Dimitrios Kontopanagos Email & Phone Number

Cassis, FR

Cassis, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

• Head of Product Management of the complete range of PowerKit (G-Drive fixed speed, variable speed diesel engine models, lean burn Gas and rich burn Gas engines).
• Develop business case studies, analyzing market requirements and ensuring technical & financial feasibility of new engine models. Ensure Product Planning processes are in place and adopted by relevant stakeholders.
• Head of Applications Engineering. Serve as the single point of contact for all engines technical inquiries supporting closely major projects and key applications. Mentor new members and establish applications sharing.
• Drive products design changes and technical improvements in close cooperation with Weichai technical teams, ensuring competitiveness of product portfolio and compliance with current legislative framework. Ensure.
• Lead Baudouin Upstream Influencing activities. Establish relationships with technical consultants, contractors, decision makers in all major sectors (Datacenters, Government, Healthcare, O&G etc), develop the relevant.
• Own the internal process/framework to review, control, launch engineering change requests (ECRs) integrating Group's stakeholders.

Cassis, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

• Lead Product Management of the full range of PowerKit (G-Drive) engine models. Manage product changes establishing efficient communication channels integrating all internal stakeholders (Sales, Service, Quality.
• Serve as the key link between Weichai PowerKit (G-drive) technical team and Baudouin France Service Team providing the relevant technical support & inputs.
• Analyze market's requirements & Drive products’ improvements in close cooperation with Weichai technical teams, ensuring the competitiveness of the product portfolio and the compliance with current legislative.
• Launch & Lead Baudouin Upstream Influencing activities. Establish relationships with technical consultants, contractors, decision makers in major sectors (Datacenters, Government, Healthcare, O&G etc), develop the.
• Serve as the single point of contact for all G-Drive engines pre-sales, installation and commissioning technical questions to OEM’s and customers.
• Establish the internal process/framework to review, control, launch engineering change requests (ECRs) integrating Group's stakeholders.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Leader of the Global Applications Engineering (G.A.E) team consisting of 45 senior engineering managers, technical experts and technical sector leaders from the Power, Temperature Control & Energy Storage Solutions.
• Establish targets/KPIs for the Global Engineering performance to ensure added value activities are aligned with Group’s objectives.
• Design & Implement a new process of supporting complex projects and applications globally while mitigating the inherent technical risk by exploring all the relevant technical and commercial complexities. Ensure that.
• Explore new applications and identify the pool of experts per application/sector. Identify technical sectors leaders and work closely with Sector Sales leaders to prioritize focus while enabling applications.
• Manage Applications - Develop plans to support prioritized applications annually. Forecast & Budget the needs per application and link G.A.E KPIs accordingly. Capture and share relevant knowledge.
• Capture local Innovation. Document innovative activities globally supporting complex applications with bespoke solutions. Provide feedback to Engineering, Product Management & Future Technologies

Dumbarton

• Lead the Global Application Sales Support Program, developing strong relationships with stakeholders globally. Facilitate Applications sharing and knowledge management. Review and maintain sales technical guidance.
• Support project bids and campaigns as required for product technical information. Advise and shape technical aspects of the bids to ensure that products are required only to operate within design limits.
• Working with Product Management, confirm that change proposals fit to the multi-generational product plan and then, with Finance verify the business case of enhancements.
• Through review of sales enquiries, provide input and influence to the product strategy process ensuring that the latest market developments are recognised and acknowledged.
• Review the load within the sales support function, and propose team structure and capacity to meet the forecast demand.
• Define roles, and where approved recruit suitable candidates. Onboard, train and develop employees as required.

Kent

• Providing technical direction for a project or a project team
• Supporting, mentoring less experienced members of the team
• Manage directly three application engineers
• Lead customer-oriented technical training – events
• Lead customer engineering function in VPI/VPC projects – new product offerings to customers
• Lead Application Engineer Counterpart program interacting with AE engineers globally.

Kent

• Providing technical support to distributors' sales force and customers answering technical inquiries
• Technical guidance/reviews for projects and project teams
• Specialty in sizing generators for specific applications
• Delivering technical training / presentations to distributors and key customers
• Improving Distributors’ capabilities, organizing seminars/webinars
• Close co-operation with Engineering Dept. for new products technical compliance

Athens

Co-founder and active partner of a medium sized company (KOMI ENERGEIAKI G.P.) Presentation of turn-key solutions to customers, as well as installation and management of photovoltaic parks in Greece

Athens

• Main responsibilities included:
• Customer technical support and project visit
• Communication with workshop regarding engine preparation, spare parts order
• Suppliers/materials selection
• Transfer panels orders, pricelist logging and updating
• Project cost analysis

Athens

Supervisor of production equipment of a medium-sized textile company

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

- Corporate Finance - Business to Business and Supply Chain Management - Accounting for Managers - Organisational Behaviour - Strategy.

6S (Six-Sigma) Qualified Trained Professional

Master'S Degree, Renewable Energy

• Renewable Energy Sources. Applications and Cost Analysis • Energy Policy and Economics of Energy • Performance of Diesel Engines/Gas.

Caterpillar Certified Sales Professional

Seminar - Energy Management, Energy And Financial Resources Saving Through Renewable Energy Sources.

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering Department (Polytechnic), Msc Electrical Engineering

• Microelectronics, Analog / Digital electronic circuits • Electrical installations / drawings, protection devices • Automatic control.