Curriculum vitae - Sven Stroo

Professional career:

 

1) Design4Dredgers: 1/1/2012 until today

 

Started up own design company “Design4Dredgers bvba”, providing assistance to Shipyards, engineering companies and ship owners active in dredging and offshore.

Following projects have been performed or are still on-going for international clients:        

 

• Concept design of a self propelled jack-up for a Dutch shipyard.

• Concept design of a medium sized hopper dredger for a Dutch engineering company.

• Concept design and engineering of 2 multi-cats for an Asian shipyard.

• Follow up and supervision/managing of the engineering of a large self propelled cutter dredger, including assistance in establishing a document control system, setting up a site team, setting up a commissioning team and making the detailed building schedules for an Asian shipyard.

• Providing advisory services (on technical and dredging aspects) on board a large trailing suction hopper dredger (incl. follow-up visit) for an Asian Dredging Company

• Project manager for the building of a flexible pipelay vessel for a Dutch Shipyard

• Concept Design of an LNG powered trailing suction barge loading dredge.

• Various concept designs of hoppers for a Dutch Shipyard

• Consultancy for the design of a small hopper dredge for a Dutch Shipyard

• Project manager for the building of a large self propelled cutter suction dredge at a Croatian Shipyard

• Assistance during the building of a large self propelled cutter suction dredger in China

• Project manager for the building of an LNG prepared hopper dredge at a Chinese Shipyard

        

2) Employment at Deme NV since 1/2/93 until 30/4/2012. Overview:

 

• 1/6/2007 until 30/4/2012
  Due to the boom in the shipbuilding combined with the expansion of the dredging market a new strategy had to be followed for the building of dredging vessels. Dutch shipyards claimed high prices and long delivery times. Therefore Deme ordered a number of vessels in the Far East. The engineering was done at Dutch and German engineering companies and the main components were OFE due to the long delivery times. During that period I was the project manager for the building of 2 3000m3 split barges (build in Battam) and 2 medium sized 13000kW self propelled rock cutter suction dredgers (build in Singapore). The first vessel was delivered in July 2011; the second vessel will be delivered in March 2012. Furthermore I was project manager for the DP2 jack-up “Neptune” (Delivery Jan 2012), the backhoe dredger “Peter The Great” (Delivery Feb 2012) and the self-propelled heavy-duty cutter suction dredger “Ambiorix” (delivery May 2012).

 

• 1/1/2002 - 1/6/2007
  Senior Project manager at the technical department new building (new building of vessels) for the concept design, the engineering, building supervision and technical supervision during the warranty period after delivery of the suction hopper dredgers “Pallieter”, “Brabo” and “Breydel” and the self-propelled heavy-duty rock cutter suction dredger ”d`Artagnan”. Responsible for the Deme drawing office that makes the concept designs for future investments and that does the engineering for modifications at existing vessels and for custom build equipment required on site.

 

• 1/1/99 - 31/12/2001
  Project manager at the technical department new building (new building of vessels) for the concept design, the engineering, building supervision and technical supervision during the warranty period after delivery of the suction hopper dredgers “Nile River” and the “Uilenspiegel” and the gravel dredger “Charlemagne”.

 

• 1/4/97 - 31/12/98
  Assistant project manager at the technical department new building (new building of vessels) for the concept design, the engineering, building supervision and technical supervision during the warranty period after delivery of 2 1000m3 split barges and the suction hopper dredger “Lange Wapper”.

 

• 15/1/97 - 1/4/97
  Responsible technical department for the vessels working at the project for the installation of the gas pipeline between UK and Zeebrugge (Belgium).

 

• 1/11/95 - 15/1/97
  Responsible technical department for the suction hopper dredger “Pearl River” (delivered in 9/94) working in the Far East (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur (West Malaysia) and Bintulu (East Malaysia))  

 

• 1/1/95 - 31/10/95
  Responsible technical department for the projects in Cardiff (Wales) and Belfast.

 

• 1/2/93 - 31/12/94
  Superintendent at the technical department (maintenance of vessels) in Belgium and Europe (short term)

 

 

 

Education and diplomas:

 

• University of Gent: 1986-1991: Bachelor degree in engineering sciences + master degree in shipbuilding engineering.

• Slurry transport using centrifugal pumps – April 2001 -  Atlanta (GIW)

• Several short term management courses over the years.