Arnaud DEGARDIN

Chemical Engineer

✉️ degardinarnaud@gmail.com | 📞 available on request | CV Webpage | Linkedin

🏠 Cesate (MI), Lombardy, Italy

Currently

Area Sales Manager

Summary

I am a french Chemical Engineer living in Italy. I’m actually working as Area Sales Manager for industrial Cooling/Heating solutions.

Top skills

• Sales
• Chemical Engineering
• Six Sigma
• Programming

Languages

• French : native
• Italian : fluent
• English : fluent
• German : basic school knowledges

Education

2000-2003 Ecole supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, Master’s degree, Chemical Engineering.

• cpe.fr

1997 - 1999 Université François Rabelais de Tours, Bachelor’s degree, Biology.

• univ-tours.fr

Occupation

07/2025-Present FRIGOSYSTEM SRL, Caronno Pertusella, Lombardia, Italia, frigosystem.it

Area Sales Manager

Frigosystem-Corema is focused on the design, manufacture and sale of industrial chillers, coolers and temperature controllers, with a long experience in high accuracy systems.

• I’m responsible for the Sales development following all the sales process steps: contacting customers, preparing technical offers up to negociation phase.

02/2024-06/2025 ENOGIA SA, Milan, Lombardia, Italia, enogia.com (Company HQ based in France, Marseille)

Business Developer, South Europe

ENOGIA manufactures systems (Organic Rankine Cycle - ORC) for electricity generation from renewable sources. It allows customers to produce green electricity and to recover waste heat from different processes (furnaces, boilers, engines, gas stacks, geothermal…).

• I was responsible for the Sales development (using email/phone prospection, participation to events…) finding new customers and Sales Agents for the Southern Europe and Middle East areas.
• I was following all the sales process steps: answering customer requests, presentations (onsite, remote), technical offers, negociation and contract redaction.
• Preliminary offers required the design of a complete solution for every customer, including: @ Sizing of the ORC device with the optimization of the process conditions in order to maximize the efficiency (Electricity production) @ Design EPC solutions (drawings, process engineering and budgeting activities) for the integration parts (eg. additional heat exchangers, cooling systems and interconnecting like piping, pumping systems).

2019-02/2024 DEC S.p.A., Lainate, Lombardia, Italia, dec.group

Technical Sales & Application Manager

• DEC’s promotes VOC abatement solutions: mainly solvent recovery system for VOC filtration on activated carbon adsorption, and reuse after desorption, allowing Circular Economy and CO2 footprint reduction. Those systems are mainly employed in chemical, pharmaceutical industries and also in flexible packaging converting processes.
• I was representing DEC and its products to the Customers: from leads first contacts, project feasibility study, preliminary layout, proposal definition, negociation and contract redaction.
• To fulfill this responsibility, I regularly travelled throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
• For the leads expansion, I participate regularly to Fairs/Exhibitions and make public speaches during sectorial association’s meetings.

2012-2018 ASE Soc Coop., Saronno, Lombardia, Italia

CEO & Sales Office Manager

• Healthcare services Company with two offices (Saronno & Como). The company were managing around 100 co-workers. The scope was the Human Resources research and selection for Healthcare services (Authorised HR agency).
• This activity allowed me to experience in managing a B2C business, meanwhile focusing on entrepreneurship aspects (especially sales, financial management and Team building).
• Development of the HR platform for people registration and customer marketing (made in PHP+SQL).

2010-2011 BOLTON MANITOBA S.p.A., Nova Milanese, Lombardia, Italia, boltongroup.net

Plant Development Specialist - Projects/Maintenance

• The company is involved in the production of household detergents.
• I was responsible for the design of new plants (eg. Ethanol storage tank and dosing ayatem, hypochlorite tank and dosing system).
• to fulfill this activity, I managed to prepare P&I drawings, Data sheets, Yellow Reviews and piping/instrumentation specifications.
• I also managed plant maintenance interventions, providing training to production people. I worked also with Software Engineer designing logical control sequences, and conducting HAZOP studies.

09/2002-2010 SOLVAY (ex-Rhodia), Ospiate di Bollate, Lombardia, Italia solvay.com

Chemical process engineer & Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

• This site is specialized in the production of surfactants for the industry and agriculture.
• I was working as Chemical process engineer and Six Sigma Black Belt. This qualification, allowed me to lead over 10+ international projects.
• During my time there, I was also responsible for World Class Manufacturing (following production KPI).
• I also designed new plants and chemical process modifications (elaboration of P&I, data sheet, specifications), for various plant modifications, meanwhile designing logical control sequences, and conducting HAZOP studies.
• I also participate to SAP-PM implementation (Plant Maintenance module of SAP software)

03/2002-08/2002 ARKEMA (ex-Atofina), La Chambre, France, arkema.com

Process Engineer Internship

• Chemical Process Optimization

09/2001-02/2002 LAFARGE Cement, Marseille, France, holcim.us

Analytical R&D - Internship

• Thermogravimetric analyser building, with HMI control (Visual Basic programming)

09/2001-02/2002 IFP (Institut Français du Pétrol), Lyon, France, ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr

Process Engineer - internship

• Distillation process simulator (Excel testing models for complex distillations)

Certifications

2006 🏅Six Sigma Black Belt, from Six Sigma Accademy, sixsigmacouncil.org

2008 🏅 Fire Guard License (for Rhodia production site), SILPA.org

2009 🏅 Toxic Gas License (Ethylene Oxyde), Patente Gas Tossici - Ossido di Etilene AssolombardaServizi.it

1997 🏅 Brevet d’aptitude aux fonctions d’animateur BAFA

Softwares (basic knowledges)

• Office: Microsoft’s Office, Google Workspace
• 2D/3D drawing: Autocad, Bricscad, Blender, Inkscape
• Stastics: Minitab

Programming languages (basic knowledges)

• Google Apps Script, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Python,

Recommandation

2011 📣 Steven Farr, on Linkedin said:

Arnaud is a thorough person who focuses and works through a programme or project to deliver results. He is a multi-linguist and had good empathy with those he worked with. He was an excellent Black Belt and was a pleasure to coach. I wish him all the best for the future and I know he will work well in many environments.

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Last updated

2025