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Praveen Gupta

Praveen Gupta

Hyderabad

Summary

A dynamic & professional Senior Manager with 23+ years of rich & diversified Industry 4.0 IIOT system deployment, CBM program development, Business development, Value Selling, Training and Customer Support experience in the Reliability & Condition Monitoring Domain

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

AIVA Tech Solutions Private Ltd.
Hyderabad
10.2023 - Current
  • Leading Industrial Industry 4.0 Reliability Condition Monitoring Solution & Services provider in India & ME
  • Leading a team of Application & Service Engineers
  • Business development and Strategic Sales of Reliability, Condition Monitoring & Asset Integrity Solutions & Services
  • Overseas partnerships, and managing RCM Trainings Portfolio.

Manager- Reliability & Asset Management (REAM)

Special Oilfield Services Co. LLC
Muscat
10.2016 - 10.2023
  • Leading a team of Application & Service Engineers
  • Business development of Reliability, Condition Monitoring & Asset Integrity Solutions & Services
  • RCM Trainings.

Vice President- Technical

Structural Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
07.2014 - 09.2016
  • Lead a team of Sales Engineers & Manager
  • SBU Head for the Industrial & Energy Markets providing Condition Monitoring Solutions.

Manager Project Engg. & Field Services- India

Meggitt Sensing Systems
Bangalore
04.2012 - 06.2014
  • Project Management & Customer Support
  • Managing a team of Service & Project Engineers for Customer Satisfaction
  • Developing Pricing Strategies & Proposal Management especially for large CMS Projects.

General Manager- Operations

IRD Mechanalysis Limited
Mumbai
12.2007 - 03.2012
  • Project Management, Operations & Quality Management
  • Managing a team of more than 20 people
  • Led the implementation of ISO9000
  • Rewrote & redesigned product operations and service manuals.

Scientific Officer

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
Kalpakkam
09.1999 - 07.2007
  • Machinery vibration measurements, analysis and fault diagnosis of various rotating machines
  • Flow Induced Vibrations measurement & analysis
  • Involved in cavitation detection studies in pressure drop devices using acoustics
  • Conducted many Experimental Modal Analysis experiments to extract modal parameters of large reactor components with a team of Engineers.

Education

Master of Management Studies - Operations, Information Management

Malviya National Institute Of Technology
01.1999

BTech (Electronics & Communication) -

Jamia Millia Islamia
06.1996

Higher Secondary - Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Biology

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Adrews Ganj, Delhi
03.1992

Secondary - Science, English, Hindi, Science, Maths

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Noida
03.1990

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Cross-Functional Teamwork
  • Business Development
  • Executive Leadership

Certification

  • Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional, 08/2018, 08/2024, Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals, US
  • VIBRATION ANALYST: CATEGORY III, 01/2018, 01/2028, ISO 18436-2
  • Airborne/Structure borne Ultrasound Level I, 03/2020, 03/2025, ISO18436-8, UE Systems Inc., US, UET20200076
  • Vibration Analyst: Category II, 09/2009, 09/2012, ISO18436-2 Vibration Condition Monitoring & Diagnostics
  • Asset Reliability Practitioner- Advocate, 10/2020, 10/2023, ISO/IEC 17024 and modeled on ISO 18436-1, M-143129-01

Accomplishments

  • SOS CRM Implementation, 04/2020, 10/2020, Project Champion for Automation of SOS Sales, Marketing process in Vtiger CRM with intuitive dashboards, email campaigns, Quotes, email notifications, approval matrix, Order Processing Checklist, OA etc.
  • SOS- fueling business growth- organic & inorganic for REAM SBU, 01/2019, 01/2020, With emphasis on services business and fueled by new accounts in Metal, Power, Water & desalination, could grow up to 500k and beyond.
  • SOS- Adding business partners for REAM SBU business growth, 03/2018, 03/2019, Forging business partnerships for business growth and expansion of Reliability Engg. & Asset Management SBU
  • Meggitt CMS Successful Installation & Commissioning, 05/2012, 03/2014, Installed and Commissioned successfully Meggitt's VM600 based Turbine Supervisory System (TSS) & Vibration Monitoring Systems (VMS) at various 4X600MW, 1X500MW, 5X270MW, 2X210MW Thermal Power Plant sites across India
  • SSPL Business turnaround, 01/2014, 01/2015, Instrumental in the turnaround of Energy business for Structural Solutions from 50 to 250 by 2015 end with a team of Sales & Marketing Team resulting from Innovative sales & marketing strategies, improving the Point of Sales in India.
  • Meggitt- Improving business operating margins, 05/2012, 05/2013, Played critical role in improving margins of the VMS Projects in 2012-2013 to 25 by new vendor developments and renegotiation of the raw material pricing with existing vendors
  • IRD Mechanalysis- redesign & development of product manuals, 04/2008, 10/2010, Rewriting intuitive and elegant Product Operating & Service manuals for all IRD online and offline products with product schematics, operating instructions and system drawings
  • Implementation of ISO9000 in IRD Mechanalysis, 04/2008, 03/2009, Managed the complete ISO9001:2008 implementation in IRD Mechanalysis and achieved the certification in March09

Passport

Z3979892

Passport Validity

17-11-2026

Driving License

International Driving License No. 109438231 (Issued- Oman), Valid till 8-Nov-2027

Professional Learnings

  • ISO45000 & ISO140001 Internal auditor training course, 12/2019, 12/2019, SGS Systems, UAE, ISO 45000 & ISO14001 Standards, guidelines, scope, clauses, Audit checklist, scope, planning, check, implement, improve, HSE, Risk identification & mitigation, Root Cause Analysis
  • Airborne & Structural bound Ultrasound Technology product & application training, 10/2018, 11/2018, UE Systems Inc, USA, Ultrasound technology- basic concepts, Ultrasound Technology based mechanical & electrical inspection, Ultraprobe Instrumentation
  • MPS/CMS Product & application training, 04/2018, 04/2018, Bruel & Kjaer Vibro, Germany, Setpoint (VC-8000) strategic selling, VP-80 & VT-80 hands on, Compact Vibration Monitors & Transmitters- application focus
  • Compass 6000 v10 System Training, 03/2017, 04/2017, Bruel & Kjaer Vibro Germany, Compass 6000 V10 System Machine protection, Condition Monitoring training, Root cause analysis basics, Condition Monitoring database management
  • Soft Skills, Sales & Marketing & Leadership training, 08/2015, 08/2015, Structural Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Value based leadership, Market intelligence, change measurement, Sales & Marketing strategies
  • Vibration Monitoring, Protection, Analysis & Diagnostics Training, 06/2012, 06/2012, Meggitt Sensing Systems, API670, Machine Protection System- architecture, Condition Monitoring System- hardware & software
  • Vibration measurements, analysis and fault diagnosis of rotating machines for predictive maintenance, 05/2006, 05/2006, Pruftechnik Condition Monitoring GmbH, Ismaning, Germany, Vibration basics, Maintenance Strategies, Digital Signal Processing, Vibration Standards

Competencies

English, Full Professional Proficiency, Hindi, Full Professional Proficiency, Tamil, Limited Working Proficiency

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 08/30/1975
  • Marital Status: Married

Publications

  • Industry 4.0- IIOT based Predictive Maintenance Conference Tutorial, Praveen Gupta, 18-11-2023, INVEST23 Int. Conference, CVS, Bengaluru, India
  • Experimental Modal Analysis- Applications in Industries for Root Cause Analysis, Praveen Gupta, 11-05-2023, CBM Connect Asia Conference 2023, Kuala Lumpur
  • Identifying and Surmounting Resonance- The Silent Killer of Machine Uptime, Praveen Gupta, 11-05-2023, CBM Connect Asia Conference 2023, Kuala Lumpur
  • Intelligent model-based approach to rotating machinery fault detection, Praveen Gupta, Sanal P. Joshy, Tumay Karaver, 25-02-2020, 4th ISA Oman Conference 2020, 24-25 Feb2020
  • Wireless On Rotor Condition Monitoring using Telemetry Systems, Praveen Gupta, Shabeer Ahamad and M.A. Gaffar, 26-09-2015, National Conference of Condition Monitoring
  • In-Situ validation of API670 compliant Machine Protection Systems, Praveen Gupta, Ramesh Krishnamoorthy & C. Shravanti, 26-09-2015, National Conference of Condition Monitoring
  • State Of the Art Technologies for Protection of Industrial Cooling Towers, Praveen Gupta, Ramesh K. Moorthy and M.A. Gaffar, 13-12-2014, National Conference of Condition Monitoring
  • Smart Methodologies of Monitoring Reciprocating Compressors, Praveen Gupta, Ramesh K. Moorthy and M.A. Gaffar, 13-12-2014, National Conference of Condition Monitoring
  • Smart Technologies for Predicting Catastrophic Machine Failures, Praveen Gupta, Ramesh Moorthy & MA Gaffar, 09-11-2014, GETS 2014 Conference
  • Neural Network based methodology for cavitation detection in pressure drop devices of PFBR, Praveen K. Gupta, P.Anup Kumar, Akshat Kaul, G.K. Pandey, G. Padmakumar, V. Prakash, C. Anandbabu and P. Kalyanasundaram, 09-12-2006, NDE-2006

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the information provided above is true to the best of my knowledge & belief. 01/29/2024

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Elementary (A2)
A2

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

AIVA Tech Solutions Private Ltd.
10.2023 - Current

Manager- Reliability & Asset Management (REAM)

Special Oilfield Services Co. LLC
10.2016 - 10.2023

Vice President- Technical

Structural Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
07.2014 - 09.2016

Manager Project Engg. & Field Services- India

Meggitt Sensing Systems
04.2012 - 06.2014

General Manager- Operations

IRD Mechanalysis Limited
12.2007 - 03.2012

Scientific Officer

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
09.1999 - 07.2007

Master of Management Studies - Operations, Information Management

Malviya National Institute Of Technology

BTech (Electronics & Communication) -

Jamia Millia Islamia

Higher Secondary - Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Biology

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Adrews Ganj, Delhi

Secondary - Science, English, Hindi, Science, Maths

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Noida
Praveen Gupta