Lead engineer for liquid detergent and bar soap projects. Variable Frequency and DC drives, weigh feeders. Field I/E engineer 4 mos.

Ciba Geigy, Toms River, NJ

In plant engineer, wastewater and vent gas treatment project. Revamp existing control systems, supervised field crew to completion (10 mos), met NJ DEC cleanup date. Fisher Provox system. Foxboro Spec 200.

Treadwell Corporation, NJ- Silver Ore Beneficiation Project.

Feb 1981- Title: Senior Instrument Engineer/Project Instrument Engineer

Dec 1984 M.W. Kellog Company, NJ

Senior Instrument Engineer promoted to Project Instrument Engineer. Lead engineer on Hess refinery total modernization project. Prepared Manhour

Estimates. Sized Control valves, Safety Valves and Flow meters, prepared Instrument Data Sheets, Purchased instruments and valves, developed Loop diagrams, checked installation details and wiring diagrams.

Field I/E engineer with fast track schedule (6 mos). Honywell TDC 2000, Modicon and T.I. PLC interfacing. Construction completed on schedule.

Lead engineer for ammonia and urea complex front- end engineering.

Conducted class on I&C equipment selection for various electrical area classifications. NJ operations closed.

Dec 1979- Title: Senior Instrument Engineer

Feb 1981 Lurgi Corp., NJ

Lead Engineer for a methanol synthesis project. Sized control valves, safety valves. Prepared/Checked Instrument data sheets, Instrument Installation Details, Loop diagrams, Wiring drawings and I/E Contract packages for field work. Foxboro intrinsically safe spec 200 system.

Education: B.S. Instrument Technology, Madras University, India.

Certificate in Project Management, Boston University, May 2007

Graduate Certificate in Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing, NJIT, May 2009

Training: Completed A-B Factory Talk View ME and PanelView Plus Programming Course, June, 2010

Completed A-B PLC SLC 500 Programming Course, Dec 2002

Completed Emerson DCS Delta V Operate Implementation Course, Jan 2003

Completed Lean Six Sigma Basics and Red Belt Certification 2008 at Wyeth

Process Safety study, Proctor and Gamble school, Cincinnati

Process Dynamics and Control, six 2-hour lectures, ISA, Morton Hausner of Mobil Research.

3M Total Quality Management

MS Project, Outlook, Power Point, Word, Excel

Personal: U.S. Citizen.

Societies: Member I.S.A., ISPE and PMI till 2011

References: Upon request

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