Engineer Automation and Control

JAYARAJ K. P.

E Mail: **.*******@*****.***

PROFILE SUMMARY

Six-Sigma Green belt certified Electrical Engineer working in Industrial Process Automation domain of Honeywell, with 13 years of rich experience in Industrial Process Automation solutions, Project Engineering / Commissioning, Control System maintenance, Marketing and sales support, DCS software development lifecycle, Program Management, Planning and People Management.

SKILL SETS

• Proficiency in Honeywell’s Distributed Control Systems (DCS) – Experion PKS – and Industrial Automation and Control solutions.

• Expertise in designing, engineering, erection and commissioning, troubleshooting and maintenance of DCS.

• Proficient and Subject matter expert in Upgrade and Migration of all Experion subsystems across software releases, patches and hardware (C200 to C300 upgrades and upgrading hardware platforms)

• Proficiency in configuration of Experion system components including Controllers (C300, C200, C200E, ACE and Simulation Controllers), gateways (PGM, FIM, DNB, PBM and SIM), all types of Input/Output (IO) families (1756, PMIO and Series C)

• Expertise in interfacing the system through various options (DSA, OPC and other open protocols like ProfiBus, DeviceNet, Modbus and FieldBus) in all supported topologies (FTE, EtherNet and ControlNet).

• Expertise in installation of Experion system in all configurations (Control and SCADA) and with all supported topologies.

• Knowledge of maintenance of Experion system including healthiness checks of all subsystems

• Virtualization of Experion PKS system using VMware vSphere.

• Experience in requirements gathering, marketing and promotional activities.

• Excellent domain knowledge of non-Ferrous metal Mining, Milling and Smelting.

• Multitasking with programs and bringing all of them to successful completion.

• Ability to use Six Sigma Tools for designing efficient process and products.

• Ability to understand Industrial Process and prepare Control Logics for Process Control.

• Knowledge of Industrial communication protocols like HART, ProfiBus, DeviceNet etc.

• Proficient in MS Office Tools and MS Project.

• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills.

• Confident and self-motivated.

• Flexible, willing to learn and adapt to changes.

• Ability to think out of the box and find new and innovative solutions for the problems at hand.

• Ability to work in ambiguous situations and meet the expectation.

• Team player and a motivating Team Leader.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1. Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab: Sep 2006 to present

Project Lead – April 2010 onwards.

Senior Engineer – Sep 2006 to April 2010

• Project Lead for Honeywell Experion Migration and Interoperability (M&I), Experion backup & Recovery (EBR) and Experion Support & Maintenance (ESM) teams (10 members).

• Estimating and managing resource, efforts, time and risk for all projects involved.

• Testing and troubleshooting any issues seen in Process Control including those related to Plant Automation interfaces and those related to sub-system interactions.

• Troubleshooting of DCS System Faults and IO Systems.

• Finalizing requirements for multiple programs through VoCs, data analysis and analysis of Honeywell User Input Sub-committee (UIS) inputs.

• Subject Matter Expert in Migration and Interoperability functionality for Solution Consultants, Sales, Projects, Technical Assistance Centre and Centre of Excellence teams.

• Spearhead activities that mark the group as the Centre of Excellence in Experion Migration and Interoperability function like

- Participation and demonstrations in User Groups, User Summits.

- Advising sales team in repackaging solutions.

- Technical assistance for sales proposals and field issues.

- Performing Proof of Concepts for customer proposals.

- Assisting Projects groups in critical Migrations at customer sites.

- Training the different groups including trainers of training college.

• Researching and devising solutions for customer requirements (secured 3.4 million USD revenue in one of the projects).

• Ensuring quality and timely delivery of multiple projects as a Project Lead with complete accountability of the team deliverables.

• Applying six-sigma principles and tools to deliver sustainable business results.

• Conducting Design of Experiments (DoE) for improving product design and for determining capacity limits leading to efficient product designs and reduced hardware requirements.

• Developing mechanisms to monitor team efficiency and do tracking and course corrections.

• Defining automation and virtualization strategy for the team and help implementing them.

• Defining the validation strategy based on the system architecture and reduced the time-to-market for critical bug fixes to customers.

• Define and manage the best practices and sustain them through SOPs.

• Practice and ensure cross functional collaboration for smooth program execution.

• Report on quality and progress to all important stakeholders including senior management.

• Facilitate and participate in all process audits – internal and involving customers.

• Create and retain an effective talent pool.

• Perform Team development and progress evaluation activities like mentoring, coaching, effort recognition, defining KRAs in alignment with the five year objectives, performance apprisals, ratings and salary planning.

AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS at Honeywell Technology Solutions (Current employer)

• Rated as the best performer in the Business Unit for four consecutive years.

• Chairman’s Award for Everyday Heroes in Jan 2015 for contribution to Customer service.

• Personal Letter of Appreciation from Honeywell President for contributions in transforming HTS Bangalore as a Centre of Excellence for Experion Migration functionality.

• Personal Letter of Appreciation from Honeywell President for outstanding efforts in ensuring quality of Field Device Manager

• Outstanding Achiever Awards in 2012 and 2013 for contribution to the business.

• Bravo Award at Business Unit level for technical contribution.

• Individual Excellence Awards for contributions to Honeywell product development Programs.

• Process Excellence Award for outstanding Process adherence by the team.

• Team Excellence Awards for excellent team work in Honeywell Programs.

2. Hindustan Zinc Limited (part of Vedanta Resources PLC) July 2002 to Sep 2006

Associate Manager (Control & Instrumentation) – Oct 2005 to Aug 2006

Engineer (Control & Instrumentation) – Jul 2002 to Oct 2005

• Lead a team of 7 Engineers as the Instrumentation in-charge for the 170,000 Tons Per Annum (TPA) Zinc Smelter Project.

• Spearheaded the Automation of the Smelter as “Project Owner”.

• Responsible for the complete lifecycle of Plant Automation package (DCS) from estimation, generating requirements to awarding of contract, smooth interfacing of the different instrumentation contractors with the DCS, Erection, Commissioning and Acceptance test.

• Involved in contract finalization from Tender approval, Offer comparison, technical recommendation and instrumentation contract approval for the EPC project.

• Worked with the Engineering Consultant – UHDE India Ltd. – to finalize the instrumentation philosophy, specifications and scope of Instrumentation work.

• Verified and approved the various schematics submitted by the contractors.

• Planning and tracking the progress of the Instrumentation work of the different contractors

• Part of the team responsible for startup, stabilization & ramping up the production of the Hydro Zinc Smelter to its full capacity.

• Modified the DCS logics as and when required by the process.

• Ensured smooth integration of the different parts of the Smelter with the Plant DCS.

• Maintained DCS through Control logic modification / creation, HMI development and report configuration according to Process requirements.

• Proposed and Integrated the Plant DCS with the ERP system through indigenously developed methods without any additional Hardware or Software.

• Optimized the performance of the Plant DCS and Controller through intense exercise of continuous audits, modifications of the DCS logics, graphics and the control networks.

• Proposed and Implemented live project on “SCADA based Energy Management system” resulting in saving worth 630,000 INR to the company.

TRAININGS / CERTIFICATIONS

1. Six-Sigma Green belt: From Honeywell.

2. LEAD: A development program for frontline leaders of Honeywell.

3. Executive Management Course: At International Management Institute, Delhi.

4. Field Instruments: Training program on on-line pH Analyzers at Boliden Zinc, Norway.

QUALIFICATION

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Equivalent to Canadian Bachelor’s Degree (Four years)

Years of Study : 1998-2002

Institution : Regional Engineering College, Calicut. (National Institute of Technology)

ACADEMIC PROFILE

• Overall aggregate of 73.91 % for Bachelor of Technology.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Date of birth : 24th March 1979.

Sex : Male

Citizenship : Indian

Work authorization : India, Canada (PR)

Languages known : English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada

CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone# : +91-962******* (Mobile)

e-mail : **.*******@*****.***

JAYARAJ K. P.

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