Sreenath Kulappura

I am an electrical engineer with 8.5 years of on-site experience in the construction, maintenance, and service industry in electrical projects in the UAE and in India.

I did MBA in project management to be able to lead big projects professionally.  I have done electrical design and drafting course to enhance my skills in electrical designing and solution proposal stages. 

Initially, I worked as electrical design engineer for commercial and high-rise buildings dealing with electrical device selection and then worked as Junior projects engineer mainly for street lights and  other electrical installation jobs. 

For the last 7 years, I have been working for Somfy Group as a technical  engineer dealing with technical solution proposals, on-site training, execution and completion of projects on time, supervision of installations, technical presentations to techncians and clients , aftersales service, On-call support for installers and partners and upselling of Somfy solutions in the market to increase revenue. 

Somfy Gulf                                                                                                                                                       Dubai, UAE     

Technical project engineer for smart motors (ELV and LV) and access controls.                              July 2017 - Present                                                                   

• Project specification (Design & proposal), after-sales service and installation support of motors and controllers
• Trained and developed 300 technicians/supervisors to handle our products in an expert level. 
• Reduced the warranty claim return by 25% by adherence to safety standards and on-site trainings/supervision.
• CAD drawings submittals, product presentations to clients and planned resources efficiently
• Handed over 80+ projects over the years before deadline. 
• Commissioning of motors via KNX (ETS) and Somfy IB+ software
• Improved project sales with after sales market by 15 %

Kedar engineering                                                                                                                                           Dubai, UAE

Projects Engineer, facility management service for streetlights & garden lights                                March 2016 -June 2017 

• Executed PPM, reactive maintenance and Project documentation as per SLA. 
• Successful Fault diagnosis, Risk management, NOC approvals and guidance to the technical team was achieved. 
• Cable fault locator and solar-powered streetlight installation were expertized and implemented. 
• Managed a team of 13 employees for variable jobs as well and increased profit by 20% 
• Estimated and won projects with 95% efficiency on time and resources.

Associated agencies                                                                                                                                         Kerala, India

Site supervisor for construction projects                                                                                                       May 2015 - Feb 2016

Electrical design, site supervision for construction projects                                                                    

• Load estimation, load balancing, transformer design, circuit breakers and DG sets, cable sizing. 
• Wiring, DB dressing, earth pits and lighting arrestors as per NEC, IEC. 
• Daily Site inspections, procurement, client review meetings  and timely report submittals 
• Preparing SL diagrams, Dialux calculations, and related drafting (AutoCAD) Control and power wiring. 
• Testing and commissioning of MDB & SMDB 

Master’s in project management (MBA)       

Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering