CHINTAN VARIA

*** *** *******, *** ****, CA – ***26

(M): 408-***-****, Email: acxr31@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/in/chintanvaria

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Working with High power systems design and QA/QC.

Also part of team for the system design and deployment of Auto fare collection system for hardware/software testing and integration.

Technical Project Administration for San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority’s multi million project.

Handling multiple project at same time, good with Technical writing, Bid Proposal generation and official documentation.

Worked as Team Leader of testing team for Steel Automation drives and dealt directly with the customers.

Worked on PLC based automated test operation bench of automation plant for steel automation drives and medium Voltage drives ranges from 320volts to 11000volts Industrial supply.

Developed expertise in the testing and engineering of high power and automation systems.

EDUCATION

Master of Science: Electrical Engineering May 2015

San Jose State University San Jose, California

Coursework

ASIC CMOS design, Hi Speed Digital Design, FPGA DSP system design, Digital System Design and Synthesis, Probability, Digital Signal Processing, Adv. Logic Design, Principles of Semiconductor devices.

Bachelors of Engineering: Electronics and Communication July 2011

Gujarat University

Technical Expertise

AutoCAD Electrical and Mechanical, Microsoft VISIO, Basic idea of ETAP-Different High Power System Study Modules, Altera Quartus, Xilinx, MATLAB, OrCAD, LabVIEW, Proteus, Cadence, Synopsys.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP system) - Microsoft Navision and Microsoft SharePoint, Good technical writing and speaking skills.

Experience

Electrical Engineer July2015 to Present

Auriga Corporation California, USA

City Of San Jose – Waste Water facility August2016 to Present

Currently, Working on Onsite project at City of San Jose – Waste Water Facility as consultant for AutoCAD designing of Electrical systems and PLC communication device lay outing.

Working closely with City’s Operations groups engineering team and accomplishing the proper physical lay outing of communications/Electrical panels on entire plant for the future expansion plans and analyzing current requirements through that.

SFMTA – Engineering Services February2016 to Present

Managing multimillion SFMTA contract for general engineering services.

Coordination with sub-contractors and SFMTA people for timely project work done.

Reviewing technical work done by subcontractors before submitted for final review to client (SFMTA)

High Power:

Design/Engineering of electric power substations (34.5kV – 500kV)

Perform calculations (short circuit, relay coordination, etc.) and works on transmittal drawings

Review, identify and request necessary drawings of the existing control and protection scheme of stations.

Revise and develop electrical engineering design drawings that include one-line diagram, three-line schematic, DC schematic, physical layout drawings, wiring/interconnection drawings, annunciation, RTU function, RTU drawings to remove all existing protection relays including carrier communication connectivity and install new relays with new communication connectivity at each terminal

Control schematics, wiring diagrams, equipment arrangement and plans drawings

Develop New Transfer Trip design for the Substations using SEL devices

Develop wiring diagrams for the control circuits of the circuit breakers for Substation

Create the Input/output List for the Control Processors at Substations.

Develop Bill of Material (BOM), Cable schedule, Alarm list.

Working with direct client, Sub contractor and Prime Contractor at different level of project.

Can read and generate different electrical/electronic technical documents.

Working towards maintenance of electrical systems.

Working on Project scheduling and management.

Working with AutoCAD Electrical and Structural design modification, generation of new drawing and standardization of a drawing.

Automation:-

Working on Auto fare collection system implementation for Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Working with Auto inventory tracking and maintenance project for MTC.

Developed auto data log system for MTC to securely automatically enter data on data base server and also in the backup.

Marketing:-

Working in marketing team for Auriga Corporation, Excellent with proposal and bid document generation.

Representing organization for different opportunities for Pre-Bid conferences.

Excellent technical communication and documentation skill.

In Process of EIT certification specialization in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Engineering/Testing Engineer (Automation & Drives division) February2012 to July2013

Hitachi Hirel Power Electronics Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Designed and implemented electrical equipment facilities and systems for commercial and industrial purposes.

Worked with lab instruments such as oscilloscope, logic analyzer, data acquisition system for temperature.

Corresponded with PLC development team for the control system and test facilities for different test operations of automation drives.

Reviewed and designed engineering drawings, schematics, logic and circuit modification, PCB layouts, met specifications as per customer requirements for newly engineered projects and processes.

Worked on creation of Bill of Material (BOM) for new projects and scheduling of different stage of project to meet time deadline.

Consistently met strict time deadlines to ensure that new products were available for scheduled client’s releases.

Experience of official documentation and standardization of product as per engineering standards.

Performed very well in different challenging situations individual as well as in team.

Trainee Engineer (Internship) January2011 to April2011

Advantek Solutions Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Hardware designing as per standards and software simulation of live industrial project as per customer requirements.

Successful collaboration of commissioning process at client site.

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