Electrical Engineering

Umashankar Perumal

NO.**, *ND A CROSS, JAI BHUVANESWARI LAYOUT,

CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE ROAD, BANGALORE - 560036

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CAREER SUMMARY

Accomplished 13+ years’ of professional experience in handling Electrical wiring harness along with Control and Electrical panel design for Aerospace, Power, Oil & Gas domains.Project Lead experienced in directing the activities of workgroups. Adept at developing strategies, providing trainings, and setting goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED, INDIA OCT 2010 TO PRESENT

Client: Rolls Royce Plc, Derby-UK

Role: Technical Lead Jan 2016 – till date – Bangalore, India/Derby, UK

Engineered schematic & wiring drawings to support the fabrication, installation, and testing of prototype and production systems in compliance with Aerospace Design standards.

Implemented wiring & harness component selections (cable/wire, terminals, and connectors) and preparation of manufacturing BOM.

Performed responsibilities like engineering change orders (ECO), purchase orders (PO), change requests (CR), and new releases (NR) during release of new products. Updated engineering drawings and standard operation procedures (SOP) documentation resulting in improved documentation accuracy. Addressed delivery and quality issues with suppliers.

Provided engineering support to harness supplier change activities with project cost savings estimates.

Performed technical reviews/Quality control per checklist; Parts revise, release; FAIr, LIAr and documentation in PLM.

Client: GE-MCS (Bently Nevada), Minden, USA

Role: Project Lead July 2012 – Dec 2015 –Minden, USA

Handled technical drawings, specifications of Electrical systems to ensure that installation and operations conform to applicable standards and customer requirements.

Performed responsibilities of Requisition Engineering involve complete Panel design for Bently 3500 systems which includes a package of Mechanical Layout, 3500 system Rack Layout, Panel Internal signal, Relay, control & Power calculations/Wiring schematics and Network Architecture of the Enclosure.

Carried out detailed analysis and selection of panels with NEMA (like NEMA 12, 4, 4X) and IP ratings (like IP54, IP66) depending on the location of enclosure installation (like Indoor/Outdoor, standalone/wall mount); Hazardous area located (Class I Div 2) industrial panel will be Z purged and will have ATEX, IEC Ex certifications; Seismic zone classifications as per requirements.

Analyzed Enclosure and panel components to meet region specific compliance and standards satisfied like CSA - Canadian standard, UL – USA, CE - European Union (EU).

Evaluated components to satisfy RoHS requirements for installation in Hazardous zones meeting standard like AS/NZS 60079.20:2000. Also overall enclosure is certified by a third party vendor (ETL) tested for standards like UL508A, CSA 22.2 with general Industrial Control Panels, UL508A & UL698A for Hazardous area panels in accordance with the National Electrical Code (NEC), NFPA 70 along with SCCR and panel operating temperature.

Managed large offshore team with design support, understanding customer specifications & requirements, meeting on-time delivery, organizing project schedules & meetings.

Client: GE-Power, Schenectady, USA

Role: Project Lead Oct 2010 – July 2012 – Chennai, India

Responsible for Gas Turbine Requisition Engineering involves developing and interpreting Electrical Drawings (overall single line diagrams, Wiring/Schematic & Loop diagrams, I/O lists, Cable & Instruments lists, Fabrication and Assembly Arrangements associated with Turbine Control Panel, Generator Protection Panel, Motor Control Panel, Isolation & Excitation Transformers, Generator Terminal Enclosure, Earthing & Lightning Systems).

Technical evaluation of vendor proposals, review/approval of vendor GA/Schematic drawings for transformers bus duct, control panel, relay panel, HT/LT switchgears and motors.

Used the expertise to standardize the deliverable considerably reducing cost and effort.

Managed and coordinate a large cross functional team members providing technical direction, design support and ensuring timely quality deliverables.

TEAMWARE SOLUTIONS,CHENNAI, INDIA FEB 2008 TO OCT 2010

Client: GE-Power & Water, Schenectady, USA

Role: Team Lead Feb 2008 – Oct 2010 – Chennai, India

Prepared of key single line diagram and Electrical power distribution system of Gas and Steam turbines using AutoCAD.

Interpretation of system interface control data to conceptual schematics for point-to-point wiring connections between various units.

Responsible for the preparation of Interconnection schedules and Cable schedules along with Installation drawings.

Trouble shooting the shop floor issues and create engineering change request (ECR) and Engineering Change orders (ECO) in PLM for the changes performed on a project.

Used the expertise to standardize the deliverable considerably reducing cost and effort.

Field Installation support provided by resolving PAC’s and RFI’s (Customer technical queries).

APOLLO POWER SYSTEMS PVT LTD, BANGALORE, INDIA JUN 2006 TO FEB 2008

Client: Embassy Groups, Bangalore

Role: Site Engineer – Electrical Jun 2006 – Feb 2008 – Bangalore, India

Responsible for maintenance & up-gradation activities of Electrical systems HT / LT systems, Transformers, DG Systems, UPS systems & power distribution systems and verify the right capacity and redundancy and provide input / comments, gap analysis.

Planning & Coordination of Technical Audit to assess Installed Electrical Systems & related distribution systems for sustained Operation.

Review and Analyze Incidence Report and Generate Final Failure Analysis Report along with Corrected / Recommended action plans.

Responsible for all the Testing's of HT & LT Electrical Equipment as per Specifications & Standards.

Managed a large team to perform the routine preventive maintenance, and responsible for the daily schedule & monitoring of Electrical systems.

TAMILNADU ELECTRICITY BOARD, TRICHY, INDIA JAN 2004 TO JAN 2005

Client: TNEB, Trichy, Tamilnadu

Role: Electrical Apprenticeship Trainee Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 – Trichy, Tamilnadu

Involved in test, maintain, and repair of substation HT/LT panels, Switchgears equipment, Distribution panel, Bustrunking, Cable laying, cable tray works and earthing work.

Inspect and test equipment and circuits to identify malfunctions or defects, using wiring diagrams and testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, or ammeters.

Review manuals, schematics, wiring diagrams to troubleshoot and solve equipment problems and to determine optimum equipment functioning.

Test insulators and bushings of transformers and transmission lines by inducing voltage across insulation and calculating insulation loss.

EDUCATION

Alagappa Chetttiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu

Bachelor Of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering, April 2002

ENGINEERING TOOL PROFICIENCY

CAD : AutoCAD 2013, VeSys 2.0 (Electrical Harness Design software), Unigraphics NX 10

PLM (user) : Teamcenter Engineering, ENOVIA Energy PLM, SAP PLM

Others : Product data Management systems (PDM), GE specific tools (PGTi, PEGASUS, DCI), iPMS

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