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Leiden, Zh, Nl

Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

Installation engineer at the Heerema Marine Contractors main office in Leiden. Working on the preparation of the OWF Empire Wind 1&2 offshore of New York City. The project scope includes the transport and installation of 138 XXL Monopiles, Anode Cages and Transition Pieces and 2 substations (jacket + topside) by the SSCV Thialf.My main responsibilities are:1. Deck lay-out design of the SSCV Thialf for Monopile installation and mobilisation2. Installation engineering of the hammer pile driving spread3. Survey interface regarding the SSCV ThialfTemporarily assisted the Arcadis Ost project offshore on SSCV Thialf during installation of the Wind Turbine Generators. This is the world's first installation of the WTGs from a floating vessel. It was great to be part of and experience this innovative project!

Taiwan

The Field Engineer role was on board the Seaway Yudin on the OWF project Formosa II in Taiwanese waters. The Yudin and supporting fleet did the pin pile foundation campaign. My main responsibilities were:1. Provide basic design, structural calculations, construction drawings and construction supervision for ad hoc constructions required in the field.2. Provide my welding team with all necesarry vessel support during construction and repairs of critical project items.3. Advise supervisors and find solutions to issues of a technical and installation engineering nature.4. Ensure all parties onboard are provided with the appropriate project information/documentation.5. Assist in assembly of as-built documentation.6. Prepare and help execute maintenance & repairs and offloading equipment.I was present at two 10 week campaigns on-board until project completion.

Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

Lead installation engineer at Oceans of Energy for offshore floating solar platforms. Responsible for all offshore installations of Oceans of Energy like mooring installation, platform tow-out, mooring hook-on and decommisioning operations. Responsibilities included a.o. drafting guidelines and procedures, subcontracting scopes to contractors, stakeholder management, lead of offshore operations with teams of up to 25 on up to 5 vessels and logging the work in as builds documentation.

Leiden

Lead designer of mooring systems for offshore floating solar platforms. Responsible for a.o. assessing metocean data and wave loading, system design using time-domain modelling, scale model testing campaigns, hardware procurement and assembly.

County Dublin, Ireland

Maritime engineer working on various wave modelling, quay wall design, flood resilience and market research into floating housing projects. Includes reinforcement calculations and construction drawings, MIKE21 extreme value analysis and wave modelling, and global flood resilience policy research with respect to sea level rise.

Delft

Department ‘Harbours, Coastal and Offshore’Master Thesis “Feasibility of using wave enhancement methods to optimise wave conditions in wave energy converter arrays”. Concluded with an 8.5/10. Research for an innovative solution to greatly improve the efficiency of wave energy extraction. Writing and publishing of a paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Delft Area, Netherlands

Match rowing coach lightweight men's and ladies eight. Coaching on physical, technical and mental capabilities of the team and the individuals in it as well as nutrition. Working with the athletes gives me a lot of satisfaction.

Delft Area, Netherlands

Match rower lightweight men's eight rowing competitively at national level, which includes the Dutch Indoor Rowing Championships (national record), Dutch Nationals and the Holland Beker (demonstration event at world cup). Competing at this level requires a high intensity of training (up to 10 times a week) and a disciplined lifestyle in terms of sleep, nutrition and day-to-day planning.

Amersfoort, Netherlands/Lima, Peru

Department ‘Maritime and Waterways’Amersfoort, NL 1.5 months – Research into the stoppage length of ocean vessels with navigational studies using simulations in SHIPMA. Lima, Peru 4 months – I worked for 4 months in the Latin-American division of RHDHV on several different projects including: port lay-out, navigational studies, Dynamic Mooring Analysis and the supervision of geotechnical study in a completely Spanish working environment before I was able to speak the language.My supervisors appreciated for my enthusiasm and my open and pro-active mind set both technically and with regard to communications. I got a lot of satisfaction and motivation from learning and working in a different cultural environment while learning and communicating in a new language.

Delft

Writing new lecture notesIndependently operated, improving blind spots in the present lecture notes. Writing new chapters in scientific English. Job was offered after showing initiative.

Delft Area, Netherlands

Bachelor thesis Hydraulic Engineering - Design of a second line of coastal defences for the port of Rotterdam to account for the future rise of sea level.

Master'S Degree, Hydraulic Engineering - Ports And Waterways, 8.5

Bachelor'S Degree, Civil Engineering

Elective in Airport Planning and Strategy

High School, Pre University Education