Vijaya Bhaskar Kuppa

Senior Power Electronics Engineer at Smart Wire Grid, Inc.

San Francisco Bay Area

About

A professional Electrical & Electronics R&D Engineer / Nuclear Research Scientist, with more than 25 years of working expertise in the design, development, installation, commissioning, servicing, testing, verification and validation of high technology based Industrial Power Projects / Products and Control & Instrumentation systems with a passion for profession, technology, academics, business and industrial units Specialties: Product Engineering, New Power product design and developments, AC/DC Motor controllers, Converters & Inverters design and developments, Power controllers design, Simulation, Modeling and Analysis studies, Reliability engineering and Field failure analysis Research and Development of Power engineering products Expertise: Specialized in Renewables and Industry; Power Electronics; Power Engineering; Control & Instrumentation Systems; High Voltage Engineering and any Consultancy to Industry

Experience

  • Senior Power Electronics Engineer at Smart Wire Grid, Inc.
    Apr 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Design, development, testing, R&D and technical consultancy on Smart Grid technology based active (DSSCs) Distributed Static Series Compensators and passive devices/Distributed Series Reactors (DSRs) employed as Reactive Power Compensators(VARs), for the Transmission and distribution lines and Power systems. Currently carrying out research and development of Prototypes on product design & developments for Active devices for distributed reactive power compensation on Transmission lines and Power systems, at the R&D facility in the filed of Power electronics technology. Looking after the operations, maintenance, safety and testing aspects of AC High current Test systems meant for testing the company's power products particularly DSRs, in the current range of 2500Amps. AC at 40V AC, 60Hz. Single Phase supply. Current responsibilities and duties of the assignment include design reviews, assessments, components selection and screening, interaction & coordination with customers and manufacturing facilities & production, looking after product specifications,test specifications & test reports and reviews, reliability & safety issues of Power products & components, Quality and Reliability related issues, testing of the DSRs on High Current AC Test systems and providing engineering support for engineering qualification of high current AC test systems & test benches for the testing of DSRs, Simulation and Modeling of Reactive Power Compensator systems, Providing the Instrumentation & Test systems support requirements for the DSR testing and measurements, technical interaction & coordination with vendors and companies personnel, training & coordinating with the in-house personnel on the related DSR based systems etc.,

  • Electrical Validation & Test Engineer at Gamesa
    Apr 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Validation & testing of Power products [ WT Generator, Converters and Power Transformer ] for the Spain based Wind Turbines Manufacturing company ....... Renewable energy industry in U.S.A Preparation of Validation requirements and Acceptance Criteria for the Electrical/Electronics components, systems & testing of the Wind energy based turbines and electrical sub-systems as per the National & International standards, IEC & IEEE and wind turbine standards Preparation of Risk analysis sheets for main electrical components and sub-systems of the Wind turbine for off-shore application Co-ordination with external manufacturers and suppliers Co-ordination with design teams and mentoring on electrical systems testing and components testing Preparation of Test Specifications, Test reports, acceptance criteria for the electrical & electronics components and systems of the wind turbine Preparation of Validation score cards and reports for the electrical components and systems

  • Research Scientist at Guina Research & Developments Pty.Ltd., Gold Coast, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
    Nov 2009 - Jul 2010 · 9 mos

    Design and develop high power switch mode DC Choppers and DC-DC converters for the Superconducting Coil applications, with fast response times of the order of few m.seconds.

  • Technical Support Officer at SunPower Australia Pty.Ltd., Perth, AUSTRALIA
    Jul 2008 - Nov 2008 · 5 mos

    Techncal Supportive role to Renewable Energy Industry in Australia as a Renewable Energy Consultant to the Solar Industry throughout Australia

  • Technical Support Officer at Solar Sales Pty.Ltd., Perth, AUSTRALIA
    Mar 2008 - Jul 2008 · 5 mos

    Solar Sales Pty Ltd. Perth Providing technical support, advice and assistance wherever necessary to the Sales Unit of the Company so as to facilitate the growth as per the goals and Objectives with a set direction to fit into a business model Building relationships with the company's accounts and its customers Providing technical assistance to the customers on products and knowledge Representing Solar Sales at Industry level and events as required Work through technical queries and teething issues from Customers