Gino Duffett Email & Phone Number

Sitges, Ct, Es

Knutsford

• Project Manager for NAFEMS tasks in the VMAP project, financed by national funding agencies supported by ITEA. The project has 30 partners and is led by Fraunhofer SCAI (Germany) to create standards for the transfer of material data between simulation processes mainly in the manufacturing industry. • Project Manager for Simulation Best Practice project, already completed, financed by Innovate UK, 2015-2016. Lead a group of 7 people to carry out an industrial survey in different sectors. Close collaboration with project partners Alstom Power and KTN.• Promoter of R+D projects in national, European and international spheres. • Course trainer, including "Practical Introduction to FEA", "10 Steps for Successful Explicit Dynamic Analysis", "Intro. to Nonlinear FEA", "Why do simulation?".• Professional Simulation Engineer (PSE) business development, advisor and evaluator.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Continue working with Alstom Wind (previously in Aperio Technologia) to create integrated design analysis methodologies to evaluate and optimise designs for off-shore wind energy towers and farms. • Provide high level technical training on finite element methods, analysis and design methodologies for commercial clients and for NAFEMS International Organization, U.K.• Applied methodology knowledge to create and present courses on ERP and Operational Decision Making Tools at the United International Business School. • Created the "Mission Critical Leadership" web service utilised by the IESE Business School (Barcelona) for MBA Executive Education and specific company programs (including courses for Oracle and Nissan). • Vice coordinator, contracted by the R&D group Tecnalia, for the PROFORM European project (metal profile forming) involving 24 partners in Europe with a budget of €12M. Facilitated effective liaison for problem solving with European Union and all partners and directed all project meetings.• Worked with NAFEMS and 3 main partners in promoting and directing the AUTOSIM European network project (automotive simulation and design) that included 32 European partners.• Proposed, created and managed the SIM-TWB project (sheet welding), 10 European partners with 1M€ budget, for my previous employer Quantech.• Designed and created a complete web-based CRM system focussed on the engineering services and software sales sector for use at Aperio Tecnología. Implemented designs included SCM and extension for multi-company group.• Provided lectures at MBA level on mutli-cultural leadership for IESE, Barcelona.

Gainsborough (Uk) & Barcelona (Spain)

• Converted a conflictive client-provider situation into a collaborative and harmonious one managing the after sales support, problem solving and design improvement of SCRT diesel engine emission systems installed on 330 TMB buses (Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona). Dramatically reduced costs.• Provided complete project management, collaborating with 2 provider companies, for Grupo BaixBus (Barcelona bus company) rectifying design and installation problems on 44 buses.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Administered operations of whole company, collaborating within the EnginSoft Group of companies at international level (Europe, United States and South America) leading marketing and sales activities.• Spearheaded company’s engineering projects with particular emphasis on automatic processes and analysis methodologies and optimisation, detailed evaluation and testing and presentation of results.• Created new integrated design analysis methodologies to evaluate and optimise designs for land-based and off-shore wind energy towers for Alstom Wind, dramatically increasing the number of design evaluations as much as 800 fold in some cases, optimising their designs and reducing the average cost by 15%,• Managed and guided projects for SEAT Automotive and innovated their decision-making processes for material selection, passenger safety and internal noise reduction (NVH), saving significant engineering time and effort.• Created innovative new optimization strategies for health care applications while introducing AnyBody muscular-skeletal simulation software into Spanish and Portuguese markets.• Successfully adapted methodologies into design optimization for composite materials, antennae, deep-sea floating towers, hot sheet forming, car lap timing, plastic injection moulding, health and safety, etc. • Successfully facilitated the UPM MotoStudent team in winning the “Best Innovative Design” at the MotoStudent 2012 competition by providing training and technical guidance for the optimisation of the motorbike chassis.

Barcelona, Spain

• Administered R&D and product and business development, as well as operations of the entire company. • Created the company Quantech ATZ from scratch, financed by Professors from the UPC, as a result of some of my successful R&D projects at CIMNE (previous employer) enabling technology transfer into other sectors. • Managed the conversion of academic Stampack software targeting mechanical sheet forming processes to commercial industrial products generating over 80% of Quantech company revenue. This required managing technical aspects, training, documentation, marketing and commercial aspects including the creation a distribution network. The product still exists and was purchased by the world market leaders for incorporation into their system. Defined the software user methodologies and interactions that were considered innovative at the time.• Built and managed an international distribution network increasing company revenue and enhancing product delivery in Europe, South America, China and Japan.• Successfully repeated the process for the academic Vulcan software targeting the casting/foundry sector. Close liaison with Renault Foundry, the major industrial collaborator for part of the process.• Design project managed using novel CAE simulations to design and improve the performance for specialist fasteners for Mikalor, followed up with prototypes, reporting, final product evaluation, etc.• Drove software adaptations to create market share in alternative sectors gaining clients such as Kawasaki HI and Mitsubishi HI in Japan, Pechiney Group and Metalpack.• Secured a large amount of local, national and EU R&D funding for creating academic versions of the Stampack and Vulcan softwares into commercial products, including development of new e-training and e-working technologies.• Enhanced the technology transfer between the university and local and international industry.

Barcelona, Spain

• Proposed, created and managed many R&D projects, developing specialised IT software tools and engineering methodologies for use in many diverse applications.• Spearheaded a large number of European and national R&D projects on many different industrial applications at CIMNE who secured a record number of funded projects in one year while there. Authored the most “profitable” project ever granted to CIMNE to that date.• Massively increased the CIMNE collaborative network of universities, institutes and commercial companies.• The company QUANTECH ATZ was launched as a result of some of my projects related to metal forming in the sheet pressing and foundry sectors.

Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

• Led the multi-cultural software development team for the LUSAS general purpose finite element analysis system.• Significantly increased software quality by designing and implementing new control methodologies.• Liaised with major clients and project managed special purpose contracted developments.• Managed development projects on many applications including matrix solver speed, structural vibration, concrete construction, metal fatigue, material non-linearity, high temperature heat transfer and high/low speed dynamics.• Collaborated with Prof. Mike Crisfield at Imperial College, supervising Ph.D projects and collaborating on technically advanced projects.

Cape Town (South Africa) And Swansea (United Kingdom)

Commenced career in 1980 as a researcher and lecturer (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and continued as senior researcher and software consultant (University of Swansea, Wales).

B.Sc (Civil Eng) 1St Class Hounors, M.Sc (Mech Eng) And Ph.D

Post Doctoral R&D, Computer Software Engineering