The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
• Project Engineer at TWD designing offshore structures • leads the RiverWaveProject, a startup implementing sustainable solutions in rivers for generating surfable waves with an optional combination of electricity production • M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Munich, Germany • Masterthesis about experimental investigating active flow control on vertical axis wind turbines at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Project Management: Project execution through help in budgeting, planning, team management of 2-10 people, safeguarding the technical quality and timely delivery of project deliverables. Translating the client’s requests into functional designs or methods. • Structural Engineering: Load case determination, strength and stability analysis (RFEM and ANSYS) and prototyping. • Heavy Lift Engineering: Design, engineering and review of lift arrangements, design and engineering of lifting tools, equipment selection consultancy. • Method engineering: Developing most suitable operational sequence and equipment for project boundary conditions. • Guidance: Guiding less experiences engineers and project engineers, doing quality checks of their work, supervising master thesis, sharing lessons learned and developing guidelines for specific topics.
• Project Management • Structural Engineering & Design • Naval Architecture: Vessel modifications, equipment integration, stability booklet renewal, survey and classification support, hydrodynamics of floating structures. • Marine Engineering: Motion analysis, workability analysis, stability analysis and ballasting plans, and dynamic analysis (Orcawave, Orcaflex).
What I do: • Writing feasibility studies • Computational fluid dynamics • Project management • Website building and hosting What we offer: • Support during planing, implementing and maintaining riverwaves for surfing and kayaking • IP protected solution • Feasibility studies • Computational fluid dynamics • In development: Combining the river wave technology with hydraulic turbine Several running projects in Europe
• Technical development and product design (Solidworks) • Homologation (CE certification of the electronics: risk analysis, research of standards, test planning and execution, writing of the manual, quality assurance) • Recruiting of employees • Supervision and management of a team of working students • Creation of image films, including presentation of how the technologies work in 3D (animation with Blender, editing with Adobe Premiere Pro, effects with Adobe After Effects) • Hydrodynamic simulations of a mooring system and analysis of the forces in the structure (Orcaflex) • Conduct job interviews • Supervising students • Hydrodynamic simulations
• Development of mooring systems • Working with a wave energy model implemented with MATLAB Simulink • Simulation of floating structures with OrcaFlex • Writing offers and requests • Computer Aided Design • Improvement of a modular electrical housing • Development of a mounting technology/strategy of an offshore platform in water
Vehicle testing for BMW: Remote controlled parking technology • Flashing and coding of control units • Reading and analysing the fault memory • Reading out data from test vehicles • Conceptual design and construction of a mobile measurement technology solution • Test execution and documentation for the qualitative activation of customer functions • Execution and documentation of safety function safety tests • Post-processing of recorded camera data for subsequent processing