Srinivas Rayaprolu

Experience

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  Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

  Jan 1998 - Oct 2000

  Engineer Gas Turbine

  Design Engineer in Gas Turbine Engineering Department of BHEL– R.C.Puram, Hyderabad with the following Engineering activities. -Preparation of specifications, Engineering Drawings and Bill Of Materials -Issuing material/purchase requisitions and technical evaluations of the offers.-MSD items specification preparations.-Shop interface, deviation analysis and clearing Shop Non Conformations.

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  GE Power

  Oct 2000 - Apr 2024

  -Partnering with the Internal Teams and Customers on Gas Turbine technical issues .-Drive and lead product services issue resolution including root cause analysis with well-defined focus.-Influence and energize the internal and external stakeholders including customers, field and design engineering to drive specific technical resolution and corrective actions.-Provide engineering technical oversight to Customer Services and Field Services teams .-Prepare technical information letters and presentations to inform internal and external customers of major issue resolutions.-Support customer technical review meetings and presentation.-Support planned and unplanned (forced) outages. Show less -Technical risk management for GE's fleet of Gas Turbine power plant equipment in the region -Responsible for upholding product integrity by proactively identifying customer issues-investigating technical anomalies, providing technical assessments at both component and systems levels, and communicating technical solutions to customers.-Support Customer Technical meetings and present recommendations & technical solutions - Strategic fleet Top issues management through equipment inspections and modifications for risk mitigation.-Technical support for installation, operation and maintenance of the GE Gas Turbines during the commissioning phase to meet safety, quality, and timeliness goals-Supporting the customer on unplanned /forced outages -Program management of product improvements for installed equipment in the region Show less As clearance engineer responsible for -Clearances of the field units,-Conversions, Modifications & Uprates of Gas turbines.-Site support for clearance modifications Involved in most of the F class compressor issue resolution; E/B class GT Uprates. These machines include those GE design machines supplied by Kvaerner energy, Alstom, BHEL, and Hitachi etc. Worked successfully with requisition engineers, component engineers, customer site and draftsmen in completing the CM&U ‘s on time. Completely owned gas turbine clearances for more than 90% of CM&U’s. Improved the quality of clearance diagrams and reduced rework on drawings to less than 3%, by developing a checklists with best practices for clearances. Show less The work involved the predictive analysis, Root cause analysis (RCA), lifing analysis and cost reduction works of gas turbine components, for both NPI & existing fleet of Gas TurbineGas Turbine Testing Sept 2005 :One of the new machines in 40-50 MW range has been extensively tested in the customer site in Turkey. One of three team members from GT Compressor team to support the aeromechanics validation of compressor Global Assignment to Greenville in Compressor technology and production support engineering. This was one of the peak years of GT demand bubble. Worked as production support engineering for GT rotors manufacturing area in the disposition of day-to-day shop deviations and repairs for Greenville shop, and Belfort .. Acquired good understanding of Gas turbines design and manufacturing processes Show less

  • Senior Engineer -Fleet Management

    Aug 2021 - Apr 2024

  • Technical Leader-Fleet Management ( Middle East -North Africa -South Asia) )

    May 2018 - Aug 2021

  • Technical Leader- Global Fleet Management

    Oct 2014 - May 2018

  • Lead Engineering Product Application Specialist

    Jun 2010 - Oct 2014

  • Product Services Engineer- GE Jenbacher Gas Engines

    Jun 2010 - Aug 2011

  • Technical Leader -Systems Integration

    Aug 2007 - Jun 2010

  • Lead Engineer -Gas Turbine Clearances

    Nov 2005 - Aug 2007

  • Lead Engineer- Gas Turbine Compressor Technology

    Oct 2000 - Nov 2005
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  GE Vernova

  Apr 2024 - now

  Senior Engineer - Fleet Managerment