Achilles Leontakianakos

Qualifications

Ph.D, (UMIST), M.Sc. (UMIST), P. Grad Dip. (GRIFFITH)

Career History and biography

Professional and Group Associations

• Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK, MIEE
• Engineering Council UK, Chartered Engineer, CEng
• Institution of Radio and Electronics Engineers Australia
• iSEE Complex Systems Thinking Sofiware Group

Interests and community service

Licensed HF Amateur Radio Operator, City and Guilds Certificate.

Accredited PRINCE 2 Practitioner (Project Management Certification)

Accredited PRINCE 2 Foundation (Project management Certification) Member PMI

 

Research Areas

Within the broad field of asset management, Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos and his research team have defined three main research areas:

Contracting, Management and Strategy Formation

In today's world, success of any industry depends upon its knowledge of the industry, its capabilities and strengths. Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos' research provides expert advice on a techincal problem. Whether the challenge involves energy, environmental, computational, national security or health sciences, Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos' research looks in to specific projects and the needs of small and large organisations to access their capability and specific R& D needs.

Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos' research is tageted at senior managers, department heads and directors who have the authority and personal ambition to contribute to the development of strategy at a departmental, business unit or organisational level. His main areas of research are focused on:

• Technology Assistant Program
• Cost-shared collaborations
• Strategy formations

Decision making process for corporate management, conflict resolution

While all businesses have a fundamental requirement for communication applications, they are not all are the same when it comes to decision making within their communications applications planning processes and objectives. Today industry relies heavily on the decision making, problem solving and conflict resolution ability of engineers and managers. There are a number of challenges which are faced by these professionals, such as prioritising issues that require attention, setting goals, finding or designing suitable courses of action, and evaluating and choosing among alternative actions.

 

Dr.Achilles Leontakianakos and his research team study how industries come to conclusions and how a decision is made about the course of action. They also investigate how business size, vertical industry focus, geographic regional location etc. introduce considerable variation in the decision making process. Their research is focussed on:

• How risk and the perception of risk influence judgement and decision making;
• How trade-offs between different dimensions of performance are made in multi-criteria decisions.

 

Asset Management

In the current business climate, managers of assets face many challenges during the in-service phase of the asset life-cycle. In an attempt to understand the current situation and map out plans for future, asset management encompasses activities that are aimed at establishing the optimum way of managing assets to achieve a desired and sustained outcome. Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos and his research team aim to contribute a significant part of developing asset management control methods, techniques, applications and training to support cost-effective management and control of capital assets (e.g. ships, offshore platforms, aircrafts, etc).

Their research principally addressing challenges in Asset Management and Decision Support Systems. His main research areas include the following:

• Optimise the resources for managing assets
• Development of new approaches and techniques for asset management
• Regulatory and Legal Issues
• Reliability and risk assessment for assets
• Deal with aging of assets and asset renewal issues

External Collaborators

Within the broad field of water research, Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos and his research team have strong collaborations with: 

• SHELL

 

Shell Management Courses

Effective Project Contracting

Total Quality Management

Funding

Received over $1 Million in research funding since year 2006

Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos and his research team has been granted funds to conduct following research projects:

Multi Criteria Asset Decision Support Tool

Role: Partner Investigator,
Chief Investigator: Prof Lin Ma
Participating agencies: CRC for Integrated Eng Asset Management (CIEAM)
Amount: $170,000
Period: 2006

Identifiying Factors to Differentiate Engineering and Construction Projects

Role: Chief Investigator,
Participating agencies: QUT ARC Linkage - Projects Incentive Scheme  
Period: 2006

Privatisation of the Electricity Utility market

Role: Head of the Commercial and Contractual parts of the Tender evaluation team

Consultancy on the process and procedures leading to fill privatisation of the Electricity Utility market in Saudi Arabia. This job was completed for the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Saudi Arabia.

New fixed Telephone Lines Project

I headed the team that assessed all bidders tendering for one of STC’s contracts (worth over US$1.8 billion) for the expansion of the present fixed line telephone network. This network expansion involves 450,000 fixed and wireless (WLL) subscriber lines distributed all around the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Also served as the member of the Contract Negotiations and vendor selection team. Vendors included Ericsson, Huawei, Siemens, and Lucent.

Water Desalination and Electricity Production Plant Infrastructure upgrade

Supervision and Optimisation of final tortion and stabilisation of all rotation plant, troubleshooting, testing and commissioning in Al Khobar-Half Moon Bay for Saudi Electric Company.

Gas Turbine Project in the Empty Quarter area

Role: Principal Consultant

Preparation of specifications for an electricity Gas Turbine plant and separate Feasibility Study on power/telecomms long haul transmission.

Design and implementation of ISO 9001-2000 Quality system

Role: Principal Consultant
Company: Norconsult

Participated in the successful design and implementation of ISO 9001-2000 Quality system for Registration.

Upgrade of GSM lines

Role: Principal Consultant
Company: STC

Prepared the technical specifications and Tender document for an upgrade of an additional 650 thousand GSM lines along with their associated new civil and telecommunications infrastructure, for STC.

Optical Network Infrastructure for Metropolitan Broadband Infrastructure

Role: Principal Consultant
Company: Services LTD
Project: Utilities Bundling Project

Preparation of Utilities Bundling Business case involving Passive Optical Networks for “Metropolitan Broadband infrastructure” in Jeddah- worth US$20 billion, and the associated Engineering Management study.

Audit of Power plant synchronisation network project

Role: Project Manager
Company: Saudi Aramco

Work included the audit and hands-on testing of the Timing signal quality and distribution throughout the Saudi Aramco Dammam Network.

Audit of Corporate NW Timing Synchronisation Project

Role: Project Manager
Company: Saudi Aramco

Work included preparation of specifications for Testing of SDH transmission fiber network. This involved the testing of 300 km G.652 6-strand existing single mode fibre and G.653 dispersion shifted 12- strand fiber to establish capability of carrying STM-64 SDH and DWDM traffic.

Study on the Refurbishment of Infrastructure for refurbishment from old analogue system to the new Digital TV system

Company: Saudi Broadcasting

Work involved study on the Refurbishment of the TV infrastructure, Technology Change Manager, refurbishment of old analogue system to the new Digital TV system including the power source supply.

Transmission Services Cut Over Project

Role: Project Manager
Company: Saudi Aramco

Work involved defining the work schedule and sequence of all processes required for the successful relocation and cut over of 7 telecommunication shelters, with a minimum down time, of 4 hours each, and its Implementation.

Shell Project Academy Activities

Commercial Research, 2006-2007 $164,885
Delivery of SPA events, 2006-2007 $164,885
Delivery of SPA event scheduled for 2008 $42,140
Total: $371,910

Motorsport Activities

CRC CIEAM - Team Award

CRC CIEAM Team Award

CRC CIEAM awards Mr Cletus Ikhinmwin cash $30,000
CRC CIEAM awards Mr Cletus Ikhinminwin in kind $123,400
CRC CIEAM awards Mr A Emoruwa cash $30,000
CRC CIEAM awards Mr A Emoruwa in kind $123,400
Linkage - Project Incentive Scheme $5,000
CRC Integrated Eng. Asset Management $173,085
Total: $484,885

 

 

Dr. Achilles Leontakianakos students have undertaken following funded research projects:

 

Principal Supervisor of research themes:

The Development of Mesh Networkds to Empower Rural Industries

Name: James, Matthew P
Year: 2007
Course: Ph. D.
College: QUT

Maintenance strategy evaluation model for complex system

Name: Mu, Dekui
Year: 2006
Course: Masters
College: QUT

Research Theses currently being supervised:

Effective contracting strategies

Name: Ikhinmwin, Cletus
Course: Ph. D.
College: QUT

Effective decision making in the sugar production and processing industry

Name: James, Matthew
Course: Ph. D.
College: QUT

Selected List of Publications

• A. Leontakianakos, “Combined space and Frequency Diversity improves propagation during Harmattan in West Africa”, submitted for publication, lEE Proceedings Communications, April 2001.
• A. Leontakianakos, “S-Band Clear Air Propagation and Ducting in Coastal West Africa”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 15, No.2, June 5, 1997.
• A. Leontakianakos, “C-Band Clear air propagation and ducting in Coastal West Africa”, Electronics Letters, 511’ December1996, Vol.32, No. 25.
• A. Leontakianakos, “Propagation of Analog Microwave Waves in West Africa during Harmattan”, presented at CSIRO International Conference on Antennas, Sydney, Australia, February 1996.
• A. Leontakianakos, “Digital Microwave Propagation in Coastal West Africa during Harmattan” presented American Geophysical Union, 4th Western Pacific Geophysics, Brisbane, July 27, 1996.
• A. Leontakianakos, “Analogue Microwave propagation during Harmattan in West Africa”, Presented at the XXVth assembly of the International Union of Radio Science in Lille, France, 29th August 1996.
• A. Leontakianakos, “Determination of Water vapour by microwave spectroscopy with application to quality control of natural gas”, IEEE Trans. On Instrum. and Measur. Vol. 41, No 32, June 1992, pp.370-374.
• A. Leontakianakos, “A K-Band oscillator locked to the first water resonance”. IEEE Trans On Microwave Theory and Techniques. Vol.40, No.2, pp. 191 -1 95, Feb 1992.
• A. Leontakianakos and J.P. Ralph, “A modern Engineering Program of Assignments”. Proceedings of the 3 regional Conference of the Association for engineering education in South East Asia and the Pacific (AEESEAP). Presented in Dec. 1991, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• A. Leontakianakos, and J.P. Ralph, “The interdisciplinary program of assignments at the Institut Teknologi Brunei. AEESEAP Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 1991, pp.19-34.
• K Leontakianakos, and K. C. Chong, “The programme of Interactive Assignments, a computerised quality control example”, Presented at the 6”’ International Council of Association for Science Education (ICASE), ASIAN Symposium, at the University of Brunei Darussalam on the 7th Dec. 1989.
• A. Leontakianakos, “Theory and Design of a Hall effect plate crack detector”, The ASIAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989, pp. 29-
• A. Leontakianakos, “Gunn diode oscillator locked to the first water resonance”, Proceedings of the 2 ASEAN Science and Technology week, Vol. 4, January 1989, pp.266-282, Manila, Philippines.
• A.S. Davies, A. Leontakianakos, “Microwave Spectral emission from a glow discharge filled 18-26 GHz Fabry-Perot Cavity Spectrometer”. Analytica Chimica Acta, 200, 1987, pp.593-607.
• G. Thirup, F. Benmakroha, A. Leontakianakos, “Analytical microwave Spectrometer employing a Gunn diode oscillator locked to the rotational absorption line”, Journal of Physics. E. Instrum. 19, 1986, pp. 823-830.
• A. Leontakianakos, “The determination of water in natural gas by microwave spectroscopy”, The SAC 8613rd BNASS International Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Atomic Spectroscopy, Bristol, U.K. July 1986.
• A. Leontakianakos, “invited Lecture on “The determination of water in Hydrocarbons by microwave spectroscopy”, presented to the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry of U.K., April 2nd 1986, at UMIST.
• Commercial Research on Corporate Contracting - Not published in the open research journals as it is not approved by proprietor.