Curriculum Vitae Details

Name: Mitchell Robert Barnett

Citizenship: Australian

Address: Home - 105 Jackson Rd, West Woombye, Sunshine Coast,

Queensland. 4559. Uni – 10 Armidale St, Norwood, TAS. 7250.

Contact Numbers: 07 5442 2323, 0433 172 887

Email: Mitch-AMC@hotmail.com

Education/Training – attached are examples of work.

Secondary School: Graduated from Suncoast Chrisitan College with Year

12 Senior Certificate. Subjects – English, Maths B, Maths C, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Received OP 5 (≈TER 92) as result.

Tertiary Education: Completed Year 1,2 & 3 Naval Architecture at Australian

Maritime College (AMC). Currently studying 4th year of degree. Current subjects – Thesis, Ocean Vehicle Design, Advanced Ship Structures, Computational Fluid Dynamics. Awards: AMC excellent achiever scholarship 2009. Defence Materiel Organization (DMO) scholarship 2010. Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Naval Architecture Prize for Excellence in Applied Ship Design 2011. Will graduate with honors 2012.

Other Training: Elements of Shipboard Safety through AMC, First Aid

Training through Australian Red Cross, Responsible Service of Alcohol RSA certificate, Lifesaver Training through Alex Surf Club, Leadership Training through Emu Gully Adventure Group, Completed Parts of Cert 2 in Automotive Mechanical through School Based Traineeship before ending that to concentrate on school.

Computer: Computer Aided Design –

3D: Very comfortable with SOLIDWORKS. Very comfortable with RHINO. Have used MULTISURF however this is not a developed skill. 2D: Very comfortable with AUTOCAD, DWG EDITOR, PROGECAD, DRAFTSIGHT.

Nav Arch Specific: Very comfortable with all MAXSURF SUITE programs - i.e. MAXSURF PRO, HYDROMAX, SEAKEEPER, HULLSPEED. Comfortable with Marintek’s VERES software. Have used NAVCAD however this is not a developed skill.

FEA/CFD/Programming/other: Very comfortable with STRAND7, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS MECHANICAL. Have used MATLAB, MAPLE but these are not developed skills. Comfortable with MS PROJECT, MS OUTLOOK.

Community Service

Work affiliated: Work for Ronald McDonald House Charities on

McHappy Day. School affiliated: Participated in a massive ‘Backyard Blitz’ style

makeover at one of the local public schools Burnside High organized by my school/church. This involved me laying new pavements, gardening work/landscaping, etc.

Completed Lifesaver Training with Alex Surf Club.

University affiliated: Volunteer skipper for AMC sailing days.

Work

Sunco Motors: School based traineeship for Certificate 2 in

Automotive Mechanical.

McDonalds Restaurant: Employed as crew trainer during year 12 of school which involved training new staff, responsibility to run kitchen, etc. Nothing too special!!

Tutoring: Tutored 1st year eng. students for Maths 1 and Statics.

Ekebol Engineering: 2009-2011 on and off. 3D Modeling, 2D Drafting and Automation work. Involving design/modification to assemblies and parts on towing/recovery vehicles being built. Schematic design/updates to hydraulic, pneumatic, electric systems on the trucks. Creating/improving of troubleshooting/user guides for Ekebol customers. Small scale problem solving for faulty truck systems. Recent programming of model/drawing output automation system using Excel in tandem with Solidworks.

Aquamarine: 2010/2011 summer work experience with Aquamarine.

Worked under QLD RINA representative Antony Krokowski. Responsibilities - stability related work for multiple vessels from different builders in the area, including: Inclining + Stability Book creation for Noosa Cat’s VMR Hervey Bay and AVCG Lakes Entrance. Positive Flotation calcs + Swamp Testing Aquamaster aluminium boats. Weight Estimates for Gladstone based work boats. Stability Books + modelling for Fusion Catamarans. Stability Books for Kevlacats. Other basic surveying work (e.g. safety cert’s) for Brisbane Port based work barges.

Incat Crowther: 2011/2012 summer work experience with Incat Crowther.

2012 thesis topic supervision from Andrew Tuite. Responsibilities - constant drafting odd jobs incl. lifting point dwgs, shaft dwgs, door schedule dwgs, anode layout dwgs, producing cut files, etc; Stability related work incl. lightship checks, digitalizing lines plans for stability analyses, full stability books to USCG code, inclining reports; Structural analysis related work incl. towing/mooring calcs, local FE analysis of bollards and WT frames, Global FE analysis of catamaran to be lifted/transported; Weight estimate related work for RFF and Xunlong Shipping boats; Regulatory related work incl. ILC assessment of 70m catamaran; Costing related work - Through life cost estimate for Halifax boat. Visited Aluminium Marine to be shown around IC ferry Freedom Sovereign in fitout stage.

Thesis Related: Scantling calcs for 70m catamaran in steel to DNV’s HSLC code plus DNV’s Rules for Ships, midship section drawing for 70m cat, creation of simplified algorithm to compute structural robustness index for use in comparing structures/materials, global FE model of the 70m cat, wet deck slamming analysis for the 70m cat + slamming fatigue/fracture analysis.

Sport/Rec

School affiliated: Forwards Captain for School boys rugby union team.

Winning finals 3 years in a row baby! Other: Sailing small dinghies at Beauty Point, TAS. Sailing

Hobie cats with Steve Howard. Crewing on keel boats from Mooloolaba Yacht Club. Wakeboarding, Dirtbiking, 4WDing, fishing, diving.

Career Interests/Goals

Engineering specific: Structures - Steel, Aluminum and Composites. Structural

Reliability Modeling. Vessel construction. Other: Project Management, Ferry Operation/Management,

Business. Working overseas.

Work Examples - Examples shown are limited to university work.

1st Year - Longliner Project

2nd Year - Submarine Project

Build –

Simple Bollard Pull Prop Testing -

3rd Year - Tow Tank Testing

Tow Tank Testing of AMC's Fisheries Training Vessel Bluefin. Included seakeeping analysis in regular waves to obtain vessel RAO's, etc to compare with seakeeping software predictions. Calm water resistance testing to obtain bare hull resistance curves to compare with CFD predictions. Self propulsion tests to obtain effective thrust power s, thrust deductions, wake f action, etc.

3rd Year - FRV Project

AMC X-Bow Concept

Final Year - OVD Progress

Final Year - THESIS Progress Global FE model - Longitudinal bending + underwing slam combination loading for fatigue analysis.

Longitudinal stiffener connection to transverse web frame in the underwing. Fatigue cracking calculated for cutout radius under in plane compressive and bending stresses.

Fatigue crack modeling + crack propagation analysis using LE fracture mechanics.

4TH Year - CFD Flow characteristics of exhaust from dangerous goods vent.