The document provides a summary of P. Deepan Pradip's professional experience and qualifications. It summarizes that he has 15 years of experience in product management, production, and research and development in the chemical sector. He is currently the Works Manager - Chemical at IWL India Ltd., Chennai, where he oversees quality control and cost optimization. He has expertise in various process industries including petrochemicals, polymers, and construction chemicals.
1. P. DEEPAN PRADIP
Contact09003083543 & 09940228049 / Email: deepanpradip@yahoo.com
Seeking Managerial Role in Product Management / Research & Development preferably in Petrochemical ,construction
chemical, water proofing and Polymer Chemical Industry
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A dynamic individual and qualified MBA (Training & Development and Marketing Research) and M.Tech. (Chemical)
with nearly 15 years of experience in Product Management, Production and Research & Development in Chemical
sector.
Currently associated with IWL India Ltd., Chennai as Works Manager – Chemical.
Adroit in managing competitor product analysis & new products available in the market.
Possess good knowledge of Mass Transfer and Chemical Processing Calculations. Expertise in DCS and SCADA Systems
for controlling the parameters.
Hands-on experience in making sure that standards of quality are met while production costs are kept as low as possible.
Skilled in all aspects of chemical engineering including process computer simulation, development, equipment sizing
and specification.
Proven ability to use applied research and problem-solving skills for establishing the root cause of any chemical-
related failure, as well as heading any investigations.
Client focused business unit manager with proven track record in turn around and change management
Track record devising, evaluating and implementing continuous process improvements to minimise waste and
reducing costs while maximising quality and yield
Establish effective quality control and safety programs encouraging proactive participation across the manufacturing
floor. Excellent communicator success building cohesive teams focused on throughput
Attributes: Good man management skills, ability to do multitask and seeking & harnessing new opportunities and
creating win-wins.
MAJOR PROCESS INDUSTRIES WORKED:
PHARMACEUTICALS,PET PROCESS INDUSTRIES,HERBAL EXTRACTS,BITUMEN PRODUCTS,POLYMER BASED INDUSTRIES,
ADHESIVES AND SEALANTS,POLYURETHANE RESIN,PRIMERS AND COATINGS,BITUMINOUS EMULSION TECHNOLOGIES,
CEMENTITIOUS WATER PROOFING SINGLE POT.DOUBLE POT,CRMB,PMB,BITUMINOUS MEMBRANE,BITUMINOUS SELF
ADHESIVE MEMBRANE,BITUMINOUS APP MEMBRANE,ANIONIC AND CATIONIC CLAY BASED BITUMINOUS EMULSION,
ANIONIC AND CATIONIC BITUMINOUS COLD APPLIED MEMBRANE,ACRYLIC COLD APPLIED MEMBRANE,TILE ADHESIVE AND
WALLPUTTY,SBR ACRYLIC BONDING
KEY SKILLS
Project Planning Research and Development New Product Development
Product Management Quality Management Production Planning
Erection & Commissioning Man Management Liaising & Coordination
Production coordination Estimating costs Marketing liaison
CAREER SCAN
Since Aug’04 IWL India Ltd., Chennai
Works Manager – Chemical (Reporting to the Director in all aspects of the plant)
Role:
Examining the quality of membrane and emulsion products. Finding ways to improve the quality of membrane and
bitumen emulsion.
Responsible for finding out the ways to improve costing in bitumen emulsions and making sure that all quality control
test passes in emulsion.
Verifying stock reconciliation on month basis and coordinating with commercial people regarding production planning.
Serving as a techno commercial person for coordinating with the clients, finding out new raw material and negotiating
with the raw material suppliers for new product development.
Accountable for providing solutions for the quality complaints if any and troubleshooting in the plant.
Managing and liaising with projects for new product development and ensuring proper housekeeping in the plant.
Representing for ISO 9001-2008 Certification.
Overseeing competitor product analysis & new products available in the market and preparing formulations accordingly.
Documentation maintaining files and records for all works
Ensuring all raw materials and finished products quality strictly to adhere the quality standards
Examining the quality of crumb modified bitumen and polymer modified bitumen and confirming that it is meeting the
standard codes
2. RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES AS PRODUCTION MANAGER AND OPERATION MANAGER:
Making sure that products are produced on time and are of good quality.
Overseeing the production process.
Administrating production costs,billing reports.
Managing and developing a production team.
Agreeing weekly production plans and targets.
Maintaining production equipment.
Managing the movement of goods into and out of production facilities.
Managing production budgets and costing.
Implementing best practice production and manufacturing methods.
Ensuring the health and safety of all employees and visitors to the facility.
Managing large scale operational contracts.
Liaising with marketing and sales staff.
Identifying staff training needs.
Selecting, ordering and purchasing materials.
Determining quality control standards.
Attending daily operations meetings.
Making sure that staff comply with all workplace health and safety regulations.
Introducing innovative manufacturing processes.
MANAGERIAL ATTRIBUTES:
Experienced in the management of a field based team.
Ability to work closely with and develop relationships with clients.
Improving and developing the knowledge & skills of others.
Highly organized with a positive 'can do' attitude.
Knowledge of progress monitoring and reporting.
Experience of using modern business methods in a practical way.
Knowledge of recruiting, selecting and appraising staff.
Able to handle communications and corporate affairs.
Building effective and efficient teams.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
Excellent customer facing skills.
Disciplined, energetic and results orientated.
Having a analytical approach to problem solving.
Can create a environment where colleagues and staff can develop and excel.
High standards ofnumeracy and literacy.
Assertive and confident.
Significant Highlights:
RESPONSIBILITIES TAKEN TO MANAGE OVERALL 3 MANUFACTURING UNITS AND GIVEN TECHNICAL GUIDANCE FOR ALL
THE UNITS TO MAINTAIN QUALITY WITH MINIMUM COSTS AND ACHIEVED SALES TURN OVER OF ABOVE 110 CRORES
Holds the distinction in achieving:
o The target of 60,000 water proofing sheets per month and 1800 tonnes of emulsions per month.
o Different grade emulsion by varying the mix proportions to the required flow-rate levels and controlling
the process activities through DCS system.
Merit of increasing the efficiency of the production by closely monitoring the parameters.
Actively involved in the erection and commissioning of Italian bitumen emulsion technology.
Actively involved in the erection and commissioning of Crumb rubber bitumen and Polymer modified bitumen
technology ,Bitumen Emulsion technology using SCADA Techniques
MACHINERIES HANDLED:
COLLOIDALMILL USING SCADASYSTEMS, SIGMAMIXERS, VERTICAL MIXERS,CALENRING AND WINDING MACHINES.RIBBON
BLENDERS,DISPERSIONMACHINES
3. ACHEIVEMENTS
Improved the adhesion quality of self adhesive bituminous elastomeric membrane.
New formulation developed for anionic and cationic clay based emulsion
New formulation developed for styrene butadiene styrene modified bitumen coating compound.
New formulation developed for styrene based cement mortar.
Developed polyvinyl chloride self adhesive membrane.
Reduced the cost of modified bituminous mix in bituminous membrane.
Developed sealants and coating compounds.
Developed construction chemical products like tile adhesive, wall putty, cementitious water proofing membrane
single component and two component, acrylic cold applied membrane, polyurethane cold applied membrane,
bituminous primers and coatings, crmb and pmb.
PRODUCTS WORKED AND FAMILIAR:
BITUMEN BASED WATER PROOFING CHEMICALS,COATINGS AND POLYMER MODIFIED BITUMEN MEMBRANES FOR WATER
PROOFING,BITUMEN EMULSION CATIONIC AND ANIONIC,BITUMINOUS CLAY BASED ACRYLIC MEMBRANE ,BITUMINOUS
PRIMER,BITUMINOUS SEALANT.
CONSTRUCTION CHEMICALS: CEMENT BASED WATER PROOFING WITH STYRENE ACRYLIC EMULSION,CEMENTBASED
UNIVERSAL REPAIR PRODUCT,POLYURETHANEWATERPROOFING,BITUMEN BASED POLYURETHAANE, ANTICORROSIVE
PAINTS AND PRIMERS,SBS COATING,TILE ADHESIVES,WALL PUTTY,CRMB,PMB
LAB EQUIPMENTS HANDLED:
SOFTENINGPOINT APPARATUS,PENETROMETER,BROOKE FIELD VISCOMETER,TENSILE TESTER,SAY BOLT VISCOMETER.
NEW PRODUCTS
Pivotal in developing new products in bituminous adhesives, membranes and bituminous emulsions.
Pivotal in developing special products related to water proofing like anionic clay based emulsion, cationic clay based
emulsion, anionic clay based styrene acrylic coating, crump rubber modified bitumen, polymer modified bitumen,
styrene based bituminous elastomeric coating, polyurethane resins, styrene based cement mortar for construction
chemicals, Tile adhesives .Wall putty
Collecting the competitor product and data sheets and conducting lab trials to meet the required product meet the
specific requirements.
Ensuring the lab equipments and raw materials required to make the final product.
Technology transfer of the machineries and process conditions for the final production in large scale.
QUALITY CONTROL:
Ensuring the membrane, emulsion ,crumb, pmb products meet the required specifications as per IS ,ASTM,DIN
Standards
Ensuring the quality specifications of raw materials as per the required specifications.
Arriving the raw material cost and BOM for the finished goods.
Providing sample plan, inspection plan and rejection for raw materials.
Providing sample plan, inspection plan and rejection for finished goods.
Preparing MSDS for the finished goods.
Coordinating with the 3rd party inspection person to confirm the final product meets the required spec for the
despatch clearance
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Jan’03-May’04 Futura Polyesters Ltd., Chennai
Process Engineer (Chemical)
Role:
Maintained the specifications to assure quality of pet chips.
Responsible for ensuring material balance of finished products through mole balance of reactants.
Significant Highlights:
Actively managed the production of 4500 mt. per month of Bottle Grade and Fibre Grade Resins.
Successfully done production planning for Bottle Grade Chips namely Aqua, CSD Grade Pet Chips and Fibre Grade Chips.
Key Equipments Handled:
4. Distillation Columns and Jet Ejectors.
Feb’01-Jan’03 Samilabs, Bangalore
Process Engineer - Projects
Role:
Accountable for maintaining sterility condition in fermentors.
Handled extraction of ingredients through SCFE technology.
Key Assignments Handled:
Production of Coleus Oil, Ginger Oil and Rosemarryoil Extracts.
Production of Lacto Spore and Selenium Yeast.
Feb’99-Feb’01 J. K. Pharmachem, Sipcot Complex, Cuddalore
Production Engineer
The Growth Path with Key Role:
As Production Engineer: Feb’00-Feb’01
Maintained sterile condition in fermentors.
Responsible for attaining maximum efficiency in downstream process.
As Research and Development Engineer: Feb’99-Feb’00
Accountable for improving the efficiency in fermentation and downstream process.
Imparted trial run in lab fermentors.
Effectively implemented cost reduction techniques.
Key Assignment Handled:
Penicillin-G manufacturing turnover of 140mmu per month.
Key Equipments Handled:
Westphalia Counter Current Extractors, Crystallizers, Centrifuges, Distillation Columns and Rotary Vacuum Dryers.
EDUCATION
2001 MBA (Training & Development and Marketing Research) from D.L.P., Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai
1998 Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from Bharathiyar Univeristy, Perundurai.
2016 MTECH Chemical Engineering (Karnataka university)
Other Qualification:
2002 SAP PP Module
Professional Trainings:
Automation Training Program at Tata Honeywell, Pune.
Industrial Training at Shahsun Chemical Drugs and J.K.Pharmachem.
Job Training and Job Satisfaction of Employees at Aruna Machine Tools Ltd.
IT Skills:
RDBMS : Oracle 7.2
Packages : FoxPro 2.5
Others : MS Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) and Internet Applications
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth : 19th June, 1977
Address : 1/995, Muthamizh street ,Gandhi Nagar, Red Hills, Chennai - 52
Linguistics Abilities : English, Tamil and Hindi