Karthik Ramu

Track lead and IMOMS support engineer for Aramco Corporate IMOMS applications.

• Supporting Sphera Essential application in daily/monthly GHG & CAP emission monitoring, source process unit configuration, parameter & equation configuration, PI tag and PI interface configurations for emission sources in PI server, PI tag mapping in Sphera Essential, process data job scheduling , emission production schedule configuration, user access, analyzing the date gaps & resolving the data issues and performing the data backfilling.
• Supporting data validation and reconciliation tool Belsim Vali by creating and modifying application PFDs, tuning the mass balance models, resolving reconciliation issues, providing user access and resolving integration issues.
• Aveva PI system administrator for a small PI historian with 8k tags and 20+ PI2PI interfaces and 3 RDBMS interfaces. This PI ecosystem is used for Sphera Essential source data storage and processing.
• Supporting Honeywell’s DOS applications such as LogBook, Operations Monitoring, Task, Instructions, Limit Repository, training operators and site users in DOS.

• Worked as Process Lead for the digitalization of Sustainability and SEEC KPIs using PI AF and Power BI.
• As a lead involved in driving the workshops, design sessions understanding the requirement, preparing the design document, completing the UAT and bringing the system to go live.
• Involved in the PI AF Asset hierarchy configuration and Analysis configuration for calculating the Sustainability and SEEC KPIs in PI AF and co coordinating with Power BI consultants in visualizing the KPIs in the dashboards.

• Primary implementer for OT/IT integration project which involves integrating OT systems with ERP systems via IP21 historian.
• Involved in requirements gathering, workshops, detailed design document preparation.
• Implemented and licensed 8 IP21 servers for 8 sites
  Established tunneling between OPC servers and IP21 servers by using both Matrikon OPC tunneller and hybrid solution of Kepware/ Matrikon OPC tunneller for encrypting the data flow and bypassing the DCOM.
• Used IP21 Replication Redirector Configuration to encrypt the data flow between plant server and central IP21 servers.
• Installed 9 CIM-IO interfaces for 8 sites, connecting the CIM-IO servers with CIM-IO clients.
• IP21 tag configurations for all of the respective OTs in IP21 historian.
• Conducted successful FATs for all 8 sites

• As Data Validation and reconciliation consultant supporting Belsim Vali RMB application by creating and modifying application PFDs, creating production reports, resolving reconciliation issues.
• Prepared reconciliation excel reports such as production accounting, consumption details using vlookup functionality.
• Involved in fine tuning the DVR mass balance model thus bringing the better simulation data quality.

• As OSISOFT PI consultant involved in support activities such as PI system administration, tag creation, tag updates, user access, Process book configurations, tag backfilling, PI datalink report generation and resolving issues.

• Responsible for requirements gathering of client’s bespoke chemical injection management application implementation for upstream sites.
• Supported Honeywell’s ProcessNet application with screen development, trend configuration and alerts creation
  Involved in implementation/UAT/FAT/Go live of 150 ProcessNet chemical injections screens for client’s various upstream sites.
• Responsible for establishing the PI connection between chemical management suite and PI servers via PI SDK.
• Created multiple critical chemical injection alerts based out of ProcessNet application for chemical Management application.