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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Technical interface to local transit agencies for major re-signaling projects to improve headways and operating efficiency.Lead hardware engineering activities for deploying CBTCManage site testing and commissioning activities

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Work Package Manager, New York City Subway -QBL CBTC Project Manage project life-cycle including handover from bid, design, procurement, production, certification, installation, testing & commissioning. Close interaction with customer to determine requirements per construction and service schedule.  Manage Change Control Review Board (CCRB) to reduce impact of technical changes.Hardware Application Engineer-San Francisco Subway, West Virginia University PRT Creating Assembly drawings for manufacturing electronic equipment. Supervising electrical contractors to ensure internal, customer and local workmanship standards are met.  Sourcing materials for installation.Network Test Engineer, Walt Disney World Monorail Upgrade Executing site acceptance tests including RF coverage, redundancy, security and stress tests. Configuration of equipment included COTS network devices such as switches, firewalls, routers as well as proprietary Thales devices.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Analysis, design, procurement, installation & commissioning of power distribution systems - Load flow, Voltage drop, short circuit, power quality and coordination studies for traction power & auxiliary power systems.• System integration of all aspects of transportation projects including Power distribution, Data transmission, Train control, Station equipment, Guideway switches and SCADA.

Pittsburgh

• Comparative analysis of transmission technologies. High Voltage AC and both, line commutated and voltage source converter based High Voltage DC, spanning technical, economic and environmental aspects.• Case Simulation using SIMULINK - HVAC v/s VSC-HVDC.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Synchronized multiple measurement devices to access data centrally on a single computer reducing time for data capturing and assimilation.• Implement processes in tests & set up instrumentation for routine factory tests.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Developed benchmark models related to Energy and Power Systems-modeled a transmission line to emphasize specific new features of the latest release of Simplorer.• Translation of engineering systems into mathematical models.• Led the group of interns to set up an on-board program for orientation of future interns and co-ops.

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering And Technology Innovation Management, 3.7

Business Coursework: Strategy, Organizational Design, Lean Product Development, Sales & Business Development, Managerial Economics.

Masters, Electrical Engineering (Ece), 3.8

• Designed an SVC for a steel facility to provide smooth control for compensation in the range of -150 to +300 MVAR, • Offshore Wind-Farm.

Bachelors, Electrical Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: IEEE, EESA (Electrical Engineers Student Association), EVG(Energy Volunteers' Group), SPACE Core Committee•.

High School, Science, 87.4

• Won the 2nd Prize in Annual Gulf Science exhibition for designing a chemical equation balancer

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