Three decades in the metals & mining, metallurgical engineering industry working on around forty multi–disciplinary Green field & Brown field/ De-bottlenecking/ Expansion/ Start up & Commissioning/ Performance improvement projects – from concept to commissioning and O&M of process plants worldwide. Consulting – management & engineering, projects execution–from concept to commissioning, due diligence, financial & economic appraisals, preparation of bankable feasibility reports, technology selection & absorption, market surveys, EPC, project management, procurement, contract management, construction, and commissioning of Zinc, Lead, Cadmium, Gold, Silver, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Tin, Titanium sponge, Iron & Steel plants, Copper Rod plants, Secondary Copper, Lead, & Zinc plants, Cement, hydrated & quick lime plants, railway sidings, Thermal power plants, and Natural Gas – Piped / CNG system.Key Clients:Rubamin SPRL, Lubumbashi, D R CongoExide Batteries, IndiaVedanta Resources Plc - Hindustan Zinc LimitedGandhara Capital, UKProject Appraisal - TEFR Fertilizer Plant, West Africa (Confidential)Project Appraisal, Cuba (Confidential)Project Appraisal - Male (Confidential)Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).Indian Zinc Industry

Project Management, Construction Management,Contract Management:1. CDC-CTC Practical Session, CDC, New DELHI, on 6th June 20102. Certificate Programme in Technical Consulting (CTC), at CDC, New Delhi on 5th, June 20113. Capacity Building Programme, CDC & TMU, at Teerthankar Mahavir University(TMU), Moradabad, UP, on 12th December, 2012

Zinc, Lead, Copper, Aluminium, Brass, Gold & Silver @ India, UAE, AfricaExecuted innovative Stack design of extension from 30m to 59 m for a Ausmelt Lead Smelter Plant at CLZS, Chittorgarh - Hindustan Zinc Limited (Vedanta Resources).Executed environmental clearance for a recycle Secondary Aluminium plant at Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah, UAEExecuted a recycle Secondary Lead plant at Angola, Africa.Executing Setting up of Lead Smelting & Refining and Silver Recovery & Refining Plant.

CDM: Technical Expert Non-Ferrous Metal IndustriesFor a Copper Project in 2012

Project Guide to PGDM/MBA Student

Copper, Cobalt, Gold, Mining & SX EW Process Plants

Head SBU - Non-Ferrous Division, Management Advisory Services & Iron Making & Steel Production

I had an experience of more than 12 years in operations & maintenance, production, planning & control, bench marking, technology audit, and to optimize the process & production performances, manufacturing costs and improve energy & metal output recovery efficiencies, commissioning and general management of both the Zinc - Lead Smelters plants at Debari and Visakhapatnam (including Pyro & Hydro metallurgical based leach residue plants and associated metallurgical gas based Sulphuric acid plants and fertilizer plants – SSP and phosphoric acid plants) of Hindustan Zinc Limited (now Vedanta Resources Plc).A reduction of six months in training period was awarded to me on the ground of merit and I was absorbed as Assistant Engineer in advance on 1/02/1977.Trained at Norzink AS,(Now Boliden Odda) Zinc Smelter, Odda, NorwayImperial Smelting Furnace Of Penarroya, Noyelles-Godault, Nord, France. Lead Zinc Smelter.