Ranjit Rao

Manage a global engineering team of 20+ that innovates and delivers a diverse portfolio of software applications and solutions, that provide Power and Water customers O&M savings, while maintaining safety, compliance and plant reliability

• Driving customer satisfaction - exceeded customer expectations while maintaining and improving project margins
• Driving Business – providing technical sales support at both the plant and corporate level, presenting at industry conferences and other Emerson roadshows
• Driving Solutions – piloting new applications using Ovation Intelligence Framework and Aspen platforms in plant performance optimization and predictive asset management
• Driving Technology – Embedded with Emerson Product Development technology pilots for GenAI and machine learning algorithms
• Resource planning – leverage global expertise in key growth areas
• Driving internal efficiency - Improving internal project execution workflows and quality management

Led a team to engineer & deploy Advanced Process Control (APC) solutions on Combined Cycle / Thermal power, Waste-water treatment plants to improve efficiency metrics like efficiency, startup time, reduction in plant emissions and other O&M savings

• Developed new applications and solutions resulting in 4 US patents for Emerson
• Developed efficient business opportunity identification tools
• Published articles in industry journals, delivered papers and presentations at industry conferences
• Provided technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across the organization

• Project manager – New Ultra supercritical Power plant controls.
• Lead Technical Engineer – Ovation DCS Hardware & Software.
• Site controls commissioning / tuning.
• Developed Combined Cycle power plant control standards.

• Lead Boiler Controls engineer on CE and B&W Boilers.
• Part of the platform transition team – Bailey Symphony to ABB 800XA.
• Refined Boiler control standards with Core Technologies team.
• Control system tuning, operator interface configuration, alarm management, operator logs, and third-party device communication.
• Resident Field engineer - 2 years - Supervision of site installation and commissioning.
• Installation engineering on small projects - preparing cable schedules for construction crew, loop checking, and other field activities.

• Checked assignments, proctored tests and provided grades according to university standards.
• Taught Fluid Mechanics and PLC programming vocational level courses at the UT Scott Park Campus

• Supervising I&C technicians to maintain and improve the control systems, valving and instrumentation at a hydrocarbon cracker facility
• Plant representative on modernization project that involved the replacing pneumatic controls with Honeywell TDC-3000 distributed control system
• Hands-on experience with the installation, commissioning & service of process instrumentation and control devices including Fisher valves, Rosemount & Micromotion Pressure, Temp, Flow instrumentation
• Critical process control tuning experience
• ISO-9001 quality champion - Setup of calibration system & laboratory for testing and field instrumentation
• Responsible for small-scale capital projects to improve the controls from developing specifications, purchasing and final installation and commissioning