Vignesh Krishna

About Vignesh Krishna

Experienced in Industrial Automation and Controls Engineering concepts. Currently working as a Controls Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor, contributing to automation and streamlining processes using first principles techniques.Competent in PLC\'s, DCS, Enterprise workflows, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Virtualization infrastructure and system related assets including servers, thin clients, OPC communication protocolsThings I strive for as a Controls Engineer:1. Robust System designs and network architecture/topology.2. Resilient network to minimize downtime (Find ways to bridge the OT vs IT gap aka \"To or not to go past the Firewall\"3. Data analysis and Predictive Maintenance to continuously refine and improve system efficiency.4. Adopt a safety first methodology - Adhere to and learn the art of OSHA, NFPA 70E on a continuous basis.5. Collaborating with Instrumentation / Maintenance teams, Operators, Technicians and leadership to translate complex requirements into reality via business based proven, hands-on expertise across key professional areas including:1. Ladder Logic, Functional Block Diagram and Sequential flowcharts (IEC 61•••32. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)- Allen Bradley ControlLogix and Siemens TIA Portal (including WinCC)3. SCADA design - High performance HMI (ISA 101)4. Industrial Networking (OPC, Modbus, Fault tolerant Ethernet)5. Enterprise Servers - Dell PowerEdge R640, R740, R760, Firmware, iDRAC, RAM and SSD upgrades, spec selection6. Management of change process - Stale and nuisance alarm reduction (ISA 18.2)7. IT Change management - Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Jira Service desk, incident alerting and SLA based response.8. Virtual hypervisor solutions - VMWare ESXi 7.0, Vsphere client, Datastores, ESXi hosts, snapshots, PowerCLI, Windows Powershell, WinSCP, Putty.9. Proactive system cleanup - Windows Server updates, Perf Monitoring (PerfMon), Automatic Log collections.10. Disaster Recovery - Backup and Restore images on a schedule to Network Attached Storage (NAS) server.11. IT infrastructure management - Solarwinds Observability, Virtualization and IP Address Manager12. Dell Wyse 5070 Thin client config and setup for VMWare - Unified Write Filter (UWF)13. Windows Domain Controller -Active Directory, Group Policies, Local User Manager, Remote Desktop.14. Basic 8D - 5 Why\'s and Fisbone Ishikawa, Root cause and Effect.15. PTC Kepware 3rd party devices, Matrikon OPC Client.16. Distributed Control Systems (DCS)

Experience

1. Controls Engineer

   Samsung Semiconductor

   Feb 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Controls Engineer applying automation and first principles techniques.

Education

• Holy Saint English Public School

  10th Grade

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering