Rajiv Kumar Yandrapati

***** ****** **** ***** ******, TX - 77346

Email: adybhj@r.postjobfree.com / Phone: 979-***-****

Team Leadership (35)

Chemical Plant Operations

Adhesives

Consumer Chemicals

Industrial Gases

Inorganic Chemicals

Oil / Gas blending / distillation

Polymer Mixing

Inorganic Chemicals

Organic Chemicals

Work Planning

Creating SOPs

Process Safety Management

Leading Problem Solving Teams

Process Troubleshooting

Optimizing Processes

Reducing Operation Costs

Troubleshooting Equipment

Data Analysis

Design Of Experiments DOE

Mass Transfer Operations

Solids Handling

Creating Block Diagrams

Creating Project Specifications

Process Flow Diagrams

Energy Balances

Heat Balances

Heat Transfer Calculations

Pumping Head Calculations

Material Balances

Project Management

Chemical Analysis

Reaction Kinetics

Design/evaluation of process unit operations

Developing Design Drawings

Distillation Process

Crystallization

Rotary Drying

Drum Flakers

Double Cone Driers

Centrifuges

Evaporator

Filtration

Root cause analysis

Engineering Team Management (3)

Forecasting

HAZOPS

Increasing Production Capacity

Maintenance Training Programs

Managing Multiple Projects

P&ID’s

Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs)

Total Productive Maintenance

Train Operators

Preventative Maintenance

Reading Building Plans / Specs

Reviewing Processes

Reviewing Equipment Drawings

Reviewing Vendor Quotes

Safety Compliance

Working With Contractors

Computer Skills:

Aspen Plus, Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE), Matlab, MathCAD, Polymath, C, C++, .NET, Microsoft SQL, HTML, Microsoft Office.

Education:

M.S. Chemical Engineering, GPA: 3.50 / Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla May 2012

B.Tech (Honors) Chemical Engineering / Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India May 2006

Chemicals Incorporated, Baytown, Texas May’ 12 - Present

Operations Manager/Technology Manager

Specializing in toll and custom manufacturing of a wide variety of chemicals. In business with several companies including Fortune 500 companies

Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of day-to-day batch processes

Perform material balance of process to evaluate efficiency and yield

Review Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)

Run batch reactions, Hydrogenation reactions and distillations

Lead a team of 3 engineers

Evaluate technical specifications and economic factors

Responsible for process design and project execution from start to production

Troubleshooting feed and cooling rates.

Analyze the data from the Quality Assurance (QA)/ Quality control (QC) lab

Ensure safety and environmental standards are in compliance with Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) regulations

Troubleshoot operating problems and any process related issues

Optimize unit-operations and improve productivity using engineering skills

Interact with the maintenance team in setting up of units and ensure all the safety protocols are followed

Coordinate with EH&S and assist in conducting Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)

Manage and supervise the operations staff

Missouri S&T Chemical Engineering Department, Rolla, MO

Graduate Research Assistant Jan’10 – Jan’12

The objective of the research is to study the aggregation of Diblock and Multiblock Peptides in the Presence of Solid/Liquid Interfaces.

Preparing Liposomes by Freeze Drying.

Determining the second virial coefficients of liposomes and peptides at different pH’s and different temperatures using Static Light Scattering.

Monitoring the kinetics of fibril formation via Dynamic Light Scattering.

Inspecting the fibril formation through Congo Red Assay using spectrophotometer.

TFSolar Power Pvt Ltd /Hyderabad, India

Operations Engineer Oct’08-Nov’09

Manufacturing of solar panels using Thin film technology.

Got exposure to clean room where the manufacturing process takes place and also about the safety precautions while working in a clean room.

Trained in Six Sigma.

Win Information Technology /Hyderabad, India

Software Developer Feb’08-Oct’08

Worked on several mobile based applications.

Developed applications using Action Script programming language.

Designed user interface applications for mobile devices using Flash.

Internship /Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) / Hyderabad, India

Summer Intern May’05-Aug’05

Carried out Material and Energy balances.

Worked on PFD’s, P&ID’s and specification sheets.

Performed environmental/regulatory calculations.

Conference Papers

Daniel Forciniti, Kunal Naik and Rajiv Kumar Yandrapati, Effect of Membrane Fluidity On the Second Virial Coefficients of Liposomes, 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting, October 16-21, 2011, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Daniel Forciniti, Kunal Naik, Rajiv Kumar Yandrapati, Morgan Boresi and Paulina Barranco Morales, Aggregation of Diblock and Multiblock Peptides in the Presence of Solid Liquid Intrefaces, 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 2010, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Daniel Forciniti, Kunal Naik, Rajiv Kumar Yandrapati, Morgan Boresi and Paulina Barranco Morales, Effect of Solid/Liquid Interfaces on the Formation of Amyloid Deposits – Insulin as a Case Study, 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 2010, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

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