Paul Atherton
Board Member at Sustainable Energy Norwegian Catapult Centre- Claim this Profile
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English Professional working proficiency
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Norwegian Native or bilingual proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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Sachin Thopate
I have worked with Paul over three and a half years (2011-2015). Paul has good managing and strong technical skills. Paul is systematic and precise in his approach . He is always in calm and good mood. As a manager he is quite skillful to lead his subordinates. He is not only a good manager but also a very good person. I give my strongest recommendation to Paul. He is fantastic person to work with.
Sachin Thopate
I have worked with Paul over three and a half years (2011-2015). Paul has good managing and strong technical skills. Paul is systematic and precise in his approach . He is always in calm and good mood. As a manager he is quite skillful to lead his subordinates. He is not only a good manager but also a very good person. I give my strongest recommendation to Paul. He is fantastic person to work with.
Sachin Thopate
I have worked with Paul over three and a half years (2011-2015). Paul has good managing and strong technical skills. Paul is systematic and precise in his approach . He is always in calm and good mood. As a manager he is quite skillful to lead his subordinates. He is not only a good manager but also a very good person. I give my strongest recommendation to Paul. He is fantastic person to work with.
Sachin Thopate
I have worked with Paul over three and a half years (2011-2015). Paul has good managing and strong technical skills. Paul is systematic and precise in his approach . He is always in calm and good mood. As a manager he is quite skillful to lead his subordinates. He is not only a good manager but also a very good person. I give my strongest recommendation to Paul. He is fantastic person to work with.
Experience
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Sustainable Energy Norwegian Catapult Centre
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Norway
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Services for Renewable Energy
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1 - 100 Employee
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Board Member
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Apr 2023 - Present
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Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch
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Finland
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Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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General Manager Operation Unit Norway
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Apr 2019 - Present
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Key Account Manager
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Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
Your contact point for power drives from The Switch! The new operational unit for The Switch has vast experience in delivering drives for demanding marine and oil & gas applications. This business originally began 15 years ago to focus on R&D engineering and was owned by Aker Elektro. In 2005, it was acquired by Wärtsilä Norway AS and now November 2016 a carve out of the Power Drives product was completed.The Drives business currently employs about 20 persons of which the majority are R&D and project engineers. The product range of 690 V low-voltage drives extends from 500 kW up to 5.5 MW single motors and 10 MW dual motors including multidrive setup with distributed DC.Our power electronics are used in many different applications, such as shore connection, clean power supply (with island mode), battery charging (both plug-in hybrid and Wireless), motor inverters for propulsion, pumps, winches, top-drive, draw work. Show less
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Wärtsilä
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Finland
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Discipline Manager Power Drives
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Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
A discipline manager is a part of the discipline management, and it is the team of technical expertise for how to combine products into systems and concepts based on strategy, roadmap, and features.Make product related recommendations and technical guidelines to the organization based on product expertise and knowledge and contribute with technical input to sales offerings or tender work.Planning and executing engineering capacities/budgets and project manpower forecasting along with HR manager.Also responsible for correct input and functionality in sales quotation tool. Show less
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Manager - Power Drives Delivery - Ship Power E&A
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Oct 2012 - Dec 2015
Responsible for ensuring the Power Drives Scope in our projects are delivered according to specifications, within given time schedule, our expected high quality and within the estimated cost.
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Team leader
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May 2011 - Sep 2012
Team leader in Ship Power Technology Automation - Drive Solutions
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Project Engineer
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Jun 2007 - Apr 2011
Project engineer in Ship Power Technology - Drive Solutions.Worked with Wärtsiläs own developed frequency converters for marine and offshore installations.
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Education
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Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund / Stord/Haugesund University College (HSH)
Micro Economics, B -
Høgskolen i Bergen (HiB) / Bergen University College
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics -
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