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Name: Pradeep Kumar A.P
Address: #3145, Manjunantha Nilaya, 13th Main,
RPC Layout, Vijayanagar 2nd Stage,
Bangalore – 560 040. Karnataka (State), India.
+91-9945088364.
Contact : +91-9972243268.
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Career Objective
A challenging and professionally rewarding techno-managerial position that nurtures my strengths in Projects Management.
Background & Profile: Responsible for project engineering to support the project in executing medium & large sized project coordination. Additional Info: Master in Business Administration – Projects Management & Finance and Graduate Instrumentation Engineers with all most 8 years 7 months (till Aug 2009) of field experience for Turn Key project execution & managing of Energy Meter Automation, Bottling Plant Project and Solar C Si & Thin Film Fab projects with aptitude for Coordinator and Monitoring with Marketing / Customers / Suppliers / Vendors / Govt. Agencies / Consultants.
Career summary

Nov’06 onwards

Technical Lead (TL) – Solar Business Applied Materials India Pvt ltd. (AMIND)

WORK PROFILE

• Working as Technical Lead with Applied Materials India for its Solar C Si Projects - AMIND a leader in Solar and semiconductor business and knowledgeable on nanotechnology.
• Solid engineering and Projects Management background with both mechanical, electrical & Electronics (Instrumentation) experience.
• Implementing Green Energy Green field Projects, supervises over technical project execution support such as cost control and project monitoring with technical support to customers viz, Moser Baer (C-Si and A-Si), Webel Solar, Signet, T-Solar, Tata BP solar, ARISE Technologies, Motech.
• Assists in the schedule, scope of work and cost estimation for construction, engineering and consultative projects.
• Working closely with solar customers on providing pre & post project technical support and meeting end product requirements right from layout planning, equipment selection, execution and resolving technical issues and performs contractor evaluation and proposal analyses.
• Responsible for contributing to project cycle to include design, review of engineering designs, reference drawings related to specialist engineering fields, provides necessary comments, development and project completion.
• Coordinates and directs projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of activities.
• Assists in setting projects' milestone schedules and manpower plans requirements.
- Interfaces with investors, attends regular meetings, and provides statistical reports on projects and services based on gathered information.

Additional Experience @ AMAT

• Experience in Solar Industrial Automation, handling solar equipments including PVD, Class-4 Manz Lasers, Kuka Robots, Kloepper Laminator, Grenzebach material handling system, PECVD, Scholz Autoclave and Baccini Screen Printers, tester & Cell Sorter with Rofin integrated Lasers.
• Working inline with AMAT, America, Taiwan & Italian teams through periodic telephonic/video conference for issues resolution, knowledge sharing and state of the art practices on solar project implementation.
• Working closely with vendors viz Grenzebach, Kloepper, Scholz and Manz for Solar projects, Safety coordination & working with cross functions viz new product manufacturing, Engineering, Design are other vital areas.
• Guiding documentation of tool installation, troubleshooting procedures, spares list preparation and maintenance charters for major tools.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in electrical characterization of PV Cells, diagnosing/troubleshooting and implementing robust solutions for reliable, high-efficiency solar cell performance.
• Strong knowledge of photovoltaic cell device physics, fabrication methods, experience with setting up and optimizing process equipment. Experience in a process engineering.


ACHIEVEMENTS

• Hands on technical skills on the know how’s of A-Si and C-Si and being a bridge between customer and AMAT.
• Appreciation & accolades from Top management for crucial role in supporting Solar projects by providing technical solutions, issues resolving and licensing with customers. E.g. PVD 1600 & 2600, Printers, Lasers & Cell testers & Sorters etc.
• Awarded as one of the Key person for the company with the knowledge of world class Projects Management Performance.

Project Executed with Applied Materials

• Successfully managed and supported the Project of setting up of 40 MW Cell Manufacturing Line for PVD at Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd and extending the same up to 80 MW.
• Successfully managed and supported the Project of setting up of Back end line for Webel Solar.
• Supporting project management team for the project setup of 100MW thin film Solar Cell Manufacturing Line at Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd.
• Pre FAT / SAT system setup, troubleshooting and configuring the system for Applied Materials Baccini tools for OTB Solar customer (Arise customer site) at Bischofswerda, Dresden, Germany.

Sep’04 ~ Nov’06

System Engineer – AMMR R&D Project Yokogawa India Ltd.

WORK PROFILE

• Worked as Senior System Engineer with Yokogawa for Energy Mater Automation Projects – Yokogawa is a world leader in Industrial Automation.
• Provide hands-on organization and comprehensive management to Bangalore Electricity Company for their Energy Meter Automation Project according to established processes, schedule, timeframe and our exceptional company quality service standards.
• Programming, Configuration and Maintenance of Yokogawa’s STARDOM PLC.
• Responsible to supervise for the Installation, Commissioning and Troubleshooting of the Slaves and Master Stations.
• Planning spares, developing local workshop, inventory control to achieve competitive pricing.

Additional Experience @ Yokogawa

• Trained and worked on Yokogawa’s branded STARDOM PLC.
• Trained and knowledge on Yokogawa’s DCS system.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Awarded “Best Employee” certificate from Yokogawa.

Project Executed with Yokogawa

• Managed as a single key point and supported the AMR Project for Bangalore Electricity Company.

Jul’03 ~ Sep’04

Executive Engineer (Maintenance - Automation) BBPL, Coca – Cola, India

WORK PROFILE

• Initially joined & worked as an Executive Project Engineer for their new upcoming bottling plant in Karnataka, India and then started working with their Maintenance department as Executive Maintenance Engineer, Automation – Coca Cola a world admirable soft drink refresher processing company.
• Assists in the installation, commissioning and also to support projects management stuffs like planning, scheduling and supervising the project.
• Post Project responsibilities include managing bottling production operations, automation projects and new product enabling.
• Manage three shift production packaging operations which include determining engineering and industrial work force staffing, capital equipment budgets, production planning strategies and equipment maintenance support.
• Maintaining m/c availability >= 97% for CSD, PET & Kinely bottling lines.
• Provided electrical design and PLC programming support for start-up of four fill/packaging lines.
• Planning routine maintenance schedules and execution of Preventive and Predictive maintenance programs.
• Extensive knowledge of Allen-Bradley PLC5, SLC and Metrologic family of PLC as well as experience with various Modicon, GE and Square D PLCs.
• Erection & commissioning of new equipments during expansion.
• Licensing with government offices for various licenses in the plant.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Active Member for ISO 9001 Certification.

Project Executed with Coca Cola

• Installation & commissioning of CSD & PET lines.
• Installation and commissioning of Kinley mineral water line.
• Directly responsible for maintain and inspect ISO standard of the projects.

Dec’00 ~ Dec’02

Technical Support essaar informatics & Services, Motorola, India

WORK PROFILE

• Worked as Technical Support Engineer with Motorola authorised distributor for the supervision of walky talky communication radios stations installation project – essaar informatics & services is an authorised distributor for Motorola communication equipments.
• Provide hands-on organization and comprehensive management to customers for Motorola two way communication radio (Walky - talky) Projects according to established processes, schedule, timeframe and our exceptional company quality service standards.
• Planning routine maintenance schedules & execution of preventive maintenance programs for the Annual Maintenance Contract undertaken Customers.
• Erection & commissioning of new radio stations for the customers.
• Review and monitor factory commitments ensuring conformance to delivery commitments
• Licensing with government offices for various licenses of the customers for using radios.

Project Executed with Motorola

• Directly responsible and only one window person for new installation and commissioning of radio stations.
• Managed almost more than 30 Installation and commissioning of wireless stations and awarded Best practices of the year.

Training and qualifications

INTERNATIONAL

• Technical training at Taiwan & Germany on Solar C Si & Thin Film tools like PVD & Laser, Green field project handling, installation & commission practices, spares management, Maintenance practices, poka-yoke etc.
• Technical training at Italy, on Baccini Screen printers, Laser, Cell tester and Sorter.

OTHERS

• Solar PV Technologies – Prof.Solanki, IIT, Mumbai.
• Time Management - Mentor Learning.
• Fundamentals of Leadership Mgmt.
• Solar forecasting & Order Mgt using SAP CRM.
• Mgt Empowered by SAP ERP.
• LOTO & fire fighting training.
• PLC Programming & Maintenance – Hindustan Coca Cola, Chennai & Academic Training
on PLC & Automation by Yokogawa.

Awards and membership of professional bodies

Active member of Indian Institute of Engineers.

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