Dr. Christakis Mina

30+ years of experience in construction, aerospace and academia.

Worked in private and academic sectors across Europe, USA and Asia.

Involved in multi-billion-dollar projects in various domains such as airports, buildings, amusement parks, tunnels, bridges, highways, plants and lifelines.

Conducted research in risk analysis, machine learning and social network analysis.

Registered professional civil engineer in Cyprus.

Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb).

Member of the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber.

Manager , Technical HQ, Kansai Airports

The Kansai Airports Group (KAP) is a consortium made up of VINCI Airports and ORIX Corporation as its core members. The group is operating and managing the 3 airports in the Kansai region: Kansai International Airport (KIX), Osaka International Airport (ITM) and Kobe Airport (UKB).

At Technical HQ, I am tasked with the development and implementation of various management systems related to project and cost management in an effort to transform the department to a process-driven, project focused organization.

Achievements:

• Created and managed a cost estimation database system using data from completed airport related projects such as runway pavement, concrete apron pavement and building renovation projects. The system is utilized company-wide for future project cost estimations, tender comparisons, and as a resource for project and contractor information.
• Developed and maintained a web-based task and resource management system tailored for the Technical department. The system enables employees to visualize their work time usage and assists managers in allocating tasks and personnel efficiently.
• Introduced planning and scheduling methods and systems to the department to improve project control and management.
• Supported the KIX Terminal 1 Renovation Project team with cost management. The renovation project is the largest investment in KIX (JPY 70 billion or more than $460 million) since the airport's opening. This four-year refurbishment project started in May 2021 and will create a terminal capable of handling 6,000 international passengers an hour, more than 1.3 times the current capacity, allowing KIX to handle 40 million international passengers a year.
• Assisted the environment group with tasks related to the environmental management of the three airports.
• Assisted the environment group in obtaining the Level 4 Airport Carbon Accreditation for the airports.

Manager , International Operation HQ, Taisei Corporation

During the 8+ years at Taisei's International Operations HQ, I was involved in several projects:

Country	Project	Stage Involved
Abu Dhabi	New Abu Dhabi Airport Terminal	Tendering
	Water Park at Yas Island	Tendering
	Umm Lafina Link Road	Tendering
Brunei	Brunei International Airport	Tendering
Cambodia	Neak Loeung Bridge	Tendering
Egypt	Cairo Metro Line 4	Tendering
Indonesia	AsahiMas Glass Factory	Execution
Malaysia	Johor Bahru Molek Pine 4	Tendering
	Sarawak Tokuyama Polycrystalline Silicon Plant Phase 2	Tendering
Mongolia	New Ulaanbaatar International Airport	Tendering
Qatar	New Doha International Airport	Tendering & Execution
	Education City Central Library	Tendering
	South-East Car Park	Tendering
	Musheireb Heart of Doha Phases 1B and 1C	Tendering
Singapore	C928 Project Bedok Town Park station and tunnels	Tendering
Sri Lanka	Colombo Outer Circular Highway (OCH) Section 1	Tendering
Taiwan	Linkou Power Plant	Tendering
Turkey	Istanbul Marmaray CR3 Bosphorus Undersea Tunnel	Tendering & Execution
Vietnam	Hanoi Noi Bai International Airport Terminal	Tendering & Execution

Details about the positions I held during my employement at Taisei's International Operations HQ:

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JUL 2018 - OCT 2018: Manager, Administration Department, Contracts Management Section

Participated in contracts administration, risk assessment and management, project control, coordination, and dispute avoidance/claims administration for Taisei Corporation's international construction projects, including airports, tunnels, highways, nuclear power plants, and commercial buildings.

Additionally, contributed to the development and implementation of project management, risk management, knowledge management, and project control systems, while also coaching and training staff at both headquarters and project sites.

APR 2016 - JUN 2018: Assistant Manager, Risk Management Department

Engaged in risk assessment, risk management, project control, coordination, and dispute avoidance/claims administration for Taisei Corporation's international construction projects, including airports, tunnels, highways, nuclear power plants, and commercial buildings.

Additionally, contributed to the development and implementation of project management, risk management, knowledge management, and project control systems, while coaching and training staff at both headquarters and project sites.

APR 2015 - MAR 2016: Assistant Manager, Nuclear Facilities Projects Department

Conducted risk analysis, risk management, and contract administration for nuclear power plant projects. Provided cost estimation, pre-construction services, and coordinated joint venture partners (Japanese and French) for an EPC nuclear power plant project in the Middle East.

FEB 2012 - MAR 2015: Coordination Manager, Noi Bai International Airport Construction Project

Main Duties:

• Reported directly to the Project Manager.
• Coordinated activities of all Construction Departments (Building, Civil, MEP, Terminal Equipment, Utilities).
• Assigned tasks to personnel in collaboration with Department Managers.
• Facilitated coordination between the Construction Department and other departments.
• Resolved key issues arising outside daily activities.
• Liaised with QA/QC Department to close Non-Conformity Reports (NCRs).
• Served as the main contact for the Engineer/Employer on construction and coordination issues.
• Assisted the Construction Department in preparing letters and technical documentation for Sub-Contractors and the Engineer.
• Coordinated with contractors/companies not directly involved in the project but with interfacing areas.
• Resolved site issues generated by the Employer/Engineer by communicating to alleviate problems before formal escalation.
• Collaborated with the Design Coordinator to address design/coordination issues.
• Acted as the focal point for site issues, facilitating discussions with the Employer/Engineer for mutually agreed resolutions.

Risk Management Duties:

• Organized and conducted regular Risk Workshops with the Project's Core Team (PM, CMs, Department Managers) to communicate project risks.
• Discussed existing risks, identify new risks and their impacts, and brainstorm mitigation solutions during Risk Workshops.
• Incorporated information from Risk Workshops into the Project's Risk Register.
• Developed, updated, and maintained the Project's Risk Register.
• Conducted Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis using the Project's Risk Register.
• Planned risk responses and developed mitigation options and actions.
• Monitored and controlled risks, implementing risk response plans, tracking identified risks, and identifying new risks.

APR 2010 - JAN 2012: Assistant Manager, Contracts and Claims Management Department

Responsibilities:

• Conducted risk assessment, risk management, project control, coordination, and dispute/claims administration for international infrastructure projects in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
• Developed and implemented project management, risk management, knowledge management, and project control systems.

Civil Engineer (Construction) , Charilaos Apostolides Public Ltd.

Construction site supervision of large-scale civil engineering projects, site management, cost analysis and control, project planning and liaison with services and authorities (electricity, telephone, police, municipalities, etc.)

Project: Limassol-Amathus Sewarage & Drainage Phase II – Contract D, Miltonos

Client: Sewerage Board of Limassol-Amathus

Project Duration: 2 years

Work Details: Excavations in populated and unpopulated areas, dewatering, installation of concrete pipes, installation / construction of precast and RC box culverts, foul sewer pipes, house connections, manholes, galleys, outlet basin, outlet dam, road construction.

Civil Engineer (R&D) , Nicholas Demetriou Consulting Engineers

Planning, design, management and promotion of GIS software solutions. Creation of software specifications, legal documentation, collection and analysis of data and product promotion.

Civil Engineer (Design) , Civil Engineering Department, Danieli Group

Structural steel analysis & design of steel process line towers and platforms, foundation design for steel mill machinery, preparation and checking of foundation, manufacturing and construction drawings using AutoCAD, preparation of technical documents, on-site investigations for steel mill retrofitting, review of contracts and subcontracts and database analysis and development.

Duties: Structural steel analysis and design of machinery support structures, using the STAAD software package. Drafting of drawings using AutoCAD. On-site investigation and survey of existing hot roll steel mill for future retrofitting. Analysis and design of a structural steel platform supporting steel pickling line machinery. Value engineering. Drafting of basic engineering documents and drawings.

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering

Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Urban Management, Kyoto, Japan.

Advisor: Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi (小林潔司)

Research Area: Risk Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, BNN, Social Networks

Dissertation: Open Technological Standardization Processes Through Learning Networks.

Committee members: Kiyoshi Kobayashi (chair), Masashi Kawasaki , Satoshi Fujii

Research Objective: Investigated the emergence and evolution of collaboration in open technological networks, including Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) and construction networks.

Methodology: Developed a mathematical model within the complex social network analysis framework to study F/OSS collaboration using data from SourceForge and AGORA.

Applications: Explored learning networks in engineering, focusing on risk analysis and management with the Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) framework. Created a model and software to assess cost risks in soil decontamination projects in Japan, demonstrating practical engineering applications.

Master of Science in Civil Engineering

Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Urban Management, Kyoto, Japan.

Advisor: Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi (小林潔司)

Research Area: Risk Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, BNN, Soil Decontamination Costs

Dissertation: Evaluation of Soil Decontamination Cost Risk Using Bayesian Neural Networks.

Research Objective: The research developed a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) model and software to evaluate the cost risk of soil decontamination projects in Japan, based on information gathered from simple topsoil contamination and historical land usage investigations.

BSc in Civil Engineering

University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas, USA

Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineering Honor Society

Department of Civil Engineering Honor Roll: 3 times.

Higher National Diploma in Civil Engineering

Higher Technical Institute, Department of Civil Engineering, Nicosia, Cyprus

Diploma Thesis: Design and analysis of continuous reinforced concrete beams using a computer program

MIRISK: Mitigation Information and Risk Identification System

Source Code: MIRISK@GitHub

MIRISK was developed for the World Bank with assistance from the Government of Japan. MIRISK is a computer-based tool that provides sources of information for natural hazards design guidelines, norms and good practices, and is currently used by the World Bank Development Managers during all stages of a Project Cycle. MIRISK has been developed to let users identify the natural hazards related to the development project, identify the typical vulnerability of each infrastructure, identify normal design and mitigation plan of each infrastructure. Development was by the MIRISK Team at Kyoto University (Christakis Mina, Takahiro Tsutsumiuchi), under the direction of Prof. Charles Scawthorn and the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery lead by Mr. Saroj K. Jha , Program Manager.

OSRE: Open Source Risk Engine

Source Code: OSRE@GitHub

The Open Source Risk Engine (OSRE) was initially developed in Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Urban Management, in order to meet the requirements of the "Capstone Project" for the Master’s Degree in Engineering. OSRE is a multi-hazards open- source software solution that can estimate the risk (damage) of a particular site (object) given a hazard and the vulnerability with their associate probability distributions. The original project team was made up by Christakis Mina, Masaki Higuchi, Koichiro Danno, Puay How Tion and guided by Professors Charles Scawthorn, Junji Kiyono and Yosuke Ono. The software was developed in Visual Basic .net 2003. Several modules of the program were initially coded in FORTRAN, C and Basic and then converted into Visual Basic .net. OSRE is made available as a Free / Open Source Software (F/OSS). Currently, OSRE subscribes to the Alliance for Global Open Risk Analysis (AGORA) initiative.

AGORA: Alliance for Global Open Risk Analysis

AGORA was an international forum for open-source software for multi-hazard risk modeling. To manage risk from natural and technological disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, industrial accidents, etc.) and to understand the potential impacts of new disaster science or policy, requires access to analytical and computer risk models. The models are constantly in flux as science, engineering, and disaster social science develop, but most researchers and practitioners lack risk-integration tools and methods needed for an overall understanding of risk, and must either re-develop existing integrative software or abandon potentially fruitful study. HAZUS and commercial risk software are designed to apply methods that have been tested or are in some way authoritative, but tend to be inflexible to new developments (closed source in terms of software) and opaque (black box in terms of methodology). The Alliance for Global Open Risk Assessment (AGORA) is conceived as a nonprofit, international virtual organization created to promote and coordinate development of open-source risk software and methodologies to perform end-to-end risk modeling. (Note: End-to-end refers to modeling the occurrence of hazardous events, site effects, physical damage to the built environment, and economic and human impacts.)

OLOGI: Open Logistics Initiative

The Open Logistics Initiative is a virtual organization influenced by the Free/Open Source paradigm. OLOGI was created in order to form a platform where various stakeholders in the airport logistics sector can create, share and improve open and transparent methodologies, tools and share their data and results. Researchers and practitioners in the air transportation logistics industry lack transparent methodologies, tools (e.g. software) and open data. A lot of research is being conducted in academic, non-profit and for-profit organizations resulting in the creation of software and methodologies but due to ineffective coordination replication of efforts exists due to the lack of open and unified standards and a common platform to co-ordinate the efforts. In addition to that, open and easily accessible data are hard to found thus causing a slowdown in the research progress. OLOGI was created to address this problem.

Mina C., Open Technological Standardization Processes through Learning Networks, PhD Dissertation, 2010

Mina C., Kobayashi K., Scawthorn C. and Porter K., Open Risk Analysis Software: Data and Methodologies, Journal of Applied Computing in Civil Engineering JSCE, 2008

Kobayashi K. and Mina C., Soil Decontamination Cost Risk Evaluation, Proceedings of the EIT-JSCE Joint International Symposium on Monitoring and Modeling in Geo-Engineering, 2008

Tsutsumiuchi T., Mina C. and Scawthorn C., MIRISK - Mitigation Information and Risk Identification System, 土木学会関西支部年次学術講演会講演概要集, CD-ROM, 2008

Mina C., Tsutsumiuchi T., Scawthorn C. and Kobayashi K.: Mitigating Natural Hazards Risk to Infrastructure - Open Analysis Tools, JSCE Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No. 36, CD-ROM, 2007

Mina C., Evaluation of Soil Decontamination Cost Risk Using Bayesian Neural Networks, Master's Thesis, 2007

Registered Professional Civil Engineer in Cyprus (Reg. A/81111).

Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb).

Member of the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK).

The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Government Scholarship.

University of Texas Civil Engineering Academic Honor Roll (Spring 1994).

University of Texas Civil Engineering Academic Honor Roll (Fall 1994).

University of Texas Civil Engineering Academic Honor Roll (Fall 1995).

Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society Membership.

Greek (Native).

English (Bilingual proficiency).

Japanese (Working oral proficiency).

Microsoft Windows (desktop and server)

GNU/Linux (Kali, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, etc.).

Cybersecurity.

Visual Basic.

Python.

C++.

Full Stack Web Development.

PHP.

Ruby.

Database design.

Microsoft Office.

AutoCAD.

Primavera.

Microsoft Project.

F/OSS Repo

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