Design of Heavy Industrial Steel and R.C.C. Structures

SHRIPAD THOMBRE

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SARATOGA - CA – 95070, Phone (Cell)1-408-***-****

U.S.A. E-mail: *********@*****.***

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering

June 1958 to June 1961

Pune University, India

Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management

June 1982 to June 1983

Ravishanker University, India

A.I.I.I.E., Industrial Engineering

July 1985 to July 1987

Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai (Bombay), India

• Equivalent to a bachelor’s degree

• Winner of Hatte Gold Medal for being the ranked #1 in the graduate ship examination

- It is worthwhile to note here that my Engineering Degree has been evaluated & approved by

ECEI –ABET- U.S.A.

PUBLICATIONS

• Design of gantry girders and steel structures

• Fatigue considerations in the design of heavy duty gantry girders of EOT cranes

Management training courses

(Conducted at Management Training Institute, Steel Authority of India Ltd)

Enhancing management effectiveness (10 days)

Project management (7 days)

Finance for non-finance managers (10 days)

Action leadership (7 days)

Senior management techniques (14 days)

The courses consisted of lectures as well as hands-on training by experts in these fields. The participants

included members of various manufacturing, design, finance and marketing departments at steel plants owned

and operated by the Steel Authority of India Ltd.

SKILLS PROFILE

Cross-functional exposure to various technological disciplines as a result of being

responsible for large teams spanning multiple functional and technological areas

Planning, techno-economic, analytical, communications and troubleshooting

capabilities acquired resulting from working against deadlines and resolving problems

faced in the operation of various units of the steel plant

Relationship management skills – management of teams made up of multiple levels of

managers and individual contributors in various engineering disciplines

Understanding of cost-efficiencies – project planning & scheduling.

Experience in document maintenance and control from managing technical archives

and library

- Quite conversant with U.S. Design Codes e.g. AISC, ACI, NDS etc; and use of “Microsoft Office”

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Freelance Structural Design Consultant

Jan 2000 to present

• Successfully completed the design of supporting structures and foundations for

material handling system for Essar Steel Ltd; Hajira, India

• Successfully completed the design of supporting structures for material handling

system for Birla Cement Plant; Chittorgarh, India

• Design & detailing of R.C.C; Steel & Prestressed Concrete bridges.

Bhilai Steel Plant, India March 1963 to October 1999

Worked at various positions in Bhilai Steel Plant (an unit of Steel Authority of india

Ltd;) from 1963 to1999 and retired in 1999 as Deputy General Manager in 1999. Was in

charge of a full-fledged in house Design Organization for 6 years at the time of retirement.

Bhilai Steel Plant is a large Integrated Steel Production Company having facilities right

from mining of Iron Ore to finished Steel products.

It comprises of its own captive Iron Ore mines, Coke Ovens, Blast Furnaces, BOFs,

Blooming and Billet Mills, Structural Rolling Mills, Rail Mill, & Pig Casting units.

It also has ancillary facilities viz. Sinter Plants, Refractory material Plants, Structural

fabrication shops, Foundries, Gas Cleaning and Storage facilities, Captive power

Generation units for ensuring un-interrupted power supply to production units which must

run on 24X7 basis.

Bhilai Steel Plant production capacity is 5.5 million tonnes of Crude Steel per annum.

The plant has its own Township with 50000 houses, Schools, shopping complexes and

Hospitals.

Responsibilities –

• Managing a team of 8 technological and 5 services sections consisting of 70 engineers at

various managerial levels and about 60 draftsmen engaged in preparation of design and

detailed drawings.

• - Controlled, guided and supervised different technological and services sections as the

head of the design department

• Design and drawings of steel and R.C.C. structures & foundations for expansion of various

units of the steel plant.

• Providing detailed technological specifications.

• Managed technical archives and library of about 500,000 documents,

drawings and 2000 books

• Providing the Design Schemes on urgent basis for the strengthening and rehabilitation

steel structures of the plant as and when the failures\damages took place due to various

causes.

• Providing Design Schemes Structural Modifications for the existing

Production units for enhancing production during modernization

• Led the Design teams on projects relating to mining, roads and internal railway layouts.

• Design & Detailing of Gantry Girders for heavy duty E.O.T. cranes –

capacity up to 350 Tons

• Design & Drawings of Water & Earth retaining structures .

Assistant Engineer July 1961 to July 1962

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Irrigation department, Government of Maharashtra, India

• Worked on design of earth dams of medium irrigation project

Additional Information: I am a U.S. Citizen

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