Byron Dikis
Chemical Engineer — R&D, Plant Management, Industrial Sales
Thirty years across research and development, plant management, and technical sales in the plastics and industrial sectors, with patents in large-bore pipe manufacturing. Based in Athens, Greece.
Email: byron@byrondikis.gr
Location: Athens, Greece
Work Experience
2004 – PRESENT
Sales
Plastika Kritis
15/12/2001 – 30/10/2002
GEOPLAST S.A.
Installation of desalination plant total capacity 12.000 m3/day with total project 400.000 € (SIROS ISLAND)
7/2001 – 14/12/2001
Plant Manager
GROUP OF COMPANIES “CHRIS PAN”
- 15% increase the production capacity.
- 10% reduction of the process time of scrap.
- 10% reduction of the direct cost.
6/2000 – 7/2001
Plant Director
CH. CATSELIS SONS S.A. ATHENS
- 30% Reduction of labor cost by introducing and implementing new installation in production for frozen product
2/1999 – 5/2000
R&D Director
A.G. PETZETAKIS S.A.
- Responsible for the development of new products and implementation of new production technologies.
- Developed and implement of new production method for plastic flexible hoses which resulted to annual sales exceeding 16.000.000 €.
- Redesign of large bore pipes (Diam 0.5 – 2.0 m) resulting in cost reduction of 18% while having same technical characteristics.
- Pattent inventor for large bore pipes cooling system.
- Technical representative for ELOT for plastic pipes and fittings.
1994 – 1999
R&D Dept. of new products development Manager
A.G. PETZETAKIS S.A.
- Product design by computers
- Development of computer programs for technical assistant
- Responsible for research programs (NATO – STRIDE –PAVE)
1993 –1994
Technical sales manager
A.G. PETZETAKIS S.A.
- Responsible for large technical account.
- Tenters for the public and private sector
- Promotion of new technical product
- Budgeting
1991-1993
Plastic flexible hose Production Manager
A.G. PETZETAKIS S.A.
- Responsible for planning production of 45 production lines with more than 3.000 codes
- Budgeting
- Training of 200 workers
1989 – 1991
R&D Division
A.G. PETZETAKIS S.A.
- Member of R&D team responsible for technological development of large bore pipes.
- Technical coordinator for technology transfer to U.S. company Vassalo, Phillips Petroleum, Septer and Contech valued 5.000.000 €..
PUBLICATION – PATTENTS
- Ionic net made of polymers soil improvement application effect in agriculture.
- Statistical experimental design by computer Hellenic society of chemical Eng. Paper No 56 Athens 1986.
Effect of a new polyester base soil conditioner on helianthuς – annus, Proceed of 6th European conference on Biomass for energy, Industry, Environment, Athens, April 1991.
- 1985, A.G. PETZETAKIS S.A. “INDUSTRY AWARD” for best research thesis paper on polymers Dept of chemical engineer NTUA. Knew the data that I a new
- U.S. APPLICATION ser No – 7/586609, “Process and apparatus for producing large – caliber pipe”, International patent 10 countries.
- Participation in the international patent “Production of elastic pipes helicoidal reinforced with PE.
MEMBERS OF
- Technical chamber (TEE)
- Hellenic Society of Chemical Engineer
- Hellenic Society of polymers.
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
- Development computer programs in the WINDOWS Platforms (VB – VB for application).
- INTERNET/INTRANET (installation and using).
- MS OFFICE – XP ( Excel – Word – Outlook – Access – PowerPoint – FrontPage) – MS PROJECT 2000 – MS VISION 2000 – ACAD 2000 – ACTRIX 2000.
TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Over 6.000 hours of training experience (technical calculations with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft VB – Database)
MEMBER OF
- Technical Chamber (TEE)
- Hellenic Society of Chemical Engineer
- Hellenic Society of Polymers.
Contact
bdikis@byrondikis.gr