Adeesh Paranjape

P.E.

Senior Project Manager

Biography

Adeesh Paranjape is a Senior Project Manager at YA Group and a licensed professional engineer who provides forensic investigation of electrical equipment and systems, electrical repair design and drawings, damage assessment, cost analysis, and origin and cause failure analysis for fires, explosions, and other electrical incidents.

Adeesh began his career designing and managing electrical infrastructure projects for commercial, cultural, educational, and mixed-use buildings, where he oversaw power distribution, lighting, life-safety systems, permitting, and construction administration.

Credentials

  • P.E. | Professional Engineer
  • CFEI (p) – Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator (provisional)

Representative Consulting Assignments

  • Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | Los Angeles, CA | Design of 300,000 sqft campus comprising galleries, exhibit spaces and theaters.
  • Commercial High-Rise Building | San Francisco, California | Power Surge, Electrical Equipment Damage Investigation
  • Electrical Repair Design and Drawings | California, Arizona, Hawaii, Georgia | Prepare electrical repair design drawings after a fire
  • Electrical Contractor | California | Switchgear failure, Construction Defect and Litigation Support
  • Single family residence | Assorted Locations | Fire – Origin and Cause Investigation
  • Life care community | California | Power Outage, Electrical Equipment Damage Investigation and Cause of Failure
  • Residential, Commercial, and other Properties | Assorted Locations | Electrical Equipment Damage Assessment following fire, water intrusion, wildfire, tornado, vandalism/theft

Professional Experience

  • 2026 - Current | Senior Project Manager | YA Group
  • 2023 - 2026 | Project Manager | YA Engineering Services
  • 2023 - 2023 | Forensic Electrical Engineer | Jensen Hughes
  • 2016 - 2023 | Senior Electrical Engineer | Buro Happold
  • 2013 - 2015 | Senior Executive MEP | Godrej Properties Limited

Area of Practice

  • Construction Administration
  • Building Code Upgrade Review
  • Fire and Life Safety Systems
  • Forensic Electrical Engineering
  • Repair and Rehabilitation Design
  • NEC & NESC Expertise
  • Damage Assessment
  • Repair Cost Estimating
  • Fire Origin & Cause
  • Non-Destructive Testing
  • Equipment / Product Failure Investigations 
  • Lithium Battery Investigations
  • Power System Engineering
  • Solar Array Inspection

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Mumbai - India
  • University of Southern California - Master of Science - Electrical Engineering emphasis on Electric Power - Los Angeles - California

Affiliations

  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • National Association of Fire Investigators (NAFI)

Licenses

  • E24186 - California - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 81188 - Arizona - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 20735 - Hawaii - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 104407PE - Oregon - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 32172 - Nevada - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 155428 - Texas - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 100669 - Florida - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 3164150 - Georgia - PE (Electrical Engineering)
  • 059501 - North Carolina - PE (Electrical Engineering)