Mohamed Thalha - Senior MES Consultant IT Transition consultant for Steel and Stainless steel majors across Europe / Americas

1. RESUME
1
EXPERTISE SUMMARY:-
Total 9.4 Years of experience in Industrial Automation / MES IT.
Extensive IT/Software expertise in Manufacturing domain
Currently as MES consultant for Finnish Stainless Steel major
Involving in major service sales and major project transition for
Manufacturing legacy IT applications
Technically managed a large team and transitioned IT Production
support for a huge support project
Competency trainings / Training course developments / Domain
trainings & building technical teams with core competence
Involving in multiple RFP’s , Pre-sales activities, New opportunity
identification, Budgeting, Resourcing, trainings.
Excellent working knowledge in Aspentech IP21 / OSI Soft PI /
Honeywell PHD and ODH (Matrikon OPC for Data Historian)
Supported major products of Honeywell / Matrikon as single point of
contact from Honeywell for APAC / EMEA and NA
Extensive customer facing experience for Requirement Analysis, Voice
of Customer capturing (VoC), Algorithm development.
Extensive work experience in SW Product life cycle right from creating
requirements till supporting warranty period
Expertise in creating complex test bed and demo setup & presentation
for sales & marketing using virtualization (ESXi)
Petrochemical / Oil & gas manufacturing site experience in UK / Asia
Interacting between end customers , Development & test team ,
Marketing and management team for successful delivery
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified / Matrikon OPC Certified
Supported project teams on multiple site implementations across the
globe
SKILLSET SUMMARY:-
Advance Applications of
Honeywell/Matrikon
Matrikon Operational Insight, ISIS – Integrated
SubSurface Information System(BP sites), WPM –
Well Performance Monitoring (Saudi
Petrochemicals), Alarm Management, Honeywell
Intuition Executive (ERP systems)
Matrikon OPC MatrikonOPC servers for GCOM, IP21, Tunneller,
Funnel, Security Gateway, Triconex, SCADA
Modbus, OPC UA Architecture, ODH and PHD
(Historian), OSI SOFT PI
MES Honeywell MES, OptiVISION (Pulp & Paper)
Site Implementation Matrikon OI in Samsung Total Petrochemicals
Certifications Six Sigma Green Belt, ITIL V3 Foundation,
Matrikon OPC Level 1 , 2 & 3
Awards & Recognitions 8 Spot awards, 2 Team Excellence awards, 1
partner award , 1 Feather-in-my-cap award
Total Experience: - 9.5 Years
Current Employer: - Wipro Technologies
Current Work Location: - Bangalore, India
Current Job Title: Senior MES Consultant –
Smart Manufacturing & Hi-Tech
Key Skills: Stainless Steel, Smart
Manufacturing, Matrikon Operational
Insight, Alarm Manager, CPM, Well
Performance Monitor, Oil & Gas & Energy,
Matrikon OPC , OSI Soft PI, Honeywell PHD,
Honeywell Intuition Executive, OPC Data
Historian, MES (OptiVISION) , Requirement
Analysis, System Engineering, Software
Testing, QA, Team management, SQL,
Customer Consultation, Production server,
Critical Response Team, ITIL, Projects / Site
Implementation, Supported 100+ Oil & Gas
customers
Nationality: - Indian
Educational Attainment: - Bachelor of
Engineering
Education / Discipline: - Electronics and
Communication
Age:-32 Sex: - Male
Date of Birth: - 02nd October 1983
Passport No: - L9676339
Father’s Name: - Dr.Peer Mohamed
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Tamil
and Arabic (Beginner)
LinkedIn - in.linkedin.com/in/mthalha/
Skype- thalha_skype
MOHAMED THALHA
mthalha@gmail.com
+91 – 9108952792

2. CURRICULUM SUMMARY:-
Sl No: Qualification Institution / University Year of Passing Percentage
1
BE – Electronics & Communication
Engineering
Anna University, Chennai May 2005 70.12
2 Higher Secondary Certificate Rose Mary Matric HSS April 2001 78.91
3 Secondary School Leaving Certificate Rose Mary Matric HSS April 1999 83
WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:-
Sl No: Organization Designation From To
1 Wipro Technologies Business Analyst May 2014 Till Date
2 Honeywell Technologies Product Consultant Feb 2008 May 2014
3 Wipro Technologies Project Engineer Jun 2006 Feb 2008
4 Tech Mahindra Technical Associate Jan 2006 Mar 2006
PROJECT DETAILS:-
Project # 6
Title Senior MES Consultant – Smart Manufacturing & Hi-Tech
Products Stainless Steel Industry, Tornio – Finland. Major migration project
Technology Consultation, Transition project
Duration June 2014 – Till Date
Client Stainless Steel Industry – Espoo, Finland
Responsibilities 1. Technically lead a team of about 40 members for a major migration project
2. Support of 15 critical applications on 24 x 5 model
3. Co-ordinate between Onshore & Offshore team for a smooth transition
4. Ensure Knowledge Transition between contractors (of customer) & Wipro happens
5. Involve in tracking and audit
6. Setting up access , development environment and support model for the entire team
7. Team manager for the entire team handling.
Achievements 1. KT (Knowledge Transition) lead for Finland Tornio applications
2. Co-ordinate between different customer locations (Sweden, Germany & Finland)
3. Ensuring a smooth support project transition from contractors to Wipro Technologies

3. Project # 5
Title Product Consultant – Industrial Automation
Products Operational Insight, Integrated Subsurface Information System, Intuition Executive
Technology Matrikon Products, OPC, DCS
Duration April 2012 – May 2014
Client British Petroleum, Petrofac, Statoil, Saudi Aramco, Reliance (200+ customers)
Tools Parature, Siebel, VM Ware, VoC & Requirement management template, System Engineering
Responsibilities 1. Support customer in production / plant issues by answering to calls / tickets
2. Support internal project / site teams for any critical site issues that stops production
3. Create a virtual production environment locally to simulate the site environment
4. Capture VoC , Requirements capture and analysis; build RQUP, Create System Architecture and co-
ordinate with the project and development teams.
5. Prepare demo and present it to internal sales / marketing teams across all Honeywell locations, to
external channel partners who sell Honeywell products
6. Manage the product licenses and create SLAs for different customers
7. Building team in Oil & Gas domain competency
Achievements 1. The demo created by me for major Honeywell products are used to present in major events like
HUG (Honeywell Users Group) and to end customers
2. Started as a consultant for one product and managed to handle 4 products in short span
3. Handling the customer of all poles (EMEA / NA and APAC) and has raised to CRT (Critical Response
Team) in short span
4. Travelled to Aberdeen, UK to handle customer issues based In North sea exploration. Upgrading
Samsung Total Petrochemical site in Seoul in 2014
5. As a single resource working with multiple budget and having good PVI (Partner Value Index)
Project # 4
Title QA Lead – Matrikon OPC
Products Aspentech IP21, Modbus, SCADA, Funnel, Security Gateway, ODH, Triconex
Technology OPC Foundation
Duration April 2011 – April 2012
Client BASF, Mitsubishi, Samsung Total, Kuopio (100+ OPC customers)
Tools Test Manager, OPC servers, OSI PI, Honeywell PHD, Aspentech
Responsibilities 1. Manage the Test lab for the OPC testing team and technically lead the other QA resources
2. Involving in requirement capture for OPC servers and create SRS and test cases to accomplish it
3. Conduct performance and regression testing to validate the OPC servers in virtual production
environment
Achievements 1. As soon as Honeywell acquired Matrikon, was identified as 1 among the 12 engineers to work on
Matrikon
2. Leading the 3 member test team and ensured Quality Assurance at its best
3. Achieved 100% audit scores during most of the OPC product releases

4. Project # 3
Title Senior Engineer – MES
Products Honeywell OptiVISION, Actual Costing System, Raw Material Management
Technology Honeywell MES , Pulp & Paper Industrial Automation
Duration June 2009 – April 2011
Client Kabel (Germany), Kuopio (Finland), American Papers, ITC papers
Responsibilities 1. Test the Honeywell OptiVISION product that is added up with new features for different customers
2. Create new requirements as per customer demand, create test cases and automate the regression
test cases using Test Partner or AutoIT tool
3. Work with the development and project teams (Cincinnati) in creating Trim Optimizer , Quality
Optimizer solutions for Pulp & Paper industry automation
4. Create huge volume Oracle DB and replicate the exact production environment in lab
Achievements 1. OptiVISION is the pioneer product of Honeywell in Pulp & Paper Industry with 20+ years of existence
with huge customer base. Core Industrial Automation domain expertise through this project
2. Created an application called as Actual Costing System where I worked on complex Algorithm on
calculations which was well appreciated
3. Worked on the new ERP module call RMM (Raw Material Management) from scratch
Project # 2
Title Engineer – Advanced Vehicle Electronics
Products Algorithm development, Plug-in development, VC++ (COM)
Technology ADTF , Auto Pilot, CANalyzer, ModBUS, Sensors & Radars
Duration February 2008 – June 2009
Client Audi (Germany), GM (US)
Responsibilities 1. Understand Honeywell’s expertise in Avionics industry and adapt it to the Automotive industry (new
domain)
2. Build expertise in Advanced Vehicle Electronics and create business opportunities
3. Involved in Sensor Fusion plug-in development which aggregates all sensor inputs.
4. Involved in CAN Decoder plug-in development which converts raw CAN inputs to meaningful
engineering values
5. Created a Driver Assistance safety system using ADTF technology – Automotive Data and Time
Triggered Framework
Achievements 1. I was identified as a candidate to this R&D team called BIC (Business Innovation Centre) of Honeywell
2. Awarded for the Algorithm development / product development for the Automotive safety system
3. Got Six sigma green belt certified for project on managing resource effectively in R&D thereby
managing positive revenue
4. Conducted seminars on Alternate fuel (Hybrid) for automobile technology
Project # 1
Title QA Engineer – Avionics
Products FEM, AIP, Chimes, WWG Modules of PAX/Freighter Aircrafts
Technology RTTL, DOORS, Citrix, Clear Case, Clear Quest, FAA Certification, DO-178B
Duration June 2006 – Feb 2008

5. Client Airbus (Buxtehude)
Responsibilities 1. Understand the PTS (Purchaser Technical Specification) document from Airbus and create
Requirement document - SRS from it and then SRD & Test requirements – System Engineering
2. Manage the requirements in DOORS for certification process
3. Performed SWI / HSI (Hardware Software Integration) testing
4. Create and manage Aeroplane Test rig which in local lab which exactly replicate the flight simulator
5. Develop RTTL scripts and execute through Suse Linux environment in simulators in Airbus
Achievements 1. Even as a fresh engineer was given the major responsibility of writing requirement for Avionics
software
2. Have worked in Level B (High Severity) Avionics software module call FEM (Fire Extinguishing
Monitoring) involving complex algorithm
3. Was sponsored by employer for the DO-178B training
4. Have worked on the FAA certification for Airbus A380
Project Academic Project
Title Secure Wireless Communication
Products FM wireless communication, TEA, RSA, VLSI
Technology Dual Encryption / Decryption, VHDL microprocessor chip
Duration Feb 2005 – April 2005
Summary Transmit data using wireless technology by encrypting twice. Firstly, using the Tiny Encryption
Algorithm and then again encrypt the already encrypted data using RSA Algorithm.
Send this encrypted data over FM communication and receive it and decrypt using the same
algorithms. The Algorithms are embedded in VHDL chip using VLSI technology
Achievements 1. Lead the team in this academic project
2. Well appreciated for the secure wireless communication project as it can be used in military
region (FM short wave)
3. It takes many years even for the super speed computing processors to decrypt this algorithm