GEO-TECHNOLOGIST / GEOLOGIST / GEO-SCIENTIST (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bombay)

RAKESH RAGHAVAN
Contact: +91-9393781000, 9603860991; Email: ragi_raghavan@yahoo.com, ragi25@gmail.com
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GEO-TECHNOLOGIST / GEOLOGIST / GEO-SCIENTIST
Seeking challenging assignments across the industry

PROFILE

• Well qualified and experienced Geoscientist with established technical abilities, high caliber and extensive experience of over 7 years in managing major phases of Geotechnical Investigation and Geophysical Survey for a wide range of clients requiring interactive, transactional designs for perspective tasks.
• Currently spearheading as Head -- Geotechnical Wing as Aster Infrastrucutre Pvt Ltd., Secunderabad -- Andhra Pradesh, India.
• Manage major phases of Geotechnical Investigation and Geophysical Survey for a wide range of clients requiring interactive, transactional designs for perspective tasks. Assess client needs and develop specifications; plan and implement projects from initial conceptual design, final delivery; and client approval.
• Excellent academic credentials; M.Sc. Tech -- Geotechnology from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Post Graduate Diploma In Geotechnology from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda.

IT Skills
• Geophysical Survey: Soil corrosion assessment, delineating shallow and deep aquifers up to 1000m , scanning the fracture zone, Earthing design, configuring the bed rock profile, identifying saline and fresh water interface etc.
• Geotechnical Investigation: Mud engineering, drilling and cementing, soil testing, rock testing, grout testing, and off shore/on shore drillings and soil exploration, soil classification-field/lab, Standard Penetration Test, Dynamic Cone Penetration Test etc.
• Remote Sensing: Lineaments mapping and rose diagrams, waste land utilization, digitization, mapping etc
• Geo Mechanics: Seismic studies, liquefaction and its remediation.
• Software: MS office, MS access, Auto CAD 2006, Inverse Slope Software, MapInfo, Corel draw X5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, A to Z watershed programme, Geo4, Win fence, Win log, Rock works 15
• Advanced Instrumentation
- Resistivity meter -models DDR-1, DDR-2 and DDR-3, Microprocessor based signal stacking SSR-MP-1, SSR-MP-L, SSR-MP-AT, SSR-MP-T-S, SSR-MP-AT-ME and SSR-MP-AT-DS.
- Well Logging equipments- spot logger -- model mini log 300M.
- Geotechnical equipments- Electronic Box Shear apparatus, Electronic Triaxial apparatus, Electronic consolidation apparatus, SPT, DCPT, Hilti core-cutting machine, Ultrasonic-NDT, UTM machine, Pycnometer, liquid limit device etc.
- Mapping equipments- Garmin GPS12X, Garmin GPSMAP60CS, Rhino 110
- Chemical equipments -- pH meter, Conductivity meter, TDS meter, Spectrophotometer, Dissolved Oxygen meter, Colorimeter, Turbidity meter
- Others -- Seismic timer, Water level indicators

NOTABLE ACCOLADES

• Handling a project with optimum time constraint and quality maintained. Making the work get done from higher officials to site labors.
• Handling government officials and executing the projects smoothly.
• Satisfying the needs of the customers and align the reports to their requirement.
• Conducted Electrical Resistivity survey up to 1000 M below ground level using advanced instruments.
• Delineation of Aquifers and bed rock using geophysical instruments.
• All geotechnical investigations for pipeline survey, construction, railways, highways etc.
• Soil bearing capacity calculations and recommendation for optimum foundation designs.
• Corrosion survey for the pipeline creating histograms and following German standards for pipeline projects.
• Expertise in making 3D presentation of the strata using Rock works software.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ASTER INFRASTRUCUTRE PVT LTD., Secunderabad -- Andhra Pradesh, India Since Jan'07
Head -- Geotechnical Wing
• Execute responsibilities towards Business Development and Expansion.
• Lead the efforts in quarterly budget preparation and presentation, analyzing profit and loss statement, analyzing annual performance and increment of my staff.
• Don the mantle of team leader and ensure to attend to all the malfunctioning and problematic areas of my team and quality control on every aspect of services.
• Analyzing all the geotechnical and geophysical investigation reports, calculations of soil bearing capacity and recommending foundation designs for tower as well as building constructions, delineating the deep aquifers and bed rock using electrical resistivity test, assessing all the field and lab testing, reporting as per the IS codes and meeting the client requirements to their satisfaction
• Knowledge of well-site geological operation, can work with huge amount of log data (gama ray, density, resistivity, nutron porosity etc.), drilling data (ROP, WOB, Caliper) & Well Prognosis from TVD data.
• Provide quantified geological scenarios for risk analysis, reservoir performance prediction and well engineering support.
• Responsible for the integration of production geology work content and quality in a given study, Field Development and drilling campaigns.

Projects executed:
• Completed geotechnical investigations for tower foundation designs and soil bearing capacity for more than 5000 telecom sites for the major customers such as Bharti Airtel, Idea, TATA Teleservices, Reliance infocomm, BSNL, Vodafone, American Towers, Aircel Towers, Essar Telecommunication, Unitech Towers, Tower Vision, Huwaei and others across India.
• Completed geotechnical investigations for Thermal projects across India.
• Executed geotechnical and geophysical investigations for road, port infrastructures and other construction purpose for HCC, Visakhapatnam port trust engineering department, R&B department from Nalgonda, Singapore city -- Hyderabad and others.

GLOBAL HYDROGEOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS, NEW DELHI, INDIA Feb'05-Jan'07
Project Manager
• Successfully headed various projects under consideration and to meet the objective within stipulated time period.
• Conducted various geotechnical investigations along with geophysical investigation for various projects and preparation of the reports using 3D software like rock works.
• Shouldered the onus of installation of piezometer into the tube well for earthquake studies, Drilling of tube wells using logging equipments

Projects executed:
• Recharging of stagnant wastewater in depression by locating possible aquifer using Vertical Electrical Sounding in Ramgarh area for Ramgarh Vikas Trust, Sikar, Rajasthan. Fluoride testing &design for fluoride removal treatment for the same area.
• Investigation of the factors viz. scientific design of the artificial recharge structures, characteristics of catchment area, rehabilitation of the existing defunct tubewells, etc. for the proper management of the ground water resources at south Delhi.
• Geological & Hydrogeological studies, Geophysical & Geotechnical Survey and preparation of 2D & 3D aquifer model to delineate the aquifer systems of Talkatora Garden, nr. President Estate, New Delhi.
• Inventory of sick tubewells and its rehabilitation process, Location and design of artificial recharge by studying drainage pattern of the central ridge located at Talkatora Garden, nr. President Estate, New Delhi.
• "Geophysical & Geotechnical Survey for determination of bedrock configuration and aquifer geometry in Delhi" under approval of Government of India, Ministry of science & technology, Department of science & Technology, NRDMS division.
• "Establishing relationship between Seismicity and behaviour of different aquifer systems in Delhi" under approval of Government of India, Ministry of science & technology, Department of science & Technology, Seismology division.
• "Sustainability study of ground water resources in watershed of Lower Berach River System, Part of Chittaurgarh District, Rajasthan, India" under approval of Government of India, Ministry of science & technology, Department of science & Technology, NRDMS division.
• "Geophysical & Geotechnical Survey for determination of bedrock configuration and aquifer geometry in Delhi" under approval of Government of India, Ministry of science & technology, Department of science & Technology, NRDMS division.
• "Establishing relationship between Seismicity and behavior of different aquifer systems in Delhi" under approval of Government of India, Ministry of science & technology, Department of science & Technology, Seismology division.
• "Identification of deep underground saline aquifers and assessment of potential for Carbon dioxide Sequestration in parts of NCR Delhi" under approval of Government of India, Ministry of science & technology, Department of science & Technology, STAC division.

GEO TEST HOUSE, BARODA - Gujarat, India
Project Manager Jan'04-Feb'05
• Conducted all types of Field & Laboratory Soil testing and Material testing as per I.S.Standards, visual Classification of Soil as per I.S Standards & visual identification of rock, grouting works, geophysical Investigation works (Electrical Resistivity works), core Logging, bore hole logging through core samples.
• Involved in the preparation of Scope of work for detailed geotechnical Investigation work.
• Conducted Pipeline Survey, Geotechnical Survey for various projects as well geophysical survey.

Projects executed:
• Successfully completed Soil Investigation and corrosion survey for 753 km cross country pipeline for BPCL from Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) to Bijwasan (New Delhi).
• Successfully completed Soil Investigation and corrosion survey for 245 km from bhatinda to nangal (Punjab) for GAIL pipeline.
• Soil Investigation and Electrical Resistivity survey for different application such as Pipe Line Survey, Earthing Designing, Water Exploration and different construction purpose.
• Geophysical Survey for delineating the deep aquifers for Ground
Water Development for different villages for Baruka Charitable Trust, Rajgarh, Churu, Rajasthan.

Senior Geo-technologist Jun'03-Jan'04
Projects executed:
• Satisfactorily completing the Dissertation "The study of corrosion of thesoil using Geophysical investigation" for the completion of M.Sc. Tech (Geotechnology).
• Successfully completed Soil Investigation and corrosion survey for 433 km from Medchal to Kakinada (Andrapradesh) for GAIL pipeline.
• Successfully completed Soil Investigation and corrosion survey for 245 km from bhatinda to nangal (Punjab) for GAIL pipeline.
• Successfully completed Soil Investigation and corrosion survey for 275 km pipeline at West Bengal for GAIL.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

Pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA-Finance) from ICFAI University, Hyderabad (correspondently)

M.Sc. Tech -- Geotechnology, 2004
Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda; Distinction (Stood 2nd topper)

Post Graduate Diploma in Geotechnology (Post B. Sc -- Geotechnology), 2002
Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda; 1st class (Stood 2nd topper)

Diploma in Information Technology (DIT), 2000
Manipal University; A grade

B.Sc. - Applied Chemistry, 2001
Sardar Patel University; 1st class

Academic Projects
• Satisfactorily covered the project "The study of sodium silicate and cement based grouts" for the Post B.Sc. - Geotechnology.
• Satisfactorily covered the project "Study of lineaments and mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS based Software" from ISRO Ahemadabad, for the M.Sc. Tech (Geotechnology).

Extra-curricular Accolades
• Submitted a national level paper on " Design And Construction of Earthquake Resistance Structure" in FOOT PRINTS 2002 at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Faculty of Technology and Engineering on 27th Dec'2002
• Stood Second in M. Sc Tech and Post B.Sc -- Geotechnology.
• Delineated the Bed rock level at a depth of 600 m below ground level near Dawarka area, New Delhi using Electric Resistivity Test probing up to 1 KM deep below ground level.

Date of Birth: 25th October 1980
Linguistic Proficiency: English, Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati
Contact Address: S1, Veda Castle, Plot no: 32, Saipuri, Sainikpuri, Secunderabad -- 500 094, Andhra Pradesh, India
References: Available on request
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