Senior Managing Engineer
Exponent Mechanics and Materials
Mr. Sharma has 20 years of broad-based technical expertise in design analysis, testing, and engineering program management to address plant equipment reliability, condition monitoring, and maintenance issues at domestic and international power generation stations, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and pipelines. Mr. Sharma has hands-on experience with a range of flow-control hardware, including instrumentation, valves, pumps, and steam boilers. He has used advanced analytical software and detailed computer-based analysis and testing tools, including non-intrusive diagnostics and flow measurements, experimental design and instrumentation, data acquisition and digital signal processing, computational fluid dynamic analysis of valves, and finite-element analysis for sealed bearing assemblies of down-hole drilling motors.
His broad background and active industry involvement have provided him a well-rounded understanding of a range of related fields, such as 10CFR50 Appendix B requirements, and the application of ASME Codes and Standards to evaluate operation and maintenance issues, fabrication, and design defects. He has taught several advanced technical courses on wear and fatigue failure analysis and prevention.
Mr. Sharma earned a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston and an Executive MBA from The University of Texas in Austin. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the States of Texas and California.
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