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Greek, in Switzerland since 2018. Family, travel, gym and home automation.
My story, in reverse
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06/2023 – Present·ABB Switzerland · Turgi
Global Customer Solution Manager – Renewables
Global HQ role for green hydrogen, Solar PV and BESS projects up to ~750 MW, interfacing Sales, R&D, Product Management, Procurement, Manufacturing and ABB China. • Technical Sales Lead in customer meetings and tenders; owner of solution design, technical and commercial offers and full cost models. • Leads grid-compliance simulations (power factor, harmonics, grid code) at rectifier and plant level. • Solution architect for power-supply packages: transformers, IGBT and thyristor rectifiers, busbars and containerized plug-and-play solutions. • Technical lead of the know-how transfer to ABB China; supported the local team ramp-up. • Extended scope to Solar PV and BESS (Proteus PV / PCS) after ABB acquired Gamesa Electric's power electronics business. • Nominated for ABB's leadership career path (DDI Talent Development Assessment).
09/2023 – Present·Parents' Association, Greek HSK School Bungertwies · Zürich
Finance Officer, Management Board
Elected board member responsible for finances, budgeting and the organization of school and association activities.
01/2022 – 05/2023·ABB Switzerland · Turgi
Product Specialist & R&D Technical Lead – Unirec H2
New product introduction of Unirec H2, ABB's power-converter system for hydrogen electrolysis. • Technical lead for R&D, from requirements to hardware and software. • Defined the product roadmap, specifications and technical requirements with Product Management. • Built digital twins for specification verification and sales support. • HW & SW lead for a small-scale test simulator for special control functions. • Led a remote team in China for application engineering and system design. • Created a sales configuration tool for solution design and component dimensioning.
2019 · 2022·Stanford Online · DeepLearning.AI · Coursera
Machine Learning
Machine Learning (Stanford Online, 2019), followed by the Machine Learning Specialization (Stanford Online & DeepLearning.AI, 2022).
09/2018 – 12/2021·ABB Switzerland · Turgi
Senior Project Engineer – Lead Electrical Engineer, Excitation Systems
Excitation, synchronizing and static starting systems for nuclear, combined-cycle, coal and hydro power plants worldwide: greenfield, brownfield and upgrades. • Delivered more than 50 excitation, synchronizing and static starting systems (UNITROL, MEGATROL, SYNCHROTACT). • Specialist for MEGATROL (excitation plus LCI / SFC gas-turbine starters); owned and improved the MATLAB-based LCI dimensioning tool. • PSS and grid-code compliance studies for delivered systems. • Cross-department engineering with MV Drives and Drives Product Management.
2018·Personal
Moved to Switzerland
Relocated from Greece to Switzerland, where I live and work today.
02/2016 – 08/2018·Elpedison SA · Thisvi CCGT
Lead Operation & Maintenance (O&M) Engineer
EC&I lead for the 410 MW Thisvi combined-cycle power plant. • Maintenance and troubleshooting of HV/MV/LV switchgear, protection, generators, transformers, motors, UPS and batteries. • Responsible for DCS (Siemens S7), ABB turbine controls, HIMA safety PLCs, field instrumentation and vibration monitoring. • Planned contractors and outage activities; trained and led new team members with a strong safety and reliability focus. • Led improvement projects and engineering studies; GT / ST LTA activities, spare parts and SAP purchasing.
2013 – 2017·Hellenic Open University
MSc Construction and Engineering Project Management
Completed by distance learning while working full-time as an electrical engineer. Grade 7.5/10.
08/2011 – 03/2015·METKA SA (METLEN Energy & Metals) · Greece & Turkey
Lead Electrical, Control & Instrumentation Commissioning Engineer
Lead commissioning engineer for 3 turnkey EPC power plants: Korinthos Power CCGT (Loutraki), OMV Samsun CCPP and PPC Ilarion HPP. • Commissioned electrical, control and instrumentation systems; hands-on with most plant equipment (GE Mark VIe, Metso DCS, Siemens PLC, HIMA). • Led up to 15 people (indirect) and 5+ contractors; planned and supervised daily commissioning work. • Promoted to Warranty Manager and Handover Project Manager for projects above €800M. • Managed handover to the end client, warranty cases and supplementary engineering studies.
Korinthos Power CCGT – Agioi Theodoroi, Loutraki (Greece)
Turnkey combined-cycle power plant: EC&I commissioning and handover to the client.
OMV Samsun CCPP (Turkey)
Combined-cycle power plant on the Black Sea coast: EC&I commissioning during construction and start-up.
PPC Ilarion Hydroelectric Plant (Greece)
Hydroelectric plant on the Aliakmonas river: generators, main transformers, substation and small HEP commissioning.
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Other METKA power projects
Further METKA EPC power projects: Agios Nikolaos CCPP (Greece) and mobile gas-turbine units in Algeria.
10/2010 – 07/2011·Hellenic Army · Alexandroupoli
Team Leader – Light Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Obligatory military service: team leader and main operator of a Rheinmetall light anti-aircraft artillery unit.
2003 – 2010·Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
MEng Electrical & Computer Engineering
5-year integrated master with specialisation in electronics and computer engineering. Grade 7.24/10.
