Reliability Engineer

Reliability Specialist

(May 2008 – March 2009) - Altra Energy Ltd, Aberdeen, UK

Reliability Specialist

Roles & Responsibilities include:

• Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Analysis (RAM)
• Safety Analysis (SIL)
• Reliability input to maintenance development projects
• Coaching



April 2006 – April 2008 Aker Solutions Subsea Limited, Aberdeen, UK

System Reliability Engineer


Roles and Responsibilities:

• FMEA Subsea Control System, Software
• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Analysis of Subsea Control System (RAM)
• Reliability Prediction of Electronic Boards
• Safety Analysis (SIL)
January 2001-March 2006

Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, Sweden

Reliability Methods Support

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Teaching
• Internal reliability support for Volvo Car Corporation
• Analytical and feed back analysis for electrical and mechanical systems
• Methods: Weibull probability plotting, Reliability Block Diagram Analysis (RBDA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

May 1994-December 00 Alstom Power (ex. ABB, now Siemena), Finspong, Sweden

Reliability Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Functional analysis for combined cycle power plants
• Approvals of gas turbines from the authorities like DNV in Norway, TÜV in Germany, Gasunie in Holland, and APAVE in France.
• Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
• Teaching
• Safety, Reliability and Availability Analysis.
• Analytical and feed back analysis for electrical, control and mechanical systems
• Methods: Reliability Block Diagram Analysis (RBDA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
• Performance analysis for Combined Cycle Power Plants

• BSc in Mechanical Engineering University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan - 1973
• Separate Courses (40 P), Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden 1985 – 1986.
• Licentiate of Engineering in Systems Technology for
Thermal Power Plants (System Reliability)
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden – 1989
• Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Technology for
Thermal Power Plants (System Reliability)
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden – 1993

May 78 – December 83 Secretariat of electricity Benghazi, Libya
(Tobruk Power and Desalination Plant, Tobruk)

Shift Charge Engineer, Boiler Maintenance Engineer
Chief of Operation and Planning Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Operation of steam power plant
• Maintenance of steam power plant



January 75- May 78 Modern sugar mills, Sangla Hill, Pakistan

Shift Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Operation of sugar mills
• Maintenance of sugar mills.



August 74 – January 75 Planning and development consultants, Hyderabad,
Pakistan

Asstt. Mechanical Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Sorting of spare parts for purchase.



Reliability methods skills: FMEA, Reliability Block Diagram Analysis (RBDA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Markov Process, Weibull Probability Plotting, Feed Back Analysis.


Computer/Software skills: Windows 98, NT, XP MS WORD, EXCEL, and POWER POINT
CAFTA for FTA analysis, RBDA for RBDA analysis, Weibull++6 for probability plotting. I can work with other software too.