CLIENTS

Kalyan Sennerikuppam

President

Mr. Kalyan Sennerikuppam has over 25 years of experience in project management, technology, and staffing. Kalyan’s experience includes project management, project planning, proposal evaluations, estimation, and installation coordination. He is a hands-on project manager, focusing on project deliverables and resource management. Kalyan’s focus includes supplying clients with current drawing lists, monitoring engineering progress, evaluating vendor information, coordinating with field personnel, writing general specifications, preparing bid documents, and preparing estimates. He has a degree in Aerospace Engineering and is a member of AIST, AISE, and IEEE.

Sharat Gottumukkala

Executive Vice President of Operations

Mr. Gottumukkala has over 15 years of experience in engineering and project management. His experience includes engineering management, construction engineering, plant layouts, proposals, proposal evaluations, estimates in the heavy metals industry. He has extensive experience in mini mills. Mr. Gottumukkala also has in-depth experience in receiving substations, primary substations, distribution substations, substation layouts and design, safety systems, lighting, and design of conduit systems, and power distribution. He is a hands-on project manager, supplying clients with monitoring engineering progress, and value-added solutions for field problems. Mr. Gottumukkala is also familiar with coordinating with the client; writing general specifications; preparing bid documents; evaluating bids; and preparing estimates. He has a degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering and is a member of AIST, IEEE and PMI.

Paul M. Kavask, P.E.

Civil/Structural Department Manager

Mr. Kavsak has 40 years’ experience in Civil/Structural design, engineering, and management. While with CVE he has been involved with several of the leading names in the Steel Industry including Big River Steel, Steel Dynamics, United States Steel, Pro-Tec, Liberty Steel LaPlace, JSW, NUCOR Steel and Timken Steel. Recent projects are the USS - Fairfield Works Electric Arc Furnace restart program, The USS/PRO TEK/KobeSteel Continuous Galvanizing Line, The Nucor Steel Kankakee MBQ Mill, and Continuous Caster and Stirring Station with Alloy Handling System addition, and the Nucor Brandenburg Plate Mill.

Mr. Kavsak has also extensive service in pulp and paper, printing, manufacturing industries while serving as the Chief Civil Structural Engineer and Vice President of a southeastern Multi- disciplined Consulting Engineering firm. Responsibilities included project development, scope,

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schedules and budget, scheduling resources for all aspects of engineering design – field surveys, investigations, design, and CAD work; and coordination his departments efforts with the mechanical and electrical departments and any consultants that they were working with.
Mr. Kavsak has also worked with municipalities and state dots for bridge, highways and street and utilities improvements/design projects. Mr. Kavsak has also worked with the US Army corps of Engineers, the Marines, The Air Force and Navy located in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina.

Mr. Kavsak has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Penn State in Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology. He is a registered Professional Engineer in six states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, and Alabama.

Priyanka Das

Mechanical Department Manager

Ms. Das has 15 years of experience in mechanical, piping, & HVAC design. She has experience in Coordination, Management, Engineering, designing & drafting. Ms. Das has been Involved in detailed piping for cooling water, wastewater, fire protection, hydraulic, steam, oil and grease lubrication, compressed air, natural gas, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, and potable water supply systems. And provided all necessary information and drawings required for construction.

Duties included monitoring progress, review vendor information, provide technical & design guidance to the designers, sizing pumps, equipment layout drawings, providing piping & valves material specification with applicable codes, bill of materials, support design, pipe sizing, routing & checking, and designing flow diagrams. Coordinating with other departments for interferences. Heat loss & cooling load calculations for steel mill electrical, pulpit, locker rooms & administrative buildings. And ventilation calculations for transformer rooms. Sizing HVAC units. And approving Vendor HVAC equipment drawings

Ms. Das has performed work for several steel mill facilities including Nucor steel, Brandenburg, KY – Plate Mill Facility; Nucor Steel, Kankakee, IL – Continuous Casting Facility and their Bar Mill Facility; Nucor Steel, Gallatin, KY – Pickling & Galvanizing Facility; Big River Steel, Osceola, AR – Flat Rolling Facility and their Phase 2 Cold Mill Facility; and US Steel, Fair Field, AL – Melt Shop Facility.

Ms. Das has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Aided Design and Civil Engineering.

Jack Caldart

Assistant Mechanical Department Manager

Mr. Caldart has over 45 years of experience in piping engineering and department management. His experience includes engineering management, piping layouts, construction engineering, piping construction estimates, pipe sizing, specifications, installation, along with equipment sizing and instrument selection in the heavy metals industry, chemical industry and manufacturing. He has extensive experience in integrated steel mills, mini-mills, aluminum, and locomotive engine industries along with designing natural gas transmission piping. His experience includes HVAC design and equipment selection for transformer and electrical rooms. His experience includes solving various field piping issues during and after installation and developing solutions for existing process issues. He is hands-on in the design and familiar with the parts of

the entire project pertaining to civil structural, and electrical. He works and communicates well with other disciplines of the project. Mr. Caldart is familiar with contacting and requesting vendor information. He is familiar with ASME, ASTM, NFPA, and ASHRAE codes and has over two years

of mechanical engineering credits.

Sravani Balla

Electrical Department Coordinator

Ms. Balla has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and 4 years of experience in Electrical Design and Coordination. She has good experience in Design & Engineering of different Electrical Packages like Single Line Diagrams, Embedded Conduits, Grounding, Lighting, Cable Trays, and Raceway Schedules.

MS. Balla has worked on the Electrical Design of several steel mill facilities including Nucor Steel, Kankakee, IL - Continuous Casting Facility; Nucor Steel, Brandenburg, KY – Plate Mill Facility; Big River Steel, Osceola, AR – Tunnel Furnace.

Chief Structural Engineer

Mr. Akubathini is a Registered Professional Engineer with over 30 years of experience in Civil/Structural Engineering and Project Management areas. Experience includes analysis and design of new and existing steel and concrete structures, estimating, proposal preparation, scheduling, design coordination, supervision, and monitoring. Experience includes building framing, connection designs, building foundation designs, equipment foundations for process lines, melt shops, casting facilities, and rolling mills, design of platform steel structures and equipment supports, towers, water tanks, and crane runway systems for light and heavy industrial buildings. Also knowledgeable in the areas of storm water drainage and site development. Also performed feasibility studies, prepared estimates, managed projects and supervised teams of designers and engineers. Experience includes the areas of hot and cold mills, flat rolled mills, and public housing. In addition to project engineering and management, also managed company's human resources and finances.

Mr. Akubathini has master’s degrees in Structural Engineering and in Business Administration. He is well versed in Computer Software - STAAD. He is a registered Professional Engineer in several states i.e., Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. Mr. Akubathini is a member of AISC, ASCE, NSPE, and ASHE.

Bob Whitacre

Manager – Design and Drafting

Mr. Whiteacre has over 48 years of experience in design engineering, architecture, and site development. His experience includes topographical mapping, modifications to existing buildings, design of new buildings and foundations, retaining walls, storm water management, erosion control measures, culverts, roads and track work, and steel detailing. He is extensively involved in site layouts, building layouts, and made design and detail drawings for foundations, structures, as well as preparing room finish schedules, door schedules, and other architectural details. On several occasions Mr. Whiteacre has been involved in on-site field engineering, project management, construction monitoring, and coordination, including taking field

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measurements, field inspections, assessing conditions, and cataloguing improvements. He is very knowledgeable in areas of federal ADA/UFAS compliance and renovations and involved in inspection of government housing facilities for upgrades and code compliances. He has worked on several United States Steel site projects, Big River Steel (Steel Dynamics), and several Nucor Steel project latest being Kankakee and Brandenburg. He studied Civil Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

Thomas F. Schumacher, P.E.

Mechanical Engineer – Water Systems

Mr. Schumacher has 48 years’ experience in Industrial Water, Wastewater, Cooling and Process Water Systems Design. Over the years Mr. Schumacher has Design Group Personnel Management, Proposal Preparation and Budget Management, Site Survey and Background Collection/Assessment, Development of P&IDs, Specification Development, Final responsibility of all Facilities Layout and Design, In-house Coordination of all Design Disciplines, Facilities Start- up, Project Management, P&IDs and Process Mechanical Layout and Design, and Interface with Clients. On Design/Build projects Equipment Purchasing and Expediting was also included. Projects included both Industrial and Municipal.

Mr. Schumacher has a Bachelor of Science in Water Resource Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and has graduate credits in Environment Engineering. He has a Pennsylvania, Sanitary/Environmental license.

Rohit Bhimanathi

Project Engineer – Mechanical

Mr. Rohit Bhimanathi has over 12 Years of experience in Mechanical/Piping Design Engineering and Project coordination. His experience includes project coordination on all aspects of Steel Mill projects. Starting with water systems design, Site Development, Mill Buildings, Foundations, Piping, and electrical areas. He is well versed in communicating with Clients, Equipment Suppliers, Vendors and Construction contractors.

Mr. Bhimanathi has coordinated several CV Engineering projects such as SeverStal (now SDI), Columbus, Mississippi; Big River Steel, Osceola, Arkansas, Flat Rolling Facility Phase 1 and Phase 2; Blue Oak Arkansas, Osceola, Arkansas, Electronic Recycling Plant; Nucor Steel Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, Merchant Bar Quality Mill; Nucor Steel Kingman, Kingman, Arizona, Melt Shop Restart Study; Nucor Steel Gallatin Mill Expansion Project, Gallatin, Kentucky; and ThyssenKrupp Stainless Steel (Outokumpu Steel) Calvert, Alabama.

Mr. Bhimanathi holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

Kristopher Mott

Designer/Project Coordinator

Mr. Mott has over 15 years of experience in engineering and project management, with much of his career concentrated on Mechanical and Piping Design. His experience includes mechanical layout and design for multiple combined-cycle and solar power plants, design, and project coordination of natural gas compression facilities, as well as mechanical design and project coordination of steel mill facilities. While his background is heavily Mechanical, he has experience in all disciplines including multiple field assignments throughout his career. Mr. Mott also has significant experience writing Mechanical specifications, reviewing bids, providing estimates, scheduling, and budgeting.

Mr. Mott has an Associate’s degree in Architectural Computer-Aided Drafting and Design.