KANCHAN GHOSH, PhD, PE
Phone: (408) 836 3069
email: kaghosh@aol.com
Key Qualifications
· Senior level engineering management and leadership experience in startups and turnaround situations (CTO, VP of Engineering and Director of Engineering).
· Senior level Project and Program Management as an employee and as an independent consultant to major U.S and international companies – major recent clients include Genentech, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Global, IBM Global Services, the Korean Power Exchange (KPX) and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO).
· US citizen with PhD and MS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
· Registered Professional Engineer - PE (Electrical - License #E15799) in the State of California.
· Certified Project Manager.
Eccella, LLC January 2002 – Present
Partner & Sr. Principal Consultant
· Role includes offering project/program management, system engineering, system integration and other technical expertise in the enterprise software, electric power, biotechnology industries.
· Major recent clients include Genentech, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Global, IBM Global Services, the Korean Power Exchange (KPX) and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO).
Projects executed on behalf of Eccella, LLC:
(December 2005 - Present): Genentech
· Lead Systems Engineer – Alarm Monitoring System (AMS) Project
1. Led development of user requirements specification for the AMS project.
2. Led development of RFP for the AMS project.
3. Primary interface between vendor and Genentech business units.
4. Played key role in development of Business Case/ROI effort to gain approval of project with Genentech executive team
(2003–December 2005): California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade (MRTU) Project.
· Project Manager – Bidding Management System Project
1. Development and management of a $12 million project budget, project schedule and scope.
2. Key technical leadership of the project.
3. Leading the development and issuance of an RFP including complete requirements analysis and development of a detailed statement of work (DSOW).
4. Leading the selection of a vendor
5. Leading contract negotiations with the selected vendor
6. Key responsibility for implementation of the project over a period of 3 years including leadership in sucessfully completing Factory Acceptance Testing on schedule and under budget.
7. Management responsibility of a 7 person California ISO multisite project implementation team (Folsom, San Jose and Minneapolis).
8. Oversight responsibility for all vendor activity on project leading to successful ontime implementation.
· Project Manager – MRTU Technology and Knowledge Transfer Project
1. Development and management of a $10 million project budget, project schedule and scope.
2. Key technical leadership of the project.
3. Management responsibility of an 8 person California ISO project implementation team.
4. Oversight responsibility for all vendor activity on project leading to successful ontime implementation.
(2002-2003): Korean Power Exchange TWBP (Two Way Bid Pool) Project
· On behalf of PwC Global (now part of IBM Global Services) and the Korean Power Exchange, Dr. Ghosh played a leading role in requirements analysis, architecting, designing and implementing the integrated market solution for the Korean Electricity market.
Dr. Ghosh’s contributions covered the areas of Market Applications and Market Applications interface with the real-time Energy Management System. Specific responsibilities include engineering due diligence on creating the market rules for the Korean electricity market, oversight responsibility of specifications, architecture, design, testing (Factory Acceptance and Site Acceptance testing) and implementation of the Market Applications. His responsibilities also included oversight responsibility of the integration of the ABB SABLE Market Applications (TWBP - Two Way Bid Pool Market) with the Alstom ESCA Habitat Energy Management System used for the Cost Based Pool (CBP) market.
Eturn Communications, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA August 2000- December 2001
CTO, V.P. of Engineering & Operations
· Built Eturn Communication’s technology infrastructure from the ground up. In addition to CTO, was V.P of Engineering and V.P of Operations. Dr. Ghosh’s role included co-architecting responsibility of the Eturn software infrastructure, the software application, the Co-Location as well as the “chief builder” of the Eturn Engineering team.
· He personally hired almost the entire technology group including development engineers, QA engineers, and operations personnel including key personnel such as Chief Architect, Director of QA and Director of Operations. The Eturn technology group was an international group spread over the United States and Europe and uses state of the art technologies such as J2EE (including JMS, EJB, JSP in a BEA WebLogic 5.1 environment), XML and Oracle.
EGGHEAD.COM, Menlo Park, CA 1999- 2000
Director of Engineering
· Directed engineering managers, architects, lead engineers, senior engineers (more than 30 engineers) in the development of Onsale’s e-commerce site. Technologies included C++ and JAVA in the MS IIS and Sun JAVA environment as well as COM implementation of Middleware in the Windows NT environment with an Oracle database in the backend.
· Recruited key team members, provided business and technical leadership of mission critical initiatives, provided strategic direction to the continuation of Egghead.com’s technical leadership in the e-commerce business. Dr. Ghosh’s role included architectural oversight of Egghead’s technology, spearheading process implementation efforts as well as mentoring of engineering managers
ABB Energy Information Systems, Santa Clara, CA 1997 – 1999
Senior Engineer and Project Manager
· Building real time grid operations EMS systems (ABB SPIDER and EMSYS). I had overall project responsibility for 4 large ABB EMS/Power Application projects. These included the MEPCC (Michigan Electric Power Coordination Center) and AEP (American Electric Power).
· Responsible for developing and deploying the ABB NERC Tagging software and its Web based implementation. This also led to the first pioneering efforts to get ABB software products working over the Internet.
· Responsible for project management and implementation of two major Interchange Scheduling projects at MEPCC and AEP.
· Played a key role in requirements analysis and the development of RFP responses in support of ABB’s sales and marketing efforts to win business in the area of emerging electricity markets.
Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, IL 1990 - 1997
Senior Engineer (System Planning Department), Technical Project Leader (Bulk Power Operations)
· As a Transmission Planning Engineer at ComEd my duties included working in the transmission planning group (PSS/E load flow, PSSOPF Optimal Power Flow studies, Unit Commitment), the Technical Studies Group (voltage stability and dynamic stability studies) as well as providing the System Engineering group with design support for substation design (including transformer sizing, cable and overhead wire capacity sizing, substation siting requirements etc).
· As a Transmission System Planning Engineer I performed projects in compliance with requirements of the Illinois Commerce Commission as well as the requirements specified under the 10 year franchise agreement with the City of Chicago.
· Key responsibility for development and maintenance of power applications software running on the ComEd Energy Management System (EMS). Also technical lead of the ComEd vendor selection team for ComEd’s new power applications suite.
EDUCATION
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology 1995
(Dr. Ghosh’s PhD work was performed while he was a fulltime employee with Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago, IL. His PhD dissertation work was on combining options/futures markets concepts with optimal power flow techniques to attempt “fair pricing” on electric power congestion)
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University 1990
(Dr. Ghosh’s Master’s thesis work was on the modeling of control of electric power flow through discrete switching of capacitor banks)
BE in Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India 1988
(First Class with Honors)
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
· PE (Electrical – License #E15799) in the State of California.
· Certified Project Manager (Asea Brown & Boveri Ltd – ABB, Ltd.)
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