Roman Khalil, Executive Vice President - Engineering, Technology, Procurement, Performance Analytics

Roman Khalil

Executive Vice President - Engineering, Technology, Procurement, Performance Analytics

Swift Current Energy

Location
United States - California
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
Experience
14 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months

Executive Vice President - Engineering, Technology, Procurement, Performance Analytics at Swift Current Energy
  • United States - South Boston
  • My current job since May 2021

Overseeing an entire portfolio of solar and energy storage projects from conceptual design and layout stage of project development and taking it through financing and construction and overseeing the operation of assets along with Asset Management teams. Selecting the right technology for each project and negotiating Material Supply Agreements for key equipment like MPT/GSU, PV Modules, Racking/Tracking, and Inverters. Hiring, mentoring, and managing people as part of building a team of superstars.

Vice President - Solar Operations at Brookfield Renewable
  • United States - New York
  • April 2019 to May 2021

Overseeing the solar and solar + storage operations, engineering and construction of retrofits, new projects, and project/portfolio acquisitions. Performing technical and commercial due diligence on projects/portfolio acquisitions. Managing operations team to deliver results. Generation budgeting and financial budgeting is other key responsibility

Application Engineering Manager at Sungrow USA
  • United States - South San Francisco
  • April 2018 to April 2019

Leading the application engineering team to provide the best-engineered product for the North American market. Have been engaged with customers on both PV and storage projects to provide engineering feedback on design and products. Working with R&D teams in HQ to provide input and design suggestions of storage product. Training and mentoring the applications engineering and sales team to equip them with the right knowledge to build up the knowledge base and be individual contributors. Building up the team, finding the right talent and making the team stronger is one of the key efforts to establish a solid footprint of the company in North America.

Senior Engineer at 8minutenergy Renewable
  • United States - Folsom
  • January 2017 to April 2018

Performed high-level engineering design, project managing the complete lifecycle of complex projects, programs, budgets and initiatives for PV and PV + energy storage Projects. Leading the efforts through financing projects with the finance team. Managed equipment selection, EPC contract negotiations, testing and commissioning of PV field and high voltage substation, O&M contracting, plant operations (PV and substation routine maintenance and troubleshooting) during the operations phase, project development, SCADA design, and testing. Asset management of under-operation solar plants, O&M contractor management ensuring O&M agreements are being followed.

- Developed EPC and O&M contracts and technical exhibits
- Establishing asset management processes, procedures, and successful asset managing the first ever asset owned by the company and onwards.

Commissioning Engineer at First Solar, Inc. USA
  • United States
  • November 2014 to January 2017

Commissioning Solar Power Plant including the following:
1- DC Side of the Solar Plant
2- Inverters
3- Step up transformers
4- MV switchgear

Commissioning Engineer at First Solar, Inc. USA
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2013 to January 2017

Responsible for commissioning 13MW solar Power Plant with the following equipment:
1) 33kV Transformers
2) Auxiliary Transformers
3) Power Inverters
4) Ring Main Units
5) 33kV switchgear
6) LV switchgear
7) Solar Modules and DC junction boxes
8) CCTV, Fire alarm and ground grid

Senior Electrical Engieer at Zularistan Limited (Sonnen Plus GmbH, Germany)
  • Afghanistan
  • February 2011 to April 2013

Projects Worked On:
i) Distribution and installation of 600 Solar Home Systems each 320w in Helmand province for MASDAR (UAE) & UAE Task Force in Afghanistan.

ii) Provision and Installation of 3MW solar power system for US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan and spreading the network in the US base.

iii) Installation of solar water pumps in Herat province of Afghanistan for watering road medians in the city of Herat for Municipality.

iv) Installation of 70pcs of solar street lights in Ghor province for UNOPS.

v) Provision & installation of 27kW solar power system in Kandahar university for ISAF.

vi) Installation of 20pcs of solar street lights in Ghazni province Governor house for Polaish Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT).

vi) Installation of solar water pump in Logar District Governor's office for UNOPS.

vii) Installation of 295pcs solar street lights in the city of Kabul for US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Afghanistan

Construction Manager at Netracon Technologies
  • Afghanistan
  • November 2010 to January 2011

Stringing, Dead ending, clipping of 97km long 110kV Transmission Line from Jalalabad, to Naghlu Power station under the consultancy of SMEC (Australia).

Site Engineer at NETRACON Technologies
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • April 2010 to January 2011

our company and my work majorly deals with Erection, Stringing and substations.

currently I am working on erection and stringing of 220KV Trasmission Line here in Pakistan.

TRAINEE ENGINEER at AFFIZMIC HYDRO ENGINEERING ALLIANCE
  • Pakistan
  • October 2009 to April 2010

Working as a TRAINEE ENGINEER in Hydro Power Plant on Operation and Maintanance of Generation Units. studying Electrical Drawings and working on Protection Panels.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar Pakistan.
  • June 2009

Specialties & Skills

Power Generation
Electrical Engineering
Power Plant Operations
Engineering Drawings
Solaris
have perfect skills in computer i.e MS Windows, MS Office,C language, AutoCad, Matlab,

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Languages

Urdu
Expert
Persian
Intermediate
English
Expert
Pushto
Expert

Memberships

Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Resident Engineer
  • April 2009
U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
  • QA/QC
  • September 2011

Training and Certifications

yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Valid Until:
May 2012
yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2010
Valid Until:
January 2011
Yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2008
Valid Until:
July 2008