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BIO-DATA

Koushik, Ramakrishnan. V Age: 31 years

7A/61, WEA, Karol Bagh, New Delhi:110005 (Contact 98471-32702)

mailto:ramakrishna_koushik@hotmail.com

Executive Summary

Above 8 years of Operations / Projects Experience
in Chemical Process Industry.

Experience in Process Development for
Large scale, Medium scale and Pilot scale Plants.

Thorough knowledge of Chemical Processes, Unit Operations, Managing Operations and Principles of Management

Excellent and Proven Quality Management and Materials Management skills.

Good exposure to Managing Production/Manufacturing Operations; ranging from Continuous Processes involving of Bulk Manufacture of Chemicals to Batch Manufacture of high purity (Differentiated) Products.

Worked as group leader/ member of cross-functional teams.

Comfortable delivering presentations to both individuals and groups.

Education:
Post-graduation:
1)M.S in Manufacturing Management from BITS-Pilani
CGPA=9.215 upon a maximum of 10

2)e-MEP® Executive ManagementEducation Program
duration:14 months (intensive)(P.G.C.M)
IN General Management FROM
Indian Institute of Management; IIM (K)
CGPA=3.41 upon a maximum of 5

Graduation:
B.Tech IN Chemical Engineering
FROM Government Engineering College, Trichur
(1991-1995) First Class 69.3%

Employment History:

GRASIM INDUSTRIES LTD.(through Campus recruitment)
Designation: Chemical Engineer
May1995 to December 1995: Member of the Sulfuric Acid Project team (Participated in the Design, erection and commissioning of the In-house Project).

January 1996 to January 1997: Chemical Engineer at the 70TPD Sulfuric Acid Plant, Carbon disulfide Plant and Refinery.

January 1997 to February 1997: Member of Klaus Process Plant (for recovery of Sulfur from Hydrogen Sulfide) erection and commissioning team

INDIAN RARE EARTHS LTD. (Dept. of Atomic Energy)

Designation: Sr.Technical Officer/ Technical Officer.

February 1997 to February 1999: Managed Production activities for 6 months each in four Process Plants:

Monazite-Caustic treatment Plant (Process Equipments: Ball Mill, MSFE, Crystallizers, Continuous Centrifuges) Span of control= 13

Chemical separation Plant for production of value added rare earth compounds (Process Equipments: Heat exchangers, flakers, pellatizers, flash dryers, calciners, absorption towers) Span of control= 13

Solvent Extraction Plant for production of value added rare earth compounds (Process Equipments: Mixer settlers, spin flash dryers, ion exchange columns, press filters, drum filters, agitated nutsche filters) Span of control= 7

Thorium oxalate Plant: (Process Equipments: Countercurrent extractors, plug flow reactors, leaching & extraction towers, flash dryers, oil fired calciners, compressors, fans, cooling towers) Span of control= 22

March 1999 to May 2000: Jointly Managed the Design, Erection and commissioning of 20 TPD Neodymium Oxide Manufacturing Plant.

June 2000 to September 2001: Involved in Process development, Pilot Plant studies, scale-up and commissioning of Nuclear grade Uranium Production facility (9 TPA)

September 2001 onwards: Managing Operations (Process, Maintenance, manpower, inventory, quality, occupational safety and environmental emission/discharge standards) at the Nuclear grade Uranium (sodium diuranate) Production Plant.

Contribution to GRASIM INDUSTRIES LTD.

Staple Fibre Division (May 2,1995 to February 15,1997)
Prepared data on behalf of Carbon disulfide and Sulfuric Acid Plant for the GRASIM Parta Conference in 1996
Functioned as Internal auditor for ISO 9002 audits.
Member of Staple Fiber Division Energy audit team.
Did project on “Design of a DCDA Sulfuric Acid Plant” at GRASIM Industries Ltd. during the B.Tech degree Course. The Project work resulted in a job offer from GRASIM to be a member of their Sulfuric Acid Plant Project, which was underway .

Contribution to I.R.E.Ltd.
Design, Erection and commissioning of 20 TPD Neodymium Oxide Manufacturing Plant.
Accomplishments:
Design of the PULL based Neodymium Plant used Q.F.D to capture and incorporate various external and internal customer requirements into the design. (We considered external customer needs in terms of physical and chemical specifications of the product, packaging, internal customer needs such as human factors with respect to Operation and Maintenance, Process Plant layout, material handling requirements, part standardization and reduction of logistic delay.)

Conducted several robust parameter design (RPD) experiments to de-bottleneck operations and optimize process: Eg: Drastically Reduced lump formation in Spin flash dryer , Optimized the performance of Solvent Extraction Unit.

Process Development for the Solvent Extraction based Plant for Uranium.

Accomplishments:
Design of the Batch size was based on a mathematical model developed to minimize occupational exposure to workmen

Operations at the Uranium Production Plant
Accomplishments:
Process flow synchronization
Application of GMPs in Solvent extraction units.
Introduced SPC and use of Process capability.
Conducting robust parameter design experiments to make the process robust against variations
Use of supportability analysis to monitor and enhance reliability of equipments and operations.
Fool-proofing Operations against human errors of omission and commission.
Focus on prevention rather than control to meet pollution specification norms.

Activities and Achievements
Currently, Visiting faculty to: Department of Management Studies, Kannur University; for their M.B.A Program (Operations and Projects Management Area.)

Presented a Paper at the VI Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management hosted by I.I.M(K). The Paper was based on a Robust Design Experiment conducted by my team at I.R.E Ltd (Title: A Case Study in Robust Design)

A Paper (Titled: A Model for Determining the Optimal Batch size for a Hazardous Operation) is under review with INFORMS. The Paper was based on a mathematical model developed to minimize occupational exposure of workmen in the Uranium Production Plant.

Selected by The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to represent India in “ The sixteenth Ship for World Youth ” Program organized by Government of Japan

Presented a Paper at the Inter University Chemical Engineering Paper Presentation Seminar (InChES'93) as a student of the B.Tech Program.

Represented Indian Rare Earths Ltd., at Young Managers Contest conducted by K.M.A. (Topic: Winning strategies (of I.R.E.Ltd.) in turbulent times)

Computer Skills:
Good working knowledge of MS Office applications.
Experience in Process Planning and Scheduling application: Flow-Plan
Exposure to Microsoft Project