Shailen Inamdar

About Shailen Inamdar

Engineer and People Manager with excellent track record of setting up as well as managing design and execution teams for small and large projects in petrochemical and refining industry. Demonstrated problem solver of complex operating and reliability challenges with a unique blend of operating facility as well as Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC), expertise.Over 15+ years of experience as a manager of design department including planning, budgeting, staffing for short and long term objectives. Strong technical leadership ability to direct multi-disciplinary group of process, mechanical, civil, electrical, instrumentation engineers, field construction supervisors, and designers - supporting complex needs of engineering companies as well as operating plants. Active participant in API, AIChE, and ASME communities - Chair on a subcommittee for developing a new API standard; and member of Maintenance and Reliability committee of Ethylene Producers\' Conference, a subchapter of AIChE.Published in AIChE conference and other prestigious journals.Manage company Intellectual Property and overseeing development of products for future market needs.Engineering, Design, and Execution expertise spanning a wide range of chemical process industry:• 14+ years in detailed design of Hot section of Ethylene plant with (Technip) Stone & Webster, Lummus, and Linde technologies; and in other chemical processing technologies including Syngas, Hydrogen reforming, FCC, Delayed Coking, Styrene, and Flameless Thermal Oxidation.• 5 years of leading Project Sevices group in a NJ Refinery covering FCC facility as well as Tankage, Terminal, and dock.• 20+ years of project execution experience covering all aspects such as Cost and Schedule controls, management reporting and subcontract management including project evaluations exceeding $250 MM; Project manager for multiple projects of various complexities and sizes.• Excellent Software skills

Experience

1. Director of Engineering - Process and Systems Engineering

   Linde

   May 2013 — Present · Blue Bell, PA, US

   As a Director of process engineering direct activities of a conceptual design team comprising of 10 engineers and designers to offer innovative, cost competitive engineered solutions to the proposal group. The conceptual design group supports a wide range of product lines including ethylene and EDC cracking, hydrogen and syngas, Flameless and Thermal Oxidation, LNG Vaporization, as well as other process furnaces. Lead development of products and maintain company\'s strategic competitiveness through product development and manage intellectual property filings. Highlight Linde\'s technological superiority and represent company interests through participation in professional conferences, trade shows, and meetings.• Played a key role in resolving major technical design and operational issues in over 5 oil and gas majors’ plants across the world to provide solution; conducted root cause analysis with challenging inputs; and ultimately provided new design to successfully improve reliability. • Lead 6-sigma projects to harmonize design process across multiple global execution centers.• Championed development of existing as well as new products through prototyping, and performance testing in laboratory setting.• The technical leadership in resolving existing problems and improving technology protected over $100s millions worth of future business.• Supported people development through cross training and improved potential fulfilment satisfaction of the process group.

Education

• Louisiana State University

  Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Refining
• Power Plants
• Power Generation
• Construction
• Commissioning
• Oil/Gas
• Pipelines
• Air Compressors
• Engineering
• Metal Fabrication
• Valves
• Process Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Petrochemical
• Gas
• Natural Gas
• Engineering Design
• Asme
• Welding
• Offshore Drilling
• Factory
• Steam
• Pds
• Petroleum
• Tanks
• Upstream
• Project Engineering
• Project Planning
• P&Id
• Pumps
• Chemical Engineering
• Refinery
• Pressure Vessels
• Epc
• Feed
• Downstream Oil & Gas
• Gas Processing
• Onshore
• Process Safety
• Heat Exchangers