Feb 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada · Hybrid

• Over $2 million contract value SCADA upgrades design including tender drawing packages, PCNs, cost estimates, I/O lists, PDRs, technical specifications, tech memos for York Region Georgina WTP, Feeder Main valve chambers, City of Kitchener Otterbein & Carson Drive sewage pumping stations.
• Cybersecurity review of over 50 devices for Towns of Innisfil & Midland to prevent cyber attacks; recommendations include changes to access/trunk ports, VLANs, STP, BPDU guard, port fast, SolarWinds, Syslog, firewall cleanup rule, ACLs, GPOs, WSUS, firmware version, antivirus and domain controller settings.
• Installation of City of Ottawa Britannia WPP server clusters serving water to over 200,000 customers including vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, High Availability (HA), vSAN storage, iLO, VMs, NAS backups setup.
• Engineering Halton Region life safety HVAC & Ozone Shutdown panels connected to ozone analyzers, AHUs, PLCs, exhaust/supply fans, horns/beacons, at Oakville, Burlington & Burloak WTP.
• Upgrade City of Ottawa DMZ for reporting/external access including GE Proficy Historian, iFIX collectors, SQL DB, WSUS, KMS, Visual Basic & excel macro report server, iFIX Terminal server, ADDS, GE license server, FactoryTalk Activation Manager, Windows Defender & Azure ARC agent proxy server at Lemieux WPP.
• Conducting workshops with stakeholders, inventory evaluation, gap analysis & designing 10 years $4.5 million SCADA Master Plan including SCADA standards, Pilot & Remaining sites SCADA upgrade, Asset & Document Management systems, Analytics & Third-party System Integration work packages for Town of Orangeville.
• Shop drawings review, panel FAT/SAT, site commissioning, RFI responses for Town of East Gwillimbury Woodbine SPS & Halton Region Davis Road Booster Station.
• Review of existing SCADA, PLC, OT/IT infrastructure at Region of Durham Courtice WPCP & creation of assets assessment report, implementation plan for Rockwell PLC, iFIX, servers & workstations $1.2 million upgrade.

Sep 2017 – Jan 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Design, installation, on-site commissioning & testing of Control Panels, RX3i PLC, Industrial Panel PCs, Proficy Historian & iFIX SCADA Upgrade for $22 million Region of Durham Water Treatment project including PLC/HMI programming, P&IDs, I/O Lists, Process Control Narratives, Control Panel details, loop & schematic wiring diagrams, instrument installation & data sheets, technical specifications, network communication architecture diagrams, electrical schematic diagrams, etc.
• Engineering Control Panels, Allen Bradley PLCs, Proficy Historian, iFIX SCADA, Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers, DNS & DHCP servers, Firewalls, SQL Server, Win911 Server, Industrial Panel PCs, process instrumentation, control systems, SCADA & Network for $6 million City of Kitchener Wastewater Pumping Stations upgrade
• Equipment & control system commissioning, start-up, performance testing for Homer Watson & Pioneer Tower wastewater pumping stations including integration with Kitchener City Hall VMWare Servers & Operations Workstations infrastructure
• Field review and evaluation of existing equipment, control systems (hardware and software) and control panels at Ajax Water Supply Plant to design scope of work for SCADA & instrumentation upgrade
• Prepared site survey reports, studies, technical memorandums, I&C engineering/analysis & reviewed contractor & supplier submittals for SCADA Upgrade of 20 wastewater pumping stations at City of Kitchener
• Developed a custom MAStermind to iFIX Alarm Interface software using Visual Basic for City of Kitchener now in production
• Provided continuous on call support & system troubleshooting for City of Kitchener SCADA system June 2021-Jan 2023

Apr 2017 – May 2017 · 1 mo · Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Mar 2010 – Dec 2016 · 6 yrs 9 mos

• Designed maxDNA DCS TCP/IP (100+ network switches, 15+ firewalls), control networks (4-20 mA), 60 network panels, 10 power distribution panels, 90 workstations & 40 servers at 4 power plants to contribute to 66% rise in turnover (2010-2013)
• Formulated design plans, process control narratives, instrument lists, I/O lists, BOMs, Panel Arrangement, Network & Wiring diagrams to facilitate assembly of 12 control panels valued $36,000 for Vindhyachal IV, V & BRBCL Nabinagar
• Tested Cisco HSRP, Flexlink, stacking, VRRP, Teaming & NAS for Suratgarh Units 7&8 (2X660MW) within a month by leading a team of 10 professionals resulting in a template for 2 subsequent contracts valued $732 & 961 million
• Resolved issues with ValmetDNA DCS Controller booting, I/O modules, MOXA Turbo Ring, Historian database, Alarm/Event displays in 6 weeks as a part of a team of 12 engineers to enable start-up & 500MW capacity addition at Sagardighi U3
• Accomplished system integration of Allen Bradley, GE & Siemens PLCs with maxDNA HMI to facilitate monitoring at operator stations & a total cost saving of nearly $15000/month at Santaldhi 5&6 & Ramagundam 7
• Pioneered wireless connectivity of remote stations & mobile Stacker cranes with Central DAS at KBUNL Muzaffarpur II (2x195MW); the design document was used as a benchmark for 4 ensuing projects
• Performed setup of Office LAN, DMZ servers, network routers/firewalls to interface 3rd party PLCs & Central DAS at UPRVUNL Anpara D (2x500MW) contributing to turnover of 720 million during 2011-12
• Engineered HMI graphics, mimics, event logs, alarm lists, trends & reports
• Configured & tested historians, engineering stations, alarm/event servers, operator stations & link servers
• Designed technical specification of servers, workstations, switches, routers, firewalls, wireless modems, NMS, CCTV, GIUs, LVS, CMMS & Optical Fiber Cables

Jul 2009 – Mar 2010 · 8 mos

• Project budgeting and financial administration:
• Prepared price estimate for tube mill coal pulveriser during pre-tendering stage to allow company to compete for technical bids worth at least $200 million for each project
• Carried out commercial activities related to billing, cash collection, price negotiation and completion payments
• Project Implementation in multi-disciplinary environment:
• Coordinated with all internal departments including engineering, purchase, stores, production and site commissioning and aligned activities to meet overall project milestones
• Created overall internal workflow of a project including schedules and work orders to lead internal and third-party workforce
• Interface with Customers:
• Fulfilled role of being single point of contact with customers and built long term relationships to ensure future business and sustainability

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Studied GSM Mobile networks, 2G communications, MSC and BSC and assisted the setup of GSM Base station subsystem at Pune.

Jun 2007 – Jul 2007 · 1 mo · Madgaon Area, India

• Tested and compared the performance of wireless access routers in indoor and outdoor environments; studied modulation techniques (OFDM, MIMO, QAM, BPSK), IEEE 802.11a/b/g protocols.