1. CURRICULUM VITAE : ANDREAS FRIEDERICHS
PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME: Andreas Werner Friederichs
ADDRESS: P.O.Box: 446 Kampala, Uganda
TELEPHONE: Uganda, +256 / 752-711517, + 256 / 781968835
E - Mail: crossroadsug@yahoo.com
DATE OF BIRTH: 04 October 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH: GERMANY
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
1965-1975 10 year's primary and secondary school, Ahrensburg
1975-1979 3 1/2 years training as electrician with Messrs. Ewert Ahrensburg, Electronics
Electrical Engineering
1982-1984 2 1/2 years of further training as electrical engineer at the State College for Energy
Technology in Hamburg Altona with qualification as electrical engineer
January 1989 Training course in centrifugal and submersible pumps at Messrs. KSB (Klein Schanzlin &
Becker) in Frankenthal and Homburg, Germany
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
August 1975 - May 1979
Messrs. Ewert-Ahrensburg Electronik / Electrotechnik Ahrensburg
a) Independent assembly of MCC's for Melia Hotel, Baghdad - Iraq, power consumption 0.75 MVA, mainly used for water supply and treatment, contract value
for electrical part: DM 3,200,000
b) Assembly, installation and setting to work of MCC’S Control gear, for Gruhner and Jahr, Hamburg, as team leader of
8 - 10 electrical and mechanical fitter during erection period, Contract value: DM 800,000
c) Assembly of motor control gear for printing press Axel Springer Verlag, Ahrensburg, Darmstadt, Including installation and setting to work as a teamleader of
sometimes 15 - 20 electrical and mechanical fitter Contract value: DM 4,800,000
June 1979 - Dec. 1981
Messrs. Electro-Haase Oetjendorf-Hamburger Stah[werke, Hamburg Wilhelmsburg
Teamleader - 4 electricians, 2 mechanics for the electrical and mechanical part of the steel rolling plant, manufacturing of reinforcement bars and high quality steel
wires up to 16mm.
independent supervision, repair and servicing of transformer stations up to 6 MVA, electrical driven cranes with a lifting capacity of up to 15 tons, electric motors
AC and DC up to 1 MW, capacitor banks up to 800 KVAR, battery powered emergency control stations, control gear - conventional and SPS / PLC - systems.
Leading up to 140 employees.
1982- 1984
During breaks at the colleges and public holidays temporary reemployed at Hamburger Steelworks to assist in similar tasks as mentioned above.
Jan. 1985 - Dec.1990 Messrs. Jos. Hansen & Soehne, MoenckebergStrase 10. Hamburg 1
Jan. 1985- Jan. 1986 Chief electrical engineer, responsible for team leadership and administration of rehabilitation
Of plant: Weija Irrigation - Ghana, Capacity 1,640 cu.mhr, Contract value: DM 1,400,000
Chief engineer E/M for rehabilitation of plant: Dakawa Rice Schemes Irrigation Projects -
Tanzania, Capacity: 21,600cu.m/hr, Contract value: DM 3,000,000
Chief engineer E/M for rehabilitation of plant: Mbale / Tororo Water Supply Rehabilitation -
Uganda, Capacity: 600cu.mhr, Contract value: DM 1,500,000
Chief electrical engineer for design, calculation. and supervision of manufacturing period:
Ibb / Dhamar Water Supply and Sewerage Projects - Yemen Arabic Republic, capacity: 850
cu.mhr, Contract value: DM 15,000,000
Deputy electrical engineer for design, calculation and supervision of manufacturing time,
later project coordinator: Mogadishu Water Supply Contracts 5a & 6 - Somalia, capacity: 5a:
580cu.mhr, 6 : 2,400 KVA,( Diesel generating sets and 11 KV outdoor switchyard), Contract
value: DM 6,800,000
1986- 1987 Project manager on site as well as electrical engineer for all
Electrical / mechanical contractual belongings Mbale / Tororo Water Supply Rehabilitation
Uganda
Chief engineer for recalculation, design, coordination of E/M manufacturers, selection,
instruction and training of site engineers: Little Osse Water Supply - Nigeria, partly up to
300 employees, capacity: 3,880cu.mhr, Contract value DM 25,000,000
1987- 1988 After returning from Uganda Administrator and independent project coordinator for the
before said project as well as for Oshogbo and Ikpoba Projects. See below:
Ikpoba Water Supply - Nigeria, partly up to 500 employees: capacity: 4,200 cu.mhr, ( high
and low lift pumping station , diesel generating sets up to 1,730 KVA, transformer plant),
Contract value: DM 10,000,000
Oshogbo Water Supply - Nigeria, partly up to 450 employees: capacity: 7,020 cu.mhr, (high
and low lift pumping station, including appro. 5 MVA transformer station, 2,400 KVA diesel
generating stations as well as 5 booster stations, Contract value: DM 22,000,000
Chief engineer E/M for design, calculation, supervision of manufacturing period and erection
time: Malindi Pipeline Project (Pumping Station) Kenya, Capacity: 735 cu.mhr, contract
value: DM 550,000
Chief engineer E/M for design, calculation, supervision of manufacturing time, employing and
training of site engineers as well as supervision of erection time: Priority Borehole Project

2. Anambra - Nigeria, capacity: 200 cu.mhr, per borehole (23 nos.), Contract value: DM
1,912,000 .
1988- 1990 Chief engineer E/M for design, calculation, supervision of manufacturing time, employing and
training of site engineers: Lilongwe Water Supply Malawi, Capacity: 1,320cu.mhr, Contract
value: DM 3,950,000
Chief electrical engineer for design, calculation, and tendering of: Gigiri Water Supply -
Kenya, Capacity: 900 cbmh, Contract value: DM 900, 000
Chief engineer E/M for design, calculation: Kampala Water Supply Expansion Project -
Uganda, Capacity: 80,000 cu.m/d contract value: DM 9,000,000
Jan. 1990- Jun 1990 Managing Director of Messrs. Jos. Hansen & Soehne Y.A.R.
Also resident engineer in the Yemen Arabic Republic for supervision of the erection period
which included 2 nos. Water treatment plants, 15 boreholes, 24 km of 11 KV overhead lines,
2 nos. 11 KV substations, 21km remote control systems-time multiplex-processor controlled
3 nos. Package lift Stations, beside this being responsible for administration and starting a
new subsidiary for my company in Sana'a. Partly up to 300 employees.
July 1990 - Dec 1990 Design and calculation of various water supply projects for Africa, based in los. Hansen
office in Hamburg.
Jan 1991 - May 1991 Andreas Friederichs, Technical Consultant, Finkenweg 24, 2070 Ahrensburg
Self-employed as Consulting Engineer for Messrs. Gauff Consultants, Frankfurt, for Kampala
Water Expansion Project, Uganda, capacity: 80,000cu.m/d contract value: DM 35,000,000
May 1991 - June 1992 Messrs. H.P.Gauff, PO Box 201, Kampala/Uganda
Chief Engineer E/M for above project in Kampala/Uganda
June 1992 - Dec 1996 Water & Solar Power Ltd, PO Box 3655, Kampala/Uganda
Director, handling administration, consultancy, design, purchase and installation of small
and medium sized water, as well as solar projects in Uganda. Various projects successfully
completed for National Water & Sewerage Corporation, Water Development Department as
well as NGO's and private customers.
Dec 1996 - June 1997 Dragados Uganda Ltd, PO Box 7882, Kampala
Head of electrical engineering department with responsibility for all contractual and
constructional belongings of projects won by Dragados International, Madrid, Spain. Projects
handled as under: Second Health Rehabilitation Project, building of 3 hospitals in Uganda.
Project value: USD 23,000,000
July 1997 - Jan 2005 Self employed with Crossroads Music Ltd
Sound Engineering and repair works of any kind of audio & video equipment, recording
studio & design of music systems
Feb 2005 – July 2006 Private Consultant
Working on water and electricity projects as well as sound engineering projects
August 2006 to October 2011 Studies of asian philosophies in the uk and further education to be attuned to the title of
REIKI MASTER, (natural healing and absent healing), completed in july 2011
November 2011 to Feb 2012 self employed as electrical engineer and consultant, in Uganda
March 2012 todate employed as Head of Electrical Department Speke Resort &Commonwealth Centre Munyonyo, Kampala
Other Information
Administration, acquisition, talks with customers, contractual and planning negotiations with customers, consultants,
manufacturers, are also part of my responsibilities, as well as the supervision of assembly periods and the
training of the indigenous operating personnel.
I have built up a new successful subsidiary for Jos. Hansen & Soehne in the Y.A.R. for project handling and commercial trade, with total control, reporting back to
the head office.
I have built up the engineering company Water and Solar Power Ltd. in Uganda, operating with 6 high skilled employees.
I have built up Crossroads Music Ltd, an audio company, handling all kinds of amplified events, live-concerts with national and international music stars.
I hold East African and European driving licenses (c, e, and f)
I hold residentship, granted for life, for Uganda.
Languages: I have fluent knowledge of the German and English language.
I also have basic knowledge of French , Swedish , Kiswahili , and several local Ugandan Languages.
I have been attuned and am holding the reiki master degree for natural healing.
Andreas Friederichs
23/06/2014