Control System Engineer

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Shirish Kulkarni

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Summary:

Over the period of 10 years as a collaborative & persuasive senior control system engineer in the field of refinery & petrochemical, mining & metal, oil & gas industries, specialized in control system engineering. My passion for automation leads me to consistently improve, harmonize through field instrumentation, plant maintenance, commissioning followed by end to end full life cycle project management. I am customer focused, committed & detailed oriented to the tasks that I undertake and my naturally persistent approach to my work leads itself to attain success. I have been leading & managing major projects across the globe including global locations like Oman, Qatar, USA, Canada, India & Australia. I have delivered several projects ahead of schedule; this was appreciated by the end customers which resulted in fetching more business for company. I am a natural relationship builder & I value both internal and external stakeholder’s expectations, realizing the power of cooperative behavior in enabling work to be completed in the most efficient manner, all together I have been honored with 4 awards.

I have a background of Bachelors of Engineering in Instrumentation & Control, TUV Certification for Functional Safety Engineer, currently pursuing PMP & CEng. I have accomplished certificate courses in area of DCS, Safety System PLC, HMI, Foundation Field-bus, IEW Tool, etc. Rewarded Star, Bravo, Team and Champions of Quarter Award for performance shown during different projects across globe. I am dedicated, result oriented, analytical and committed towards the task & schedule.

Skill set:

In depth knowledge of DCS (Invensys, Honeywell), Triconex ESD System & worked on Emerson Delta V 8.x DCS. Experience in MODBUS,OPCI communication protocols

Expertise in Complex Control Strategies, Sequential Control, Batch Control, Emergency Shutdown System, Human Machine Interface, System Architecture & networking

Project management & control, vendor management, resource management, variation order. Sales support for proposals, bidding & estimation

Electrical Concepts of VSD, MCC, Relay logic & power distribution/line diagram & Awareness of Standards like IEC,ANSI,AS/NZS,BS,CEE,NEMA

Educational Certification on CitectSCADA, ClearSCADA & SmartRTU product base

Troubleshooting in Foundation Field Bus, HART, Profi Bus, and Advanced Noise Reduction using FBT, EDDL, DD Files, and device commissioning & troubleshooting. Highly experienced in Field Instrumentation ( Datasheet, Control Valve Cv, PSV, Orifice & Flow, Pressure, Temperature, Density Measurement) calibration, Preventive & Breakdown Maintenance Work Summary:

Company Role Years

Invensys Operation Management

(Australia & New Zealand)

Lead/Principle Project Application

Engineer

3.3 Years

Honeywell Automation

(Oman, Qatar, USA, Canada, India & Australia)

Lead/Senior Project Engineer 4.3 Years

Reliance Life Science Centre (India) Executive Instrumentation 1 Year Garware Petrochemicals (India) Instrument Engineer 2 Years RESUME

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Strengths:

Collaborative - I have worked closely with senior management & a team of engineers and/or technicians during tenure of my 10 years during my different roles. I found that building positive relationships internal and external to the organization gave me and my teams the ability to achieve our key responsibilities and accountabilities which in turn achieved the company’s goals. Global Knowledge & Cultural Awareness - I have had many opportunities to work across the globe during project execution phases. With a thirst for results, I became agile & dealt with different cultural groups to keep progress moving. These challenges honed my soft skills to a greater extent & I learned many things at every stage of project engineering. Ownership - I am a proactive lead engineer who can work independently as well. I always aim to go above & beyond my set duties to ensure the best systems are in place to ensure the organisation delivers the highest standard to their customers.

Continuous Professional Development- I gained education which helped me to maintain, develop & practice knowledge including soft, technical & problem solving or professional performance standard skills. I actioned it through online web courses, seminars, conference, workshops & self-reading. I also follow spiritual practices regularly which I find equally important & effective in my life. Career Details:

Role: Lead/ Principle Project Application Engineer (Australia & New Zealand) Invensys Operation Management (Schneider Electric), Brisbane, Australia (Mar 2012-June 2015) Key Accountabilities:

Coordinated project with a team of engineers for Bulwer Island Petroleum projects (includes estimation, resource management, FAT, SAT, commissioning support)

Hands on experience on I/A series Foxboro Control System, Triconics Based emergency system, Infusions Archestra, Infusion Control System, Foxboro Graphical Interface

Hands on experience on different communication protocols like Foundation Field Bus, Profi Bus & HART, third Party Communication with PLC(Serial Communication)

Project Management and Planning which includes Estimation, Proposals & Resource Management

Supported various projects like New-Zealand Refineries, NRG, BP & Lihir Floatation A couple of noteworthy achievements are as follows.

I was assigned a task to lead the project immediately on my start with Invensys Operation Management. Without any training on Invensys products, I successfully carried out engineering which had a combination of FCS DCS, Triconex safety system, Simulation software, Display Manager & Fox View for HMI. I quickly learned all software products & delivered project activities within time frame. I successfully leveraged project managers transition period to contribute project to greater extent. I communicated well to external stake holders as well for technical query & resolution. My efforts were well appreciated by immediate management & end client.

Invensys rolled out new tool IEW for engineering optimization & I got opportunity to use such tools on one of my ongoing project. With limited resources & schedule, I had to deliver Triconex based project. Online trainings helped me to understand tool but version change in tool itself was a big challenge, I RESUME

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worked hard by putting extra hours every day & weekend as well. With limited knowledge base available for that tool version I achieved final deliverable with trial & error method. Role: Lead/ Senior project Engineer (Australia, Oman, Qatar, India, Canada, and USA) Honeywell Process Solutions (Dec 2007-Mar 2012)

Key Accountabilities:

Supervised a team of 4 engineers for 3 overseas mega projects whose outcome was high quality deliverables (engineering, documentation, scheduling, estimation, resource management, FAT, SAT & commissioning support) which resulted in meeting projects deadlines well ahead of schedules

Engineered 5 overseas projects with respect to complete project life cycle whose output in terms of customer appreciation letters in the area of green field projects

Commissioned nearly 12 different units of different plants supporting Foundation Field Bus, HART, Dry Function Test, FAT, SAT, Startup work because of which company fetched more projects

Assisted in hardware & software design during project engineering with excellent accuracy due to which whole team got Champions of Quarter Award

Coordinated for third party communication using OPCI,MODBUS protocols at PDO, Oman which resulted in high system scan time and fast communication in critical loops

Supported Shell GTL site, Qatar for Foundation Field bus – which includes device commissioning, advanced diagnostics like noise issue using FBT-6, set up of FDM across the site for all FF/HART device maintenance.

A couple of noteworthy achievements were as follows.

In Qatar with challenging weather conditions, I was assigned a task of site support engineer for one field auxiliary room out of 12 different FAR’s. Due to my field instrumentation & control system knowledge, I quickly gained a place in the core central team. Initially I was supporting the commissioning team for different areas & dry function tests however my curiosity drove me to lead the troubleshooting team for foundation field bus; HART based instrumentation & other regular commissioning activities for EPKS DCS, Safety Manager & HMI. I worked seamlessly with a Shell Global consultant from Honeywell side to reduce many field issues which ultimately helped keep the overall project on track. I took extra efforts to document all those troubleshooting activities which added to our knowledge base.

Role: Executive Instrumentation (India)

Reliance Life Science Centre (Feb 2007-Nov 2007)

Key Accountabilities:

Designed cable schedule for 12,000 IO system that improved master database resulted in project completion ahead of schedule

Calibrated 800 field instruments comprising Mass Flow, Pressure, Temperature, Flow, Density, Level measurement which accurately resulted in savings

Commissioned 1,100 smart field devices includes foundation fieldbus, HART, profibus, asciibus devices mentoring a crew of 8 technicians to carry out similar tasks across different units of plant

Recruited, trained and mentored crew of 3 Instrumentation Engineers & 4 Field Technicians to meet project completion resulted in referral of year award

Hands on experience on Emerson Delta V 8.4 system for plant commissioning RESUME

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Role: Instrument Engineer (India)

Garware Petrochemicals Pvt Ltd (Sep 2004-Jul 2006) Key Accountabilities:

Successfully supported and coordinated full completion of major preventive or break down maintenance & troubleshooting with high grasping power as a graduate trainee. This meant meeting schedules to start production on time

Online modification of complex, sequential and batch process, safety PLC logic in DCS along with Graphical requirements with which total numbers of annual maintenance contracts were reduced in a span of 6 months resulting in savings

Calibrated 600 field instruments comprising Mass Flow, Pressure, Temperature, Flow, Density, Level measurement with accuracy. Maintenance of control valves (shooting, passing, etc), inaccurate flow measurement in Orifice/Venturi.

Educational Background:

Bachelors of Instrumentation & Control, TUV Certified FS Engineer, Pursuing PMP & CEng Certification

Completed BOSIET training(Offshore Platform)

Awarded for educational projects during University

Academically stood University Topper for consecutive three years

Awarded for state level ‘Technical Paper Presentation ‘

Scored well in exams like GRE,TOEFL & IELTS

Professional Awards:

Star Award Winner – For leadership demonstrated & commendable efforts at PDO Fahud, Oman. Received bonus of 100 AUD[Honeywell Automation]

Bravo Bronze - For excellent support in successfully completing Pre FAT and FAT for Froth unit of Shell AOSP, Canada. Received bonus of 100 AUD[Honeywell Automation]

Team Award- For leadership demonstrated during commissioning support at Shell GTL, Qatar[Honeywell Automation]

Champions of Quarter – Successful completion of Sohar Aromatic Graphics, Oman. Received bonus of 100 AUD[Honeywell Automation]

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