Work Experience
Specialization in the area of Electrical Automation and software involving design, development, installation and commissioning of Energy Management Systems (Data Acquisition and Control Systems). Experience with programming of SCADA systems ,PLCS and a host of Modbus related I/O Devices.

• Currently Working at Microsoft Global Support Center (www.microsoft.com and Microsoft Product Support), Bangalore, India as Developer Technical Support Router for the Developer Products - Microsoft since August 2003.
• Worked at Enercon Systems (www.enercon.co.in), Bangalore, India as Sr Systems Engineer for the Energy Management Systems Division since October 1999 - July 2003.Total 3 Years -9 months.
• Worked as Industrial Project Trainee at ISRO Bangalore (as a part of BE project) Oct 1998 - July 1999

Job Profile at Enercon Systems, Bangalore

• Development and Implementation of Electrical Energy Management Systems (HMI visualization) using SCADA software (primarily Wonderware).
• Field Installation and Commissioning of Energy Management Systems, PLCs and software.
• Interactions with customers in a variety of roles including project design, review, implementation, and post-implementation support.
• Development and Evaluation of project specifications for upcoming projects from prospective clients.
• Development of logical algorithmic solutions for creation of MIS Reports in process visualization software.
• Confirmation of projects responsible to ISO 9001 standards.
• Training to customers and support/Sales engineers and other development engineers.
• Providing technical inputs to regional offices in preparation of proposals to prospective customers.
• Logic Development and testing of Programmable Logic Controllers for interfacing with the HMI software.
• Responsible for maintaining and conforming of projects to ISO 9001 requirements.
• Development and Implementation of newer technologies related to SCADA communication systems such as
Modem based Remote monitoring systems, LAN/Ethernet based LAN communication across Devices, Cross
Communication Interface between 2 SCADA systems of different makes.

Educational Qualification
Completed a course in B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering from
Bangalore University (1999).

Functional Skills
• SCADA systems Implementation, PLC Programming, MIS Report generation, Interfacing Electrical instrumentation and third party devices to industrial computer networks using the following packages and hardware.
• Usage of communication protocols like Modbus RTU,Ethernet ,TCP/IP along with interfaces such as RS232,RS485
• PLCs Used: GE Fanuc, SIEMENS (S7-200), LG and Allen Bradley.
• SCADA packages: Wonderware Intouch 7.0/7.1, Allen Bradley RSVIEW 32, CITECT and familiarity with Cimplicity.
• Protocols Used: MODBUS, TCP/IP, PROFIBUS and DH+ (familiarity)
• MIS Reports: Microsoft Visual Basic, VBA and Office
• HMI's: CITECT, Wonderware VIEW, RSVIEW
• Languages: C,C++, HTML, and JavaScript's.
• Core Specialization in interfacing Wonderware Intouch with GE FANUC PLCs , ENERCON and CIRCUTOR range of instrumentation.
• Usage of Remote Monitoring software’s such as WinVNC , PCAnywhere.

Core Computing Skills
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/2000 - NT, UNIX and LINUX
Applications / Languages: SCADA Packages - Wonderware Intouch 7.0/7.1, Allen Bradley - RS VIEW , CITECT, CIMPLICITY, VBA for Office, Visual Basic 6.0,C, C++ and exposure to Internet Technologies.

Other Software's worked with
Languages: C++, Java, XML, Oracle 7.3,VC++
Applications: Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Fireworks and host of web-based software's
Systems programming in C, C++, Assembly language programming in Embedded Systems.
 

Projects Description:

Responsible for development of Energy Management Systems (EMS), an electrical automation power monitoring system eLAN that comprise of HMI software (Wonderware), interfaced to electrical hardware instrumentation and third party devices like PLCs. Communication between the I/O peripherals and Software is established using the Modbus (RTU) Communication protocol over RS232 – RS 485 Networks. I/O peripherals are usually Enercon Meters, GE PLC’s, Siemens PLC’s, and CIRCUTOR Range of instrumentation. Communications are also sometime done with other meters with different protocols such as Allen Bradley.

Depending on the nature of projects, projects may involve 1 to 3 members for development and execution, often work independently from start to finish except for testing. Each EMS project involves detailed study of the customers electrical networks, his electrical monitoring requirements, following which interfaces and software are developed using Intouch and the MIS reports in either Visual Basic or VBA with Excel/ Access as the report front end depending on the customization complexity.

Worked on projects designing EMS - Power Monitoring systems for clients in major industrial sectors like Chemical, Paint, Cement plants, Hotel industries, Pharmaceutical, Paper and Tobacco Industries. A sampling of Clients worked for - Asian Paints ( Delhi and Hyderabad), Hindustan Newsprints,Taj Bengal, ITC - Kidderpore ,GE - BEL,Lucas TVS , Hindustan Newsprints Limited, Hitect City in all around 20 projects till date.

Other Projects

• EMS solution developed for single station monitoring as well as client / server based multiterminal monitoring
• Implementation of more varied types of PC – I/O Device /PC - PC communication such as Cable based Communication, Modem based Communication for Remote Monitoring systems, LAN based communications for different SCADA systems such as RSVIEW and Wonderware.
• Testing and analysis of in house developed SCADA software microeLAN.

Noteworthy Projects
Project 1 : Power Management and Monitoring ( over multiple workstations in a LAN Network)
Customer: Hindustan Newsprint Limited
Control System: Enercon EM Meters (90 nodes) and Wonderware Intouch v 7.1,Protocol – Modbus RTU
Team Members: Independent development, execution and commissioning (except for Testing).

The project involves designing complete energy management systems for the entire HNL Plant. The system has features such as Power monitoring, Trending, Alarm Handling have been implemented by the SCADA system. MIS Reports, primarily energy consumption reports based on real time power flows and energy billing systems have been done in Excel using Visual Basic.
Remote Monitoring facility has been provided by using Virtual Network Computing Software to other departments, which are able to monitor and view the SCADA system in real time in different systems.

Many other projects are of similar nature.


Project 2: Remote Monitoring of Meters over Telephone Lines using Modems
Customer : Technology Demonstration. Commercial Implementation under progress
Team Members: 4

Remote Monitoring of Meters or communicable peripheral devices is a solution that has been developed in response to the need of situations where i/o devices are spread out across vast industrial sites and the control station is located else where. Here solution has been designed by using modem – PLC master controllers connected to groups of meters / devices and through telephone network either PSTN/ Internal Exchange data is transferred using dedicated lines. This project is currently under implementation.

Project 3 : Interfacing of RSVIEW and Wonderware to establish cross communication between the two
Customer: Lafarge India Limited
Team Size: Independent

In this project, data interfacing of 2 SCADA systems were established where data from RS View was communicated into Wonderware SCADA and vice versa. In this way the Control Engineering Dept and Electrical Department of the cement unit were able to get useful data such as Temperature Data, Production Data from RS View and Power Measurement Data from Wonderware systems.


Project 4: Development of Electric Billing Systems for Commercial Complexes
Customer: L&T Infocity and L&T ECC - Hitec City Cybergateway Complex
Team size : Independent execution

This is a commercial building complex in Hyderabad housing various commercial tenants such as GE, ORACLE etc. The project involves development of a electrical billing software that monitors the consumption of Electricity (lighting) and generates bills at the end of specified period which include electricity charges, air-conditioning charges based on the damper data inputs from BMS software. This solution uses Wonderware Software, Allen Bradelly PLCs and Enercon Instrumentation as core components of the project.

Softwares Used :
Front End : Wonderware Intouch, MS Excel
BackEnd : MSSQL 2000 Server.


Other Projects-Engineering
Project Title: Bi-polar Torque controls of a Brushless DC motor using 8051 microcontroller.
Client : Indian Space Research Organization - October 1998 - July 1999

Project Description: The aim was to develop a bipolar method torque control using the microcontroller instead of the then currently used transistor based control. In reality the control is achieved through ground station using Telemetry but in the project demonstration the same was achieved from computer control. Both the hard ware and the software algorithm has been designed and developed by us. More details about this project can be had from http://beproject.tripod.com

Achievements
• Successfully installed and commissioned EMS systems at 17 different sites
• Project Management to lead a team of three for successful execution of projects
• Insights into functional working of different types of industries, useful in applying better tailor made solutions to specific sectors.
• Placement at Enercon through college campus placements.


Technical Exposure
• June 2001: Workshop on Office XP development and development conducted by Microsoft.
• January 2001: Workshop on interfacing and training on SIEMENS PLCs conducted by CETE - Bangalore.
• August 2000: Seminar on electronic commerce technologies conducted by Microsoft Corporation.
• December 1999: Novell Developer Workshops held by Novell on emerging trends in NetWare by Novell.
• Mar- Oct 1997: Training on Visual C++, C++ and Oracle.

Strengths
• Good Communication Skills.
• Can work in both team based environment and independent execution.
• Self Training Ability and Well versed with Internet technologies.
• Ability to diversify in wide areas in software development.
• Experience with Microsoft Operating Systems, especially Windows NT.
• A detailed understanding of computer hardware, system architecture, knowledge of computer communications and networks.
• Love for travel - Have travelled on project duty in more than 14 locations in India.
 

References - Reference available upon request.

Satyaki Panda

Last Update - Thursday November 25, 2004 06:07:41 PM -0500