Name:

James Filhol

Contact:

Rathmore, Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland

Tel.: +353 28 20242 or 20129 (also fax)

jfilhol@hotmail.com,  http://homepage.eircom.net/~filhol/

Date of birth:

25 March 1969

Marital Status:

Married (separated), two children

Nationality:

British

1974 – 1979

primary schools in England and Ireland

1979 – 1980

Bandon Grammar School, Co. Cork, Ireland

1980 – 1987

Oundle School, Northamptonshire, England

O-Levels in 12 subjects:

Maths, French, English Language, Physics, Biology

- A

Latin, Geography, Additional Maths, Chemistry

- B

English Literature, British Economic Organisation, General Studies

- C

A-Levels in: Biology (C), Physics (B), Chemistry (C)

1987 – 1991

The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

B.Eng.(hons.) in Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding (2.2)

Final year options:

- Computer-Aided Engineering

- Engineering Mathematics II  (incl. FEA.)

- Ship’s Structures II (incl. FEA.)

- Resistance and Propulsion II

- Project: 'A computerized method for smoke flow through complicated structures'

1991

1992

Intensive course in French, Eurocentre de La Rochelle

'Institute of Linguists' General Level, German

01 July ’90 –

31 Aug.’90

British Maritime Technology (BMT) Defence Services Ltd., Bath, Avon, England

(Student Naval Architect)

Technical documentation, surveying, quality assurance, stability and strength calculations

09 Sep.’91 –

22 May ’92

BMT CORTEC Ltd., Wallsend Research Station, Tyne & Wear, England

(Naval Architect in the ‘Design Services’ Group)

Main responsibilities were technical support and production of stability booklets for passenger Ro-Ro ships.

16 Dec.’91 –

17 Jan. ’92

BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd., Teddington, England

(On secondment from BMT CORTEC)

Seakeeping (strip theory) calculations for a research project on fishing vessel safety

01 Sep.’92 –

31 Aug.’98

Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA), Germany

(Naval Architect in the Seakeeping and Manoeuvring department)

Main areas of responsibility lay in planning, performing and documenting model tests and theoretical calculations for seakeeping problems, as well as in the associated programming work. Other regular duties were the evaluation of model tests with waterjet-propelled ships and development of the powering prediction method for such vessels. I also worked on a number of interesting projects such as SES and SWATH ships, and often corrected or translated technical publications in other fields.

01 Oct. ’98 –

28 Feb. ’00

Fr. Lürssen Werft, Bremen, Germany

(Naval Architect in the Ship Theory department)

Main areas of responsibility were the production of stability information and conducting theoretical seakeeping calculations for various projects. I also played a key role in inclining experiments and ship trials and developed a computer program for collecting GPS manoeuvring data during trials.

01 Mar. ’00 –

15 Jun. ’00

Blohm und Voss GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

(Naval Architect in the Ship Design department)

In the short time in the design office I gained experience in various parts of the design process. The main tasks were the estimation of powering, manoeuvring and seakeeping characteristics for various projects as well as helping in the development of hull lines. I also performed an operability analysis for one project with respect to seakeeping performance, based on theoretical calculations.