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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Responsible for calculating dredging tenders from start to finish; Evaluating risks, opportunities and optimal project strategy; one of the main drivers for automation of several production models and development and implementation of various databases• Development of Matlab tool for efficient breakwater design, based on guidelines like EurOtop for overtopping and CIRIA Rock Manual for armour stability.• Development of Matlab tool to estimate dredger weather downtime, based on Mike SW wave time series transformations.• Setup and follow up of Silt management plan on Khalifa Port Expansion project, resulting in 4% additional silt retainment while still satisfying the reclamation specs and therefore a substantial cost saving in silt disposal activities.• Tendered for several prestigious awarded dredging projects like Khalifa Port Expansion and Hail & Ghasha Islands.• Further development and automation of production and cost models in Matlab to increase overall estimation efficiency, both in time and accuracy.• Business case study related to investment in new equipment, this based on cash flow analysis forecasting, payback period and CIRIA cost standards for equipment valuation.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Estimator for dredger productions and involved costs as part of Tender Department; development of advanced calculation models• Development of dredging pump calculation model to estimate pump limitations and power consumption, based on the dredger specifications and project specific input. This resulted in faster response to project requests and huge calculation time savings (up to 10 x less).• Development of a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) production model to calculate cycle times, overflow losses and optimal loading point. This enabled the Production Department to significantly improve the production estimates accuracy and therefore the involved risk during tender stage.• Calculation of production and cost for various different tenders in- and outside United Arab Emirates on a day-to-day basis.

Abu Dhabi

Provide production calculations for Tender Department; assist project teams with various production estimates• East Sitra Housing Project – on-site follow up of TSHD which proved to effectively improve the production and therefore significantly reducing costs. • Development of logging model (in VBA) for reading dredger sensors measurements and automatic conversion into different graphs related to the production. This enabled superintendents as well as project managers and production engineers to follow up more closely on the daily performance of the dredger.• Support the tendering department with dredger production calculations and dredging methodology.

Master Of Science In Civil Engineering, Dredging & Offshore Engineering, Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Civil Engineering

Sciences & Mathematics