Experience

Blue21

• Netherlands
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Engineer Floating City Development

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  Consulting, performing and reviewing of structural and maritime engineering works for floating city development, contributing to research projects and strategy. Providing expert technical support on large floating structures in the field of moorings, hydrodynamics, fluid-structure interaction and hydroelasticity. Consulting, performing and reviewing of structural and maritime engineering works for floating city development, contributing to research projects and strategy. Providing expert technical support on large floating structures in the field of moorings, hydrodynamics, fluid-structure interaction and hydroelasticity.



Shell

• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Offshore Structures Engineer

  • Sep 2013 - Present

  Providing expert technical support and leading activities for projects and assets in the field of risers, moorings and hydrodynamics. These activities included repair and inspection of mooring systems, asset integrity and life time extensions of offshore structures, design and delivery of water intake risers and mooring systems. Also acted as: - Activity Lead for repair and rejuvenation at an onshore LNG facility. - Technical Authority for floating structures. - Lead Engineer for Water Intake Risers for Prelude FLNG, Browse FLNG, Abadi FLNG. - Line manager for Offshore Structures engineers. - HSSE focal point for the Civil and Offshore Structures discipline.



Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI)

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman Offshore Technology

  • May 2017 - May 2020

  Chairman at the section of Offshore Technology at the Royal Institute for Engineers in the Netherlands.

• Vice Chairman Offshore Technology

  • Mar 2012 - May 2017

  Vice chairman at the section of Offshore Technology at the Royal Institute for Engineers in the Netherlands. The section of Offshore Technology has approximately 1200 members.Organized international symposia, lectures and excursions for professionals in the Dutch offshore industry and students.Annually organized an award and ceremony for the best offshore engineering MSc thesis at Delft University of Technology.Chair (annual) board meetings, lectures and symposia.



SBM Offshore

• Netherlands
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineer Hydrodynamics

  • Sep 2011 - Sep 2013

  Lead engineer for hydrodynamics & mooring of FPSOs. Performed hydrodynamic analyses, mooring analyses and riser analyses for FPSOs. Lead activities during the model testing campaign of FPSOs. Developed analytical tools for fast and efficient design of mooring systems for FPSOs. Supervised MSc students during their internship. Lead engineer for hydrodynamics & mooring of FPSOs. Performed hydrodynamic analyses, mooring analyses and riser analyses for FPSOs. Lead activities during the model testing campaign of FPSOs. Developed analytical tools for fast and efficient design of mooring systems for FPSOs. Supervised MSc students during their internship.



GustoMSC

• Netherlands
• Services for Renewable Energy
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Engineer Product Development

  • Oct 2009 - Sep 2011

  Engineer at the product development team at GustoMSC | SBM Offshore. Developed a Sea Water Intake Riser system for wind turbine installation jack-ups. Performed research into Dynamic Positioning of vessels in Arctic conditions. Designed and analyzed the hydrodynamic behaviour of vessels for installation of offshore wind turbines. Lead activities for floating wind turbines (GustoMSC's Tri-Floater). Performed market investigations in the offshore wind industry, prepared award winning proposals for government grants, developed software for floating wind turbines in cooperation with MARIN and ECN, performed complex hydro-aerodynamic analysis to model the behaviour of floating wind turbines. Developed software to model the interaction between complex mechanical and hydrodynamic systems. Supervised MSc students during their internship.



Technische Universiteit Delft

• Research Engineer

  • Nov 2004 - Jun 2009

  Research engineer at Delft University of Technology & GustoMSC | SBM Offshore. Successfully delivered a PhD thesis on fluid-structure interaction of air cushion supported mega-floaters. Prepared research proposals and secured funding at academia and industry for PhD research. Developed diffraction software to analyze the complex motion behaviour of flexible floating structures with and without air cushions. Performed hydrodynamic analyses of a Dual Draft Vessel, analyzed roll motion suppression systems for floating structures, and performed global wave statistics. Organized a symposium on Fluid-Structure-Interaction. Supervised students during their MSc internship. Lecturer at Delft University of Technology at the faculties of Maritime Technology and Offshore. Author of 14 technical publications in journals and international conferences.

• Internship

  • Sep 2003 - Aug 2004

  Performed internship at GustoMSC | SBM Offshore. Delivered a MSc thesis describing a novel design of a pipelay derrick barge. The new design was later patented as the dual-draft vessel. A paper about the thesis work was published at the OMAE conference in 2008. Performed internship at GustoMSC | SBM Offshore. Delivered a MSc thesis describing a novel design of a pipelay derrick barge. The new design was later patented as the dual-draft vessel. A paper about the thesis work was published at the OMAE conference in 2008.