Puneet Dhawan

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Elk Grove, California

acypnr@r.postjobfree.com

916-***-****

Career Summary:

Overall 12 years of experience in the field of Rolling Stock, technical project engineering, railway system integration and interfacing engineering, rolling stock engineering consultancy, application engineering, testing/commissioning, rolling stock and system procurement, operations, integrated quality, bidding, Pre-Sales, Contract Management and project management.

Experience in technical project management, cost/risk management, preparation of design criteria, conceptual plans and technical specifications, detailed design and construction plans, supervision of installation, testing and commissioning, management of design interfaces, and evaluation of rolling stock project bids.

Knowledge of applicable design standards across rail systems for the US/North America

Well-versed with respect to manufacturing processes required to design and built, construct and re-build rolling stock.

Experience in variety of conceptual, preliminary and final design efforts for Transit & Rail Practice.

Practical knowledge in both electrical and mechanical engineering.

Review and understand all bid documents of Rolling Stock Projects and assess project risks

A proactive problem-solver on both technical and non-technical endeavors.

Technical consultation to cross-functional teams and leadership throughout the business to improve product issue and/or field issues.

Experience of working with cross-functional and cross-cultural teams: India, USA, Japan, UK, Germany, Australia, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, China and France for railway rolling stock engineering projects.

Direct working experience with all leading railcar builders (EMU/locomotive/LRV/mass transit system).

Academic Qualifications:

General Management Program – For Technical Professional, IIT Bombay (2011)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Project Management from MIT, Pune (2009)

Engineering Graduate – Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra (2003)

Professional Experience:

Siemens Industry Inc. (thru Cyient, Inc.) Sacramento, California August 2011 – Present

Project Manager – Rolling Stock (Rail & Transit)

Cyient is a leader in engineering design services, design-led manufacturing, networks and operations, data transformation, and analytics.

Technical consultant for rolling stock system design freeze, involved in vendor finalization as per system design requirements; preparation of RFQ; system purchasing specifications, system design procurement strategy.

Technical support for train design activities and interface engineering.

Detailed engineering & preparation of International Competitive Bidding (ICB) technical document for rolling stock projects.

Prepare project specifications including conditions of contract and General Conditions.

Rolling stock system support for locomotive, high-speed trains and metro rail projects.

Provide technical and design guidance for large distributed systems’ architecture/design for improving both new and existing products.

Provide technical consultation on product issues throughout the product life cycle, inclusive of both development and field support.

Rolling stock engineering consultant for rail project to specify the technical conditions as per international standard including material specification, verification and validation conditions.

Prepared the design strategy for client review and their acceptance for each system.

Optimize customer relationships through program life cycle. Foster long-term, customer centric relationships

North America Business Development – market research and competitor landscaping, lead

generation and qualifications, RFI/RFQ/RFP response, contractual agreement handling, sales

strategy & planning, account management support.

Projects Handled:

Client: Siemens Inc., USA

Project: LRV & Florida High Speed Train Project (On-going Projects)

Project Location: Sacramento, California

Client: Hitachi Rail, Kasado, Japan

Project: IEP High-Speed Train Project for UK Market

Project Location: Kudamatsu, Japan

Client: Hitachi Rail Europe, London

Project: Locomotive ETCS Project

Project Location: London (UK)

Client: Thales Canada

Project: Singapore SMRT Project

Project Location: Singapore & Hyderabad, India

Client: Thales Canada/France

Project: Hyderabad Metro Rail Project

Project Location: Hyderabad (India)

Egis India, Kolkata, India March 2010 – August 2011

Senior Engineer

Egis is an international group offering engineering, project structuring and operations services.

Preparation and review of technical specifications of rolling stock (metro train) product design.

Preparation of technical interface and integration specifications, design review, performance assessment and testing for rail systems.

Preliminary design review of rolling stock for metro train and management of submittals according to milestones.

Study of all technical offers submitted by subsystem suppliers and manufacturers per project requirements, inclusive of technical evaluation, comparison, interfacing with other systems, as well as all technical compliance and service support in future.

Preparation of progress review reports, risk management plan, project integration and quality management plan.

Project Handled:

Client: KMRCL, Kolkata, India

Project: Kolkata East West Metro Rail Project (EMU), Rolling Stock

Project Location: Kolkata, India

Knorr-Bremse, New Delhi, India March 2004 – April 2009

Assistant Manager/Senior Engineer/Engineer

Sales and bid management for international projects.

Conducted project planning, risk evaluation and cost analysis to maintain project margins.

System engineering, testing and commissioning of electronic brake system, automatic electric door system and air compressors in both metro rail and locomotive applications.

Core Technical Team member for transfer-of-technology (TOT) concerning automatic electric door control system (Sydney, Australia); developed similar system as per customer design specifications for DMRC RS-1 Project.

Interfacing and integration of on-board signaling system for rolling stock.

Responsible for significant contribution in relation to improving the electronic braking system and electric door systems via engineering modifications to the parent design (Germany & Australia) as per Indian working conditions.

Nominated for handling complaint system by Knorr Bremse (Munich), reporting to both the company’s Asia-Pacific Zone (Hong Kong) as well as Knorr-Bremse Berlin (Mass Transit Division headquarters).

Projects handled: Delhi Metro, Bangalore Metro, Alstom-LHB Project, Siemens MRVC Project, Siemens GP-194 Project, and Kolkata Metro.

Project Locations: India, Germany, Australia.

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