AHMAD SHAHZAD

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ST. CATHARINES ON L2M 3W3

CELL: 289-***-****

EMAIL: adlv4v@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE To obtain a challenging management or technical position as deemed suitable to my skills, experience, and backgrounds, to help a successful power utility expand further and to help myself grow further professionally and technically

SUMMARY

A detail-oriented and pro-active with more than twenty-seven years of (28) years of work experience. Honed operation, operation planning, communication, documentation, and organizational skills through years of work experience in power system operation, studies and planning.

Currently employed as Operation Planning Engineer in Operation Planning and Studies Department at Al Ain Distribution Company. Job roles and responsibilities encompass the planning and execution of all work requests for planned shutdowns.

I am a highly trained, multi-cultured, hardworking, confident, mature, self-motivated, responsible, reliable, skilled individual with practical engineering skills and management experience gained through many years of practical work experience in power system operation, studies and planning. I am a healthy, friendly, outgoing, open-minded and flexible person. I influence others to follow and meet goals or objectives

excellent analytical, learning and problem solving ability

worked in both team and independent environments

Academic experience:

Have teaching experience

TARGET JOB Description of my perfect job:

Looking for a job where I can fully apply my expertise. I am an electrical engineer having specializations in these domains: Transmission and Distribution Network Operation and Planning, Power System Analysis and Simulation Software.

Career Level: Senior electrical engineer

Date of Availability: Immediately

Relocate: Yes

COMPUTER SKILLS

ETAP POWER STATION, MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL,

Operating Systems: Windows

EDUCATION Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi, Pakistan

Master’s Level Courses Taken at Kuwait University, Kuwait

List of Courses

1. Power Engineering Analysis

2. Transients in Power Systems

3. Optimal and Economic Operation of Power Systems

4. Fiber Optic Communication Systems I & II

5. Engineering Analysis

6. Solid State Electronics

TRAININGS

Training on Energy Management System SINAUT Spectrum by SIEMENS, Germany

Training on Operation of SCADA System (S.P.I.D.E.R) by A.B.B, Sweden

Training on Operation of Energy Management System by A.B.B, Sweden

Training on Maintenance of Energy Management System by A.B.B, Sweden

Training on Operation of AGC by A.B.B, Sweden

Training on Maintenance of AGC by A.B.B, Sweden

10/2007 – 11/2020 Al Ain Distribution Company, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Operation Planning Engineer

Responsibilities

Evaluate and analyze outage execution plans for distribution projects to determine potential impact to customers and the electric system reliability. This analysis considers outages duration, overlapping projects conflicts, outages restoration time, historical and projected system conditions and load, number of customers affected, and equipment condition, among others

Develop mitigation strategies for distribution projects that ensures safe and reliable Electric Distribution System operations for real-time system conditions and projected N-1 contingencies

Review distribution switching orders, determining the feasibility of outages and negotiate potential alternative switching and mitigation plans when needed

Write and review Operating Plans documenting potential operational constraints and mitigations actions

Analyze the impact of and determine if distribution system work needs to be cancelled or rescheduled when outage conflicts are found or system conditions require

Evaluate and coordinate electric system outages in the Operations Planning time horizon

Identify network model issues, including topology changes, equipment rating changes, and errors in model parameters, among others, and coordinate appropriate changes with affected groups

Make sound engineering decisions considering safety, reliability, customer satisfaction, and economic value when evaluating and approving outage execution plans for projects, and developing mitigation plans

Serve as a subject matter expert representing the Operations Planning group in the analyses of electric outage incidents to identify opportunities for improvement

Write, review and edit technical plans, processes, and procedures

Identify potential process gaps and provide suggestions on process improvement

Perform self-guided study and training as instructed. Support and train other employees on basic tasks

Represent the interests of the Operations Planning group in reviewing and approving distribution projects scope of work and execution plans

Work closely with Distribution Planning group to review outage execution plans and analysis results for distribution projects, and coordinate distribution planning model updates as needed

10/1999 – 9/2007 Federal Electricity and water Authority Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Senior Operation Engineer

In October 1999 joined the ministry of electricity and water, UAE as general electrical engineer on their control center project for testing and commissioning of SCADA system for the newly built system control center at Umm Al Quwain for the northern emirates. After the commissioning of the control center I was inducted into regular grade of the ministry. In mid-2000 entire operation of the northern emirates was taken over by the newly formed Federal Electricity and Water Authority.

I was part of the team that designed and implemented the operating procedures, daily network and power station data collection and information logging formats, coordination with power station and maintenance staff for routine and emergency works, development of database and report formats. Since the System Control Center took over the operation of the electrical network and power stations I worked as senior shift engineer and my duties included

Unit commitment

Load dispatch

Follow up of disturbance and reporting

Execution of network switching operation for maintenance programs

In January 2002 I was promoted as Senior Operation Engineer. Responsibilities in this position were;

Load flow and short-circuit studies with ETAP Power Station Simulation Software.

Provide information and recommendations to ensure an adequate and secure transmission system for present and future local load serving, network service, and generation interconnection

Analysis of disturbance and reporting

Preparation of various daily and weekly reports and charts for senior managers

Preparation of annual reports

08/1992 – 10/1999 Ministry of Electricity and Water, Kuwait

Senior Electrical Engineer

Joined the ministry of electricity and water, Kuwait as junior shift engineer at one of their district control center that was responsible for 132, 33 and 11 kV network and substations. In six months’ time I took over as Shift In-charge. In 1994 the SCADA system was upgraded. I was fortunate to work closely with the contractors during the modification and connection of the substations for the upgraded SCADA system. I was member of the team that conducted actual test and commissioned the new SCADA system “SINAUT Spectrum" from SIEMENS. After serving three years at district control center I was transferred to National Control Center that supervises and operates 300 kV network and power stations. This control center is also equipped with state-of-the-art SCADA including EMS functions (Unit Commitment, Economic Load Dispatch, Short/Medium/Long-Term load forecasting. On-line Load Flow. As senior shift engineer I was responsible for

Monitor and control power generation according to demand

Monitor and control of system frequency and voltages

Follow-up of substation alarms and indications and reporting

Follow-up of disturbances in the power system and reporting

Load flow studies for planning switching operations for maintenance programs

Load flow studies for critically loaded areas of the network and suggest modifications in the network configuration, so as to maximize the utilization of available network resources, while conforming with the with the ministry contingency policy

01/1990 – 07/1992 Electronic Information and Energy System Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan

Hardware Engineer

Initially, joined the organization as an electrical engineer for installation of the printed circuit board processing and assembly lines. By the time the installation completed the company acquired the license for assembling personal computers from an American manufacturer in Pakistan. I was assigned the job of setting up assembly line and develop assembly procedures. Then as Hardware Engineer supervised the PCB assembly and testing of the units.

10/1984 – 12/1989 General Dairies and Foods Limited, Karachi, Pakistan

Electrical Engineer

Joined the organization at entry level just after graduation to assist the senior engineer in erection and installation of a milk processing plant imported from Sweden and utility plants. During five years stay with the organization worked on various assignments. Initially I was assigned the jobs of receiving the plant equipment, accessories and spare parts as per shipping list from the vendor, liaison between contractors, site personnel and head office and local purchases. I involved in the installation by reviewing the electrical drawings to check the conformance of design specifications by installation contractors. Then supervised the erection of Diesel Generators and laying of power cable from LT panel of local substation to bus bar compartment in the factory building. Setup the Electrical/Mechanical workshop. Finally, I was part of the electrical maintenance team.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member Pakistan Engineering Council, Pakistan

Member Kuwait Society of Engineers, Kuwait

`INTERESTS Reading, Table Tennis, Chess

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