Period

Brief Description

Organization

2004 – Till date

Managing Engineering group, of strength of 20 internal and 10 external employees (consist of PM’s, Technical Manager, Sr. Engineers, and Engineer). The group is mainly involved in following:

1. PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Solution across the world for Low Voltage Switchgear (LVS) Medium Voltage Switchgear (MVS), Power Transformer and Substation Engineering Product of ABB globally.
2. Development of Substation Engineering Calculation Packages (SECP), which include Short-Circuit, Sag-Tension etc. for substation, globalization of the use of the application using centralized ABB IT infrastructure & process.
3. Development of Centralized Machine Inspection Global System (MiGs) & Interface Data Warehousing solution, used by BU Machine Services across ABB.
4. Development and testing of ABB Network Management System (PNSM – SCADA, MicroSCADA system) which include heterogeneous system (Linux, HP-Unix, Windows). Automation of backup and restore of Network Manager Databases (both online & offline) through secure network (including DMZ) across firewall.
5. Development of Design & Validation Tool for power & distribution transformer, HV Circuit Breaker, Lightning Arrester, Low & Medium voltage switchgear.
6. Work with the design, optimization and testing of HV product across ABB, which include GIS, AIS equipment, HV Current Transformer, CVT / Optical CT, modular switchgear, system simulation for fault simulation for HV Transmission & Distribution network. Helping the BU’s for SA (Substation Automation) & DA (Distribution Automation) analysis and optimization
7. The setup of High Voltage and High Current testing setup, helping other BU’s across the world to setup effective product testing measuring setup for HV Product
8. Global Engineering solution for Switchgear product across ABB, support in design optimization.
9. Team review different patent on switchgear product, and help ABB to protect different areas of product (8 patent filed in 2008 from this team)

The responsibilities include technical evaluation of solution, group strategy development considering the vision & mission of group & organization, workforce planning, career planning, succession planning, yearly performance evaluation and ACR.

ABB Global Industries & Services Limited (Corporate Research - INCRC), Bangalore

1999 – 2004

Engineering Analysis and HV testing to support different New Product Initiation (NPI) and product optimization. The scope was also to setup a High Voltage testing setup (using Hipotrinics AC & impulse test setup). State of the art tools use (like ANSYS, Saber, MatLab, Magnet) for engineering analysis (numerical) and test setup (like Power frequency HV test, Partial Discharge, Oil Breakdown tester, Insulation Loss analyzer etc). The responsibility includes technical evaluation, helping the NPI initiative, development of combine insulation for HV application, coming up with new quenching technique for electrical arc, fault simulation, Six Sigma initiative & HV testing for critical component.

GE Indsys (Hyderabad) & Corporate Research (JFWTC, Bangalore)

1996 - 1999

Worked as the Technical Lead on the design and tool developments for in-house use. Some of the tool developed are to optimize the design & testing process, like automation of CAD – with CNC system, auto wiring diagram, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) tool for MCC & PCC

Siemens Limited, Calcutta, India

1994 - 1996

Worked as Sr. Engineer for the development on solution framework for HV Circuit Breaker, based on the finite element analysis. This helps the business on optimization of several components of HV products manufactured by ABB. Some of the major works are Design of 145kV SF6 high voltage circuit breaker, Failure analysis of high voltage circuit breaker, Optimization of arc chamber of circuit breaker with the help of Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Development of high impulse current test set-up for Lightning arrester testing.

ABB Technical Research, Vadodara, India

Major achievements (team & individual):

• Globalization & development of Substation Engineering Calculation Packages (SECP) – used by PSS group across the globe, with a focus of data warehousing system.
• Centralized Data Warehousing solution for Machine Services (High power Motor & Generator) used by all the design & service center of the BU across ABB
• Managed Product Lifecycle Management (Ematrix-PLM) Program, which include complete automated (including e-CAD, ERP integration) solution across the globe for Low, Medium Voltage modular switchgear, Transformer family of ABB
• Managed the Electronic Documentation Program (EDP) till deployment, which saved the company $200,000 a year by implementing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) for all Power Technology product manufacturing across the globe, using advanced Microsoft technology (like BizTalk Server, SQL 2005 etc.) and ECM technology (like Documentum Server, ServIS etc.)
• Received (as a team) highest number of patent first filing (US & EU patent) from EDP program dealing with development of Enterprise Content Management solution. This program also received highest level in customer feedback as part of OSA (One Simple ABB) initiative. Self is one of the contributors in three filings.
• Development of Design & validation tool for power & distribution transformer, HV Circuit Breaker, Lightning Arrester, Low & Medium voltage switchgear.
• Work with the design, optimization and testing of HV product across ABB, which include GIS, AIS equipment, HV Current Transformer, CVT / Optical CT, modular switchgear, system simulation for fault simulation for HV Transmission & Distribution network. Helping the BU’s for SA (Substation Automation) & DA (Distribution Automation) analysis and optimization
• The setup of High Voltage and High Current testing setup, helping other BU’s across the world to setup effective product testing measuring setup for HV Product
• Developed system level design and testing of HV Transmission & Distribution network of several Utilities focusing on optimization, fault prediction, failure analysis and suggestion to the engineering design team.
• Worked for CMMi (ML-3) certification for the organization as an assessment team member working with external lead assessor, presently leading the EPG (Engineering Process Group for V&V Process)
• Setup a system & procedure for Device Integration Factory (DIF) quality assurance & release process for ABB customer (in 2005). This team releases the drivers for all the field devices (including non-ABB) for ABB Plant controller (800xA) system.