Michael Pini Email & Phone Number

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

DevOps / frontend developer for the internal O&M web portal with a user base of 900+ users. Responsible for the development of new applications as well as improvement of existing applications with added functionality and streamlined user interface. - Gather business requirements from involved stakeholders.- Define clear and concise software specifications.- Establish concept including user interface, data structure, database setup and API requirements in cooperation with backend developer.- Continuous development of frontend GUI including regular reviews with end customer.- Testing, deployment, and maintenance of application.Achievements:- Developed a risk management system for annual review of contractual risks ahead of schedule., exceeding expectations of the process owner, who awarded a bonus reward.- Successfully developed an application from conception to implementation to track initial spare parts selection, which incorporates functionality to import offers in Excel, supplier management and KPI dashboards. It significantly improves concurrent user workflow and project status visibility.- Developed a monthly status reporting system for power stations, including an event data retrieval and export functionality to a word template.- Developed a VBA enabled Excel cost modelling tool to quickly estimate the cost structure for new projects in the tendering and offer phase. This allows the ITO team to speed up and standardize the offer creation process significantly.

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

- Evaluation, sourcing, and implementation of third-party software solutions.- Development and maintenance of Excel based tools featuring advanced functionality implemented via VBA code.Achievements:- Development of a VBA enabled forecasting tool to predict the daily load profile with the highest power depending on ambient conditions, also calculating the expected fuel gas consumption based on a chosen load profile. This tool supported site to fulfill its contractual obligations.- Evaluation, engineering, implementation, and delivery of customer training for a round logging tool (IntelaTrac by Wonderware) on two power stations in Israel and Russia as test sites.

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

- Operation support for gas turbine related issues, disturbance event analysis including remedy recommendation to power stations of entire O&M fleet.- Engineering, commissioning, and support for process data historian DEPP (An internally developed system with OPC-DA and OPC-AE interfaces to turbine control system).Achievements:- Lead a project to upgrade 55 process data historian DEPP systems on 23 power stations worth of 1M CHF, which was essential for the operation support of the O&M fleet. This included evaluation of suitable hardware, assembly and setup of systems, installation on site, and customer training.- Lead a project to develop and deploy an event reporting system on Excel basis incorporating data downloads from DEPP and OSI Pi process data historian for automatic detection of downtime events. It also calculates KPI figures like availability and reliability. O&M rolled this out within its fleet, improving the data quality as well as reducing the effort for monthly site reporting.

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

- Coordination and collaboration in the creation of new, comprehensive commissioning documentation for gas turbines- Creation of operating procedures for gas turbines- Coordination and execution of review meetings for new commissioning documentation

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

Overall responsibility for the new commissioning of a combined cycle power plant in Thailand. Lead the commissioning team of up to 25 engineers.

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

New commissioning of a combined cycle power plant in Mexico with machine responsibility. Lead the gas turbine commissioning team of up to 4 persons.

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

New commissioning of combined cycle power plant in Texas.Service engineer and outage manager in combined cycle power plant in Vietnam and Thailand.New commissioning of combined cycle power plant in Indonesia.New commissioning of single cycle power plant in Vietnam.

Cas Frontend Engineering, Information Technology

CAS Frontend Engineering - 12 ECTS points

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Mechanical Engineering And Process Engineering

Internal combustion engines and robotics Including internship at Texas A&M University, USA