Thomas Milani

Responsible of cost control, work organization, daily coordination meetings with the Ship Owner, inspections on board for quotations redaction and negotiation of the variation orders.
A highly versatile activity where I have been involved in quick projects ("Bourbon Aladin" - 1 month, "Italtech Big Cem" - 5 days, "Wagenborg Africaborg" - 4 days …) as well as more important ones ("Saipem S355" - 4 months and 2 dry docks, "Saipem Bar Protector" - 2 months, "Costa Romantica" - 3 months and 1 dry dock, "Saipem Crawler" - 3 months and 1 dry dock ...).

To be prepared for my journey on board, I followed a 2 months formation at the Ecole Nationale de la Marine Marchande de Marseille including lessons about engines and machinery, navigation, maritime right as well as survival, first aid and fire fighting tests. From the 8th of november to the 13th of january, I spent 67 days on the CMA CGM Nabucco (8200 teu container ship, 337 m LOA) as a first class polyvalent cadet officer. Half of my journey was done in the engine room and the other half at the bridge. There I was able to put all my theoritical skills in Naval Architecture in use. These two months spent working everyday on a merchant ship brought me a knowledge of the maritime world from the practical point of view and a great personal experience.

A one year mission as a Naval Architect at Technip France headquaters in Paris - La Défense. As part of the SHELL gFLNG naval architecture team I was first in charge of the redaction of the Wave Basin test of the project which occured at MARIN (Netherlands). Then I took care of the deep water mooring design work leading the transformation of the meteorogical database given and the different possible design comparative works. I was also involved in the towing bollard pull and meteorological study specification redactions. The experience made me discover the way huge projects (a 600.000 dwt ship, more than one billion dollar total estimated cost) are managed from the contractor point of view.

A 8 months internship as technical coordinator of the project SeaOrbiter. A first experience in naval architecture that enables me to discover many aspects of the maritime industry. Indeed, I was in charge of the coordination between the different partners of the project (DCNS, NASA, Marintek, Marine Nationale..) in order to organise the preliminary technical studies. Thanks to the reasonable size of the technical team of about 10 persons, I was directly involved in the different topics all through the project process (Requirements definition, CAD design, Certification, Cost plans, Stability calculations, Ancoring calculations...).

If you are interested by the seaorbiter project, many informations can be found on www.seaorbiter.com

A 3 months research internship studying a criteria in fatigue based on energy used with shape memory alloys. My task was to study if it was possible to widen the range of use of this criteria to other materials. The results of the study were used to write a publication in the "International Journal of Fatigue" entitled "Impact of microstructure, temperature and strain on energy-based low-cycle fatigue life prediction models for TiAl alloys".

A 5 weeks internship in San Martin de los Andes (Argentina) as a receptionist. These weeks spent in a fully spanish speaking ambiant enabled me to improve my knowledge of that langage.