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VIJAYARAGAVAN R

LEAD STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
CHENNAI, TN,INDIA

Summary

Business-driven General Manager with Fourteen + years of strong project and leadership background. Uses a model of supportive and participatory leadership to promote the concepts of team building and empowerment within a company. Broad based knowledge in structural engineering and ample exposure to Architectural, Engineering and Construction (A E C) activities in all kind of structures. Gained comprehensive knowledge on various design codes and standards (BIS, Euro and ACI) throughout the career. Demonstrated ability to build long-term client relationships and determine cost effective solutions to design, process, or regulatory issues.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER

UTRACON Structural Systems Pvt. Ltd
Chennai, India
10.2015 - Current
  • Fostered and promoted cooperative and harmonious working climate conducive to maximum employee morale, productivity and effectiveness.
  • Drove year-over-year business growth while leading operations, strategic vision and long-range planning.
  • Applied creative reasoning and logic to resolve complex and specialized managerial issues and develop sound solutions.
  • Enacted contingency plans, escalated and directed system problems and issues, and participated in post-mortem analysis to provide input for process improvements.
  • Maintained qualified staff and communicated areas of accountability and expected performance.
  • Informed VP of unusual matters of significance and launched corrective action plan.
  • Creating an operating environment that assures high performance
  • Identified and resolved clients’ technical concerns by proposing Innovative solutions and cost saving alternatives.
  • Responsible for making tough decisions and providing direction, guidance and support to a team
  • Reviewing and approving all design concepts to satisfy technical specification and upstream business development approach to acquire projects to the company
  • Upstream Marketing towards the Northern region of India and Gulf region to acquire projects
  • Reviewing the proposals developed by the team and guiding them to have a best proposal
  • Reviewing and approving the FEA model developed by the team using globally accepted software like ETABS, Staad Pro., SAFE, ADAPT, RAM CONCEPT, RAM CONNECTION, IDEADSTATICA, REVIT , AUTOCAD.
  • Demonstrated excellence in Team Management by providing technical guidance to Team Members
  • Reviewed performance results to target and take corrective measures with authorization and escalation.
  • Established and administered annual budget with controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.

SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

TRC ENGINEERING (I) Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, India
01.2011 - 09.2015
  • Completed accurate engineering calculations for weights, loads and other metrics using both manual and digital methods.
  • Assisted drafters in developing structural design of products using drafting tools or computer-assisted design (CAD) or drafting equipment and software.
  • Developed and reviewed all design concepts to satisfy technical specification and supervised design engineers
  • Scope of work included code driven design calculations – structural, stress, Finite Element (FEA), safety and failure analysis (for reinforced and Pre-stressed concrete structures)
  • Preparation of structural framing plan based on architectural layout
  • FEA model building using globally accepted software ETABS, Staad Pro, RAM CONCEPT, RAM STEEL
  • FEA modeling for complicated foundations using globally accepted software SAFE
  • Facilitated smooth execution of projects by co-ordination with Residential managers and attending regular progress meetings with clients and visiting construction sites
  • Conceptualized, identified and resolved field problems quickly and diplomatically thus saving time and money for both the parties.
  • Provided technical advice to industrial personnel on design, construction and structural repairs.
  • Oversaw proposal and bidding phases of construction.
  • Administered contracts and managed projects.
  • Verified construction documentation conformed to quality assurance standards and client requirements.

SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER

UTRACON Structural Systems Pvt. Ltd
Chennai, India
06.2007 - 01.2011
  • Assisting the Design Engineers in their daily task of analysis, design and supervising the preparation of shop drawing
  • Attending technical meetings with consultants and contractors to clarify their queries on design and execution issues
  • Inspection to site before each concreting to ensure the quality of execution
  • Preparing Design report with manual calculations for external submission.
  • Interacted with project leaders and stakeholders to define requirements and generate and maintain design development documents.
  • Provided technical engineering support and project management for design, engineering and development of PT Structures.
  • Coordinated technical requirements, scheduling and solution development for engineering design and test issues.

Education

M.Tech - Structural Engineering

SRM University

B.E - Civil & Structural Engineering

Annamalai University

Skills

Performance improvement

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Accomplishments

  • Mixed Use Building, Al Mouj, Sultanate of Oman: Mixed commercial building with 26000 sqm
  • Mixed Use Building, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Mixed commercial building with 25000 sqm
  • SDB-4, Block-A, Infosys, Mangalore; 16 story (LG3+13F+Terrace) commercial building with building lateral system as ductile shear wall with OMRF
  • SDB-1, Infosys, Jaipur; 9 story (GF+8F+Terrace) commercial building with building lateral system as ordinary shear wall with OMRF
  • Managing structural engineering service for entire new campus of Infosys, Bhubaneswar; Responsible for design of 4 nos of SDB with, one Food court with 2 story, one CCC with 4 story, one utility block having 6 nos of DG unit and 4nos of Chiller units and one UG sump of 40 Lakh liters capacity
  • Solar Panel Structure, Infosys Mangalore: Peer Review of Steel structure supporting solar panel on roof top of MLCP in Infosys Mangalore Campus
  • Solar Panel Structure, Infosys Mysore: Peer Review of Steel structure supporting solar panel on roof top of SDB in Infosys Mysore Campus
  • Solar Panel Structure, NLC India: Peer Review of 50 MV solar PV Plant A Tirunelveli for NLC India Ltd
  • MRCB, Malaysia: 25 storey steel structures of 120m height is analyzed and designed for tender stage. Structural system is braced steel system in the core and composite metal deck flooring system
  • Danga Bay, Malaysia: 3 Basements, 3 Podium, 35 story Residential towers (6 Individual tower) analyzed and designed with building structural system as ductile shear walls with OMRF. 35 story tower is resting on 2.5.m Transfer plate in the Podium.
  • IAB, Manipal; Peer review of 7 story (GF+6F+Terrace) educational building for Manipal group of Education.
  • Manipal International university, Malaysia; 5 story educational building for Manipal group of education.
  • AIIMS, Guntur: Hospital Building with 120000 sqm PT Beam slab system
  • Brigade Brookfield Garden, Bangalore: Commercial building with 93000 sqm of PT flat slab structure
  • White Alpha, Bengaluru: Commercial building with 150000 sqm of PT flat slab structure
  • AIIMS, Raipur: Hospital Building with 40000 sqm PT Beam slab system.
  • TAMIL NADU MULTI SPEACIALITY HOSPITAL, Chennai: 40m span curved PT Beams, Circular slabs, Sloped slab, Radial slabs.
  • THE CAPITAL, Commercial building, Mumbai: Transfer girder of 17m span and 6.5m cantilever with a floating column at cantilever end and Mid span.
  • THE KAPIL TOWERS, Hotel building, Hyderabad: Transfer Plate of 8m x 8m panel size with 1000mm slab thick and 1500mm drop thick.
  • KOHINOOR SQUARE, Commercial building, Mumbai: 13m PT Beam slab system resting one side on a pre-completed core wall.
  • ASCENDAS, Phase II, Gurgaon, Haryana: Commercial building with 86000 sqm of PT Beam slab system.
  • BLDG 12D for KRC, Hyderabad: Commercial building with 45000 sqm of PT flat slab structure.
  • IPA, Sultanate of Oman: Mixed commercial building with 65000 sqm of PT Flat plate structure.
  • Rayhan Rotana Hotel, Sultanate of Oman: Hotel building with 36000 sqm.
  • Structural Engineer for analysis and design of Post tensioned transfer plate supporting 13 stories for Margaritavilla in Hollywood, USA.

Software

ETABS

STAAD Pro

ADAPT BUILDER

RAPT

RAM CONCEPT

RAM STEEL

SAFE

SAP

AUTOCAD

REVIT

IDEA STATICA

Certification

Member (MIE) - The Institution of Engineers (India)

Interests

GARDENING

READING

CYCLING

Timeline

Registered Structural Engineer (GCC)

01-2020

Registered Structural Engineer (CMDA)

01-2020

Member (MIE) - The Institution of Engineers (India)

06-2017

Chartered Engineer (C.Eng) - The Institution of Engineers (India)

06-2017

DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER

UTRACON Structural Systems Pvt. Ltd
10.2015 - Current

SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

TRC ENGINEERING (I) Pvt. Ltd
01.2011 - 09.2015

SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER

UTRACON Structural Systems Pvt. Ltd
06.2007 - 01.2011

M.Tech - Structural Engineering

SRM University

B.E - Civil & Structural Engineering

Annamalai University
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