Richard Joel Curran C.Eng , Msc, B.Eng Email & Phone Number

Zürich, Zh, Ch

Zürich Area, Switzerland

- Contract manager in Engine Services business (Revenue >$1BN)- Driving profitabilty and productivity in complex contracts and baseload customers- Dispute management and contract negotiation

Baden, Canton Of Aargau, Switzerland

Senior contract manager on the Transitional Services Task Force.- Management of the Divested portfolio of O&M Service Contracts towards new owner. - Management of supply chain and logistics for New build and major Service outages towards new owners.- Leading role in specially assigned task force with the objective of fulfilling the support obligations as stipulated by EU commission

Project Director and Consortium Leader managing four high profile accounts in the UK- Management and execution of Long term service agreements for operation and maintenance ofNatural gas CC power plants- 400M€ portfolio with full P&L responsibility- Lead and managed three separate service teams concurrently in UK and Switzerland coordinatingall activities necessary to fulfil contractual obligations on entire portfolio- Negotiatied, sold, planned and executed power plant improvements and upgrades- Co-ordinated all activities to fulfill contractual obligations- Lead negotiations, risk, insurance and claim management incl. budgeting, forecasting, controlling, accounting and reporting

(Before GE Power - ALSTOM Power Merger)Project Director and Consortium Leader managing four high profile accounts in the UK- Management and execution of Long term service agreements for operation and maintenance ofNatural gas CC power plants- 400M€ portfolio with full P&L responsibility- Lead and managed three separate service teams concurrently in UK and Switzerland coordinatingall activities necessary to fulfil contractual obligations on entire portfolio- Negotiatied, sold, planned and executed power plant improvements and upgrades- Co-ordinated all activities to fulfill contractual obligations- Lead negotiations, risk, insurance and claim management incl. budgeting, forecasting, controlling, accounting and reporting

R&D Project manager responsible for the discipline of operation andperformance for all products in the R&D portfolio. Leading and integrating product supportissues for P&O development to perform according to the technical, schedule and budgettargets for each project.Providing customer focused timely solutions to P&O issues that occur within PS fleetincluding feedback to development teams for future integration.Optimisation and improvement of existing concepts / components for backward andforwards implementation. Leading / co-ordinating cross functional teams to bring projectsthrough specification, detailed design and implementation phases (PDQ)

Switzerland

Core team member on major future technology development project.Responsible for definition of validation strategy and plan for overall project. Responsible for technical and project risk management throughout development of product. Product cost excellence management within scope of gas turbine development. Setting and management of targets within department. Driving cost reduction initiative throughout the department. Converting engineering ideas into business cases for cost excellence departmentDevelopment of specifications for the testing and instrumentation needs of 'first of its kind' turbomachinery. Supervision and execution of validation activites on customer units worldwide

Lead engineer for Gas turbine performance testing conducted out on Power stations throughout the UK and mainland Europe. Acted as technical consultant and liaison to end customers/sub contactors. Led major research project developing a vibration/acoustic emission based condition monitoring system for aero engines. Designed and installed data acquisition system to monitor high frequency activity of critical components of the Rolls Royce Jet Engine - RB199Leading role in the instrumenting, running and maintaining of an isentropic light piston facility used to test turbine rotors. Responsible for health and safety of personnel and management of risk within facility

Baden Switerland

6 month internship bridging between Bachelor and Master studies. Tasks / responsibilities included :- Development of inhouse 3d turbomachinery CFD tool- Comparison of CFD methods to model effusion cooling- Reporting/Presenting at customer meetings and reviews

Msc, Aerodynamics

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

Pgc, Business Administration And Management, General, 2-1

Organizational Leadership

Postgraduate Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Certificate Of Advanced Studies, Business Administration And Management, General