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Core Competencies
Project Management, Maintenance and Operations- Electrical,
Controls & Instrumentation,Mechanical, Utilities, Civil,
Brief Overview
- Engineer having 18 years of extensive technical, project and maintenance experience across a
wide spectrum of industry verticals including Petrochemicals, Chemicals, technical textiles,
FMCG and consultancy sectors.
- Headed many upgradation and design modification projects for customer approvals and for
throughput improvement involving cross-functional activities in various plants of the business
involving India and Overseas-Thailand and Dubai.
- Strong domain experience in Instrumentation, Automation and Electrical.
- Experienced in renewable energy sector - Wind, including installation, operation and maintenance
of 15 MW project, and Solar.
- Effective in design of systems, SOPs, standards and IT enablement related to Operation and
Maintenance.
- Excellent adaptability and proven ability in managing teams of diverse backgrounds, skills,
experience and age.
- Demonstrated abilities to act as an Agent of Change and a Role Model amidst tight schedules with
strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Possess excellent communication and relationship management skills with in depth exposure in
managing business partnerships and tie-ups.
- Educational background – Instrumentation Engineer(Bharathiyar University) and PGDFM, IGNOU

Career Highlights

Feb’15 Onwards With Apollo Tyres, Chennai as Group Leader-Engineering

Jul’10 to Feb ’15 with SRF Limited, Manali

- As Central Engineering lead, act as knowledge resource spearheading upgradation projects

related to design modifications, throughput improvement and efficiency improvement.
- As maintenance team lead, responsible for ensuring maximum on-stream availability of
machinery, PLC,DCS, switchyard, field instrumentation & control systems. I
- mplementation of autonomous maintenance and to bring in best maintenance practices. The
challenges include catering to the requirement of diverse businesses in the complex and to ensure
un-interrupted supply of Control systems, Power & Utilities at the best possible combination,
thereby achieving the lowest rate.

Key Achievements:
- Eliminated recurring problems and breakdowns in various units across business by promoting
the usage of TQM tools and by inculcating the culture of phenomena elimination among team
members.
- Led the maintenance team towards challenging the Deming Application Prize for TQM excellence.
- Provided leadership and created sense of teamwork among existing and new employees, among
senior managers and junior staff
- Developed customer oriented approach among maintenance and Utilities team and established
the practice of Quality report and customer complaint redress
- Finalized automation contract for 17Million INR against a budget of 56 million INR which resulted
in significant saving of project cost against budget. Won ‘GSK SPIRIT’ award for the same.
- Developed Énergy Management and Audit’ as a new solution offering in Satyam. Forged a 60:40
profit sharing alliance with an Energy Management Agency.

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Dec’09 to July’10withPepsico-Fritolay, Pune as General Manager-Engineering

Apr’09 to Dec’09with GSK Consumer Healthcare, Sonepat as Manager-Projects

Apr’08 to Apr’09with Satyam Computers as Team Leader-MES,Automation and Energy.

Apr’04 to Apr’08withSRF Limited as Chief Manager-Maintenance

June’96 to Mar’04with Tamilnadu Petroproducts as HOD-Instrumentation

The Growth Path

1996-1997 Management Trainee-Instrumentation-TNPetro, Chennai
1997-2002 Deputy Manager-Instrumentation in TNPetro,Chennai- LAB and ECH plants
2002-2004 HOD-Instrumentation- TNPetro, Chennai, India-ECH Plant
2004-2005 Manager (Instrumentation) – SRF, Manali, Chennai, Nylon tire cord unit.
2005-2008 Chief Manager (Maintenance) SRF, Manali, Chennai, Nylon tire cord unit
2008-2009 Consultant and Team lead-Satyam, Chennai
2009 Manager-Projects, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Sonepat, Haryana, India
2009-2010 General Manager-Engineering, Pepsico, Pune, India
2010-2015 Associate Vice President-Projects, Engineering and Technology Centre- SRF
Limited, Manali, Chennai, India.
2015 onwards Group Leader-Engineering&Utilities, Apollo Tyres, Chennai.

The Mission
- To steer the organization towards its goal by ensuring timely completion of projects, developing
and sticking on to the road map towards ‘Zero breakdown’ enhance profitability.

The Milestones & Notable Contributions

Maintenance, Operations and Central Engineering Lead

- Ensured timely completion of all projects handled.
- Achieved zero breakdown in key sections of the plants by following root cause analysis, PM
analysis and other TQM tools.
- Worked closely with R&D on packaging initiatives which resulted in 25 Crores of savings per
annum.
- Turned around fuel consumption from negative to positive variance.
- Provided Leadership after building a team and managing conflicts in the team composed of
existing and new recruits
- Goal setting among all managers with frequent reviews to ensure that the organisational
objectives are met
- Setting Technical standards across business, conducting periodic audits and deployment of good
engineering practices across various units.
- Instrumental in developing a detailed Management Control System, enabling deployment of
control points across the organisation upto the level of the supervisors

Project Management
- Ensured timely completion of following projects within budgeted amount and timeframe.
o Migration of major plant control systems DCS-Multiple projects
o Biomass based Steam boiler and thermic fluid heater- INR40million
o Power system revamping- INR 1.5 million
o 12 Wind mills- 15MW – INR930 million.
o Vacuum Band drier project – GBP23.3 million

Change Management/ BPR Initiatives

- Spearheaded numerous projects involvingin-housing of various core activities being done by
contractor

Operations Management/ TQM

- Instrumental in evolving control systems for Daily Management & Breakthrough Management.
- Introduced the maintenance framework entailing formulation of internal policies and procedures
and Production Planning and Control activities.

Systems Development
- Developed Utility quality parameter and energy monitoring systems for reporting on daily basis.
- Was Team lead for Oracle EAM implementation in Manali Unit of SRF Technical Textiles Business
- Was Team member for SAP MM and Mtce module implementation in TN Petro.
- Was Team lead for OPM implementation in Manali Unit of SRF Technical Textiles Business.

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 Academics
- Certified as ‘Energy Auditor’ by Bureau of Energy efficiency, Ministry of Power, Govt of India.
- P.G. Diploma in Finance Management (Correspondence) from IGNOU in 2000
- B.E. (Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering) from Tamilnadu College of Engineering,
Coimbatore in 1996
- Completed Project Management Course in XLRI, Jamshedpur in 2011.

Course Location Year

Siemens- S7-300/400,Simatic Net, SIEMENS, Mumbai 2005-2013
Sinamics, Profibus

Rockwell Automation-PLCs Rockwell, Bengaluru 2002

Supervisory skills development SPIC MDC, Kodaikanal Dec 2000

programme
Yokogawa-Centum XL, CS-3000, Yokogawa, Bengaluru 1997,2000,2002
Controller Engineering
Emerson Delta V Emerson, Mumbai 2006

IT Skills:Highly computer literate and take full advantage of the IT – enablement in work life. Well
versed with the latest versions of MS Windows, Oracle, SAP and all packages of Office Suite.
Personal Details
Date of Birth : 18th October 1975.
Mobile : +91-8939843242, +91-44-42862251
Residence : Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

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