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Vijay Kumar Boddepalli, Reliability Engineer

Vijay Kumar Boddepalli

Reliability Engineer·Kuwait National Petroleum Company

Kuwait

Master's degree, Reliability Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 18 years, 2 months

Reliability Engineer

April 2014 - Present

Kuwait National Petroleum Company

Al Ahmadi, Kuwait

April 2014 - Present

• Guide Reliability Steering Team (Management) on reliability strategies and report KPIs.
• Demonstrated world class abilities in Facilitating RCAs, developing RCA procedure and Training.
• Facilitation of reliability centered maintenance (RCM)
• Facilitation of mitigate threats to availability (MTA) and quarterly update meeting.
• Participation in risk based inspection(RBI) and safety instrumented functions(SIF)
• Facilitation of Harmonization workshops to optimize RCM, RBI and SIF recommendations.
• Trained 68 personnel in MTA and 18 engineers in reliability analytics.
• Lead Equipment/ System criticality assessment. Conducted review of criticality assessment.
• Developed a procedure for changeover and testing of Standby pumps. Monthly monitoring.
• Prepare and report monthly Maximo data quality report, quality increased from 56% to 92%
• Performed RCA gap analysis, provided and implemented recommendations
• Implemented new RCA procedure with 100% adherence by developing and monitoring KPIs.
• Effective implementation of KNPC recommendations system, achieved zero overdue
• Coordinate, analyze and report of key reliability performance indicators(KPIs)
• Review of major turnaround work scope and participation in turnaround audit teams
• As GE APM administrator increased utilization and trained KNPC personnel in different modules.
• Participated in Alarm Objective Analysis(AOA)
• Manage annual reliability campaign and issue quarterly reliability newsletters
• Coordinating and preparing Refinery and Department Balanced Scorecard
• Division under development engineers trainer, departmental training coordinator, Risk register focal point, building evacuation group leader and safety focal point.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Oil and Gas

Reliability Engineer

December 2011 - March 2014

SADAF, A Sabic & Shell Joint Venture

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

December 2011 - March 2014

• Learned Meridium after joining SADAF and become SADAF Meridium administrator within a year
• Helped in improving site reliability by analyzing and reporting of site key performance data
• Identified improvement opportunities by performing reliability analysis
• Facilitated/lead/participated in root cause analysis
• Lead equipment criticality assessment and completed on time with quality
• participated reliability centered maintenance(RCM) analysis for critical systems
• participated in preventive maintenance optimization workshops
• Champion of bad actors elimination, chronic issues programs
• As Sadaf reliability databases custodian, customized all (PLI, BA and MTA) for effective utilization
• Participation in shutdown scope preparation and review.
• Developed and implemented reliability business plans, Sadaf reliability recognition program
• Developed reliability, PMP and RCA procedures, Established audits and devised audit check lists
• Developed reliability training packages for employee job qualification program
• Received appreciation for conducting reliability trainings and workshops
• Department’s focal point for new initiatives
• Handled reliability campaigns, published newsletters and quizzes to promote reliability culture

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture
Job role:
Engineering

Reliability engineer

July 2009 - November 2011

Crompton Greaves Limited

Mumbai, India

July 2009 - November 2011

• Reliability improvement of CG processes by 25% by applying reliability tools
• Reliability improvement of CG products by 50% by implementing DFR
• Performed RCAs to uncover and eliminate failure reoccurrence
• Performed life data analysis, warranty analysis and chalked out improvement opportunities
• Reduced manufacturing cost of inverters by 10% with the implementation of Six Sigma
• Facilitated and participated in DFMEA/PFMEA
• Performed reliability growth analysis (RGA)
• Developed reliability procedures, plan for reliability program (PRP)
• Developed Environmental stress screening(ESS) and highly accelerated stress screens(HASS) for various processes
• Developed and maintained failure reporting analysis and corrective action system
• Helped designers by performing reliability prediction and gave recommendations to improve reliability
• Designed and developed accelerated life test (ALT) set up for new products.
• Developed reliability awareness among CG Employees
• Benchmarked processes and products
• Audited vendors component reliability, developed check lists

Company industry:
Heavy Industry & Metallurgy
Job role:
Engineering

Shift Engineer

May 2006 - July 2007

Nagarjuna Agrichem Limited

Hyderabad, India

May 2006 - July 2007

• Meeting shift production targets with respect to quality and quantity
• Ensure smooth and trouble free operation of the unit
• Preparing schedule and carefully executing startup and shut down operations.
• Troubleshooting and take corrective action wherever required
• Inspection of Equipments, transfer lines and valves to ensure safety and industrial hygiene
• Planning and coordinating with maintenance to facilitate monthly preventive maintenance
• Supervision and controlling of man power during shifts
• Maintain records of production, raw materials and equipment calibrations

Company industry:
Industrial Production
Job role:
Engineering

Education

Indian Institute of Technology

May 2009

May 2009

Master's degree, Reliability Engineering

India

GPA (percentage): 74%

GPA (percentage): 74%

M.Tech in Reliability Engineering

JNTU

April 2006

April 2006

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering

India

GPA (percentage): 68.2%

GPA (percentage): 68.2%

B.Tech in Chemical Engineering

TP Polytechnic

January 2002

January 2002

Diploma, Chemical Engineering

India

GPA (percentage): 65%

GPA (percentage): 65%

Diploma in Chemical Engineering

Skills

Training
Expert
Training
Expert
Reliability Analysis
Expert
Reliability Analysis
Expert
Root Cause Analysis
Expert
Root Cause Analysis
Expert
Reliability Centered maintenance
Expert
Reliability Centered maintenance
Expert
Maintenance Management
Expert
Maintenance Management
Expert
Root Cause Analysis
Expert
Root Cause Analysis
Expert
Reliability Centered Maintenace
Expert
Reliability Centered Maintenace
Expert
Facilitation Skills
Expert
Facilitation Skills
Expert
Reliability training
Expert
Reliability training
Expert
Reliability Analysis
Expert
Reliability Analysis
Expert
Training
Expert
Training
Expert
Reliability Centered maintenance
Expert
Reliability Centered maintenance
Expert
Maintenance Management
Expert
Maintenance Management
Expert

Languages

English

Expert

Hindi

Expert

Telugu

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Reliability Analytics & Meridium Query Building
Meridium Corporation LImited
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
RCA Leader
Reliability Expert Center
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
Operation Excellence master class
Reliable manufacturing Limited
May 2012 - May 2012

Training
Reliability Centered Maintenance Advanced
SHELL
Aug 2014

Hobbies and interests

Swimming