Masako De Franco

Experience

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  Hitachi

  Apr 2000 - Sept 2015

  - Power system business general management (nuclear energy, thermal energy, solar PV, wind power, energy solution, environmental plant, Particle Beam Therapy Facility, etc.)- Making Company policy, business plans, strategies, budgets- Preparations and facilitations of the board meeting, preparing meeting minutes and results feed back to the company business plans- Company business risk evaluation and management- Preparing presentations for IR and CEO’s presentations for customers/stakeholders and Hitachi executives & workers- Responsible for supervising, human resource management and work performance evaluations for my team members Show less - ABWR* promotion and preparations of tendering documents for Vietnam/Lithuania/UK new build Projects- Making tender documents submitted to Vietnamese government, ABWR promotion activities and project management- Arranging and organizing meetings, exhibitions and conferences for stakeholders in Vietnam- Promote ABWR construction feasibility study and human resource development project with Vietnamese local venders- Hitachi ABWR presenter; introducing the ABWR technologies to customers all over the world- Responsible for human resource development project for Vietnamese construction engineers*ABWR: Advanced Boiling Water Reactor Show less - Piping Conceptual/Layout design of power output augmentation ABWR and ESBWR (Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor)- Project schedule and budget control- Preparation of quotations for domestic/international new build, maintenance and replacement projects- ASME (American Society for Mechanical Engineers) boiler and pressure vessel code & standard committee activities, code compliance activities, ASME NQA/ISO9001 QA audit- Piping Resident designer of Shimane unit 3 construction site- Construction status feed back to 3D CAD and 2D isometric drawings - Communication with customers, design offices and construction workers- Construction schedule management with project management systems- Construction work status reports preparation- Piping planning and fabrication design- Pipe layout input in 3D CAD and pipe fabrication drawings generations, technical specification preparations- Research and Development of pipe flange tightening and digital radiography- Research & Development project schedule and budget control, conference papers preparation & presentations- Structural analysis and Seismic design of piping system- Piping seismic experimental project- Piping maintenance work planning, fabrication design and repair works for east-Japan operating plants Kashiwazaki unit 4,5, 6 and 7 Fukushima Daini unit 2&4 and Onagawa unit 3- Piping design for construction plant (Shimane unit 3, Shika unit 2)- Development of new Japanese seismic code for nuclear plant piping systems- Six sigma green belt project “Rationalization and Optimization of piping structural analysis work process”- Hitachi ABWR presenter Show less

  • Section Manager

    Oct 2013 - Sept 2015

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2011 - Sept 2013

  • Piping Engineer

    Apr 2000 - Mar 2011
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  JETRO LONDON

  May 2016 - Oct 2016

  Energy & Environment specialist

  - Market and technologies research of energy & environment sectors- Support European/UK companies to enter into Japanese energy & environment market- Give lectures and presentations on Japanese energy & environment market/technologies to European/UK companies- Making reports on Japanese energy & environment market and technologies

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  EBG MedAustron GmbH

  Jul 2018 - Aug 2019

  Risk Engineer

  - Risk assessment for therapy accelerator- Regulation, codes and standards compliance assessment- Vendors audit- Development of New Dose Delivery systems

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  ITER Organization

  Sept 2019 - Dec 2021

  Nuclear Engineer, Pressure Equipment

  - Fusion power plant engineering- International procurement (piping, pipe support, fire protection materials, miscellaneous items, etc.)- Construction engineering- R&D project on Tritium Permeation barrier

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  JGC

  Dec 2021 - now

  • Senior Technical Manager

    Dec 2021 - now

  • Senior Technical Manager

    Dec 2021 - now