CURRICULUM VITAE
GENERAL DATA
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Surname
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Sbarounis
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Name
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Nick
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Father's
name
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Euthymius
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Date
of birth
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01
Aug 63
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Place
of birth
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Athens
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Nationality
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Hellenic
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I.D.
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K 258263
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e-mail
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Email me!>
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Internet
homepage
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http://www.geocities.com/sbarounis
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Address
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Phokidos 18
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Tel.
work
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210-5194034
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Tel.
home
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7777232
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ZIP
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115 26 Athens
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1975 Introduction to Varvakis
High School (70th among 1200
candidates)
1981 Introduction
to KATEE of Chalkis (Mechanical Engineering Dept.) in the 1st
place.
1983 Introduction to Patras Polytechnic College (Civil
Engineering Dept.) in the 4th place. Graduated with Very Good mark. A major task
was the compilation of the ZUGBETRIEB train simulation software
as a part of the thesis Modern locomotion. This is an accurate simulation of
train dynamic behavior when running on a specific line, The program calculates
timetables and outputs performance graphs depicting any desired operational parameter,
including power and energy demands. The software was initially developed in
Quick Basic and was later upgraded to Visual Basic in order to enhance
functionality, usability and versatility.
1999 Certification by Hamburg
Consult and Bechtel as Trainer for
Maintenance Personnel
2000 Certification by ATTIKO METRO as
Track Competent (eligible to work without supervision on and near the track)
SPECIAL EDUCATION, TRAINING, SEMINARS
Summer 1983 Mechanical Engineering practice in ΟΣΕ Piraeus Central Workshops. General overhauls of
diesel locomotives.
Summer
1988. Civil Engineering practice in the Steel Bridge Workshops of the Civil
Engineering Institute in the Breslau
Technical University (Polytechnic Wrocławska)
under the auspices of IAESTE. Rail
bridge loading tests, measurement of weakening of old bridge structures,
mechanical strength testing of steel bridge components. Instructors were Drs.
Zbigniew Maήko, Jan Bien and Przemyslaw
Maliskiewicz.
1996 Courses in Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft
Access
Spring
1997 Attendance of ATTIKO METRO
internal seminars on German Metro operating and maintenance practices
Summer
1997 Courses in GIS
Summer
2002 Seminars in workplace safety studies
evaluation
RAILROAD-RELATED ACTIVITY
1980- Founding member and active pioneer of the Railway Enthusiasts Association
(ΣΦΣ)
1980- Close cooperation with the Athens RR
Museum. Broad contribution to the discovery, evaluation, rescue and
restoration of historic RRs and their material. Related cooperation with the Dept. of Culture
1984 and 1988 Secretary of ΣΦΣ
1984-87 Key partner of the Volos Railway Enthusiasts Association for the
restoration of the Pelion
N.G. railway. Co-author of the report for the
operation of the railway on behalf of the Railway Enthusiasts Association, which was taken on by the
officially appointed consultants of the Prefecture.
1985 Vice
Chairman of the Railway Enthusiasts
Association (ΣΦΣ)
1985-86 Cooperation with the City of
Kalamata through the consulting engineers in charge Messrs. Zekkos and Diamantopoulos
concerning:
Wrote a report
titled "Kalamata and its railway system".
>1986 Key
member of the Light Railway & Tramway Workgroup of the Railway Enthusiasts Association. Broad contribution to the
campaign for the re-introduction of streetcars in Hellenic cities. Together
with A. Kurbelis in charge of editing the
Association's periodical ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ (Rail),
author of many editorials (most important was "Railroads and local administration"
in the 4th issue); also in charge of the RR news column.
>1987 Board
member of the Railway Enthusiasts
Association with considerable activity for the ΣΦΣ 's partaking
in the "Year of Environment" celebration. Vital contributor to the ΣΦΣ proposals and interventions, co-editor of the ΣΦΣ periodical "ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ "
special issue.
>1995-96 Head of
the Preservation sector of the ΣΦΣ
>1995 Pioneer
of the creation of the 1st volunteer-run railway preservation projects in the
Balkans, on the closed meter-gauge Athens - Laurion and Volo-Demerli branches. Highly involved in
every aspect of the engineering and management of the projects. Participated in
the study and construction of a steel bridge over a country road near Kouvaras and
a 400m long deviation with a motorway underpass near Keratea. Compilation of
the railways operating rules.
>2002 Co-founder
of the Attica RR Preservation Society
1988-90
Expert advisor to the DROMOS S.A. for the study of the Attica suburban
RR organization in relation to the Menidi Intermodal Transfer Station (ΣΚΜ), in behalf of the Athens Organization.
1991- Cooperator to surveyor Spyridon Papandreades.
Participation in field work of highest accuracy (creation of a trigonometric
network, adjustment, tachometry by EDM leveling, mapping of 0.664 sq. miles in Gyrtoni
Station-Larissa Industrial Area, in-situ processing of measurements by
microcomputer). Operator of the "Απόδοση" (Efficiency) software of
the aforementioned surveyor. Creator of an algorithm for dividing the mapped
area into triangles for drawing the contour and digital ground modeling.
Support of the "Efficiency"
software to Northern Greek clientele. Creator of a digitizer driver algorithm
for the "Efficiency"
software (transformation of coordinates by the Gauss method with options for
uneven and non-orthogonal coordinate systems).
1991-2 Preliminary study for a leisure-railroad inside
the planned Queen's Tower Park (between Liossia and Acharnae). Cooperation on
the matter with the architect Mr. Dokumetzides (ex-chairman of the Hellenic Transport Engineers
Association)
1992 Employed occasionally by the surveyor Chris
Tassopoulos in Alexandropolis (Dedeagatch) during Army service.
1992-93 Hellenic Army service as a computer
programmer. Served in the 731 Military
Works Direction (731ΔΣΕ). Co-programmer of military equipment monitoring in
Clipper language, extensive use of Dbase and MS-Office. Contributed to cost
estimation of Public Works with the Logiciel software, reconstruction project
for a water tower in the Military School of Telecommunications,
computerization of the 731ΔΣΕ treasury.
1992 Cooperation with TRANSMARK /DENCO for the strategic
planning and reorganization of Hellenic Railways, a study for the behalf of the
Ministry of National Economy
1994 Participation with TRENDS in the Athens tramway
project.
1994 Work during the summer holidays as a sleeping-car
conductor between Athens, Salonica and Budapest for the Compagnie
Internationale des Wagons-lits. During this
assignment, noteworthy experience was gained in passenger railway field
operations.
1994-today Employed by ATTIKO METRO
S.A. as an operations planner, railway systems, Infrastructure Maintenance engineer and certified trainer. Duties
performed include:
· Preliminary operations study of the
Phase I Metro extensions using the aforementioned ZUGBETRIEB software.
· Fine tuning of the metro interface
with the Stauros-Eleusis freeway and accompanying suburban RR.
·
Preliminary design of the Bus / metro
interchange and P+R facilities at Pentagon
· Project planning for the extension of Metro line 3 and
the Ag. Savvas depot.
Preliminary
design of Ag. Savvas depot.
·
Preparation
of tender documents for the geotechnical investigation of Ag. Savvas depot site
· Preliminary
design of the Bus / metro interchange and P+R facilities at Ag. Savvas Station
·
Participation
in the conceptual design of the extension of Metro line 2 towards Peristeri
·
Passenger
Traffic forecast and mass transit restructuring in Western Athens following the
extensions of Metro lines 2 & 3
·
Feasibility
report for the creation of a light rail system over disused RR rights-of-way in
the Greater Athens Area
·
Compilation
of versatile spreadsheets calculating public transport capital and operating
costs
·
Basic railway
training of almost 700 Attiko
Metro employees. Subjects taught include elementary transportation engineering,
rolling stock, signaling, power supply, infrastructure, operation technique, railway
safety and legislation. Also Basic training of 100 Special Guards (Metropolitan
Railway Policemen). Massive upgrading of the training material
·
Participation
in the revision of railway operating regulations
·
Participation
in the Task Force for the implementation of a tramway system in Athens as a railway
systems engineer. Involvement in the operational analysis, specifications of
infrastructure, track work, rolling stock, and the design of the depot.
·
Setup of a railway technical
documentation center within Sepolia Depot
1996-7 Participation in the Preliminary study for an ultra light rail system for Kalamata (DROMOS
S.A.). Contributed in the traffic forecast, feasibility analysis, depot and permanent
way design, rolling stock tender documents, bus service restructuring, operations
planning and cost estimation.
1997 Participation
in the Attica Railway reopening study (DENCO consultants), mainly in the field of
operations planning.
1997-98 Consultant and supervisor to
Mamidakis S.A. for the design, construction and operating of a 381mm-gauge
leisure miniature railway, 1km long within the Miramar resort complex in Rhodes. The railway comprises a
battery-electric loco, 2 self-discharging hopper cars, a
passenger car and a combination luggage/passenger car. It was inaugurated in
July 1998.
2001 Operations and electrification study
of the Attica suburban RR by means of the upgraded ZUGBETRIEB software in
cooperation with TRENDS and DE-Consult in behalf of ERGOSE. Also elaboration of restricted
clearance safety arrangements for the same project
Broad and
in-depth knowledge of layout, technology, history, engineering, operating
practice and rules of Greek and foreign railway systems (mainlines, secondary
lines, urban, industrial etc.). Extensive knowledge of motive power technology
and maintenance (steam, diesel and electric). Design of track alignment and
layouts.
During
railway preservation activity, much first-hand experience was acquired on rail
operation, infrastructure preparation, track laying and maintenance, rolling
stock restoration (including the managerial and engineering aspects)
Adequate
knowledge of land transport systems, both urban and long-distance. Specialization
in motor-buses
Experienced
photographer with own darkroom and specialty in transportation photography. Rich
archive with subjects from nearly all European (and some overseas) railroads,
as well as other transport systems.
Some
experience has been gained with ATTIKO METRO on tunnel engineering in unfavorable
ground conditions.
PC
programming in Quick BASIC and FORTRAN. Elementary knowledge of Clipper. Quick
learner of software. Experienced user of the most popular PC applications:
Spreadsheets Excel
Lotus 1-2-3
Quattro
As Easy
Databases Dbase
MS Access
Word
processing-DTP MS Word
Xwrite
Microsoft
Publisher
Mathematical
packages Eureka the solver
Derive
Drafting
software AutoCAD
Auto Sketch
Graphics-Presentations Harvard Presentation
Graphics
Grapher
Windows
Paintbrush
Fascinator
(photo processing)
Corel Draw,
Photo Paint plus associated applications
PowerPoint
Cost
estimation of engineering works New
Prices (by Logiciel)
Project
management MS Project
Super
Project
Structural
analysis STRESS
StruDL
SAP
Surveyor's
software APODOSIS (Efficiency)
TOPO
GIS Data-on-the-map
Communications Netscape Communicator
Internet
Explorer plus associated applications
HTML
programming (Web page editing)
Various
Internet and e-mail utilities
Specialized
railway software:
Various track
planning tools (mostly compatible with established CAD and graphics
applications)
Various
railway driving simulators (Notably Zusi,
MS and Athens Metro training simulator)
Various CTC
simulators
Locomotive
valve gear design software
Self-made
ZUGBETRIEB simulator: see under EDUCATION - PROFESSIONAL
CERTIFICATIONS
Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) with Member ID # 76835
Hellenic Railway Engineers
Association (ΣΕΜΣ)
Hellenic Civil Engineers Association (ΣΠΜΕ)
Hellenic
Transport Engineers Association (ΣΕΣ)
2000 Elected
Board Member of the Athens Metro Operating Personnel Union
2001 Elected
Health & Safety Representative of Attiko Metro
Operating Personnel
Modern history, classic music,
theatre, classic movies, linguistics
Active transportation
preservationist, co-owner and operator of vintage motor-buses, participation in
related transportation enthusiast events (partly sponsored by OASA)
Sep. 1983 1st Greek participant of the XXX MOROP Congress, Budapest
May 1987 A
Light Rail system for Salonica, organized by Salonica University
Dec. 1987 Rail
Transit in Athens for a better Environment, organized by ΣΦΣ and the New Ecology
Journal as part of the Year of the Environment manifestations.
April 1989 2-day
convention of the TEE «Rail transport
in Greece" presenting own paper and main author of the ΣΦΣ paper.
May 1995 Energy
in the urban environment, Tel Aviv, presenting paper
Sep. 1995 Conference
on the reopening of the Hellenic Northwestern RR organized by Agrinion Municipality.
Presented own paper and main author of the ΣΦΣ paper.
May 1997 Rail
transportation beyond 2000, organized by TEE in Volos, presenting 2 papers
March 1999 Future of the Peloponnese RR, organized by TEE in Patras presenting a
paper
July 1999 ECOVAPOR XXI, conference on steam
railroads for business and tourism, participation in the steam locomotive
technical seminars and presentation of a technical paper. Organized by the Latin American Railway Association in Havana,
Cuba.
Nov 1999 Public-Private
Railway Partnership, organized by ΣΦΣ and the
Hellenic Transport Engineering Association in Athens. Author and presenter of
the ΣΦΣ paper.
June 2001 Rail
21, Congress of the International Railway Engineers Union (UEEIV) in Strasbourg, France.
June 2002 Peloponnesian RR:
Development or Closure? Organized by TEE and Arcadian Rail fan Association in
Tripoli, contributing an intervention about the adverse
developments on the Peloponnesian RR network
May 2003 CONTEMPORARY TRAMWAY AND L.R.T. (LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT) SYSTEMS, University of Patras, 19-20 May
2003
1.Regular
writer of the series History and technology of urban rail,
Attiko Metro official magazine, since 2002
2.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ (Rail) magazine, Oct 1987, Environmental and energy advantages of
railroads
3.Introduction
to modern locomotives, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of
Transportation Engineering, Patras Polytechnic College
4.TEXNIKA XPONIKA, 4/93, The
future of ΟΣΕ's "doubtful" lines
5.Kurbelis-
Nathenas- Sbarounis, History of public
transportation in Athens (unpublished,
partly incorporated in the book ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΙ ΣΙΔΗΡΟΔΡΟΜΟΙ, Miletos Publishing, Athens 1997)
6.Sbarounis-Nathenas, Draft on
the operation of the Pelion line (submitted to the Volos RR Club),
Jan 1986
7.Kalamata and
its railroad, submitted to the Mayor of Kalamata, May 1985
8.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, Railways and local
administration, editorial of 1988 issue
9.Reactivating
the Hellenic North West RR (ΣΒΔΕ), 1990 (unpublished), partly incorporated in ref.#15
10.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, Introduction to museum railroading, May 1994
11.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, Class 40 locomotives of the Thessalian RR, May 1994
12.Museum
operation on the Attica RR, submitted to the ΣΦΣ in 1993 and to the EEC in
1996 for a funding request
13.ΔΙΑΔΡΟΜΕΣ magazine, The suburban railway emits an SOS, May 1995
14.Energy and
environmental impact of rail transit: the Hellenic experience, presented at the conference Energy in the urban environment at Tel
Aviv, May 22, 1995
15.Reorganisation
of the Peloponnese RR, paper distributed at a conference
in Kalamata about the future of Peloponnese RR in 1996
16.Pilot project
for the restructuring of rural transport in Northwestern Greece, paper presented at a conference in Agrinion about the reopening of the
Hellenic Northwestern RR in September 1995
17.Sbarounis-Nathenas The intrusion of rail in the application field of road transport,
paper presented in Volos at the conference Rail transportation beyond 2000 in
May 1997
18.Sbarounis-Lambropoulos Narrow gauge railways: The Greek and international experience.
paper presented in Volos at the conference Rail transportation beyond 2000, May
1997
19.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, The rail bus revolution, Sbarounis-Nathenas-Klonos, 1996
20.The Peloponnesian
railway scene after ΟΣΕ. Paper presented in
Patras at the conference: Peloponnesian RR, development or abandonment?.
March 1999
21.Steam locomotion for the future, utopia or
realistic alternative? paper presented in Havana, Cuba at
the ECOVAPOR XXI conference in July 1999
22.Introduction
to Tourist Railroading; presentation at the conference on
Public-Private Railway Partnership, Athens 05-11-99 on behalf of ΣΦΣ
23.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, The impact of the
terrorist attack against WTC on transportation, Jan. 2002
24.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, Hybrid electro-diesel locomotives for the Athens Metro, Dec. 2002
25.Utilization
of railway simulators; paper presented
at the light rail conference in Patras University, May 2003
26.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, Who is killing the passengers?, Jun. 2003 editorial
27.ΣΙΔΗΡΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ magazine, Unofficial re-nationalization of RAILTRACK? Back to the future, Dec. 2003 editorial
