Power Electrical Engineer

Charitha Reddy Gajjala

**** ****** ******. ****** ****, MO 64112

Cell Phone: 408-***-****, Email: ********************@*****.***

Professional Summary:

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Seeking a Career in Electrical Field

MSEE graduate possessing analytical abilities and technical skills necessary for engineering innovative designs and applications, with a solid understanding of electrical engineering theory and practical implementation of industry-standard circuit design and testing tools.

•Specialized in Power engineering, Control systems and Power electronics with extensive experience in design and system analysis tools like MATLAB, AUTOCAD, PSCAD, E-TAP, SIMATIC manager, PSPICE and POWER WORLD

•Thorough knowledge and Experience in Electric system design, Single line diagrams, Load flow analysis, Power quality measurements, Distribution transformers, Power system analysis, Project development, Solar system design, Financial analysis, Cost reduction techniques, Customer interaction

•Hands on Circuit designing, Soldering techniques, PLC programming, SCADA systems

•Familiar with High Voltage lab equipment which includes oscilloscopes, 600 Vdc power supplies, function generators, multi-meters, power meters

•Good knowledge in IEEE, ANSI, and NEC codes and standards

•Strong research, planning, organizational skills and leadership roles

Education:

Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering May, 2016

University of Missouri-Kansas city GPA: 3.81/4.00

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering June, 2013

Sridevi Women’s Engineering College, India GPA: 3.80/4.00

Experience:

Circuit Designer, Maruthi Engineering Company May, 2014

Gained knowledge in circuit designing and transformer connections by working with a team who has good professional experience in designing efficient transformers and different electrical equipment

Designed many electric circuits like, “On-load Tap Changing Transformer Using Triacs and Opto-Isolators”

Unlike conventional mechanical tap changing transformers that are used in power systems, the on-load tap changing transformer allows voltage to maintain at particular levels despite the load changes (automatically)

To avoid the complexity of traditional tap changer, we came up with an alternative scheme where we used 741 op- amp ICs' for voltage sensing, Tapping of the transformer switches according to the timer circuit and a 7-segment digital read out displays the information of relay and tapping in operation for a certain voltage

Substation Intern, APTRANSCO Jul, 2012

As an intern in the 220KV transmission station, I transcended my knowledge on the station equipment like circuit breakers, voltage control devices and its protection and control equipment (voltage and current transformers, relays and SCADA system)

As part of internship, I underwent through a project named “Protection of Transformer", under the supervision of assistant engineer of that substation, In which I analyzed and acknowledged Different faults (Internal and through faults) that occur in a transformer and the protection schemes (Gas operated relays, Differential and Backup protection) that are used to overcome every fault

Academic Projects:

Power quality improvement Apr, 2016

Designed a band stop filter using PSCAD for a given 0.155kv 3.48A system with a harmonic distortion of 17.3%

The aim of the project is to bring down the harmonic distortion as per IEEE 519 standards and minimal power loss filter design

Auxiliary electric system design Apr, 2015

Designed single line diagram of auxiliary electric system for a 500MW coal fired unit using ETAP software

Have performed detailed load flow analysis, short circuit analysis and financial analysis for the designed system

The aim of the designed system was to satisfy industry standards of voltage regulation, symmetrical and asymmetrical interrupting capacity

Real Time Experiments in Power lab Jul, 2015

Studied phase peaking order, neutral shift, working of phase angle meter and safety concerns in 3-phase power sources

Experimented with Multi-winding connections, Auto transformer, broken delta, Scott-T and zig-zag transformers

Observed division of Power between two parallel transmission lines with buck boost / phase shift transformers

Residential grid-interactive roof-top solar system of 6kW May, 2015

Designed schematic of residential PV solar system in compliance with NEC codes and IEEE standards using AutoCAD

Determined size of the system by taking into account electrical load demand, system losses and TMY data of the location

Performed financial analysis to determine payback period and return on investment using System Advisor Model (SAM)

Commercial grid-connected solar power plant of 1MW Jul 2015

Designed commercial PV solar system plant in compliance with NEC codes and IEEE standards using AutoCAD 2D

Arranged modules such that reliability is maximized and selected inverters, balance of system components of high efficiency

Performed financial analysis to determine payback period considering the losses and kWh generated per year using SAM

Relevant course work:

Power Quality Improvement

Electric Power Systems

Symmetrical Components

Electric Power Reliability

Power Lab

Advanced Solar System

Design of PV solar systems

Fundamentals of Solar cells

Auxiliary Electrical system

Control systems

Power Electronics

Circuit analysis

Technical Skills

Design software : PSPICE, MATLAB/Simulink, PSCAD, E-TAP, SAM, PVSYS, PVSOL, Power World and Auto Cad.

Programming : C, C++, SQL, SIMATIC manager and HTML

Other software : MS Office, LINUX

Professional References

Kelly Michael W *******@****.***

Siddiki Md Mahbube k ********@****.***

Kirkpatrick Kevin ************@****.***

Activities

Instructor in Adult Continuing Education for persons with Disabilities (ACED) in UMKC

Student assistant in UMKC book stores

Volunteered many technical and charity events

Actively participated in paper presentations and won prizes

Personal Qualities

Passion for constant improvement, highly self-motivated and adaptable to work

Accuracy and attention to details, hard working with good time management skills

Effective judgement skills, energetic, collaborative, positive attitude, detail-oriented, quality work-focused, reliable, multi-tasker and team-player

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