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• Water specialist consistently recognized for achievements and performance in several positions in the water industry and research departments.• 17 years of professional communication and negotiation experience, implementing and developing water related projects specially membrane related. • Outstanding command of water and wastewater treatment, and membrane technologies (Microfiltration, Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis), acquired along five years of doctoral studies and different job experiences in this field.• Excellent decision making and analytical engineering skills, and ability to examine and manage the processes and needs of water treatment plants.• Superior capacity to understand the needs of the customer, identify their pain and provide sustainable and affordable solutions.• Commercially and business oriented with a customer-centric mindset in order to develop long lasting relations to create value and market opportunities. • Innovative, excellent solving problems and successful promoting improvements for water treatment.• Highly experienced and successful at teamwork, with an excellent ability to function both independent of direct supervision (home work) and within a structured reporting system.• Entrepreneurial spirit: successful development and implementation of a business plan. gcon start-up.• Concession of a patent to treat domestic wastewater using membrane technology.
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FounderGcon Water Process Technologies Jun 2024 - PresentGreater Alicante AreaAfter my stage as a freelance senior consultant, it is time to embrace new challenges and opportunities. The world is suffering from water shortage, and the next years will be tougher. This is why we have established gcon, to help our customers and society in general to make the most of every drop. In this new possition, I will be leading this company to accomplish two main objectives: creation of value, and sustainable growth. -
Freelance Senior ConsultantSelf Employed Aug 2020 - Jun 2024Mutxamel, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, EspañaAs Freelance Senior Consultant, I am having the opportunity to explore new ways of cooperation with different players in the water sector. I help companies, institutions and customers in problems related with water treatment and water reuse. -
Senior Application ManagerGrundfos Sep 2018 - Aug 2020EspañaWorking remotely, based in Spain, commuting often to the office in Denmark, and travelling to visit potential customers, and to the different BioBooster facilities for troubleshooting and optimization. Since I relocated in Spain, I have increased my travelling rate having the opportunity to be closer to the customers, to understand what their needs are and what could be the best solution for them. Tasks involving remote monitoring, back-office and troubleshooting have been also an important part of the daily work-load. My assignments and responsabilities in this period have been: - Responsible and lead process engineer for the 3 segments (Hospital, Municipal, Industrial).- Responsible and lead for technical support, remote monitoring, cost and process optimizacion, back-office and troubleshooting for 8 references distributed across Europe. - Technical support to sales managers to introduce the technology and to close orders.- Customer-centric: Proactive in helping customers to optimize existing plants.- Technical support to service department. - Microsoft Teams administrator for groups related to 8 BioBooster facilities. - Excellent at identifying the "pain" of the customer and provide solutions. -
Senior Technical Sales SpecialistGrundfos Jun 2016 - Sep 2018EspañaCommercial and business approach. I was involved in developing new market opportunities in countries outside Scandinavia. To do this, I relocated in Spain. A solid pipeline of projects was built, and direct contact with customers increased significantly. My assignments and responsibilities were:- Develop market analysis and business strategy in Europe region.- Contribute to project pipeline with relevant projects.- Analyze, follow up and prioritize projects within sales funnel.- Tender & quotation: Creating quotes and tools related produce them. - Technical support to sales managers to introduce the technology and to close orders. - Assistance to events & conferences to disseminate the concept, networking and leads generation. -
Application SpecialistGrundfos Nov 2012 - Jun 2016Randers Area, DenmarkMy first role in Grundfos BioBooster was as Application Specialist, based in Denmark the first 4 years. In this time my responsibilities were more related to process design, commissioning, and plant definition for new BioBooster references. My assignments and responsibilities were among others:- Basis for design creation.- Process design/overall plant definition/integration with existing plant/infrastructure/project proposals.- Performance warranties and performance test definitions.- Create technical insight into segment characteristics. - Overall process concept development for segment(s).- Optimal plant process design (pre-treatment, biological process, UF, NF, RO, post-treatment, air treatment, sludge handling, and strategies for optimal operation.- Design and describe manuals and tools for overall plant design.- Lead on overall process concept development for segments. -
Area Sales RepresentativeYour Spanish Corner, S.L. May 2013 - Dec 2014RandersSales representative in Denmark with the aim to introduce Spanish products to Danish customers. -
Project ManagerMiraplas Feb 2009 - Nov 2012Monforte Del CidMiraplas gave me the opportunity to bring to light an awarded business plan with the aim to produce, distribute and service packaged decentralized plants to treat domestic wastewater with MBR technology. The product has the commercial name DEPUMAX and helps customers to reuse their wastewater and save in the water bill. The assignments and tasks during my period in Miraplas have been: • Design, budgeting, construction and sales of water related projects: (MBR, prolonged aeration, CASP and tertiary treatments among others).• Business plan development and execution: “Design, construction and distribution of packaged Membrane Bioreactors (Depumax) to treat domestic wastewater”: ➢ Accomplished searching of EU projects and writing of proposals for funding. ➢ Design, optimization and successfully completed Beta-test with a prototype. ➢ Coordination of engineers and workshop: Design and production of packaged MBRs. ➢ Market research, marketing strategy, budgeting and distribution of the plants. -
Staff Research EngineerRwth Aachen University May 2010 - Jul 2011Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen Area, GermanySuccessfully managed of the Start-up Optimization of Decentralized Membrane Bioreactors. Design, construction and operation of three identical decentralized membrane bioreactors running in parallel in order to develop a standard protocol to start-up such devices under the supervision of Dr.Ing. Elmar Dorgeloh. Gaining a deep understanding of the certification process in small wastewater treatment plants according to European legislation (CE marking). -
External LecturerUa - Universidad De Alicante / Universitat D'Alacant 2006 - 2011Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, EspañaLecturer at the Specialist in desalination and water reuse degree at the University of Alicante (12 h per year). Module G3 "Water quality surveillance". -
Staff Research EngineerUa - Universidad De Alicante / Universitat D'Alacant Jul 2006 - Feb 2009AlicanteOptimization of the Process of Ultrafiltration to Eliminate Organic Matter from Drinking Water and Wastewater under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Daniel Prats Rico. Successfully participated in a water reclamation research project for about two and a half years, effectively performing pilot plant (in a WWTP) and laboratory scale tests, gaining deep problem solving and engineering analytical skills.Monitoring of the pilot plant under several operational conditions, deepening my technical and practical knowledge of operational parameters in wastewater treatment. -
Staff Research EngineerWitteveen+Bos Nov 2009 - Jan 2010DeventerParticipation in a European research project (MBR-Train) to gain experience and knowledge about the operation and the insights of the membrane bioreactor technology. Analysis of the Filterability in Industrial Membrane Bioreactors (MBRs). Research carried out to correlate the reactor perturbations with the filterability of the activated sludge in order to gain understanding on the operation with MBRs under the supervision of Prof.Ing. Jaap van der Graaf. -
Staff Research EngineerTudelft Mar 2009 - Oct 2009Delft Area, NetherlandsParticipation in a European research project (MBR-Train) to gain experience and knowledge about the operation and the insights of the membrane bioreactor technology. Analysis of the Filterability in Industrial Membrane Bioreactors (MBRs). Research carried out to correlate the different operational parameters with the filterability of the activated sludge in order to gain understanding on the operation with MBRs under the supervision of Prof.Dr..Ing. Jules van Lier. -
Assistant Research EngineerUniversity Of Erlangen-Nuremberg Aug 2005 - Mar 2006Distrito De Erlangen-Höchstadt, BavieraDAAD Short-term Research Grant for PhD researchers in the frame of the IAESTE exchange platform. (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience). Collaboration as Assistant Research Enginner in the project: "Optimized Production of Protein Crystals: From 1D Crystallization Slot towards 2D Supersaturation B22 Diagram" under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Peukert. -
Staff Research EngineerUa - Universidad De Alicante / Universitat D'Alacant Sep 2004 - Jun 2005Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, EspañaResearch project to study the status of desalination and water reuse in the province of Alicante-ES in the context of the National Water Spanish Plan (P.H.N) under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Daniel Prats Rico. -
Assistant Process EngineerViarsa Agua Y Servicios Urbanos Sl May 2004 - Sep 2004Villena, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, EspañaInternship with tasks involving the management of residual waste under the supervisión of Dipl. Pedro Martínez López.
José Antonio Gil Linares Ph.D. Skills
José Antonio Gil Linares Ph.D. Education Details
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Business Administration And Management, General -
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Water Quality And Wastewater Treatment Management And Recycling Technology/Technician -
Water Quality And Wastewater Treatment Management And Recycling Technology/Technician -
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies -
Water Resources Engineering -
Chemical Engineering
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José Antonio Gil Linares Ph.D. attended Fundesem Business School, Universitat D'alacant, Rwth Aachen University, Delft University Of Technology, Escuela De Organización Industrial, Ua - Universidad De Alicante / Universitat D'alacant, Ua - Universidad De Alicante / Universitat D'alacant.
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