Bhavana (Baffy) Mukunda E.I.T. Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

London, Greater London, Gb

-Providing support to plant electrical and power systems by learning the systems and processes, supporting the required maintenance up-keep.-Planning relevant safety requirements into all activities, tasks and projects based on assessed hazards, identified critical risks and mitigating actions.-Applying technical/professional knowledge to solve complex problems, undertaking engineering investigations and providing clear recommendations for management action.-Developing, maintaining and implementing engineering standards for technical drawings, equipment, installation practices and workmanship for all Electrical and Power System installations. -Keeping abreast of all technical, legal, contractual and legislative advances and changes in Electrical and Power Systems Engineering which may impact the Company. -Participating in continuous improvement by identifying and implementing activities which will enable the increase in production or the decrease in cost per ton of production -Ensuring site compliance with the electrical engineering standards and reviewing the standards on a regular basis. -Conduct annual and as required transformer oil tests and manage the resulting action list. -Create and maintain a five year plan for power systems upgrades across sites and be involved in the capital funding process. -Set up maintenance plans as per the asset management project for all electrical power systems assets and track that the plants are completing these maintenance plans. Consult with plants for trending results to identify systematic problems.

London, Greater London, Gb

- Applying concepts of RPS (rapid problem solving) and RCA (root cause analysis) to primarily electrical issues.-Managing continuous improvement projects across the plant.-Managing a working group/task force for all issues that arise with the anode casting machinery, responding to extended downtime events and executing proactive maintenance strategies and projects to prevent such issues.-Initiating and justifying capital projects.-Process improvement through engineered solutions, for continuous and reliable operation of furnaces and material handling machinery.-Short term electrical & mechanical project management.

London, Greater London, Gb

• Generating detailed technical manuals, operator instructions and recommendations for old and new plant machinery• Acting as project and site coordinator/manager for multiple projects (transmission line transfer, large-scale equipment replacement, etc.)• Running engineering studies (power systems load, short circuit and arc flash studies) for identification and location of performance issues and system faults,• Coordinating the execution of restoration projects that result from the engineering studies• Conducting RCAs (Root Cause Analyses), event analyses and reliability research for part replacements• Curating operation wide equipment standards (medium and low voltage switchgear, batteries, etc.)• Primary SME (Subject Matter Expert) for VAr compensation equipment replacement project at the RTKC Refinery• Improving methods for documentation and work flow management of call-outs (RTKC centralized call-out system)

London, Greater London, Gb

• Successfully updated the protection scheme for sag mill inch drives, to reduce the incident energy and erroneous trips• Managed MOCs (Management of Change) and conducted risk assessments for equipment upgrade projects and establishing SWIs (Standard Work Instructions) for lead-acid battery management and switching procedures• Mapped MCC layouts and generated a searchable database for existing equipment• Documenting replacement equipment specifications• Assisted CRMs and substation inspections

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

• ECE 5671/6671: Electric Generators My teaching experience in the previous semester and the courses I had taken over the period of my graduate study so far have led me to this position. The course is demanding as it is offered both at and undergraduate and a graduate level. As a laboratory instructor and grader, the ability to communicate and negotiate while creating a safe, yet challenging learning environment for the students along with the professor is an important part of the job. A new and established version of the software dSPACE was taught through carefully constructed handouts that were editions of various editions and constant supervision. Helping the students debug their experimental set ups and circuits proved a beneficial part of the learning process for both the students and myself. A tangential part of this responsibility also involved assisting my mentor, Dr. Marc Bodson in his research involving the properties of dual fed induction machines in association with the Glenn Research center, Cleveland, Ohio.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

• ECE 3510-002 : Introduction to Feedback systems Laboratory instructor and grader. Responsibilities included ensuring the students could relate the course material taught in class to the experiments conducted on a biweekly basis and understand the various components used and their mechanisms. They were introduced to an older version of a very relevant software, dSPACE to conduct simulations and capture data that can be later used to present their conclusions. They were also taught to modify the data and it's presentations according to the context of the experiment objectives.• ECE 2240 : Introduction to Electric circuits As a grader, the job demanded that I fairly graded a classroom while attending to their individual queries. It also entailed the responsibility to ensure the students individually knew where they went wrong and how to approach it instead. This helped them prepare for their examinations more confidently and ultimately, learn the basics of electric circuits.

Chicago, Us

Developing a testing module for the switching set-up of eXtreme Grade Amplifier-ll (XGA2) post burn-in tests involved a great measure of planning and strategizing along with being able to monitor, examine and assess the assembly. Interacting with the lines-men to gauge their understanding of the components and their parameters pre and post burn-in tests. The entire project was designed to the effect of optimizing the production and minimize the losses incurred by the company due to reduced rate of production and mistakenly discarded components. A part of our process also involved an ESD audit. Tailing a team of trained professionals and working with an ESD ace largely preferred by the establishment helped discern the myriad probable causes for a testing lapse. Several measures were planned, discussed and executed competently.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Prototyped a marketable 3D scanner and served as a teaching assistant at educational and product oriented workshops. Tested and modeled various facets of smart-building and home automation by integrating the requisite sensors with microcontrollers. Provided strategic consultation with regard to identifying potent teaching material and target audiences.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Ece

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering