1. KARGUPPI VIVEK ARVIND
Contact: (R) 0265- 2710830; (M) 989827 2372/ +912652710830/+966535429463
Email: v_karaguppi@yahoo.com LEAD INSTRUMENTATION COMMISIONING
SYNOPSIS
 A qualified professional with 25 years of experience in Instrumentation Maintenance , pre -
commissioning, commissioning & Revamping. Recent I was been assigned with Wood group
PSN(Kpop) (AGIP KCO) as an Instrument Lead Commissioning Technician for commissioning & Start -
up jobs to support operations of GAS Plant in Europe (Kazakhstan) on 28/28 on-off cycle which was
completed on Nov 2013 Presently engaged with KBR for commissioning of project in Saudi Arabia
for SADARA-DOW chemical's joint venture.
 Troubleshoot field and control room process Loops using appropriate test equipment & analyse fault.
 Respond effectively to emergency fault conditions anywhere in assigned area & Perform emergency
field repairs.
 Interpret technical documentation - data sheets, vendor manuals, troubleshooting flowcharts etc.
Interpret technical drawings from simple schematics to complex PID's, ILD's and PLC ladder logic
diagrams.
 Perform detailed functional tests on systems integrated from different vendors.
 Perform, or direct, complex fault diagnosis on DCS (Yokogawa & Foxboro Invensys related to
hardware & up to basic level of DCS graphics.)
 Ability to configuration databases that do not Affect the logical operation of the plant or process
(range Changes, tuning parameters, etc.)
 Significant experience in execution of projects revamping & commissioning of equipments.
 Extensive experience in instrumentation & control combined with proficiency in co-ordinating with
operations maintenance functions. Well versed with process Instruments for preventive, corrective,
shutdown & start-up activities.
 Familiar with ATEX & Hazardous Area equipments. Able to handle Loop checking independently as
per ITP & verify the Loop Folders as per standard procedures & update the Instrument Loop diagrams
during loop checks(Red line mark-ups).
 Generate Punches & co-ordinate with vendor packages to map I/O with DCS on Modbus protocol &
resolve the same with vendors assistance. Back-up support for operations during OTP performed.
 Fully conversant & undergone training for LOTO to perform substation loops pertaining to Pumps, Fin
Fan motors having speed control drives.
 CO-ordinate for RFI, Mc, Punch Generation & Resolve, QVD Review & SPIR. Liaise with Client to Push-up
the task for completion.
 Performed cause & Effects testing as per SIL level incorporated on the chart & ability to read logics
incorporated with Foxboro DCS & Triconex ESD systems.
 Attend & Conduct Tool box talk daily pertaining to work scope & PTW requirements.
 Proficiency in maintenance strategies, procedures and methods for diagnosing breakdown problems
involving (Smart transmitters,( yokogawa & Rosemount) Motorised valves (Biffi, Rotork) Level
Transmitters (Masonelian) & analyzing ESD & Process interlocks Logics.
 Adept at executing the tasks as per the quality standards and ensuring their compliance to the safety
standards at the same time.
 involved for SPIR review & follow up job. A team player and leader with exemplary interpersonal,
analytical and problem solving skills.
AREAS OF PROFICIENCY
Instrumentation Control commissioning, Revamping & construction
 Preparing instrument lists, reviewing data sheet and technical specification for revamping.
 Furnishing guidelines for all jobs related to commissioning & start-up

2.  Setting up, wiring, programming & examining the functions of electronic dual loop controllers &
indicators of Eurotherm T-640 make, Yokogawa US-1000/YS-131 make related to re-vamping.
Well versed with Electronic transmitters of different makes viz. Yokogawa, Rosemount, ABB, Fuji &
Siemens.
 Carrying out wiring, programming & simulation testing of MTL & RSTHALL made temperature to
current converter isolators, current signal repeaters & isolators, pneumatic to current & current to
pneumatic transducers for various loops of Watson & Smith make.
 Knowledge & Hands on experience to perform ESD,DCS & substation loops checks incorporated
with various control systems of different makes.(Foxboro, Yokogawa, Schneider & Siemens Scada)
 Coordinating the installation & pre - commissioning of the equipments and conducting tests &
inspections to ensure operational effectiveness of utilities and systems.
 Pro-active approach to continuous improvement & Lessons learned leading to uplift performance.
Operations & Maintenance
 Tracking daily breakdowns & implementing effective maintenance programs to improve the
efficiency of the system.
 Proactively identifying areas of obstruction/breakdowns and taking steps to rectify the equipments
through application of state of the art techniques.
 Looking after maintenance of conductivity type level measurement systems used for high-pressure
applications.
Quality Control
 Ensuring that all calibration jobs are compliant to Q/A & Q/C procedures as per ISO-9000 standards
for the principal clients.
 Monitoring implementation & documentation of quality systems.
 Carrying out routine Preventive maintenance check up of field instrumentation
ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
KBR-AMCDE (SADARA) (Saudi Arabia) Apr2014 present
Lead Instrument Supervisor commissioning.
Joined as Instrument supervisor engaged with Instrument commissioning & Maintenance dept
for Aromatic unit Looking after pre-commissioning check-ups in association with EPC JGC & Daewoo
for review of loop checks to be performed with standard ITP procedures.
PSN KPOP (AGIP KCO) (Kazakhstan) Sep2011 - Oct2013
Lead Instrument commissioning Technician
Joined as Sr. Instrument commissioning technician for On-shore Gas plant KAZ operating project in
Kazakhstan on 28/28 cycle for commissioning activities along with team of 4 technicians for loop-checking
& trouble shooting activities. Simulation of sub-station switch-gear loops ‘having MULTLIN GE
make relays for 10kv & MM2 & FM2 relay for LV switchgears incorporated with Foxboro Invensys DCS
installed in SIS. Apart from the above also involved for resolving the punches getting cleared from the
contractors, Loop checking & configuration of BIFFI make motorised valve incorporated with DCS, Co-ordinating
with operations personnel for start-up activities & general readiness of utilities & plant. Well
conversant with PTW & TBT & verifying loop-sheets & documentation. Permit receiver from
commissioning side for sub-station loops & ICC. Well conversant with Triconex ESD graphic console
system enabling for checking the ESD level cause & effects also fixing the loop problems during
simulation of ESD SIL Levels & SIFS. Ability of diagnosing Fault with sub-station loops being mapped with
RTU-DCS of Foxboro IA-series system.
AARVI ENCON LTD. Mar2011 – Jun 11
Instrumentation Supervisor
Joined as an instrument supervisor for HPCL-HMEL Refinery assigned for Pre-commissioning &
commissioning activities Accountabilities being shared are generation of punches & loop checking for
Foundation field bus instruments & convectional DCS loops h ooked-up with Yokogawa Centium-3000
system.
SAMSUNG ENGINEERING CO.LTD Jan 2011 – Feb 11
Instrument Engineer
Worked as an Engineer instrument with Samsung engineering & allying up with construction activities
related to Engineering & Documentation. ONGC OPAL DFU AU project
JAL INTERNARIONAL COMPANY LTD (SAUDI ARABIA JUBAIL) Oct 09 – Oct 10
Senior Instrument Technician

3. Worked as senior instrument technician with SABIC (Saudi Kay an petrochemicals PP plant Basell
technology).Below are the Accountabilities shared during my tenure.
* Generation of Final punch list against the RFI (Ready for inspection) with reference to P&ID. &
categorize the punches as per priority with CSU team.
* Performed supervision for impulse & pneumatic tubing as per Hook-up drawings for field mounted
transmitters, control valves & ESD valves.
* Allying up as witness on behalf of Saudi Kay an for Loop testing.
* Done simulation of cause & effects logics by feeding actual raw values from field with operation CSU
team & resolved the Punches.
* Performed Partial stroke tests for ESV & EDV valves.
* Checking of Radar level transmitters & gamma ray transmitters.
* Done calibration of interface level measurement displacer type during start-up.
* Performed corrective maintenance during Plant-start-up.
* Authorized as receiver for Permit to work.
* Generated SMP (Standard Maintenance procedures) for different instruments.
* Involved for SPIR (Spare part interchnageability Record) review & inspection apart from same also co-o
rd inate with SAP p ersonnel’s for related queries from instrumentation & follow-up with vendors.
Highlights:
Appreciation awarded for the excellent work in CSU activity & drafting Control System& instrumentation
maintenance procedures.
Certified & awarded for achieving the Competency assessment as Control System & Instrumentation
Technician for Polypropylene Plant Maintenance.
ALMEER TECHNICIAL SERVICES CO. (Kuwait) March 08 – Mar 09
Senior Instrument TechnicianWorked as senior technician instrument for the Instrument Maintenance
Department of chevron joint operation KGOC & SAT Oil field area mainly for Main Gathering centre
leading with instrument technician & fitter crew where following jobs are performed.
Performed Preventive, predictive & Corrective maintenance for the different pneumatic & electronic Field
instruments Obtain work permit as per standard chevron norms for Maintenance related jobs.
Assist Production personnel for the start-up activities of heaters, Desolaters & shipping pumps
Proving of positive displacement flow meters and generates report for same.
Allying up with vendors of Rosemount Emerson Delta-v & Yokogawa CS1000 DCS for regular check up of
the system & Fault diagnoses
Perform Calibration of (AGAR) Energy Absorption Probes which controls oily-water discharge for
Desolaters
UTS KENTZ CO. LTD, UAE (Abu Dhabi) No v ’06 – Oct 07
Technician Instrument Grade- I
Joined as instrument technician grade1 for the construction activities of on-shore gas development
project III (GASCO)
 Managing shop calibration activities for different instruments of Rose-mount & Yokogawa make
(level, pressure, flow, capillary type L/T, temp- transmitters, indicators, and radar-guided L/T and
displacer level-transmitters for interface, stroke checking for control valves.)
 Handling standard instruments like Rosemount Emerson (375) & Yokogawa made hand-held
communicators, Druck made calibrators & loop simulators & Altek made process simulators.
 Conducting pre-commissioning and commissioning jobs for the remote transmitting unit (RTU),
SCADA for existing & new oil/injection wells with main client GASCO along-with vendor from Foxboro
Invensys.
 Managing shop-calibration activities as per ISO 9000 procedures of different instruments.
Highlights:
 Notably commissioned RTU of 35-40 wells which replaced old serck make to Foxboro make.
HEAVY WATER PROJECT,MAINTENANCE (PETRO- CHEMICALUNIT) Mar’8 6 – Oct’0 6
Department of Atomic Energy (Govt. of India)
Trad e sman Ins trume nt ‘G”
Joined Heavy water plant in year 1986 as trainee & continued till OCT.06 at different positions. During
this period I was engaged for Maintenance, construction, re-vamping, start-up and commissioning of new
project & existing.
 Operating various standard calibration equipments like Druck calibrator, Yokogawa & Fuji hand held
configurators, Potentiometer M/V source/ sink Leeds & Northup make & RTD testing kits.
 Replicating & testing plant interlock circuits where relay panel alterations are made.

4.  Testing various electronic & pneumatic loops such as Cascade control, 3 element boiler controls &
ratio loop for utilities.
 Allying up with vendors for installation, wiring & commissioning of P/C based data logger in control
room of M/s. Schneider, France made hardware consisting of SCADA software features, where
control panel instruments are assembled with RS-485 Modbus protocol.
 Commissioning activities of open architecture distributed control system having Schneider made I/O
modules & PLC, MTL barriers & software of M/s Altersys, Canada which includes scrutinizing digital
& analogue control loops including control logics.
 Handling calibration and stroke length adjustment for Samson made control valves.
 Attending to the emergencies during commissioning & start-up operation of plant activities.
 Generation of reports for the same as per standards.
 Troubleshooting the problems during plant operations & co-ordinating with process persons.
 Maintaining & calibrating pneumatic transmitters (blind & indicating) types of different make like
Hartman & Brown, Bristol, Taylor & Foxboro used for high pressure application as well as level
transmitters, float type & differential pressure type.
 Modelling convectional annunciation system with plant interlock circuits relay based.
 Carrying out commissioning related to the new front end water ammonia exchange process unit
which was coupled with existing plant & commissioning of all old pneumatic loops with electronic
loops for the existing control room.
 Handling commissioning of High pressure Gas Reciprocating Compressor.
 Commissioning of pc based Event sequence recorder Siemens make hardware and Win c.c. software
for monitoring plant analysis.
Highlights:
Promoted to next higher grade as EOP promotion case (Extra ordinary case for promotion interviewed by
committee of experts in related topics and then promoted.)
C OMSIP A L ‘A ’ A LI A LSTOM, B ahrain 12th A p r’0 1 –28 May’0 1
Technician instrument Performed shutdown jobs at Bahrain Petroleum Company .
 Calibrating & maintaining interface level measurements.
 Handling loop checking related to temperature measurement.
 Carrying out activities in round O’ clock shift duties for FCCU (Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit)
TRAINING
Apprentice Training with M/s Gujarat Alkalis &Chemicals Ltd; Apr’85 – Mar’86
Trainee Cat ii Heavy water plant (Department of Atomic Energy Government of India); Mar’86 – Mar’87
Successfully completed safe work permits SABIC training & passed with 96% of marks.
CSU (commissioning & start-up team member) for SABIC Propylene plant May-2010
Deputed for SIMENS PLC training course & completed the same April-10
Completed crash course training for Gama ray & radar transmitters from ENDRESS & HAUSER
Completed Training course for THI (Refrigeration screw compressor) from THI KOREA
Completed Training course for K_TRON for loss in weight feeders
Refresher Safety training from Eastern Bechtel Company in Dec-06 for 3 days
H.S.E induction, fall protection, confined space training. Safety training from Chevron Texaco Kuwait for
Job safety Analysis
Trained for HSE induction, work at height, sweet gas induction & PTW dated 09/2012 by Wood group
psn for Agip KCO.
Attended On job CompEx EEXI training Awareness at AGIP KCO by wood group psn before start-up
activities at gas plant.
Successfully completed sour gas HSE induction SCABA apparatus training 08/13
Certified for Basic H2S course approved by OPITO date 14/08/2013. Validity till 13/08/2015
Successfully passed Respirator Face Fit test validity Till 17/09/2014
EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS
Instrumentation Trade from Industrial Training Institute ( I.T.I) from Ministry Of Labour National Council for
Vocational Training in 1984
Class X TH from Gujarat Secondary Education Board in 1982.
Completed Diploma in instrumentation & Control from National Institute of Technology with A grade in
April2009.

5. COMPUTER PROFICIENCY: MS Office & Internet
PERSONAL VITAE
Date of birth : 25th September, 1965
Nationality : Indian
Languages : English, Hindi, Gujarati.
Skype id : Karguppi skype.com
Passport Details : G 5352336 valid till 12th novo. 2017 (12/11/2017)
Marital status : Married
Address : 73, Nandanvan Society, Behind Abhilasha Char Rasta, New Sama
Road, Baroda 390008
Availability : Notice period
Expected salary : As per company rules
* jerry.toy@hotmail.co.uk (Jerry toy) Senior instrument & control commissioning engineer
* gs01@xtra.co.nz (Graham Swain son) Instrument & control system engineer
* rajesh_k1965@yahoo.com Rajesh kadam +971505810234 Instrumentation Lead commissioning.
* dymmi@brd@hwbdae.org (Nasit G.D Instrument Head of Department +912652242671 Ext: 259
* letrud_c@yahoo.com ( Cameroon) Agip KCO
*kevin.os@live.com (Kevin AGIP Instrument & control Engineer.)
* gs01@xtra.co.nz(Graham Swain son)Instrument & control engineer