SARONI BRAHMA
Holland,MI
Summary
Utilize skills and knowledge while collaborating with a team for solving challenging engineering problems. Meticulous Senior Electrical Engineer with talents designing and integrating Electrical equipment. Adept at managing project budgets, timelines and specifications. Monitors, supervises and coordinates junior staff. Sound organizational and analytical skills.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Electrical Engineer-Power Generation
Consumers Energy
09.2016 - Current
- Provide support to plant and projects to help resolve system and equipment problems
- Create technical specifications per industry standards for manufacturers
- Install commission and test generator, generator protection and control systems while ensuring safety and quality
- Assess systems in accordance with industry standards and the System Health Assessment Process
- Develop and maintain maintenance plans for critical electrical equipment such as Generator, Iso-phase bus, Generator Step up Transformer (GSU) etc
- Provide long term financial planning to Asset Management to ensure long term reliability and compliance
- Supervise/Manage contractor work for Generator/Transformer overhaul, installation and commissioning
- Lead design, installation and commissioning for generator excitation systems
- Perform online/offline generator/transformer testing to maintain compliance with industry standards
- Lead engineer for generator maintenance testing, online and offline testing
- Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for equipment problems
- Lead troubleshooting efforts on dysfunctional equipment and/or control systems
- Review design drawings prior to installation and commissioning
- Assist and guide plant operations and maintenance with outage and planning.
- Witness Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) at various vendor sites.
Design Engineer
Hubbell Power Systems
02.2013 - 09.2016
- Design high voltage electrical equipment per customer requirements
- Design high/medium voltage arresters for high/medium voltage transformer applications, high/medium voltage motor/generator applications and high/medium voltage switchgear applications
- Design Varistors for series high voltage capacitor banks used in transmission systems
- Achieve compliancy to IEEE C62.11 and IEC 60099-4 standards by performing design tests
- Product manager for station/distribution/intermediate (3kV – 800kV system voltages) class products.
- Issue/process Engineering Changes Project Management Software (MATRIX), deviations from factory and perform first article inspection for these products
- Prepare BOMs, drawings, instructions etc. Perform First Article Inspections on pilot runs or re-sourced parts
- Develop new products as per market requirements, using Project management techniques prescribed by Hubbell
- Launched wildlife protectors to reduce interruptions caused by external flashover events (Patent Pending)
- Perform electric field analysis on station class surge arresters using finite element analysis (Software used: Electnet, Coulomb)
- Use of 3D modelling software (Solidworks, Autocad Inventor etc.) to design new products.
Electrical Engineer
VJ Technologies
04.2012 - 11.2012
- Final Testing and troubleshooting of the control unit (power conversion module) of the X-Ray generator
- Calibrating the control unit (pcb)
- High Voltage testing of the voltage multiplier
- (Up to 160kV) Interfacing RS232 and ethernet for the control unit
- (Labview, assembly C)
- Developing the Graphic User Interphase (Labview)
- Designing wiring diagrams of X-ray inspection systems using AUTOCAD Programmable Logic Controllers programming, designing the control system, creating BOMs, testing of variable frequency drives, servo drives, servo motors, medium voltage motors, Can Bus Wiring.
Teaching Assistant/Graduate Research Assistant
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
09.2010 - 04.2012
- Working as a Teaching Assistant under Prof
- Dariuz Czarkowski for Energy Conversion Laboratory
- It involves teaching the undergraduates about electrical machines (generators, motors, transformers) and power analyzer, scopes, DVMs in the lab
- Working as a Graduate Research Assistant under Prof F
- De Leon and Prof
- Laythe
- The job involves Locked rotor tests
- No Load tests and designing medium voltage motors
- Published an IEEE paper on the same
- Performed FEA on medium voltage motor using Maxwell Also performed voltage reduction tests on the medium voltage motor using VFD DRIVES
- Testing of Buck Boost, Buck-Boost, Flyback, Forward DC-DC converters and inverters.
Fall Engineering Internship
Rentricity New York (Project for ConEdison)
08.2011 - 03.2012
- Determining the protective relay settings for switchgears used for Distributed Generators to be connected to the grid
- Designing the capacitor bank for the Distributed Generators
- Drawing single line diagrams using Autocad.
Summer Internship
Central Power Research Institute
01.2010 - 06.2010
- Led a two-member team to design a protective relay system for a three phase transformer in a power system The protective relay was digitalized using Fourier Transforms and Sample and hold techniques
- It was used for fault detection and 2nd Harmonic blocking due to magnetizing inrush currents
- Software used RSCAD
Education
MS in Electrical Engineering -
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Brooklyn, NY05.2012
BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Belgaum, India06.2010
Skills
- Software: C, C, Labview, ETAP, MATLAB, Maxwell, Electnet, Autocad, Solidworks, PSPICE, MS Office, SAP
- Excellent technical, communication and leadership skills
- Supervision and leadership
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Quality Assurance
- Project Planning
- Attention to Detail
- Problem-Solving
- Relationship Building
- Critical Thinking
- Cultural Awareness
- Active Listening
- Decision-Making
- Research
- Recordkeeping
- Time Management
Certification
New York State certificate in Power Electronics and systems.
Coursework
- Signals and system
- Relay Fault Protection
- Power System Stability
- Electronic Power Supplies
- Power Quality
- Power System Planning and Economics
- Electric drives
- Resonant Power Converters
- PLC(Bachelor’s)
- Electromagnetic Theory
Patents
Transformer Bracket Cover
Projects
Transient Stability Analysis Unit Commitment of a solar unit in IEEE 14 bus system using MATLAB and HOMER C++ Project
Timeline
Senior Electrical Engineer-Power Generation
Consumers Energy
09.2016 - Current
Design Engineer
Hubbell Power Systems
02.2013 - 09.2016
Electrical Engineer
VJ Technologies
04.2012 - 11.2012
Fall Engineering Internship
Rentricity New York (Project for ConEdison)
08.2011 - 03.2012
Teaching Assistant/Graduate Research Assistant
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
09.2010 - 04.2012
Summer Internship
Central Power Research Institute
01.2010 - 06.2010
MS in Electrical Engineering -
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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