Jacob is the president of Shastrum LLC

Jacob has vast experience in the field of electrical engineering that spans a time period of 20 years. He has worked in design, maintenance and construction in both industrial and utility environment. In the process industry he has worked with controls, instrumentation, process data management etc. and has good understanding of the principles, standards and practices.
He has spent several years doing industrial controls design and was involved in all aspects of process plants from conception to commissioning. This includes motor controls, instrumentation, valve and feeder belt controls and relay based interlocks. He has designed motor control centers, worked with PLCs of many different vendors, involved in specifying, purchasing and programming PLCs. In the electrical side he has been involved with capacitor bank systems, reactor banks, power transformers, auto transformers, potential transformers, breakers and regulators.
In the generation field he was involved with the design pertaining to all aspects of a 320 MVA power plant. This involved preparing specifications for generators, prime movers, Transformers, cabling and other auxiliary units, selection of key voltages, fault level calculations, design of bus ducts and grounding system, specifying breakers and battery system. He also has experience in design of control system and synchronization schemes for generators, load sharing, voltage regulation and power factor control. For a brief period he was also involved in designing and setting of protection system that involved coordination studies.
He’s also trained and certified on railway signal system. He has hands-on experience with digital and relay-based signal controls. He has provided testing, installation and maintenance service to a major subway signaling system.
Jacob has worked in the design & maintenance departments of utility company, industrial plant and Transit Company. He has worked in different capacities Design Engineer, project engineer etc.