Brief Summary

I am Mechanical graduate Engineer and certified in Corporate Finance and Professional Management. Also certified and trained in Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Asset Management (PAS55). During my career I have served with different multinational companies (AES, NOMAC, National power and Wapda) of Power and Water desalination in different countries including United Kingdom (EMEA Regional AES Head Office covering Europe, CIS, Asia and Middle East businesses), Saudi Arabia (Main Head Office NOMAC managing all Power & Water Desalination plants of the Company), Sri Lanka, Qatar and Pakistan. An adaptable, committed and reliable team player who works hard to meet exacting company standards and strives to produce a quality result. During my professional career, I got different technical, management and performance enhancement trainings, seminars and conferences in USA, U.K., China, Middle East, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

I am a power and water generation operations, maintenance and performance management expert with enthusiasm for sustainable optimization, organizational culture development, and positive change management. I have a proven track record for finding and implementing innovative solutions to processes and engineering challenges in order to improve reliability and efficiency using expert problem solving techniques, process improvement techniques (Operational Excellence programme) and team skills. My specialties include Asset management framework (PAS55 standards) implementation, Best Operating and Maintenance Practices development, Root Cause Analysis (RCA certified from RCI USA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (trained in RCM techniques) and risk based budgeting, project management and construction, team building, Capital spending analysis (CAPEX & OPEX), Corporate Financial and P & L Management, Risk Management, leading task forces to improve the efficiency (Heat Rate) of our businesses, regulatory compliance to include cultural safety, environmental, and NERC requirements, facilitation skills, training and personnel development. I have a proven track record in world class benchmarking design and development KPI consolidation and performance reporting for board members and external stakeholders, objective setting and strategic alignment. Acting as a Champion for safety, Health and Environment ensuring that all statutory obligations of Company safety rules and environmental standards (DSEAR, COSHH and NEBOSH certification) are complied with.

I have vast experience of working in operations, commercial, construction, commissioning and start-up of new and in operation CCGT power and water desalination plants having key responsibilities, to review and comment of all operating and control philosophies submitted by EPC contractors and ensure their correct implementation as per OEM procedures, to supervise and monitor the site work progress, conduct and monitor plant and facility performance and reliability test runs, tracking of project schedule. Negotiation and review of Power & Water Purchase Agreement (PWPA), Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA), Operations & Maintenance (O & M) Agreement, EPC contracts with respective parties. As an operations manager was responsible and accountable for the continuous safe, environmental compliant, reliable, and efficient operations and maintenance of operational areas. Also providing leadership, coaching, counseling, advising, and teaching others through day to day contact with team members, meeting system load requirements of the plant and maintaining power plant equipment. Setting expectations, monitor, and evaluate performance of direct reports. Also to prepare, control, and administer plans, processes, and budgets to achieve business results relating to overall performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.

Work Experience/Career History

1.Self Employed United Kingdom – Essex 2014 to - date

Provide operational and technical support services to the Power Industry

2.First National Operation & Maintenance Company Ltd. (NOMAC), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

General Manager Performance and Operating, 2013 – 2014

3.AES Electric Ltd Richmond, U.K - Performance & Operations Manager, 2008 – 2013

At NOMAC and AES Electric (Head Offices), I was responsible for driving the technical and operational performance of the businesses. I was responsible for the Company’s consolidated performance reporting and synthesizing the data to help steer the Company fleet towards ever improving operational and maintenance performance. Also responsible in facilitating Strategic Asset Management best practices, through competency development, standards, processes & technologies driving operational excellence in the businesses. Key responsibilities include:

Operational & Technical Role (Asset Management Role)

To develop Company’s standard Best Practice Guidelines (Operations, Maintenance and Loss Prevention) and further to help businesses in implanting in their operating and maintenance policies and practices

Establish Asset Management Strategies, define Asset Management Maturity Matrix to evaluate current performance and identify action plan to raise the maturity level

Monitor and facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) development and reporting through PROACT software

Assist plants to review their maintenance plan to ensure it embraces good Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) techniques including the development of Asset Risk Register. Provide businesses RCM training and development opportunities

Develop and implement “Capital Expenditure Management Guidelines”, CAPEX projects evaluation and approval procedures

Review key projects and investment decisions reporting to Board of Directors on project technical and financial risks and strengths

To assist businesses in Plant Outage Planning, Execution, Inspection and Reporting

Facilitate the (Power & Desalination Plants) Engineering Knowledge Communities

Communicating with different stakeholders including Plant, O&M Managers, Investors, Business Developers, Project Company Boards and HSE specialists

Ensure effective use of the company’s Operational Excellence programme, design to solve problems and continuous improvement techniques. Arrange training, maintain records and prepare progress reports on the programme to brief board members

Review the range of Operational Risks Assessments that have been undertaken at each plant to verify that there is no outstanding risk that should be addressed

Assist the plants to assess and monitor their Heat Rate (Plant Efficiency) and implement best practice solutions to deliver against targets

Expertise in Microsoft applications and experience with modules of SAP

Operational Performance Management & Reporting Role

Consolidation monthly operations, EHS & financial KPIs reports. Setting and monitoring Company and department’s goal and objective. To prepare Company performance reports and presentations for board members and external stakeholders

Initiating and approving the operational objective setting, performance reviews and the development of improvement plans through Company’s standard Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Peer to Peer Reviews and the budget setting process. To ensures businesses set Operations KPI targets in line with financial budget & consolidate all businesses KPIs to prepare reports at Corporate level

Monitoring trends and commenting on the operational and financial performance metrics of the operating businesses in the group and help them for their respective operational performance improvements

Initiating and contributing to Corp quarterly and annually business reviews on Generation and Distribution operational KPIs and explain the variances to COO Team on businesses KPIs, update the operational performance, making recommendations for performance improvements within the businesses and following up on the action items raised

Conduct and attend monthly businesses group and one on one individual businesses monthly calls for the operational update at Corp and plant levels and follow up for action items for operational performance improvements

Leading and developing multi-functional teams and working at the junction of finance, strategy, engineering and operations; Helping departments in Budget preparation

Help and assist new businesses in establishing and introducing standard KPIs, their calculation methodology and its impact on respective businesses performance scoring i.e. annual compensation bonuses

Safety

Supporting the regional Safety Health and Environment lead by ensuring full and accurate safety reporting, following up on lessons learnt from near misses or incidents

Work with Task forces to establish Safety RCA Procedure, Techniques and methodology

Helping businesses in establishing Safety and Environment Management systems,

Hazard awareness and environment regulations DSEAR, COSHH, Noise at Work, ISO

14001 and NEBOSH certificate

4.AES Kelanitissa 163 MW CCGT Plant - Operations Performance and Fuel Manager - Colombo Sri Lanka Aug 2006 – Dec 2007

5.AES Ras Laffan Power (756 MW & 40 MIGD) & Desalination Plant – Operations, Commissioning & Commercial Engineer – Qatar Nov 2002 -July 2006

Responsible and accountable for the continuous safe, environmental compliant, reliable, and efficient operations and maintenance of operational areas. Key responsibilities were:

Providing leadership, coaching, counseling, advising and teaching through day to day contact with team members

Meeting system load requirements of the plant and maintaining power plant equipment

Setting targets, monitor, and evaluate performance of direct reports

Prepare, control, and administer plans, processes, and budgets to achieve business results relating to overall performance, cost efficiency, and reliability

Developed a disciplined heat rate program to test and collect data for the assessment of Performance of the gas turbine, HRSG, steam turbine and other plant equipment including performance improvement in the areas of Reliability, Cost and Efficiency. Further to prioritize opportunities to improve the Heat Rate

Developed templates to calculate Heat rate deviation in both engineering units (e.g. BTU/kWh, kJ/kg, etc.) and commercial impact (e.g. $, £, €, etc.) i.e. Heat Rate deviation Cost

Developed Gas Turbine Compressor Wash Adviser Excel template and Fuel Demand Model (FDM) to ensure plant energy payments meeting PWPA fuel cost targets

Led a team in selecting and installing EtaPRO of General Physics USA to install its performance monitoring and optimization system at RLPC plant, later worked as owner of this performance optimization system

Outage Management & CMMS Update - To place overall outage planning that maximizes plant run time and minimizes forced and scheduled maintenance outages. To ensure the effective use of Plant Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

Commercial Contracts Management - Interaction with load dispatcher, Owner Company, maintenance service provider and Fuel supplier in the light of respective commercial contracts PPA, O&M, LTSA, EPC, FSA and settlement agreements

Fuel Management - Responsible to maintain Fuel stock with respect to dispatcher load forecast and impact of fuel price variation

To lead AES APEX team and work as an APEX knowledge manager in peruse of improvement of different plant existing problems by using different problem solving techniques PDCA & Kaizen. Implementation of 5’S in different plant departments is another task

To review and comment of all operating and control philosophies submitted by EPC contractors and ensure their correct implementation as per OEM procedures, to supervise and monitor the site work progress, conduct and monitor plant and facility performance and reliability test runs as per PTC procedures, tracking of project schedules

To perform sensitivity analysis (CKPI, critical key performance indicators) of the KPI’s and define the financial impact on EBITDA, PTC and POCF due to %age changes in KPI

Operation generating KPI posting on Comshare, Micro Gads Gold Web site (NERC standards)

6.Kot Addu Power Company, Pakistan, Senior Shift Charge Engineer 1996-2002

(1600 MW, CCGT plant) International Power, IPR of U.K

7.GTPS Kot Addu, Pakistan, Shift Charge Engineer 1993-1996

(1600 MW, CCGT plant) Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA)

Responsible and accountable for the continuous safe, environmental compliant, reliable, and efficient operations and maintenance of operational areas. Key responsibilities were:

Providing leadership, coaching, counseling, advising and teaching through day to day contact with team members

Meeting system load requirements of the plant and maintaining power plant equipment

Setting targets, monitor, and evaluate performance of direct reports.

Prepare, control, and administer plans, processes, and budgets to achieve business results relating to overall performance, cost efficiency, and reliability

Monitoring and analyzing all parameters, affecting thermal efficiency of units and their associated auxiliaries. Also performing cost comparisons of different day-to-day operational activities and guide teams to optimize their operation of the plant to maximize efficiency

Working as a safety controller, responsible for the safe and sound isolations of the plant, Low, medium and high voltage apparatus. Also working as an incident controller responsible to return the plant on normal operation safely after occurring of accidents like fire, chemical spillage or any toxic gas leakage

Promoting, developing and organizing maintenance activities on shift, in conjunction with day-based maintenance staff, to ensure smooth operation whilst managing technical and commercial risks

Liaising with company functions like gas quota settlement with gas regulatory authorities and to fulfill load demands from our load dispatch center as per load demand

Responsible for operational interfaces/procedures, logging/reporting of operating parameters and recording the shift events.

Responsible to keep update Q4CAMM (A software program for maintenance management system). It includes recording plant defective jobs for maintenance section and confirming its completion later on by closing those defective jobs in Q4CAMM.

Integrity of the plant. To test run different stand by plant to confirm their reliable operation

Personal achievements:

Developed new advanced reporting system for NOMAC/AES businesses to represent monthly Operational, Safety and Financial performances

P & L Management (Gas Turbine Uprate): Heat Rate and Output Capacity Improvement Plan: Total capital cost of the project USD 550K with GT improvement in output of 2.1% and heat rate of 1.2% in open cycle. Also following the HGPI and GTG up-rate at AES Kelanitissa, conduct the performance test to verify the performance improvements

Developed Excel templates for Capacity and Output energy revenue invoices

Thoroughly studied the effects of plant frequent starts and stops and hence furnished the recommendations named as “Two shift operations effects” while working at IPP KAPCO

Developed economical operating procedures to minimize the plant auxiliary consumption (up to 10% of the total auxiliary consumption) with the best possible way to run the plant in an economical fashion

Professional Training Record:

Ras Laffan Power Company Limited:

Plant Safety/Occupational Health

General Electric (Mark V Speed-tronic Control system) Gas Turbine control System

Westinghouse Emerson Ovation NT Operation Course of Distributed Control System (DCS)

ABB, LV/MV Switchgear Training

Alstom, Gas Insulated Substation B 105 (GIS, HV 220 KV) Training Course

Alstom, Gas Insulated Substation, Space 2000 V2.12 (System Protection & Automatic Control)

Doosan Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) Training

Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)

Technical Training (Six Months)

Technical training covered the fields of Power Generation, Power Transmission, Grid stations and Distribution of Electrical Energy

Basic Management Training (Six Months)

Basic Management training covered the fields of managerial skill and organizational Rules, such as pension rules, Group life insurance, and medical and other company rules.

Advance Technical Sector Specific Generation Training (One-Year)

Operation and Maintenance training of Gas/Steam & CCGT Plants. It also covered the field of instrumentation and control and Load Dispatching.

Gas/Steam turbine simulator operation course

Gas/Steam turbine simulator operation course at WAPDA Engineering Academy Faisalabad.

Combined cycle power plant course

Combined cycle power plant course With M/s SIEMENS at GTPS Kot Addu

High, Medium & Low Voltage Switching

HV switching training skills include to de-energise/energise the Line feeders, bus bars, power transformers, circuit breakers and isolators etc.

Educational Qualifications

University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Equivalent UK Engineering verified by UK NARIC)

Pakistan Engineering Council Membership no (Recognized). MECH/9412

The University of York, United Kingdom

Certificate in Management (Management course for professional Managers)

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

AES Emerging Leaders Program (Corporate Finance and Management)

Reliability Center, Inc, Hopewell Virginia (USA)

Certified in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Failure Analysis – Lead Investigator

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