Engineer Electrical

Ramahari Panda

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Result-oriented Lead Project Engineer with 18+ years experience in systems engineering solutions from concept through product completion. Factory trained at Emerson process control, OSI-PI, Rockwell, Propack Data and various other OEM training centers. Extensive knowledge of electrical, electronic and electro mechanical devices. Recognized by peers and management as effective mentor and communicator.

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• Re-engineering • Obsolescence • Validation & SDLC

• Regulatory Compliance • SCSI firmware • DeltaV Control Sys.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Merck Inc.; MMD-IT (Philadelphia)

Sr.Automation Engineer - (Consultant – Jan 10 – Mar 10)

Developed and successfully completed various Methods and Strategy for UNICORN Chromatography skids in NPS (new product suite) ultra clean environment. Also supported HPV (Human Pappilomo Virus) purification plant resolving various control (Delta-V) system issues.

Novartis Inc.; Vacaville, Ca 95688

Validation Engineer - (Consultant – Dec. 08 – Mar 09)

• Developed and successfully completed validation protocols (IOQ) for Building Automation System (Siemens - BAS) and Controls System (RSLogix-5000). Used Insight application to configure trends and device tags for control, monitor and alarm activities.

Sanofi Pasteur; Swift Water, PA

Validation Engineer - DeltaV (Consultant – July. 08 – Nov 08)

• Activities include, but not limited to, develop detailed technical work steps to implement and test DeltaV (Control Module and Phases-ver. 9.4) software code using VM Ware simulation for vaccination plant (Precip_TK_100)

Genentech, Inc.; Vacaville, Ca 95688

Automation Change Manager– CCP2 (Consultant – Feb.07 – July 08)

• Actively supported as Automation SW change manager for CCP2 MCS (HoneyWell) system. Current activities include, but not limited to, develop detailed technical work steps to implement MCS coding (Experion, TPB and POMSNet), associated tests, initiate change control document, review, approve, closure of the issue and drive to GMP release of the associated equipments. Extremely familiar with various software packages as EMPAC, gECO, gMMS, OSI-PI and various Control systems (DeltaV, RSLogix, Honeywell Experian and PMx – MES).

Abbott Laboratories; Ross Products Division, Casa Grande, AZ.

Senior Project Engineer; RPB production line (2003 thru 2006)

• Supported successfully the Ensure and Pediasure production line as Plant Controls Engineer Extensively used DeltaV, Batch Executive, PI and Propack-Data software to resolve various field bus, devicenet and process issues.Developed and implemented Software and Hardware validation packages as well as various cost saving projects.

Abbott Laboratories; 200 Abbott Park Road; Abbott Park, IL 60064-6164

Software Quality Assurance; Validation Quality Engineering (2002 thru 2003)

• Review product, process and non-product software validations for adequacy, completeness, and compliance with ISO/EIC 12707 quality system requirements. Assist in all activities related to software validation, and provide support and guidance as a member of project teams.

Abbott Laboratories, 1921 Hurd drive, Irving , TX 75038 (1989-2002)

Electrical Engineer, (Test and Product Development Engineering)

• Designed, developed and resolved obsolescence issues with significant cost savings on Abbott Labs medical diagnostic instruments.

• Founded Obsolescence Engineering Group (dept # 2281) to address obsolescence issues with closed loop resolution. Interfaced with external consultants (Axxis Solutions) to develop lotus notes database to track and proactively address potential obsolescence issues.

• Lead Engineer on EMC and Safety certification committee on PC, PCB and electro-mechanical sub assemblies. Resolved various UL, ESD, and Conductive emmission related issues using custom filters to PCB circuitry.

• Interfaced with INBUS Engineering and developed Bitbus card and production released for Prism instrument. (NRE $100 M).

• As a member of ASIC group, Redesigned AxSYM Optics regulator board PWM (pulse width modulator) circuitry. Used Verilog HDL, Analog work bench and Schematic Capture towards testing and verification of FPGA/CPLD (Altera) based design.

• Re-Designed linear flash memory card (Flash translation layer), modified OSP processor PCB using A/D, D/A, Demultiplexers and resolved obsolescence for PPC instruments. (cost saving 51%, $162M per year).

• Interfaced with Perkin Elmer and "NERA" (Singapore) towards design transfer (Gerber files) of thermocycler controller, as well as resolved various process related issues.

• Analyzed and resolved reliability issue (Closed loop - gain) with stepper driver board circuitry for Prism instrument.

• Analyzed hardware specification and wrote assembly code (intel- RMx) avoiding potential production shutdown.

• Developed Optical grating calibration software using Lab View 6.0 and Visual C++ for aligning optical grating modules in Clinical chemistry instruments resulting a 40 % reduction in cycle time.

• Supported for OEM Integration (Arrow/Wyle, Avnet, Pioneer Electronics, Win station Inc) process issues.

• Developed obsolescence strategy to support Abbott immuno assay (AxSYM) instrument.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Defined SCSI firmware (when hard drive OEM failed to provide custom solution) for SCSI bus and released Hex code for IBM Corporation to supply customized SCSI hard drive for AxSYM instrument. (Resolved obsolescence and provided cost savings of 28%).

• Developed common hardware platform using off shelf PC components to support multiple Operating Systems (UNIX, iRMx, SCO and Windows NT/2000) to interface with Clinical chemistry series instruments. (Resolved PC Obsolescence and 32% cost savings).

• Re-engineered RS-232 protocol (when Scanner OEM failed to provide solution) and defined scanner configuration for medical diagnostic instruments. (IMx, FLx and TDx, Resolved barcode scanner obsolescence and cost savings of 52%).

• Developed software diagnostic tool (manufacturing automation systems analyzer, MAXA) for manufacturing floor by porting UNIX code to PC environment, which helped yield ratio from 32 % to 85 %.

SOFTWARE & HARDWARE

• DeltaV • Analog workbench • Schematic capture (CONCEPT)

• Lab View 6.1 • ORACLE • iRMx (assembly)

• UNIX • SCO • Vertex

• GenRad 228x • MS Project 2000 • Visual C++

EDUCATION

B.S.E.E – University of Texas at Arlington, Texas

B. A ( Humanities)–Berhampur University, INDIA

SCSI Technology, – Star Tech, 2002

President, student congress

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