5-12-55/2A,                               Dr.N.V.SRINIVASA RAO                                                          

Mangapuram, Meerpet                                                                                   

MOULA ALI,

HYDERABAD-500040

Telangana, India.

Cell: +919550752255

E-Mail: drnvsrao1956@gmail.com

PROFILE SUMMARY

A well qualified and rich experienced professional having more than 33 years of experience in explosive industry in manufacture, quality control, R&D and safety.  Carried our R&D works on various high energy materials and collaborated with various defense labs for development. I have Presented papers in national and international seminars.  I have teaching experience and published more than 40 papers. 3 persons obtained Ph.D under my guidance.

EDUCATION

Ø  M.Sc. Ph.D (Chemistry) from Andhra University;

Ø  A.M.I.I. Ch.E; from Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Ø  PG Diploma in Business Management

EXPERIENCE

·         Worked in Explosives and accessories manufacturing companies, worked in Godavari Explosives Limited and Premier Explosives Limited in different levels starting from Manager (QC) to Director (Operations). As operations in charge, looked after all functions of operations including safety, quality, R&D, production and general administration.

·         Premier Explosives Limited is a member of Safex International. Was the contact person for safex.

·         After working for more than 30 years, recently resigned from M/S PEL and started consultancy for various explosives manufacturing units in the areas of Safety, quality and Production. With my rich experience in explosives I want to contribute further for the growth of explosive manufacturing with safe practices to avoid accidents. I want to be a member of Safex to be in touch with all developments that are taking place around the globe and contribute a little with my experience to eliminate hazards in these areas.  

·         Experience Details: Aug 1983  to   Jan 1986.: 

·         Worked as Chief Chemist with M/S Eastern Electro manganese Pvt.Ltd, Visakhapatnam.  I worked in this company as laboratory in charge and process development in charge. Established process in collaboration with Andhra University at pilot plant scale. Also established at plant level.

·         Feb 1986 to Feb 1988.:

·         Worked as “Plant Manager”  with M/S Calcium Products,Hindupur. Worked as plant in charge. Responsible for production, quality control and general administration.  As a profit centre head managing the factory as per the budget, keeping the production cost as per budget, quality of the product and industrial relations maintenance were the main responsibilities. Production Manager, Lab in charge and admn.officer were reporting to me and I was reporting to Managing Partner.

·         Feb1988 to Aug 1995.: 

·         Worked with M/S Premier Explosives Limited, Hyderbad in different capacities.

·         Feb1988 to Apl 1991.:  Manager (QC)  Responsible for quality control.

·         Apl 1991 to Mar 1994.

·         Production Manager, Responsible for production, QC, Safety and Maintenance. In addition to these I used to guide people in R&D also.

·         Completely responsible for plant management. Meeting budget targets, keeping the production cost as agreed and making the product available as per the requirement of marketing. Production manager, maintenance manager, qc manager and safety manager were reporting to me and I was reporting to Works Manager.

·         Apl 1994 to March 1995.

·         Works Manager.  In charge of all plant operations including inventory, IR and General Admn.  Reporting to Managing Director.

·         Apl 1995 to Aug 1997. 

·         Plant Manager with M/S Pennar Chemicals Ltd., Hyderabad. Established the process and brought the unit to commercial production level. Reporting to Managing Director. All departmental heads are reporting to me.

·         Aug 1997 to Sept 2016   :   With M/S Premier Explosives Limited, Hyderabad as detailed below.

·         Aug 1997 to April 2000. General Manager. Reporting to Managing Director. Responsible for all operations of the unit working. As a profit centre head showing the projected profit was the main function. All departmental heads were reporting to me. Additionally I was heading the R&D of the company.

·         April 2000 to Aug 2005.:  Vice President. In addition to the responsibility of the unit posted and R&D, looked after the out sourcing activities of the organization at different places.  We are managing three units under government sector under operation and maintenance contract. Providing the required manpower and maintaining the production levels as required by the department are the important aspects in this.

·         Aug 2005 to April 2009:  President. Responsibilities are same as that of Vice president.

·         May 2009 to Sept 2016.:  Director (Production).

·         Responsible for the total companies production and service activities. All unit heads and service contract heads will be reporting to me. I will be reporting to Board of Directors of the Company. Maintain the production as per the agreed budget with accepted production cost is the core responsibility. Managing multilocational activities of the company within the agreed budget without any IR & HR problems is my main responsibility.

·         Sept 2016 to Date.

·         Consultant. Undertaking consultancy works with various explosive and chemical industries.

·         I have teaching experience also. I am a guest faculty at University of Gulbarga and Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune.

Achievements

Ø  Nickel Hydrazine Nitrate (NHN) was developed at commercial scale. Detonators of all types are developed using NHN in place of ASA. Patent for this technology is applied and awaited approval. NHN is a very safe primary explosive.  This technology was transferred to Austin Detonators, USA. After introducing this product there are no incidents in handling of the product for the last 4 years. I have published a note on this product in Safex news letter. 

Ø  During my career with PEL, best safety practices were maintained and obtained Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board award for best safe practices consecutively for 4 years.

Ø  A system of internal training on safe handling of explosives was established. Each and Every employee of the Organization has to undergo this training at least for a day in a year.

Ø  A system of internal safety audit was introduced to know the drawbacks in the operations and required actions were being taken within the acceptable time frame.

Ø  Expertise in managing multiproduct manufacture and multilocational operations.

Ø  Published more than 40 papers in various national and international journals and seminars.

Ø  Attended a seminar organized by IGUS at Japan and presented a case study on one of the accidents occurred in an explosive manufacturing plant in India in association with Safex International.

Ø  Presented two case studies on accident investigation at seminars conducted by Safex.

Ø  Attended and presented a paper on Safety in Explosive and Pyrotechnic manufacture at a seminar organized by IPS, at Colorado, USA.

Ø  Was a technical committee member in Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials and also published a paper on safe manufacturing practices in explosive manufacture.

Ø  Organized two seminars in association with Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization (PESO), Government of India, Hyderabad office. Was an editorial board member for these seminars and Presented papers in these seminars.

Ø  Was a technical and paper screening committee member for the two international seminars organized by PESO, India in association with Explosive Manufacturers welfare association, India.  Presented two papers in these seminars.

Ø  Was an Executive Committee Member in National Safety Council, AP Chapter,Hyderabad.  Three training programs were conducted for the executives working in various explosive manufacturing units in collaboration with National Safety council and Department of Factories, AP. Delivered lectures in these programs on importance of safety in manufacturing.

Ø  Attended Workshops conducted by Andhra University; Gulbarga University, Nanded University, and Vijay nagar College of Technology as Resource person and delivered lectures on High Energy Materials and importance of safety in handling these products.

Ø  Attended training programs organized by Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune India, and delivered a lecture on explosives. Participants of this program   were officers from various defense organizations of India.

Ø  Organized a National Seminar in association with Gulbarga University, Gulbarga on High Energy Materials and delivered a lecture.

Ø  I was an authorized research guide in Gulbarga University and 3 students obtained their Ph.D., under my guidance.

Ø  Connect it is a institution offering a diploma in industrial safety to engineers. As a guest lecturer here delivered lecture on safety aspects in hazardous material  and explosive handling.

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC BODIES & COMMITTES

a)         Member;          B.O.S; DIAT; Pune

b)         Member;          B.O.S; Gulbarga University; Gulbarga

c)         Member;          B.O.E;             -do-

d)         Member;          IMC; ITI; Dindi

e)         Member;          T.E.C. A.P. Pollution Control Board; Khammam Dist. A.P.

f)          Member;          District crises management Committee, Nalgonda Dist. A.P.

g)         Member           Governing Body; High Energy Materials Society of India; Pune

h)         Member;          Central Disaster Management group; Ministry of Environment

                                    & Forest; Govt. of India

i)          Adjudicator;     Ph.D. Thesis; Andhra University

j)          Fellow; Institute of Chemists (India)

k)         Member;          Project Evaluation Committee; EMR group; HEMRL; Pune

l)          Member;          Society for quality and reliability

m)        Member:          Executive committee, National Safety Council, AP Chapter,

             n)         Member          B O S, Dept. of  Engg.Chemistry,Andhra University, Vizag

TRAINING PROGRAMMES ATTENDED

a)      Administration for non administrative executives; Academic  Staff College of India; Hyderabad

b)      Production Management; NISIET; Hyderabad

c)      Hazardous waste Management; EFTRI; Hyderabad

d)     Six Sigma Champion Training; JNTU; Hyderabad

e)      Quality Circles; QCFI; Hyderabad

f)       Team building; Communication skills & Interpersonal relations

COUNTRIES VISITED

a)      Austin

b)      Amsterdam

c)      China

d)     Dubai

e)      Korea

f)       Singapore

g)      Thailand

h)      Turkey

i)        USA

j)        Japan

Date of Birth:  03.01.1956

R&D Expertise

Almost from the last 33 years; I participated actively in various research and development activities in High Energy Materials in M/s Premier Explosives Ltd., Hyderabad.

As a Head of operations and R&D a very important role was played in various development programs.  The following are the projects carried out.

a)         NHN manufacture at plant level.

b)         CL-20 pilot plant production

c)         HNS-IV manufacture

d)         Microcrystalline PETN

e)         RDX / HMX manufacture

f)         CR pilot plant production

Associated with ASL; DRDL; ARDE; TBRL; VSSC; SHAR; HEMRL in development.

The following are the special devices developed.

a)         Explosive transfer line for CSS

b)         Non aluminized propellant

c)         Blazer Unit

d)         Agni Igniters

e)         Other type of components for various defense units as a part of indigenization.

f)          Solid propellants

The following are the awards obtained for R&D activity of PEL.

a)         FAPCCI; Best R&D effort award for premier green safe detonator

b)         AIMO; APSC; Best R&D award for Rock split

c)         Best Technology absorption award from DRDO

d)         Industry appreciation award from NSTL.

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