Professional Experience
11/2012 – 11/2014 R&D Engineer (Mechanical / Mechatronic Design) at CRP Henri TUDOR, Advance Material & Structures Department, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg.
Personal Task: Mechanical / mechatronic design of prototype experimental high precision devices, CAD design (3D / 2D mechanical sketches ), FEA simulations, shape characterization (in bio mechanics / dental implants & lifting rings projects), data acquisition technics, material characterization, experimental set up / validation, managing workshops technicians and parts ordering.
07/2013 – Today Research Project: “Development of Journal Bearings with Variable Geometry for the Vibration Suppression in Rotor-Bearing Systems”.
High Speed, ESNP Global Customer Services, Frankfurt, Germany.
Personal Task: Simulation of the dynamics of journal bearings with variable geometry and integration on rotor dynamics algorithms.
Supervisor Dr. Athanasios Chasalevris, Rotordynamic Engineer – R&D Engineer BorgWarner Turbosystems GmbH.
09/2011 – 11/2012 Quality Engineer at “Car Workshop – Exhausts”, Former Official NISSAN Car Workshop, Lefkada, Greece
Personal Task: Installation & maintenance of electrical / electronic car components (Sensors, OBD1/2 Diagnosis), repair of general mechanical problems, spare parts ordering, clients managing.
2005 – 2007 Computer System Administrator in the Mechanical and Aeronautic Engineer Department Computer Center in Patras, Greece.
Personal Task: Software and hardware diagnosis and repair, network security, set up undergraduate lab courses.
2004 Full Time Summer Occupation at Wastewater Treatment Plant in Lefkada, Greece.
Personal Task: Plant mechanical maintenance (pumps, pipes, sensors).
2003 Full Time Summer Occupation at KNAUF Industries Product Line Factory, Greece.
Personal Task: Factory product line electrical / mechanical problems diagnosis and repair (Sensors, Conveyors, Dehumidifiers), CAD designer.
Education
2002 – 2012
Department Mechanical & Aeronautics, School of Engineering, University Patras, Greece
Grade: 7.3 / 10 (Very Good, 5-year degree, equivalent to MSc).
Specialization: Division of Design and Manufacturing Department, CAD/CAM.
4rth Year Project: “Itemization of the Modern Technology of the Belt Support Elements in the Conveyor Machines.”, Machine Design Lab, Associate Professor Argiris J. Dentsoras.
Diploma Thesis: “Analysis, Simulation, Design, Programming & Construction of a Pick and Place Robot”, Robotics Lab, Professor Nickolaos Aspragathos.
Thesis Review: Successfully analyzed and solved the direct and inverse manipulator kinematic solutions, the models workspace, the singularities matrixes, the design progress & FEA analysis, the robot programming and the final experimental validations.
2001 – 2002 University of Ioannina, Greece, Physics Department.
2001 Graduated from High School of Lefkada, Greece (General Score 16 & 3/10).
Distinctions and honours
2000 Seventeenth place in the annual national physics competition (organized by the National Physicists’ Society ).
Dec 1997- Dec 1998 High scorer (two consecutive years) in the prefecture of Aitoloakarnania, Greece in the annual national mathematical competition “THALES” (organized by the national mathematical society of Greece – EME.
Awards and Prizes during Junior High & High School Classes
Skills
Programming Matlab, NI LabView, Mathematica, HBM QuantumX, Origin.
CAD/CAE Autodesk 2014 (Inventor – Mechanical Desktop – AutoCAD), Dassault Systems (Catia V5– Solidworks 2013), Ansys Workbench V14.5, Abaqus 12.1, Adams 2013 MSC (Rotor Dynamics).
Hands-On Experience Laboratory testing & measuring equipment, experimental setups for testing prototypes (INSTRON, DYNA-MESS, HBM, THORLABS, LINMOT, AVS / Bosch Automotive), OBD1/2 (Electrical/ Electronic H/S), Robotics Build & Measurements, Bio Dental Applications), Rapid Prototyping & Production tooling techniques. Wastewater Pumps / Pipes Installation & Maintenance, Automobile, Mechanical Components Quality Control, Diagnose & Repair, Workshops & Technical Documentation, Data Acquisition Techniques, Electric & Electronic Hardware Installation.
Personality Work Under Pressure, Diagnose & Solve Problems, Team Worker.
Hobbies Crossfit, Sailing, Driving.
Since 2003 Member of the Robotics Team, (Laboratory of Mechanical Technology – Robotics Group)
Acknowledgment / Conferences / Memberships
May 2014 DeMEASS VI Conference: Presentation of “Load-Bearing Brittle Implants for Enhanced Reliability” – Compression & Torsion Experimental Device Mechatronic Design, Ede, Netherlands
Submitted 2012 M.D. Spiridonakos, S.D. Fassois, “An FS-TAR Model-Based Statistical Framework for the
Fault Detection and Identification in a Time-Varying Pick-and-Place Mechanism”.
The experiment of this paper completed on my thesis P&P robot.
July 2012 Member of the Engineering Chamber of Greece, Licence Number TEE: 132352
Since 2003 Member of the Robotics Team, (Laboratory of Mechanical Technology – Robotics Group)
Languages
Greek (Native), English (Proficiency Michigan, C2), German (Grundstufe, B2), French (Elementary, A2).
