Senior Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Engineer with 10 years experience in mechanical design and management of Oil and gas, Refinery, Process plant projects in EPC environment. Seeking positions involving gaining technical knowledge and developing leadership skills.

Lead Mechanical Engineer – Commonwealth E and C, Houston,June 2008 – Oct 2009
Hunt Refinery Project - Specified and procured Desalter package, Coke drums using ABB Lummus technology, Pressure vessels, Fired Heaters, thermally rated Heat Exchangers in HTRI and mechanically checked exchangers in RCS, procured Flare package. Generated specifications,bid evaluations,technical recommendations, reviewed vendor prints, Stress analysis reports and calculations.

Engineer – Mechanical, Bechtel Corporation, Houston, TX, 2006 – 2008
Motiva Port Arthur Refinery Crude Expansion Project - Specified and procured Naphtha Hydro treater reactors,vessels, Filters, Tanks on $7.1 Billion project, Coordinated a team of 6 engineers to generate specifications, bid evaluations and technical recommendations, reviewed vendor prints and provided field construction support.

IGCC Project for AEP, GE-Bechtel Technology - Conducted Front end design (FEED), technical bid evaluations, tech recommendations, estimating and costing.

Stationary Equipment Engineer, Linde Process plants, Tulsa, OK, 2005 – 2006
Coffeyville Ref & Mktg, KS – Designed, specified and procured stationary equipment and packages for Claus Sulfur recovery unit.
Premcor Refinery Project,TX – Designed, specified and procured pressure vessels, stationary equipment and packages for Hydro-treating unit.
Chevron Hydrogen plants,UT,OH - Designed, specified and procured stationary equipment and packages, Liquid Nitrogen and Oxygen tanks using API 620 for Linde Gas ASU in GA and MS.

Engineer - Mechanical, Uhde India Limited, Pune, India,1999 – 2002
Designed, specified and procured heat transfer equipment, vessels, packages, reviewed vendor drawings, provided technical recommendations. Coordination with piping layout and stress analysis groups in detail engineering phase for $450 million QAFCO Urea Formaldehyde Complex turnkey project for Qatar Fertiliser Company, Qatar and $100 million NCI Caustic Soda Project for NCI,Jordan.

Engineer-R&D, Netel Chromatographs R&D Centre, India,1998 – 1999
Developed strong technical writing skills, specifications for analyzers and particulate measurement equipment for Oil and gas Industries.

Engineer Intern- Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd, Kerala, India,1996– 1997
Assessed Predictive maintenance techniques on Rotating Equipment with Vibration monitoring and analysis.

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering,December 2004
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK,USA.

Advanced diploma in Piping Design & Engineering,July 2001
Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India; Gold Medalist

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering,October 1997
University of Kerala, India; Placed 5th in a class of 100.

• FE (EIT) in Mechanical Engineering, TX. Eligible to apply for PE Registration.

• Dr. R. J. Rathi Gold Medal in Advanced Piping Diploma, July 2001.

INDUSTRY TRAINING
• HTRI Xist Training, HTRI, College Station, TX, January 20, 2009
• Heat transfer training, Plate Heat Exchangers, Welded Heat Exchangers, Tranter Inc, Houston TX, September 1, 2009; August 12, 2008
• ASME Sec VIII, Div 1 Vessel Design and fabrication training, Codeware, Houston TX
September 12, 2007
• Pump training, Linde process plants, Tulsa, OK, December 16, 2005
• Compressor training, Linde process plants, Tulsa, OK, June 24, 2005
• Flare Seminar, Callidus Technologies, Tulsa, OK, May 20, 2005
• Burner Seminar, Callidus Technologies, Tulsa, OK, May 18, 2005
• Documentum training, Linde process plants, Tulsa, OK, March 2, 2005

RELEVANT COURSE WORK/TRAINING
• Fluid handling, System engineering, Field instrumentation and process control, Corrosion and materials of construction, layout engineering, Pipe stress analysis and pipe supports, Fabrication, installation and testing, Costing of pipelines, CAD.
• Thermal system design, Simulation and Optimization, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Heat transfer, Finite Element Methods.