         ENGINEERING OFFICER       Objective     Looking for opportunities to work in an research environment for creating solutions using digital systems at circuit as well as system level.       Education      Master of Science  :   Electrical Engineering   2017       North Carolina State University   City  ,   State  ,   USA             Bachelor of Engineering  :   Instrumentation and Control Engineering   2013       Netaji Subhas Institute Of Technology   City  ,   State  ,   India      Majored with  78.34 %, First Class With Distinction    Academic Merit Award 2011-12 and 2012-13         Experience      Engineering Officer   07/2014   to   06/2015     Company Name   City  ,   State      Spearheaded a team of electricians and technicians to carry out preventive maintenance of equipment of LPG bottling plant. Role also entailed procurement of spares and materials and maintain inventory at plant. Major tasks involved:   Maintenance and calibration of equipment such as cylinder gas leak detectors, washer leak detectors, gas analyzers etc.   Upkeep of electrical panels and control systems.  Maintenance of drive units, compressors, LPG pumps etc.   Modified and developed various plant equipments to improve production line throughput.           Operations Officer   06/2013   to   06/2014     Company Name   City  ,   State      Oversaw the operations of LPG bottling plant production activities.    Managed workforce on the production line to give maximum production while maintaining safety standards.  Optimized the production line equipment and maintained regular  calibration checks of equipments like quality check machines to produce hazard free bottled cylinders.           Intern   06/2012   to   07/2012     Company Name   City  ,   State      Engaged in various automation and control system design using Distributed Control Systems and Programmable Logical Controllers. Learned interfacing of instruments with Controllers and their respective communication protocols.  Documented and created a report as a reference manual on the technical details of various systems and instruments which was presented to the company.          Intern   06/2011   to   07/2011     Company Name   City  ,   State      Learned about the various instruments used in different process applications of the petroleum refinery. Knowledge of the use of intrinsically safe devices in hazardous areas and the ratings of equipment as per the hazardous zones. Interfacing of these instruments with Distributed Control Systems and parameters of tuning the PID controllers         Published Work      Research Paper:    K.P.S. Rana, N. Mittra,  N. Pramanik , P. Dwivedi and P. Mahajan: " Virtual Instrumentation Approach to Neural Network Based Thermistor Linearization on Field Programmable Gate Array "; Experimental Techniques  Volume 39, Issue 2, pages 23–30,   Jan 2013        Conference Presentation:    K. P. S. Rana, Vineet Kumar,  Neel Pramanik , Nishant Mitra, Sumit Kumar Shakya: " Some  Applications of     FPGA in Custom Waveform Generation and Triggering for Metrology ";Conference: 8th International Conference on Advances in Metrology (AdMET), Organised jointly by CSIR-NPL and Metrology Society of India, At New Delhi, India,   Feb 2013         Projects      Company Name   City  ,   State         Engineering Officer   12/2014        Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Based Chain Conveyor Tripping System   Designed a control loop which was interfaced with a Allen Bradely PLC controller to read the current readings of individual drive units and provide appropriate tripping signals as per the motor health.                        Engineering Officer   06/2014        Infrared Sensor based telescopic boom tripping system   IR sensor based intrinsically safe system that detects presence of objects in front of moving machinery and trips them instantly.                        Operations Officer   01/2014        Infrared sensor based automatic hot air sealing machine   Modified old pneumatic based cylinder sealing system to an electro-pneumatic and infrared sensor based sealing system. Improved production line performance by 1000 cylinders/ hour.          Company Name   City  ,   State         Bachelor of Engineering   06/2013        Some Intelligent Controllers for HVAC system   Implementation of various control techniques for power management like PWM, PI control , Fuzzy PI control on FPGA target which was the standalone controller for the HVAC system. Designed and implemented a modern Fractional Order PI controller on target which obtained better results.          Skills       Design Software:  LabVIEW, Synopsys Design Vision, Modelsim, Cadence Virtuoso   Programming Languages:  C/C++, Verilog   Operating Systems:  Windows, Linux, OSX   Equipment:  Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer, Multimeter         Accomplishments      Certificate of Merit in academics, NSIT, 2011-12, 2012-13  Green House Vice Captain, Senior Secondary  Black Belt in Taekwon-do     