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Houston, TX, US

The Woodlands, Texas, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Promoting sustainability at community level.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for on-site merchant gas supply system installations and upgrades for the US midwestern geography for various applications such as nitrogen for welding and food freezing, oxygen for hospitals and hydrogen.
• Lead a diverse team consisting of field technicians, project planners, project engineers and drafters.
• Manage an annual capex of $10M+.
• Provide sales support during project bid phase.
• Uphold Linde standards for environmental compliance, personnel, and process safety.Accomplishments.
• 90% of the installed systems require no maintenance over the first year of operation resulting in increased customer uptime.

Greater Chicago Area

• Act as subject matter expert for all technical matters pertaining to merchant gas supply systems nationally.
• Ensure standards and operating procedures comply with code revisions.
• AccomplishmentsLead a cross functional six sigma effort consisting of sales. engineering, external vendor and procurement resulting in significant design improvements for a key system component and annual maintenance.
• Identified redundancies in inspection and maintenance procedures leading up to updates resulting in 20% productivity gain during scheduled maintenance.
• Technical expert on a productivity effort which resulted in improved product fill procedures and 30% reduction in hydrogen venting during product filling for this specific client.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for growing the subsea structural monitoring business of the company
• Managed various projects for key clients ensuring delivery of structural monitoring systems
• Performed analysis of monitored data and deduced stress and fatigue utilization and provided key inputs for numerical model calibration and refinement of design guidelines
• Supported marketing team for creative development of marketing content

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Conducted structural strength and stability assessment for shallow water conductor systems
• Managed a key project resulting in restoration of structural integrity and life extension of various ageing oil conductors located in the Arabian gulf
• Performed flexible pipe riser design and engineering for a major deep water development in SE Asia using Orcaflex
• Conducted detailed analysis of fixed platform structure components using ANSYS
• Developed riser component technical specifications for inclusions in RFQs for a EPIC project based in West Africa

Houston, Texas Area

• Engineer responsible for key functions within an EPIC riser delivery team for a major development in the Gulf of Mexico
• Conducted global level FE analysis of top tensioned drilling and production riser systems using Flexcom
• Studied riser wake effects under various ocean current conditions using different empirical models
• Assessed riser vibrations due to vortex shedding under subsea currents and quantified its effect on structural fatigue

Houston, Texas Area

• Conducted flexible riser design verification as part of a certified verification agent contract for the first ship shaped floating production system in the Gulf of Mexico
• Conducted modal analysis for a drilling riser deployed in various water depths. Correlated analytical modes to measured accelerations and calculated structural fatigue
• Identified possible modes of failure for subsea components including risers, umbilicals, manifolds and subsea trees. Studied asset fabrication and operation databases and estimated probabilities of failure and.
• Served as the primary point of contact for asset integrity management for a major subsea production field in the Gulf of Mexico

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

• Active flow control researcher at the experimental fluid dynamics laboratory located at the Texas A & M University
• Carried out CFD simulations using FLUENT for various flow control applications
• Designed flow control prototypes using Solidworks
• Developed scale models for experimental wind tunnel testing
• Achieved successful flow control within a serpentine jet engine inlet duct designed for stealth UCAV applications

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.73

Master'S Degree, Natural Resources (Sustainability Focus), 4.0

· Course Work: Sustainability Systems, Strategies for Sustainability, Global Issues in Environmental Sustainability, Leadership for.

Bachelor'S Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering