Project Manager Management

Shankar J. Panchavati *******@*****.*** PERMANENT ADDRESS: 5411 Pecan Hollow Drive Missouri City, Texas 77459, USA 281-***-**** CURRENT ADDRESS: PO Box 1297 Al Athaiba, Postal Code 130, Sultanate of Oman (096*-****-**** E X E CUT I V E SUMMARY

Results oriented value based leader with nearly 20 years delivering top quality projects.

Delivered several projects (some in parallel as well) in Contiguous United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Experienced in nurturing talent & leading teams with a track record of decisive engaged leadership and measurable results.

Intuitive & Innovative mindset in “planning quality in” and optimizing processes.

Called upon by various functional groups to help in implementing project management, risk management, quality assurance & reliability methodologies to help mitigate project execution/delivery barriers.

Bolster cultivated practical expertise with a graduate degree in electrical engineering. PRO F E S S I ONA L E X P E R I EN C E

PETRON GULF LLC, Oman (March 2013 - Present)

Senior Manager (Electrical & Instrumentation Division), Apr. 2015 - Present

• Driving PETRON’s Electrical and Instrumentation Division’s long term strategy

• Immediate focus is catering to Oman Refineries & Petrochemical Industries Company’s (ORPIC’s) Sohar Refinary Improvement Project where PETRON has been awarded US$ 110 Million Construction Contract encompassing Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation scope. Recently Petron was declared as the best contractor onsite in terms of productivity and quality Project Manager, Jun. 2013 – Apr. 2015

• Leading the overall PETRON’s Oil and Gas Engineering Construction effort for SHELL- Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO) Alkalyne Surfactant Polymer (ASP) Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Pilot Project.

• Responsible for all aspects of the project including, Safety; Planning; Scheduling; Budgeting; Mobilization; Procurement; Execution, Time, Cost, Quality, Risk management & control of On and off plot Civil Construction; Mechanical Skids, Piping, Pipeline installation & Testing; Electrical & Instrumentation Equipment Installation & Testing, Pre-commissioning and Demobilization.

• Coordinate o o o team budget multiple and of of 200+ manage priorities $12,people 000,000. including, (including safety, performance contract interpretation, reviews) budgeting, planning, resource

& material procurement/mobilization (including administering subcontract works), quality control and specification reviews.

• Liaise directly and work closely with our clients SNF (France) & PDO and TEBODIN (Engineering Team) to ensure smooth execution of the project.

• Instrumental in marketing and selling the idea to our Client (SNF & PDO) for fabricating a total of 23 Mechanical Skids, Tanks and Vessels for the project in our PETRON’s workshop ( ISO 9001, ASME certified) at Sohar, Oman, itself instead of finding another vendor.

• Part of the management team at PETRON that believed, promoted and achieved the SHELL-PDO safety culture of GOAL ZERO for this project.

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• Represent and market PETRON’s capabilities/interest at various forums, meetings and conferences to help generate new business. Part of the team of four people that helped win a

$3,000,000 two year contract with possibility of extension.

• Proposed and streamlined the procurement, subcontracting and inventory processes to meet ISO 9001 standards.

PANCHAVATI-SUBRAVETI LLC, Missouri City, Texas (February 2012 – February 2013) Partnered with my wife & setup a Technical & Business Consultancy Service PETRON GULF, Muscat, Oman (Feb. 2012 – Feb. 2013)

Minimized risk & ensure timely execution of projects by identifying & procuring locally for export - - personal engineering protective & construction equipment parts (PPE) & equipment

Identifying potential business partners in the USA and facilitate discussions with FTS SOLUTIONS, management. Stafford, Texas (Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2013)

Conceptualized the business need for a cost effective safety & compliance management solution.

Developed business & marketing strategy and created relevant marketing collateral. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Started engagement Stafford, with Texas potential clients including OSHA & EPA. (July 1995 - July 2012) Positions Held

Project Lead, AEC/Microcontroller Group

Project Manager, Analog Technology Development (ATD) Group Product/Test Engineer, Embedded Control Group

• Led the process qualification efforts of TI’s 1

st

65nm Flash technology device and co-managed

budget of $5,000,000. Project delivered 2 weeks ahead of schedule.

• Proved instrumental in strategizing, coordinating & driving successful completion of TI’s first (1 st

)

180nm Analog Flash process qualification effort.

• Led overall effort of continuous improvement strategy while working closely with several ATE manufacturing companies and multiple internal organizations spread across the globe to increase throughput o Implemented for efficient outlier on-time methodologies customer deliveries & optimized during flows initial while sampling standardizing and product test programs ramp. o Spearheaded and moving to the multi-tester site platform test environments migration, resource (savings of and $1,schedule 100,000 optimization per annum). projects

(savings of > $2,000,000 per annum).

• Single point of contact with customers (Robert Bosch, Ford, Delco and General Motors) to understand and align their needs with company goals.

• Developed standard test programs; audit, risk management and archiving procedures/ templates that got fanned out to the entire organization.

• Led several teams of product and test engineers in the process of managing multiple products with tight schedules from product definition to release to production (RTP). Shankar J. Panchavati, Page 3 of 3

• Responsible for functional test hardware design, hardware procurement & validation, test program development, product sampling, device characterization, datasheet closure (with cross- functional teams), reliability, qualification and production release.

• Sustained product ramp challenges while proactively managing project risk.

• Environmental, Safety, Health (ESH) Champion for more than 5 years. Was one of the team members instrumental in site safety education, preparedness and ensured that the site passed the safety audit, with only minor observations, the 1

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EDU C AT I ON time around.

T E C HN M.I S.C, Electrical A L S K I L Engineering L S UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, Cincinnati, Ohio 1994 COMPUTER SKILLS: Microsoft Office Applications (incl, Microsoft Project), Primavera, SQL, Spotfire, C++, UNIX, working knowledge of Oracle & SAP. METHODOLOGIES: Project and Risk Management, FMEA, SPC, Data and Root Cause Analysis ADD I T I ONA L I N F ORMAT I ON

• Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Champion, 2006 - Present

• Active Member of Project Management Institute (PMI.org)

• Completed 40 hours of Project Management Training (PMI's PMBOK 5).

• Auditor/Lead Auditor (ISO 9001:2008), IRCA Certified, 2013

• Six Sigma Green Belt, 2012

• Led the efforts at Texas Instruments in the implementation of the Quality Management System

(QMS)

• U.S. Citizen

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