Akbar Ali, Senior SCADA and Instrumentation Controls Engineer

Akbar Ali

Senior SCADA and Instrumentation Controls Engineer

KEO International consultants

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics
Experience
29 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :29 years, 4 Months

Senior SCADA and Instrumentation Controls Engineer at KEO International consultants
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2010

Instrumentation and SCADA design from concept to detailed design including tender documents for Irrigation pumping stations, sewage pumping stations and storm water pumping stations spread through the development

Preparation of tender documents for a water distribution network and pumping stations Central SCADA system

Preliminary design work and tender preparation for Sewage treatment plant and Transfer pumping station

Instrumentation Detailed design of Potable water pumping station

Senior Instrumentation and Control Engineer at CH2MHILL VECO ENGINEERING
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2009 to May 2010

Preparation of Data sheets, Material requisitions & Technical Bid Evaluations, Block Diagrams, Layouts and Routing Drawings, MTOs and BOQs, Vendor Drawing Review, Interdisciplinary coordination for Project Development of Oilfield Zarzatine (Surface facility), Algeria

Telecom Engineer at CH2M HILL INTERNATIONAL
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2008 to April 2009

Review of Client tender specification, Reticulation drawings for 30% design of Telecommunication

Lead Instrumentation and Control Engineer at CH2MHILL INTERNATIONAL
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2006 to August 2008

Engineering, Procurement, Factory Acceptance Testing & Commissioning of Instrumentation and Plant Control System for Reverse osmosis plants in Layyah and Khorfakkan Power Stations

Preparation and Evaluation of Instrumentation Subcontract package for a New 10, 000 Cu. M/Day Reverse Osmosis Desalination plant at Power Seraya, Singapore

Control Systems Engineer at Federal Electricity and Water Authority
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2002 to April 2006

Responsible for project planning and maintenance of control systems and instrumentation related to Desalination plants, Heat recovery boiler, and Auxiliary boiler at Emirates of Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Ajman

Substation Control Systems Engineer at Emirates Trading Agency : Power Projects Division
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2002 to September 2002

Engineering, Procurement, Factory Acceptance Testing & Commissioning of Plant’s SCMS (Substation Control and Monitoring system), Fibre optic and Communication system

Senior Instrumentation Engineer at Emirates Trading Agency
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 1998 to March 2002

Engineering, Procurement, Factory Acceptance Testing & Commissioning of Plant’s Instrumentation and DCS for Desalination Plants at Ras-al-Khaimah, Fujairah and Ajman. UAE

Testing of Variable frequency drives for Bale feeding system, Hydraulically operated Automatic gates at Boiler end, Siemens PLC S5-100U and S5-115U for the Conveyor system and Bale Feeding system for 1 X 10MW Rice Straw Thermal Plant in Jalkheri, India

Senior Systems Engineer at Emirates Trading Agency : Power Projects Division
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 1996 to March 1998

Design Support, Testing & Commissioning of Plant’s Fibre optic communication system - Data/Voice route of Optical Terminal equipment, Private Automatic Telephone Exchange, Pilot wire communication system and SCADA system for 132/11KV Substation at Mina. Dubai

Systems Engineer at Emirates Trading Agency : Power Projects Division
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 1995 to August 1996

Design coordination, Testing & Commissioning of Plant’s SCADA system for 132/11KV Substation at DUBAL, UAE

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at Bangalore University
  • February 1995

Specialties & Skills

Control System Design
Instrumentation
Factory Acceptance Testing of Substation Control monitoring system in General Electric, Canada
Factory Acceptance Testing of Distributed Control system in Emerson Factory, Czech Republic
Factory Acceptance Testing of Distributed Control system - Symphony in ABB, Germany
Qatar Petroleum Approved Engineer (Water Projects)

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Communication system – DCS-255 (SOPHO) (Training)
Training Institute:
ABB Network Partners, Switzerland
Date Attended:
January 1997
Fibre Optic communication system (Training)
Training Institute:
ABB Network Partners, Switzerland
Date Attended:
January 1997
Project Delivery Systems (PDS) (Training)
Training Institute:
CH2M HILL, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Date Attended:
January 2007