VINU KUMAR PILLAI - MBA

Experience

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  Seaspan Corporation

  Dec 2011 - Nov 2018

  • Achieved Consistent impact on productivity improvements, cost savings, in large-scale drydock projects with complicated engineering modification and repair projects where coordination of sourcing of spares, service done successfully.• Contract and Negotiations done on the dry-dock repair cost of above 2 million on various projects. • Regular overseas travel of up to 6 month in a year to coordinate various departmental activities and operational requirement in various countries like China, Singapore, Hamburg, EU, India, US. • Handled total annual budget of more than 12 Million USD.• Unique talent for communicating on business and technology issues, linking activities/needs of business to people and possessing strong analysis, creative problem-solving diplomacy, and cohesive leadership skills.• Created boardroom multimedia presentations including video and text- sync'd depositions for enhanced understanding.• Actively involved in developing new process for employee evaluation which resulted in marked performance improvements.• Achieved operations expense saving by carefully negotiating the cost of spare/ store and service offered by vendors through efficient negotiations.• Varified data integrity and accuracy of the budget forecast to align the priorities as per the availability of budget.• Produced ad hoc reports and documents for senior team members including Operations VP.• Analyzed departmental documents for appropriate distribution and filing.• Worked directly with various government departments including Marine departments of HK, Singapore, USCG and MSA, along with various clients and charters CMACGM, MSC, MAERSK, COSCON to achieve safe, economical and reliable vessel operation. Show less • Lead team of 15 engineering and professionals focused on the Vessel engineering operations.• Determined necessary steps to bring the operation of the vessel into compliance with various maritime / MARPOL rules and company procedures.• Established procedures for corrective and preventative maintenance.• Optimized performance of facility machinery through calibration and repairs.• Designed strategic plan for component development practices to support future projects while following up on the warranty claim on the of new build ship projects. • Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data, reports and access.• Aligned office departments and increased inter-department communication and data sharing.• Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical objects.• Developed work-flow charts and diagrams to ensure timely completion of work by shipyard production team as per ship delivery deadlines.• Monitors month-end reports sent from vessels on a timely basis • Takes on additional tasks such as analyze ships’ performance; guides and assist colleagues; performs ship inspections, conducts accidents investigations. Show less

  • Vessel Manager

    May 2018 - Nov 2018

  • SUPRINTENDENT

    Aug 2015 - Apr 2018

  • Chief Engineer

    Dec 2011 - Jul 2015
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  Anglo-Eastern

  Dec 2018 - Nov 2019

  Vessel Manager
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  Canada Steamship Lines, a division of the CSL Group Inc.

  Nov 2019 - now

  Project Manager and Chief Engineer