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-----About company--
Its a major or worlds largest public utility company in Europe, largest investor owned energy utility provider
power generation via Coal, oil , natural gas, wind , solar, water
gas exploration and production.
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I will divide our conversation into 3 parts -
1. Education , 2.Summarize my overall work exeprience as IT PM and about how I evolved into PM. 3. Bit about myself and my motivation.
Since you have my resume and if you want to know about my work in any particular compnay, I can elaborate on that.
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Computer Sc.Engineering Degree (4yrs)
Got a scholarship to study masters from RMIT and then Siemens Hired me from Germany i finished my last year of Masters Degree in Informatiks from Germany
MESA certified
Languages : I can speak English, German, Hindi , and bit of Korean
I have a very technical back ground, I have worked as Software Engineer in early stages of Career and from there moved up to business analyst, consultancy and now as IT project mgmt.
------------------- Overall IT Project Mgmt Experience --------------
Having worked in this sector espically oil/energy and solar specifically, I am quite interested and enthusiastic to puruse my career in Energy and Renewable sector
I have over 10 years of work experience . I have spent a good amount of time in in the Manufacturing Industry and Industrial automation in Oil and Energy Business which includes solar, IT services as a System Integrator, Manufacturing Plants . currently working as Sr.project Manager for the MES, handling 10 team members . With around 5 years in Project Management.
- I act as the interface or SPOC between project stakeholders, partners and Project engineering teams (Design, Development, QA , etc..). In case there are any conflicts or issues or change requests they have to via Me.
- Create a clear communication channel between stakeholders, clients , partners and Engineering Teams.
- My roles is - Once the project has been signed off, I am responsbile to for entire lifecycle of the project from the Requiremetn elicitiation phase, prioritizing the requiremetns , developing the solution under strict QA guidelines and then releasing a high quality product.
- Organizing and bringing up the team (which includes hiring people, marshalling resource, Mentoring and Coaching the teams about the best practices, managing work between them and making sure a releasable product is produced )
- Finding and managing resource, within the project budget, scoping and timely execution the project., Identifying the risks and reporting them to higher management and taking necessary actions on those risks.
- Typically we use MS Project where i create work packages and milestones for every phase within a project. I also use Scrum (agile methodologies) for time-boxed projects. Also at times Kanban especially in the Operations side.
- Business process consulting ,optimization and standardization ,- Standardization of process across different production plants
- Planning and scheduling the project , gathering the change request from customers to final execution of those requrements.
- Collaborating with different Subject Matter Experts of different departments like Production team , planning teams, supply chain team, logistics and packaging team, Sales team getting their requirements and prioritizing them. Communicating with them continously if there is any change request, change in project plans etc.
- Training the IT team , releasing documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line.
- Providing reports and feedback to management about the project progress.
- I am an open source evangilist, i promote use of open source technologies in the organization horizontally.
- MESA certified for MES/MOM methodologies
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----------------------Myself and my motivation------------
- Would u like me to start in chronological or reverse chronological order ?
- there by allowing increasing visibility for plant equipment , increasing OEE , decreasing the downtime. giving historical data and information.
I am already worked in Korea for over 4.5 years , i have gained very good insights about the customers in korea and asisan region. At this point of time i want to leverage that experience and bring it back to Germany
- Me and wife plan to stay in Germany for probably the rest of our lives, we have been married for over 3 years now and we plan to raise a family ..and we plan to do that in Europe - Also that my wife can speak German we she is also quite familiar with German working style and culture.
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------ Some of my work -----------
- Provide innovative new solutions for our customers using latest technologies to solve their existing problems. (Eg: BigData, virutalization , In memory data grids etc.. )
- Real time monitoring of Data centers and Client PC on the shop-floor or in a production plant. Collecting the metrics data or self defined KPI's and storing them , running specific queries on them to finally visualize them on dashboards for production people, higher management , etc. You can get alerts and notification is something goes wrong on the shop floor system and appropirate action can be taken, it supports high availability , security , for rich clients and thin clients, advanced plugin management system (APMS)
- OPC - open platform communications
OPC gets data from Process control devices like PLC, DCS .
Modbus, profibus (protocol )
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---------------- Questions ------------
what is the global presence outside of Europe ?
any training programs within Eon to undestand product portfolio
Is E.on into manufacturing too like , equipment , solar/photovoltic modules etc..
Where is this particular position based out of ?
In providing vast portfolio where is eon placed ? as a service intergrator , service provider , manufacturing etc.. ?
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-------------- Salary Validation -------------- 75
Have over 10 year of experience , majority in MES and Industrial Automation and Process Consulting, in different IT sectors like Automotives, Oil and Energy as Lead MES consultant, Team Leader- Handled teams and projects with over 15 people geographically located.
Master Degree
I can speak 4 languages (English, German, Hindi and Punjabi and Bit of korean )
Bring a lot to the table with MES consluting, New initiatives , Worked with new bleeding edge technologies like Big data, Virtualization , Real Time analytics

--------Integration mechanism --------
- Interface centeric - using EAI tools
use SOA and ESB together or Manufacturing service bus with MDM
- Data centric approach - using ETL model
- Model centric - Using Business Process Management using Business Rules Modelling
SPC - statistical Process control - infrastructure tool for Production control quality in
Semiconductor industry.
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Responsible for:
Manage project development through lifecycle of project
Accountable for the success of the project with the sponser and project team
Development of project charter defining scope, deliverables, and risk based on timeline, budget, and available resources
Create project timeline defining tasks, resources, and critical path
Define the work packages and work with sponsor to assign work package leaders
Provide communications conduit for project progress and feedback
Act as mediator between project stakeholder and project team
Identify and resolve risks and issues to project
Help determine staffing needs for inhouse and outsourced work
Report project status and accomplishment of milestones
Implement and enforce agile (or similar methodologies) to ensure project success
Provide assistance and leadership to fill missing roles as needed to ensure project success in a start up enviornment
Ensure success of project using transparent professional methods.

Qualifications
University degree in Business or Management, Information Technology, project management in related fields
Minimum 4 years experience in professional project management with a good track record of successful projects
PMI Certification is a major asset
Experience with Agile methodologies and modeling skills strongly desired
Profound knowledge of Project Managemetn with best practices and current industry trends
Ability to work in a ‘start up’ environment with changing requirements and little direct staff
Good communications skills and team spirit
Listening
Interviewing and Questioning
Facilitation
Observation
Writing
Clear, focus thinker with ability to execute on priorities and effectively control milestones (project mode)
Experienced working across multiple levels, functions and regions
Fluent in English, other languages (German) could be advantageous
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- Creating one harmonized multi-site, multi-country MES template that spells out a consistent approach to MES that can be used
across plants by using Business Process Management and Business Rules Engine.
- Process consulting while integrating MES into the production environment.
- Supporting infrastructure related issues within the production environment also supporting local and remote teams . (eg: Server Issues, Database issues , network issues, Firewall issues , etc.. ) , most of my experience has been on Linux and Windows Servers and dealing with different databases like oracle, ms sql, mysql, postgresql etc..
- Analysis of existing process and improving the stability and efficiency of those processes.. increasing OEE...etc..
- Creating a generic MES template to Integrate the MES across different sites by defining certain best practices for the process and taking them from one project to another. Mainly focusing on re-usability of modules (Trying to move MES to cloud based MES, using concepts of big-data for MES, real time analytic etc.. )
-Analysis of requests and demands according P&I process . Business requirements specification and translation business requirements into application specifications
- Vertical integration of MES with ERP, SCM, CRM and PLM
- Single point of contact or Escalation Manager for Shop floor personnel and Line Managers - All escalated issues are funneled through me.
- I have worked with several MES vendors like - Rockwell, Siemens , GE,CamLine... etc..Created Generic/modular MES covering Quality Management, Labor management , Process Management , Product Tracking and Tracing , Data acquisition , Resource Management (recipes) ,Quality Management Performance analysis, Work In progress (WIP) , Material management Handing Production management , Production planning
- User principles of SOA, standardized B2MML, Business process mgmt and ESB for integration , Master Data managent (MDM)
- The idea was to increase productivity, lower the production cost , decrease the inventory , increase OEE ,
- Training the IT team , releasing documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line.

- Provide EMI and BI solutions for Production manager and Stakeholders respectively
- Work a lot with databases like MySQL, Ms-SQL, oracle , postgresql in different production environment.
- testing and final rollout of the MES on the shop-floor, providing innovative solutions for improving performance and stability of existing systems. (eg: Virtualization of testing , virtualization of Shop-floor.. )

------------- Standardization benefits of MES ----------
lowers cost of maintaining the IT systems, Improving quality control , Improving better visibility to shop floor activities(Real-time) , faster product development and delivery to market , improving OEE , Better collaboration , standarization of reporting, reduces Total cost of owernship (TCO) by connecting users, content and enterprise applications
eg:reduce cycle time and recipet of good in SCM