Riccardo W. Monfardini

Experience

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  Rent Bagnaia, family business

  Jul 2006 - Aug 2012

  Lifegard & Beach Assistant

  - Worked in a beach rental business (sunbeds, umbrellas, pedal boats). Working quickly under pressure in the high season, while keeping a good relationship with the customers.- Constant awareness of beach and sea was necessary as I was responsible for people’s safety

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  Centro Velico Caprera

  Jul 2009 - Jul 2013

  Aiutante di Vela (Volunteer Sailing Teacher Assistant)

  Role and responsibilitiesInitially, in 2006, I started at this sailing school as a student; after 3 years the instructors recognised my potential and, after a training course, I became an instructor assistant. The role is to assist the instructors' team and bridge the gap between them and the students. My responsibilities are to board one of the boats to direct and teach the students while having other boats follow my leadership and keep the group compact.Skills and knowledge acquiredThe hierarchical structure of the school made me understand how to work in an intermediate position between the students and the instructors; this allowed me to understand the importance of communication and team working. Communication is important to discover discontentment and problems in both groups, team working is essential to make the course run efficiently. As a result of carrying out this role successfully, I have been invited to take a training course to become a first level instructor. Show less

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  University of Manchester

  Sept 2012 - Sept 2012

  Airport Collection Service -Dispatch (Purple People)

  - Greeted and welcomed international students arriving in Manchester, taking care of making a good first impression for my university. - Answered any questions they had while they waited for the bus; patience and communication skills were needed to overcome some language barriers.- Worked together with the dispatch team to load and organise the luggage in order to simplify the unloading at the many stops made. Over 1000 students used our service that week.

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  Isotrol

  Sept 2013 - Dec 2013

  Consultant Intern in the presales Energy Sector team

  Obtained a Leonardo da Vinci EU grant to enhance mobility within the European labour market and relocated to Seville, Spain to work as an Intern with Isotrol, an ICT engineering consultancy specialised in software and infrastructure for remote supervision, monitoring and control of wind farms and other renewable energy projects. Here I: - Collaborated in the Energy Sector Presales team that sells the software, infrastructure and installation of remote control systems for renewable energy plants.- Worked on a variety of tasks like redacting financial and technical offers, translating software product manuals and documents from Spanish to English and updating the item price reference sheet.- Assisted several other colleagues in sectors other than Energy in varied specific tasks, and consolidated my ability to work in a team with greater flexibility. Show less

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  The University of Edinburgh

  Sept 2014 - Jun 2016

  IDCORE research engineer

  The aim of the programme is to train highly skilled research engineers for wave, tidal and offshore wind energy technologies of the future. Strong all-round training in offshore renewable energy, with subjects such as: Hydrodynamics of Offshore Renewable Energy devices; Marine Renewable Energy Assessment; Economics for Offshore Renewables; Physical Model Testing; Electricity Network Interaction; Marine Renewables and Society.Received a Postgraduate diploma.

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  Zyba Ltd

  Jun 2015 - Jan 2016

  Research Engineer Student

  The placement in the company was arranged within the context of the IDCORE engineering programme to perform industrially focused research. The project revolved around researching and designing a floating platform for the offshore deployment CCell wave energy device. Review of the available literature was performed on similar concepts (Aquamarine's Oyster, EB Frond), on physics of wave-structure interaction, analytical-empirical-numerical modelling methods etc.Among the skills and task performed were developing an analytical model of the proposed designs, setting up and running CFD numerical simulations in OpenFOAM, analysing results by developing R scripts and documentation. Show less

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  Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission's Science Service

  Jul 2016 - Nov 2016

  Trainee

  Collaborated in writing the ‘Ocean Energy: Status Report 2016’. Created tool (on MS Excel) to analyse the levelised cost of energy of tidal farms, the effect of innovations, and investigated possible cost reduction scenarios. Updated the detailed database (MS Access) of ocean energy technologies (tidal, wave, salinity gradient and ocean thermal energy).Helped in the analysis of recent publications (bibliometrics) in renewable energy with regard to ocean energy.

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  Segelzentrum Elba

  Jul 2017 - Aug 2017

  Istruttore di Vela
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  Met Office

  Nov 2017 - Jan 2022

  I have a World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s Aeronautical Meteorological Observing (AMO) and Aeronautical Meteorological Forecasters (AMF) accreditation.I deliver forecast products and weather briefs to fast jet pilots, helicopters and other airfield users. I prioritise my work according to weather and customer needs.I am an effective team player within the small Valley office team; we divided tasks and engagement duties with the airfield customers between colleagues. I am proactive at taking additional work when required.I developed my communication skills as a trade union representative. I have been able to juggle my daily job with union duties to represent and bring forward members issues with management/HR and look for satisfactory solutions.I can work flexibly to accommodate business needs- I have completed detachments to numerous UK locations (e.g. Lossiemouth, Northolt, Belfast) both in-person and remotely. Show less I was featured in the video promotion advertising the role https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWfCh_S0_owI worked as the only meteorologist at the Saint Helena Airport producing local forecasts and liasing with airport operational staff and pilots. Indipendent, self driven work with the limited observation and computer model data (internet connection is limited as it comes through satellite link)I provided meteorological forecasts to support routine flights and also ad hoc emergency medical evacuation in a timely critical mannerI collaborated with the media team to produce a marketing video to advertise the role of meteorologist.I produced public forecasts for the island community and answered questions and requests. Show less I volunteered to work as an Operational Meteorologist in Mount Pleasant Airport in the Falklands Islands. This is a challenging but rewarding experience given the remoteness, the lack of weather observational data compared to the UK and the limited broadband reducing the available model data for analysis. Here I monitored and forecasted the weather for day-to-day operations and for non-routine emergency flights (medical evacuations) prioritising and working under pressure. I delivered forecasts and weather warnings to remote locations such as mountain sites, harbours and the Stanley airfield. I also delivered forecasts to the general public via radio scripts, radio interviews or via phone calls from the general public. While I was there we were affected by short-staffed issues due to difficulties in finding volunteers and delays due to quarantine requirements to prevent Covid. Here I implemented changes to my work routine and took on more responsibilities to allow the Senior Operational Meteorologist role to work from remote. Show less

  • Operational Meteorologist

    Feb 2019 - Jan 2022

  • Senior Operational Meteorologist

    Sept 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Operational Meteorologist at Mount Plesant Airport

    Apr 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Trainee Operational Meteorologist

    Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
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  Convex Energy

  Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

  Meteorologist

  Providing Meteorological support to energy traders in the intraday market and day-ahead auctions. Monitoring weather development in Germany, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom and Ireland.

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  Meteomatics AG

  Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

  Sale Supporting Meteorologist
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  University of Reading

  Nov 2023 - now

  PhD student in Meteorology