William Hans
Engineer and activist
Driving License
Professional Status
Just looking around
About Me
Allured by science and technology from an early age, my curiosity, sense of discovery and desire for change led me to an education in innovation engineering.
Interested by the future of our societies, I realized the magnitude of the challenges we are facing. This led me so far to turn away from a traditional career to seek for a meaningful way of life and engagement towards a desirable common future.
Therefore, I am looking for development activities closer to the ground, sparing in resources consumption, empowering, socially fair, respectful of the living life and individuals, bringing more harmony inside and around us.
Interested by the future of our societies, I realized the magnitude of the challenges we are facing. This led me so far to turn away from a traditional career to seek for a meaningful way of life and engagement towards a desirable common future.
Therefore, I am looking for development activities closer to the ground, sparing in resources consumption, empowering, socially fair, respectful of the living life and individuals, bringing more harmony inside and around us.
European Solidarity Corps participant in eco-cohousing community
Free and Real
August 2020
to December 2020
Volunteer Work
Aidipsos, Evia
Greece
- Active and hands-on learning in eco-building while developing the site's infrastructure
- Experience and participate in an offgrid and vegan community life
- Co-build eco-houses and participate in workshops during a trip to The Southern Lights, an agroforestry farm in the South of Peloponnese
Builder volunteer in refugees camp
Movement On The Ground
June 2020
to July 2020
Volunteer Work
Kara Tepe and Moria, Lesbos
Greece
- Organize the warehouses, run item distribution and foodline
- Work with the construction team to develop the electrical network and set up a wooden fence
Social volunteer in refugees camp
EuroRelief
April 2020
to June 2020
Volunteer Work
Moria, Lesbos
Greece
- Provide basic non-food items, respond and help fairly with the individual and social problems in the camp of Moria
- Run shelter allocation, census, mapping in the camp and the "jungle" (sourroundings), delivering transfer or appointment informations for asylum cases, operate the information point, sort and pack donation supplies at the warehouse
Technical maker volunteer
Low-Tech With Refugees
January 2020
to March 2020
Volunteer Work
Mytilene, Lesbos
Greece
- Repair goods and bicycles and craft low-tech solutions
- Co-build machines (openly designed by Precious Plastic community) to manufacture goods from recycled plastic
- Liven up the Low-tech Makerspace
Environmental activist
France
January 2019
to November 2019
- Undertake personal consumption and lifestyle changes
- Organise and perform civil disobedience actions within Extinction Rebellion France and other collectives
- Participate in events for reflection, demonstration and promotion of societal alternatives
One year backpacking journey
South America
March 2017
to March 2018
- Learn Spanish, discover different cultures and explore a new environment travelling into Chile, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Volunteer in hostels and an ecological farm
Data visualization engineer
Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance
May 2016
to December 2016
Full-time
Poitiers
France
- Design and develop a functional, automated and intuitive interface to display and widely cover operating data for activity steering
- Draw up specifications, search and compare tools, process data, iteratively develop dynamic charts and dashboards
Knowledge Management research fellow
Souriau Esterline
September 2015
to February 2016
Student Project
Angers
France
- Explore ways to improve the organization's knowledge management to foster innovation
- Conduct a survey and an internal audit, benchmark IT tools and give recommendations
Training workshop designer
Sindup
May 2015
to July 2015
Internship
Angers
France
- Develop the programme of Veille Academy, giving thematic workshops related to online monitoring for professionals
- Produce presentation supports and organizational, prospecting and promotional materials
Patented innovative bicycle co-inventor
ISTIA
September 2014
to June 2015
Student Project
Angers
France
- Conduct idea, information and technical research: methods of creativity, market study, patent search, design and technology monitoring
- Conduct design studies: specifications, ergonomics, computer 3D modelling, dimensioning and testing, partial prototyping by 3D printing
Field survey agent and information officer
Office de Tourisme de Poitiers
July 2014
to August 2014
Full-time
Poitiers
France
- Conduct a randomly tourist survey in the city center of Poitiers
- Inform and direct people at the tourist office reception desk
Administration and customer service agent
Robert Arrigo & Sons Travel Specialists
April 2014
to July 2014
Internship
San Giljan
Malta
- Enter reservations in the information system
- Receive and provide animation, advice and sale of excursions for clients
Automotive brake assembly operator
Chassis Brakes International
July 2013
to August 2013
Internship
Angers
France
- Assemble, sort and package parts on a production line
- Perform continuous quality controls, occasional maintenance
Degree in Industrial Systems Engineering
ISTIA - Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Ingénieur d'Angers
September 2011
to September 2016
Public engineering school part of the University of Angers focused on quality and reliability, innovation, automatic and computer science.
By joining the Polytech network, group of French public graduate schools of engineering, it has become Polytech Angers.
Option: Innovation Engineering
Final training path: Intangible Capital and Knowledge Management
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By joining the Polytech network, group of French public graduate schools of engineering, it has become Polytech Angers.
Option: Innovation Engineering
Final training path: Intangible Capital and Knowledge Management
- Design procedures: functional analysis, systemic analysis, life-cycle assessment
- Computer Aided Design: SolidWorks
- Industrial property and patent search
- Monitoring systems and tools
- Data visualization: Excel, Google Charts
- Survey conducting
- JavaScript, html, css
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), LibreOffice Suite, Prezi, Gimp, Mindmapping, GanttProject
- Open-source software and services: Framasoft
- Hand and electrical tools for mechanic, wood and metal processing
- Basics in eco-building
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French: native
Expert
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English: competent
C1 level, 860 points on the TOEIC testGood
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Spanish: competent
Good
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German: scholar
Notions
- Foresight science and collapsology
- Environmentalism, deep ecology
- Low-tech movement
- Renewable energies
- Humanitarianism
- Activism
- Veganism
- Internet freedom
- South America, Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain, Malta, Bruxelles (European Commission)
- Interrail in Europe (8 capitals)
- Cycling
- Hiking
- Climbing
- Ski
- Handball
- Football
- Tennis
- Scouts et Guides de France (2003-2010)
- ISTIA student office (2013-2015)