MARCELO J. LAURITO
Naval Architect
Av. SAN ISIDRO
4040 - Piso 9 “B”
(1429) CAPITAL
FEDERAL
ARGENTINA
Phone : 54 +
11 + 4702-5026
Cellular
Phone: 54 + 11 + 4945-2257
His Goal:
To
apply his skills, knowledge and expertise in Naval Architecture, Boatbuilding
and Computer Aided Design / Engineering.
To
always learn some more.
Employment History:
1974 - 1977
Draftsman at his father’s Architecture Studio ( Arch. Jose
Laurito.)
1978 – 1982
Draftsman at NÁUTICA INTEGRAL S.R.L. ( sailboats from 20’ to
52’).
Makeing all kind of drawings, needed to build the
boats at the yard.
Also
he worked aboard of "B/T MAR DULCE" (Tanker 330’ LOA), "B/T MAR
MANSO" (Tanker 240’ LOA) drawing plans for replace old steam plants and
auxiliary machinery (with the drafting table on the radio operator cabin &
the owner’s cabin in each case), too. He also designed, and made plans for a
new upper deck for the dredge "CORONEL DORREGO", and a new antenna
tower for the tanker "B/T MAR BRAVO" all of those owned by LUNMAR
NAVIERA S.A.
1983
Mechanical
Draftsman at POWER STRAP S.R.L. (Automatic
Packaging Machines)
1984
Yacht Designer
at his own office, doing several
designs free-lance (, a daysailer for amateur building in marine plywood “Hoby
18’”, a 25’DayCruiser in FRP, etc.)
1985
- 1986
Yacht Designer at ROBERTO ROVERE & ASSOC. (Naval Architects)
1987
Production
Manager & Engineer at METALÚRGICA
ANCHORENA S.R.L. (SS and aluminum alloy hardware / custom made masts & deck
fittings ).
1988
– 1989
Production
Manager & Chief Engineer at
NAUTIVELA S.R.L. ( FRERS designed sailboats from 26’ to 43’).
1990
Yacht Designer
at his own office, doing several
designs for ASTILLEROS DEL PLATA and other private customers (a daysailer “Del
Plata 17’ “, a 21’ trimaran, a 14’ cat “ Jet 14’ “)
1991
– 1992
Senior Engineer
at GENCE S.A. (Designing and Building Compressed Gas
Plants)
In this year he was promoted by the company to be
trained on gas dispensers and gas compressors at the manufacturers sites:
CHERCO-GEMMINI (Corpus Christi, Texas) and KRAUS ALTERNATE FUELS
(Winnipeg, Canada).
1993
CAD Manager at INTERCAD S.R.L. (CAD / CAM / CAE)
1994
Marine Surveyor at URIBE & LIQUIDADORES ASOC. (Consultants for
Insurance Companies)
1995 – 1999
Chief of
Technical Support & Training Area at ARQUICAD S.R.L.
Bringing technical support and training to other
engineers on AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, GENIUS, E-PLANT Piping, E-PLANT
P&ID, E-PLANT STH, ELECTRICAL DESIGNER, and other. (These are soft packages
for mechanical and plant design that run over AutoCAD)
2000 – Today
Marine Surveyor at URIBE & LIQUIDADORES ASOC. (Consultants for
Insurance Companies)
Education:
Técnico M.M.O. (Architectural
Oriented Technician), Technical College
Nº 1 “OTTO KRAUSE” Capital Federal, Argentina, 1974.
Ingeniero Naval (Naval Architect), UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA
NACIONAL - Regional Buenos Aires - Capital Federal, Argentina, 1990.
Yacht Design Course between 1980/82.
(The main reason to did this course was to improve and practice technical
English.) N.A.E.M.B. Westlawn School of Yacht Design, Connecticut, U.S.A.
During
1987/88 was selected by the UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA NACIONAL to participate in
a group to study and develop different kind of systems for the computer aided
design of ships.
Also,
he has published several technical notes on applied structural theory and
applied hydrodynamics in the most popular magazines in Argentina (BARCOS
Magazine, VELA Magazine, MOTONÁUTICA Magazine, etc.).
Professional
Memberships:
Registered
in the “Consejo Profesional de Ingeniería Naval” in Argentina with register Nº
723 since 1990.
Member
of “Asociación Argentina de Ingeniería Naval” since 1990.
Member
of the SOCIETY OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS & MARINE ENGINEERS (SNAME, U.S.A.) since
1981 as Student Member, later as Associate Member since 1990.
Autodesk
registered trainer since 1995.
Other Skills:
Sails since
1978 in a wide range of sail and motor boats.
Practical
expertise in welding, laminating FRP and composites, woodworking both restoring
or constructing wooden boats and interiors (Traditional and Cold Molded)
Visual
Studio( VBasic, VFox, VC++) programming.
Lisp
& macros for AUTOCAD programming.
Excel,
Word, Access, Power Point, Corel Draw and other office soft widely used.