QUALIFICATION SUMMARY
20 years of structured experience in the software engineering of industrial and commercial control systems over complete product life cycles spanning architecture, design, development, validation, testing, safety certification for CE/UL/CSA, documentation, training, deployment and maintenance of software. Experience in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distributed control systems (DCS) and quality control systems (QCS) for process control and serial production. Developed solutions used by customers worldwide.

AREAS OF STRENGTH
Strong customer focus and results oriented engineering with consistent record of exceeding standards and expectations. Equally effective as a team member, team leader or when working independently.Outstanding customer management and interpersonal skills. Self-motivated and a fast learner who thrives under pressure.
Establish solid platform for programming across products and projects by implementing a structured process for modularity, revision, and release of software products. This has enabled consistency, code re-use, easier troubleshooting, maintenance and reduction in programming efforts on per project and product basis.

Typical Projects Contributions

• Formalize requirements for product definition among project stake holders including management, project team experts, marketing, research and development, engineering, test and qualification, field service groups.
• Create and maintain engineering documentation including functional requirements specification, P & ID diagrams, IO lists, control schematics, state machine and logic diagrams, flow charts, fault and warning tables. Conduct content appropriate design reviews with internal and external teams.
• Design and implement software.Section software into manageable and testable modules.
• Benchmark software and hardware against targets.
• Conduct peer code reviews, track, fix and resolve bugs. Maintain version control.
• Support product manuals and troubleshooting guides for end users, testing and field service personnel.
• Customer and field service support throughout all stages of product life cycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Superior Controls (2011-Sep - present)
Sr. Engineer

• Lead for biopharmaceutical project to develop and qualify 'BioSMB' separations using chromatography for clinical and full commercial production. The technology involved in the project includes a PLC platform with LabVIEW user interface and .Net, C# and SQL for data archival.

Confidential, Kamuela, HI (2010-July 2011)
Sr. Controls Engineer

• Responsible for software development and integration of distributed real time control software for Adaptive Optics, visible and infrared instruments for the world's largest ground based high angular resolution 10 meter telescopes.
• Collaborate with project teams comprising of multiple disciplines with astronomers, scientists and engineers involving multiple scientific organizations such as NASA, NSF, JPL and Caltech to execute projects to implement high precision optical instrumentation and control systems. The system platform includes real time control systems with digital signal processing (DSPs), MVME Power PC with VME Bus, UNIX operating system, C and assembly programming, Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) and PostgreSQL database.

• Primary responsibility for design and implementation of real time embedded machine firmware (C) using, client software (LABVIEW), and relational data base (SQL) for commercial 5 kW Fuel Cell Power product. Responsibilities include programming and documentation for safety critical controls for CE, CSA and UL 1998 certification.
• Developed monitoring and control software for remote user interface using web based communication protocols (HTTP and XML) with data base connectivity (SQL).
• Support Research and Development teams by developing PC applications for controlling instruments and processes for experimental research.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA (1997 - 2003)
Sr. Staff Software Engineer

• Designed, developed and sustained control software applications for the pulp and paper industry. Area of focus was machine and pigment control using highly complex feedback systems.
• Core team member for developing common platform called "Real Time Application Engine" used in Honeywell DCS/QCS and other applications within Honeywell.
• Implemented Ethernet Field Point IO solution from National Instruments for quality system.
• Developed several software applications and product features being sold as part of QCS product portfolio. Examples are: Information systems, reporting, recipe handling, production and quality analysis packages

Confidential, Bagalore, India (1988-1996)
Deputy Manager
Pulp & Paper

• Project Lead for delivering several multi-million dollar DCS/QCS projects for paper machines.
• Troubleshooting to identify the source of variations and implement methods to reduce the variations in the quality of paper being made.
• Installation and commissioning, training operators on site.
• System and control tuning, generating reports, calculation of ROI.

Food Industry

• Executed several large turnkey projects for automating sugar mills. The projects included delivery of an integrated instrumentation and DCS/SCADA systems.
• Implement software, validate hardware and software to customers during Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) & Site Acceptance Test (SAT).
• Generate post-project documents for quality of installation, customer satisfaction, project costs and results.

Energy

• Implemented "Energy Management System" for a large petrochemical plant in India with the ABB Master SCADA system.

INDUSTRY SPECIFC SKILLS

Operating Systems used: Windows 7, Windows XP, UNIX, VxWorks, Solaris
Embedded Controls: 32 bit ST Microelectronics embedded microcontrollers, 32 bit Motorola embedded Ethernet controller, 16 bit Motorola MC68HCS12 series & 8 bit HC(S)08 series of micro controllers. Developed drivers for various IO chips for A/D, D/A and instrument specific driver chips. Used MicroVision and COSMIC, ZAP IDE for development and debugging the firmware for microcontrollers. CodeWarrior as the IDE for HCS08.
Databases used: SQL, Oracle, MS Access, Dbase
Programming classes in .Net, C#, Java, UNIX & C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal and Assembly
Industrial Application Programming environment: C, Assembly, Java, XML, HTML, ASP, LabVIEW, VB, ABB's function block programming language for process control, WonderWare'sFactorySuite. Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer.
Real time databases used: proficient in Honeywell's proprietary database for process control called RTDR (Real Time Data Repository) and ABB's proprietary database for process control.
Process Improvement: ISO 9002, SEI-CMM key practices, NPDI (new product development initiative) - product and cycle time excellence, ABM - (activity based management) tool to size and track development project activities.
Six-Sigma green belt training: Certified green belt.
Patent Applications: 1) Fuel Cell Stack Thermal Management Contro l. 2) Systems and Methods for Initiating Operation of Pressure Swing Adsorption Systems

EDUCATION & DEGREES
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communications)