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Denmark

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Designed control and protection schemes involving a variety of substation busbar schemes, independent and parallel-operated power transformers up to 350MVA, and transmission and distribution lines from 33kV up to 400kV voltage levels. Also carried out installation, testing and commissioning of the control and protection schemes.• Improved protection schemes, circuits, and relay hardware, settings and configuration, on a continual basis, through fault analyses, protection coordination studies, and as part of preventive maintenance. • Carried out testing and commissioning of SIMATIC TDC control and protection systems for the 2000MW, 500kV bipolar Ethiopia-Kenya HVDC transmission link, including hardware-in-the-loop tests with RTDS simulator.• Prepared signal lists for SCADA engineering based on IEC 61850, Modbus, and IEC 60870-5.• Participated in installation and commissioning of primary equipment (power transformers, switchgear, CTs, VTs) for transmission and distribution substations at 33kV, 66kV, 132kV, 220kV, and 400kV voltage levels. • Conducted preventive maintenance of substation primary equipment including circuit breakers, power transformers, disconnector switches, • Designed, installed and tested power transformer paralleling schemes.• Carried out control and protection testing of 33kV SF6 ring main units for substation auxiliary supply. • Prepared protection coordination studies for transmission level substations from 33kV to 400kV.• Conversant with a variety of protective relay OEMs including ABB, Siemens, Schneider, SEL, GE, NR. Also conversant with IEC 61850 GOOSE engineering for multiple vendors.• Involved in the operation and maintenance of both the Ethiopia-Kenya HVDC link and AC transmission substations.

Power system control and protection

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Operation and Maintenance of High Voltage Power Transmission Infrastructure with focus on HVDC systems

Nairobi

Kenya

• Planned and coordinated maintenance activities guaranteeing equipment availability and overal efficiencies; set up a KAIZEN-based preventive maintenance program that markedly reduced breakdowns• Lead in implementation of an OHSAS 18001:2007 compliant occupational health and safety management system for over 300 employees• Compiled factory performance reports on weekly, monthly and annual basis for site, regional and global organisational review • Managed capex projects, drawing project specifications, design, procurement and implementation

Nairobi

• Conducted an industry analysis for a new consumer lighting product (a retrofit plugin line conditioner) in development to understand how failure of the power grid affected consumer lighting.

Nairobi

• Studied and developed reports on the investment environment and opportunities in various sectors of the Kenyan economy, enabling participants of the Foundation's entrepreneurial training program to develop marketable business ideas

Kakamega, Kenya

• Selected to intern with Equity Bank, based on academic excellence. I handled deposits, withdrawals and money transfer services, serving over 200 customers per day.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, First Class Honours

• Focus areas: Control & Instrumentation, Telecommunications, and Power Systems • Final year project: Designed and built a Doppler phase.

Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education, A (Plain)

Mean grade of A (plain) in K.C.S.E. Best student in Western province and tenth nationally