Arnau Duran Email & Phone Number

TAVIL equipment technology is based on multiformat systems with automatic changeover and can be rapidly adapted to meet the continuous changes of the packaging market requirements.As Project Manager I am entrusted with the leadership of different projects (mainly in France). This means, amongst others: developing the machinery together with mechanical and electrical office; overseeing the assemblies and startup; coordinating the delivery and installation at the client's site; following up the performance according to the contract requirements; and reporting to the board.

As a member of the R&D department, I was in charge of developing existing and new features for Tavil's machines together with the rest of the team, implementing the solution by means of software, PLC and robots programming; and, afterwards, implementing the solution at the customer's factory or site and making sure that the machine reaches the agreed performance in terms of speed and features.

Girona, Spain

As director of technology, I advise the basketball club sports' directors about new ideas and possibilities that may be applied in order to improve the players and teams performances. I am also in charge of developing and maintaining an internal database with a web graphic interface that records all kinds of data about the players and teams: performance during the season matches, antropological and physical data over the years, etc. as well as a private area for club players' families with all kinds of resources.

Barcelona Area, Spain

I was elected as Amical's president (chair) during the General Assembly held in April 2013; I was reelected in 2015 and finally didn't opt for reelection in 2017. Amical Wikimedia is a non-profit organization which works towards promoting free knowledge in Catalan language in Wikimedia projects, specially Wikipedia. More info at www.wikimedia.cat.

I was in charge of contacting and working along with several Catalan and Spanish universities in order to establish fruitful relationships with Wikipedia and, more generally, with free knowledge; as well as organizing a contest about writing Wikipedia articles both in Catalan and Spanish related to manufacturing processes. Among those were UdG, UPC, UPM, ULEON, UNIOVI and UMA.

Master'S Degree, Statistics And Operations Research

Bachelor’S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student representative (Consell d'Estudiants) 2012-2014; UdGeeks president (2011-2014)

High School, Technical And Scientific Communication, First Of Honor In The University Entrance Exams (9.2).