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United States

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• Highlights: Led the Rebuild project(~$1B+) team with a shared vision of developing and executing an Industry Leading Fit-for-Purpose, a compliant project with an incident-free safety system. Managed the Licensing and.
• Global EPC bid & awards, led execution plan, procurement, vendor management, risk management, contracting plan, material controls & logistics, heavy lift, heavy modularization, construction planning, constructability.
• Directed development of an owner-managed construction site, construction contracting plan development and implementation, offsite fabrication, split contracting, and target price GC through a well-defined execution.
• Strong collaboration with the refinery operations team, management, and other stakeholders, including labor unions, local authorities.
• System-based completions, commissioning, and start-up set up using SmartPlant completions, CSU organization in project team.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

FEL and EPC in Oil Refining, Chemicals, Operations,Crude/Vacuum, Catalytic Reforming, FCCU, Delayed Coking, Hydro-processing, Major Projects, International Bidding and Contracts formation, Execution of EPC refining units, Engineering & Model Reviews, Contracting strategies, Large teams formation and management, Licensor agreements and coordination.

Horizon Oil Sands, CNRL

• Project Manager for Debottlenecking FEL, Coker Fire Rebuild project(665MM$) and Coker Expansion project(516MM$).Operations Manager for Primary Upgrading (delayed Coker, Sulphur trains, storage and blocking),
• Coker Fire Rebuild Project (expansion project continued in EPC offices while part project team mobilized to site to manage rebuild efforts in 2011): RFP and award on an expedited basis, mobilize multiple engineering.
• Execution of Delayed Coker expansion project (additional 2 drums and facilities) with responsibility of project management, budgets, financial approvals, partnership meetings, safety leadership, controls, contracting.
• Operations leadership in Delayed Coking, Sulfur Trains, Amine regen, sour water stripping, Sulfur blocking. Managed 80 operators and other operations staff over 16 process units divided into three major blocks (DRU.

Hydrotreating, Horizon Oil Sands

Delivery of engineering scope of the project. Conduct engineering review and progress meetings, review minutes and ensure follow up actions. Monitor/control the activities/ performance of sub-contractors and vendors. Lead discipline engineering activities on the project, ensuring that the company's requirements are met and legislation are complied with.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Opti Nexen Gasifier BDP development with Shell Global Solutions, Led the Gasification team for FEED and early EPC.

Panipat Refinery, Haryana, India

Led Process Projects in 120,000 BPSD grassroots refinery for technology selection, FELs, EPC, lead role in field construction execution for primary and some secondary processing units, commissioning lead for Crude Distillation andVacuum Distillation Units (6.0MMTPA/120,000bpsd) processing both low and high Sulfur crude,Resid Fluid Catalytic Cracker.

Gujarat Refinery, Vadodara, India

Technical services for 3 crude units, 1 fixed bed cat reformer, UDEX and BTX trains.Operations supervision in two blocks of the Refinery- CDU-4 (3.6MMTPA), Viscosity Breaker Unit(2.0MMTPA with soaker technology), Vacuum distillation Unit (2.2MMTPA), Bitumen Blowing Unit(0.35MMTPA) and Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (1.5MMTPA UOP single stage side by side).

Master Of Science - Msc, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: President LC, AIESEC

Master Of Science (Ms), Chemical Engineering

BE(Chemical Engineering) MSc(Chemical Engineering)