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Phani Chittineedi

Hyderabad

Summary

Resourceful Chemical Engineer and Process Applications Specialist by profession, with over 14 years of experience in oil & gas service industry seeking a position and environment to utilize my skills in organization that offers professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Application Specialist

Topsoe
Hyderabad
07.2021 - Current
  • First point of contact for any tool-related issues for the refinery division (Internal/External tools).
  • Support for process applications like PRO II, ProMax, and Engineering Base.
  • Collaborate closely with process teams to understand their unique needs and challenges, ensuring that digital solutions are tailored to address their daily pain points. As part of our automation efforts, we have developed a new Unified Calculation Tool (UCT) for equipment design, which enables simultaneous sizing of all equipment across various technologies.
  • Evaluated and enhanced the existing tools to improve performance and usability.
  • Lead new digital initiatives from start to end, as the Product Owner.
  • Support and develop internal digital tools.
  • Support change management.
  • Gather requirements from our internal stakeholders and communicate to developers, external stakeholders.
  • Developed training modules to onboard engineers to the new systems.
  • Researched and analyzed customer feedback to identify areas of improvement.
  • Have very good knowledge of the Engineering base (Aucotec).
  • Evaluating the new releases before go-live.
  • Developing Microsoft Flow automation using Power Apps.
  • Roles: Application Support, Product Owner, Change Management, internal/external stakeholder management, and Development of digital tools.

Application Specialist

Honeywell UOP
New Delhi
04.2018 - 06.2021
  • First point of contact for any tool-related issues for all technologies.
  • Support for process applications like UniSim, Aspen Plus, ProMax, and Aspen Basic Engineering.
  • Roles: Application Support, Change Management, internal/external stakeholder management, and Development of digital tools
  • Worked to automate and digitize tools.
  • I have worked on Exchanger, Heater, and Vessel automation.
  • Developed an internal web-based tool for departmental use.
  • Support change management
  • Evaluating the new releases before go-live
  • Well-versed in Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Flows (Power Automate), and Microsoft OneDrive.
  • Experienced in developing UniSim extensions.

Support Specialist

KBR, Inc.
Chennai
07.2017 - 04.2018
  • Support process applications like PROII, Aspen hysys, Aspen Plus, and other in-house applications
  • Support and maintain SharePoint site for engineering support
  • Roles: Product Support

Software Developer

Cognizant
Hyderabad
06.2010 - 06.2017
  • Roles: Product Developer, Secondary Support.
  • Developed Visual Flow Environment using C/C++, MFC, and Excel VBA
  • Responsibilities:
  • Creating Functional Specifications.
  • Developing new process models.
  • Coding, Unit Testing, and System release.
  • Secondary support.
  • Developed PIPEPHASE utilized FORTRAN, C, and Excel VBA in its environment.
  • It offers the power and flexibility to model applications ranging from single well sensitivity analyses of key parameters to a multi-year planning study for an entire production field.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Creating Functional Specifications.
  • Development of new process models.
  • Integrating with third-party models and toolkits.
  • Coding, Unit Testing, and System release.
  • Secondary support.
  • Developed Dynsim, SCP, InTouch Integration Environment: C++, C#. Dynsim is a comprehensive, dynamic process simulator that enables users to meet and overcome the dynamic challenges of designing and operating a modern process plant safely and profitably.
  • By assisting in process design, controls checkout, and control system design, DYNSIM enables process yield improvement and reduction of capital investment costs.
  • The DYNSIM operator training simulator provides safer operation, while improving performance and productivity.
  • Wonderware InTouch is award-winning HMI visualization software that empowers customers to achieve their quest for operational excellence. Responsibilities:
  • Creating a real plant environment using Dynsim and InTouch so that our customers can train their operators and certify them before they work in the real plants.
  • COTS Environment Java, Selenium
  • COTS is Cloud 'OTS'. We are trying to move our flagship products like PROII, Dynsim, and InTouch into Azure Cloud so that users can access simulation at any time from a web browser.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Create ALE Automation and build some Guest-agent machines, and test the integration of the whole setup so that we can run and make Azure VM available for the user with requested products installed in a web browser.

Education

B.TECH - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Hyderabad
Hyderabad
05.2010

Skills

  • Product issue resolution
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Roadmap development
  • Product Planning
  • Programming Languages: C#, C, VC, MFC, FORTRAN 77, WCF, WPF
  • Scripting Languages: VBA, VB, and Selenium
  • Engineering Applications: PRO II, PipePhase, Unisim, Inplant, Dynsim, Aspen Basic Engineering, Engineering Base, and Visual Flow
  • Product issue resolution
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Roadmap development
  • Product Planning
  • Programming Languages: C#, C, VC, MFC, FORTRAN 77, WCF, WPF
  • Scripting Languages: VBA, VB, and Selenium
  • Engineering Applications: PRO II, PipePhase, Unisim, Inplant, Dynsim, Aspen Basic Engineering, Engineering Base, and Visual Flow

Certification

Brain Bench Certifications: C++, FORTRAN 77

Accomplishments

  • Awarded with SE Silver Innovation Award for 2016.
  • Awarded with Darya-Noor award in Q1 for 2014 and awarded with Kohinoor awarded in 2012,2014.
  • Team award for best innovation POC 2012.
  • Awarded 4 BRAVO awards for Innovation and automation.

Timeline

Application Specialist

Topsoe
07.2021 - Current

Application Specialist

Honeywell UOP
04.2018 - 06.2021

Support Specialist

KBR, Inc.
07.2017 - 04.2018

Software Developer

Cognizant
06.2010 - 06.2017

B.TECH - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Hyderabad

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