Project leader, managing teams and projects.

Having a job of manager, operation, ports or maritime related.

EXPERIENCE OF SEAFARER

Sailing as lieutnant on bridge and in engine room. Later Chief Officer, Second Engineer and Captain.
Sailing on any kind of ships. General Cargo, containers carriers, Bulk Carriers, LNG carriers, VLCC, Ro-Ro ships, scientific ship, passengers ship.
As engineer, used all kind of propulsion, slow engines, fast engines, steam turbines.

EXPERIENCE AS IT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Responsible of the making of software for industry. In charge of a team of 7 IT people working on the same project.
Working with ARIANE ESPACE, THOMSON, COGEMA, ALCATEL, TGV….

EXPERIENCE AS HARBOUR MASTER AND CIVIL ENGINEER

The port where I was, handled 35 Million tons of cargos per year, in very adverse nautical conditions. It is on a river with streams up to 7 knots. I was receiving VLCC 360 m long, bulk carrier, 300 m long, LNG carriers 290 m long, container carriers up to 280 m.
In the position of Harbour Master you need to be a decision maker. You need coordinating, motivating and organizing all port professionals whose interests are often in conflict. The target is the service of the client and the organisation of the call of the ship
Management of more than 3000 calls per year.
Thanks to a method for the analysis of the process of a call, I had a decrease of 90% of the accidents and incidents.
Design and procurement of a web based IT system to prepare and process the calls.
Engineering for other ports, such as Dahej in India. I had to design a LNG terminal and to deal with all the nautical issues, Pilotage, Towage, mooring, unloading of vessels, safety.
Regarding civil works, I had to build a Ro-Ro berth, from the preliminary studies to the achievement of the birth.
I had to build a berth of 600 m for container carriers. For this berth I had to procure the gantries.

EXPERIENCE OF AN INTERNATIONAL TWINNING

Pré accession advisor in a twinning between France and Malta for ports and maritime safety.

Design of the waste management plan for the Maltese ports.
Design, procurement and commissioning of a web based IT system for the process of the calls and for the treatment of dangerous goods declarations. THis system being connected to SAFE SEA NET, the European database.
Design, procurement and commissioning of a VTS made of a net of 9 radars inter linked. This VTS is connected to SAFE SEA NET.

Master Mariner
Chief Engineer