Expert Details
Power Distribution Systems: Engineering, Solutions, Leadership, QA, and Sales Integration
ID: 739688
North Carolina, USA
He is especially familiar with the following product lines: low and medium voltage switchgear, motor controllers, switches, breakers, contactors, transformers, protective relays, eHouses, and related systems.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2007 | Degree: MS | Subject: Electrical Engineering | Institution: North Carolina State University |
| Year: 2006 | Degree: BS | Subject: Instrumentation Engineering | Institution: University of Mumbai |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2023 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Senior Director of Engineering | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert heads a global team of 150+ power distribution systems and solutions engineers. He has served this company in increasingly directorial engineering and R&D roles from 2009 to present.He is responsible for front end design, conducting offers, and handling project engineering for in-house orders. He maintains contact with third-party suppliers and internal factories globally to meet operational metric. Expert team deliverables are cash flow, reliability, and intake of orders. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2019 to 2023 | Employer: (Undisclosed) | Title: Director of Engineering | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert oversaw an engineering, engineering management, and sales support team for four years. Also encompassing contract specialists, the team exceeded 50 personnel.Expert's functional responsibilities included successful commercial and technical offers for the international corporation's solutions and power distribution systems, as well as cross-pillar solutions for projected and planned power grids, where applications and versions included energy storage, electronic mobility, and photovoltaic sources. Expert's jurisdiction included retrofitted problem-solving and aftermarket parts, as well as installation, commissioning, and major projects (turnkey), aftermarket parts and retrofit solutions, install and commissioning support, and large turnkey projects. During this time Expert assumed major R&D and process improvement roles. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2019 | Employer: (Undisclosed) | Title: Senior Manager of Engineering | Department: |
Responsibilities:In managing an engineering team from 2017 to 2019, Expert oversaw sales support specialists and a fellow engineering manager. In this capacity he handled medium-voltage power distribution projects and the according project proposals.Among other key roles, Expert integrated new business and new products into existing teams. Deliverables included knowledge development, corporate transition management, and stewarding personnel, where targets included retention, recruitment and training, all with a focus on new business and its tenets. Expert's key achievements areas included process improvement and automation; product and performance efficiency and improvement; and strategic input. Prior to this role, Expert served the company as Systems Engineering Manager (2015-17). In this capacity, he was responsible for all power distribution products (medium-voltage) and project proposals, where metrics included profitability, order, quotation non-conform costs, order intake, submission reliability and bid consistency, and customer and vendor contract negotiations. Expert was previously Engineering Manager (2013-14), in which capacity he was responsible for the fields above, with a special focus on productivity, efficiency, process improvement, proposals, profitability, and the related fields. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2013 | Employer: (Undisclosed) | Title: Senior Applications Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert customized and generated medium-voltage power distribution proposals reflecting the company's specialized products and solutions. He achieved metrics in booking and in chronological quote delivery, all in step with the sales arm's business.During this time, Expert also coordinated bids for the entire application engineering team, whose fields encompassed medium voltage and systems organization. Expert was promoted to Senior Applications Engineer in 2013, before which time his title was Applications Engineer. In this capacity he handled the contracts and their subfields indicated above. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2008 to 2009 | Employer: (Undisclosed) | Title: Engineering Leadership Development Program Graduate | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert served three rotations, each six months, in the power distribution business. Subfields included quality assurance and oversight; engineering; customer support; and marketing. The position featured a five-month internship as well. |
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Additional Experience
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Expert is recognized by his peers in engineering, electrical engineering, electrical engineering management, engineering management, automation, power distribution, control systems design, electronics, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), and product development. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| Hindi | Native/bilingual |
| Marathi | Native/bilingual |
| Bengali | Native/bilingual |
| English | Native/bilingual |