Mohan Sunkavalli Email & Phone Number

Manassas, VA, US

United States

Starting a new thing in a new place.....

Houston, Texas Area

• Powers Systems & Drives EngineerWorked on various projects related to power generation/distribution, SWGR automation (including configuration and programming of protection relays), and AC/DC drives.
• Designed, developed & commissioned medium speed natural gas reciprocating engine power plant (10 engines X 6.5MWe) for Caterpillar Power Generator Systems. Project was located in Alberta, Canada, and was a complete.
• Designed, developed & commissioned steam turbine control system for a biomass cogeneration plant (21MWe & 100 ton/hr steam) at DOE Savannah River site. Project included developing steam turbine controls (on A-B.
• Design, develop & commission 600V generator controls for drilling rig prime movers. Gensets are typically Caterpillar or Cummins, and using analog/digital electronic hardware from Woodward/Basler (Easygen, 2301.
• Design, develop & commission DC drives & controls for drilling rigs (SCR systems). These are typically Hill-Hayes (Ross-Hill derivative) based analog system, or M&I developed digital SCR drives.
• Design, develop & commission AC drives & controls for drilling rigs. The drives are typically Vacon NXP or ABB ACS-800 based air cooled/liquid cooled drives.

Houston, Texas Area

1) AC/DC drives & electrical power systems integration for land/offshore drilling market. Drive platforms experience: ABB, Siemens, Ross-Hill Analog DC controls, etc......2) PLC programming for various systems for land & offshore drilling systems. PLC platforms include: Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Wago......

Houston, Texas Area

• M&I Electric, Inc. ( Subsidiary of AETI, American Electric Technologies Inc.)Automation & Control systems for land/offshore drilling & industrial markets & LV/MV switchgear equipment.
• Commissioned PLC based (A-B ControlLogix & RSView) power management system (PMS) for the Great Lakes icebreaker USCGC Mackinaw. Included generator controls (3 X 3.5MWe CAT gensets) & management of shipboard MV & LV.
• Developed & commissioned power distribution & monitoring system for offshore production platforms & living quarters (Gulf of Mexico) using redundant ControlLogix PLCs and HMI. (YEAR: 2006)

Downers Grove, IL

• Handled a wide variety of hardware and software projects for companies ranging from electric power generators to petrochemical plants to raw materials handling.
• Developed & commissioned a complete plant control system based on Allen-Bradley PLC-5 & RSView for a medium sized plant making charcoal briquettes. The customer was Kingsford (Clorox Corporation) (YEAR: 2002)
• Developed a complete plant control system based on Allen-Bradley ControlLogix & RSView for gypsum plant (LaFarge plant for Pusan, South Korea) (YEAR: 2003)
• Commissioned multiple NOx pollution control systems for a number of fossil-fuel power generation plants in the Midwest and East coast region of United States. (YEAR: 2000-2003)

Addison, IL

Responsible for developing control software & hardware for a wide variety of PC board handling equipment such as conveyors and automated test equipment using PLCs, HMIs, servos, etc…

Westmont, IL

• Customer Engineer/Product SupportMain responsibility was creating engineering packages for new printing press installations and retrofit work. Secondary responsibility was to carry out control system enhancements in.
• Wrote specifications & oversaw printing press control systems migration from Allen-Bradley PLC-5 to SLC-500. (YEAR: 1997)
• Trained and certified on all Allen-Bradley control & drive products that were used in the priting industry. (YEAR: 1995-1997)