Mechanical Engineering

(Employment Authorization to work full time in USA).

EDUCATION:

• MS Mechanical Engineering – The City College of New York, NY, 1st Feb 2012, GPA = 3.7/4.0

•BS Mechanical Engineering - Gujarat University INDIA.

Projects undertaken ( Graduate Level ):

• As a part of my graduate curriculum, I was involved in HVAC design of mid-sized restaurant and recommendation of suitable HVAC unit. It involved Heating and Cooling load calculation using CLTD, duct sizing, preparing schematic layout, verifying the size of the unit based on load calculations, comparing manual load calculations with the software results.

• Represented City College of New York, for the Solar Decathlon competition with the Solar House. I was part of HVAC team for design and commissioning of Phase Change Material (PCM) Tank for the energy storage. Involved in Cooling tower, air distribution system sizing, selection of fan-coil, analysis of psychometric process, HVAC load calculations, co-ordination with controls team for HVAC schematic generation, sizing & selection of solar thermal collectors, energy analysis of the Solar House.

• Basic knowledge of Energy PLUS and HCB.

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTH & ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Possess strong knowledge of Process Plant design, commissioning, operation & maintenance.

• Worked independently from concept to completion of power plant development projects.

• Strong interest in numerical computations and problem solving.

• Accomplishment of various engineering tasks in EPCM based projects within deadlines.

• Knowledge of the practical application of mechanical engineering and technology including applying systems, principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to a project design.

• Proficient in preparing Project Conceptual Plans.

• Co-ordination with Site contractors & multidisciplinary engineering teams to trouble-shoot the problems associated with site work.

• Excellent oral & written communication skills.

• Ability to learn & implement additional required software skills.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Site Planning – Coordinated with planners and architects and provided comments and recommendations to site plan layout.

• Assisted Project Managers to prepare Proposals, Budget Profiles and Additional Services Letters.

• Prepare equipment specifications, market research & collect/evaluate vendor proposals.

• Technical & commercial evaluations of price bidding.

• Cost analysis & recommendations for the cost reduction for the new & existing plants.

• Involved in design of plant equipments using analytical as well as software skills.

• Review design calculations provided by Junior Engineers and prepared comments and recommendations.

• Review P & IDs & work closely with drafters & other engineering teams..

• Involved in plant construction & to work as a site engineer for the Plant erection & commissioning.

• Generate technical reports.

• To gather information for projects, hold meetings and professionally communicate both orally and in writing with internal and external customers.

• Worked as operation of 40 MW captive power plant unit. Also, involved in periodic & shut-down maintenance of various plant equipments such as DG sets, exhaust valves, injectors, heat exchangers, oil purifiers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Engineer (Maintain Power Pvt Ltd, Sydney, Australia) March 2008 – Oct 2009

• Perform hydraulic calculations for the pump sizing manually as well as using software.

• Preparation technical specifications for plant equipments such as steam & gas turbine, heat exchangers, pumps , valves & flow control/measurement equipments.

• Technical evaluation of plant equipment such as gas compressors, Boilers, Steam Turbine, Gas Turbine, pumps and commercial evaluation of price offers & selection of vendors.

• To generate & review PID / PFDs for various plant equipment & fuel circuits.

• Review of 220 MW CCGT plant for operability / maintainability on behalf of owner. Review focussed on Australian Standard compliance of BOP equipments and associated existing piping systems. maintenance. Production of a series of reports.

• Management of approval process of high pressure gas supply pipeline system. Preparation of design brief and management of independent review for complex gas system.

• Co-ordinate required design changes in complex gas pipeline system following review. Review the application prior to its submission to government authority.

• Preparation of design brief for fire system risk assessment. Reviewed series of technical reports, P & ID and GA.

• Expediting of switchboards and other major components for OEM including preparing and submitting a weekly report and resolving bottleneck and delivery issues on behalf of the OEM.

Professional Training: Successful completion of “Pump Fundamentals” training accredited by Engineers Australia. .

Mechanical Engineer (SHAH Alloys Ltd , INDIA) May 2003 – Dec 2007

• Operation-Maintenance Engineer for 35 MW Embedded Power Generation Plant (Diesel).

• Supervision of operation of diesel generator plant including: DM water plant, waste oil recovery plant, waste heat recovery unit, cooling towers & pump house and engine auxiliaries lube oil purifiers, plate heat exchangers for lube oil & CT water.

• Preparing maintenance schedule according to running hours for various parts of different engines.

• Supervision of routine & plant shutdown maintenance.

Projects/Site work undertaken:

• Commissioning 8 MW Sulzer engine & associated auxiliary equipments such as; Erection & commissioning of lube oil circuit, jacket water circuit, furnace oil supply line to engine.

• Design, fabrication & commissioning of 1.2m exhaust duct line for Sulzer engine.

• Successful commissioning & testing of Commissioning of waste oil recovery plant.

• Installation of plate heat exchanger, replacement of charge air cooler line with larger diameter capacity

• to improve charge air cooler efficiency.

• All the projects included material procurement, project management, cost projection & site supervision.

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

• Operating Systems: Windows95/98/2000/7/XP, Windows NT

• Databases: Microsoft SQL 2008 / 2005 / 2000, Microsoft Access

• CAD tools: AutoCAD, Solid Works, PipeFlo,ANSYS.

• Tools/Libraries: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 / 2005 / 2003, Crystal Reports.

• Others: MS Project, MS office, Minitab, Mat lab, FLUENT, Auto Cad, C#.

REFERENCES:

• Prof. Jorge E. Gonzalez

NOAA CREST Professor of Mechanical Engineering The City College of New York.

E-mail: ********@**.****.****.*** Phone: 212-***-**** Website: http://cuerg.ccny.cuny.edu .

• Mr. Louis Hernandez

Phone: 212-***-**** Fax: 212-***-**** E-mail: **********@****.****.*** .

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