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Sr. Engineering Manager

About

Engineering Manager with 25+ years of experience in Product Design and development of Aviation, Industrial Heavy duty GT, Aero-derivative Gas Turbines and Centrifugal Compressors for Oil & Gas Applications. Proven ability as a Global Technical Leader role for Gas Turbine Casing design, with ownership spanning from New Design, Requisition, Services request from Customer, supplier qualification and Characterization test for new generation Gas Turbines. Strong Global mindset and ability to work with cross-functional teams including manufacturing, Sourcing, Services and spanning multiple cultures (Italy, France, US, Poland) Have credit of filing two patents on Gas Turbine Combustor technology, solving customer issues and improving operability of Gas Turbines. 12 + years in people leadership role studded with training's reinforcing the situational leadership and effective resolution. Current responsibility spans across new programs for Centrifugal compressors, Requisition for customized Compressors for Oil & Gas market and Standardization improving productivity and challenging customer specific requirements Strong hands on experience in Team Management needs of Staffing, Career development and compensation & Benefits for Employees. My leadership and principle revolves around creating leaders and empowering to build a win-win situation for the team and the business. My Passion revolves around tracking and practicing strong leadership principles from across industry “who just not only play the game, but change it”

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Baker Hughes, Mar 2005 - Present · 21 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore, Leading a team which develops design on requisition for centrifugal compressor machines, which are customized to meet the customer requirements in the Oil & Gas Industry. Standardization and New Program introduction are extensively pursued to remain competitive in the challenging Oil & Gas Industry. Involved in developing advance technology for compressors (2D/3D stage technology – design) and leading system Operability team involved in Emergency startup/shutdown simulations developing control logic for the systems Hazop mitigation. Compressor applications extend from Upstream, midstream and downstream technologies with strong focus on the regional customers. Involved in the field issues resolution for customers with System level solutions based on the Mechanical and Plant level Operability studies. Leading Centrifugal compressors team since 2011.

Engineering Manager at Baker Hughes, Mar 2005 - Present · 21 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore, Continue to lead Centrifugal compressor Technology team for - NPI: New product Introduction (Advance Stage technology designs) - RQS: Requisition Engineering customizing Compressor design for customer specific requirements. Design catering the span across Upstream, Midstream & Downstream applications in Oil & Gas Industry - System Operability studies for Startup/Shutdown scenarios

Team Leader at Cyient, Sep 2001 - Mar 2005 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Involved in the design and development of Rotor components for Gas Turbine Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Canada. Strong expertise in Finite Element Analysis using ANSYS to develop new design and also solve customer issues for product life cycle management of Turbine blades. Successfully re-designed telemetry tub used for data acquisition system which previously had a major failure during the test.Gained good experience on the product life cycle management and fatigue failures mechanisms for rotor blades.

Research Fellow at Aeronautical Development Agency, Nov 1999 - Aug 2001 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore, Served as a Research Fellow (~1.5 yrs) for the development and testing of composite structures for Aircraft wings and Rudder. Catia and Nastran were used to check the various failure criteria and de-lamination issues in Carbon Fibre reinforced composites. Results were validated with testing with appropriate sample sizes to overcome the failure mechanisms.

Graduate Engineering Trainee at BEML LIMITED, Jun 1998 - May 1999 · 1 yr, Kolar Gold Fields, >Responsible for quality products from the CNC machining center including workload management for Excavators earth moving machines. >Coding evaluation and CAM modeling for CNC machine operations >Managed audits and successfully implemented quality procedures for repeatability of machining process.

Education

CXO - Driving Growth, Business Administration, Management and Operations, XLRI Jamshedpur

Executive AI, Leadership in AI, Indian School of Business