Qualifications CEng MIERE (lapsed)

Newcastle Polytechnic

Relevant Experience 1968 to date

23/7/2002 to 3/03/2005

Reliability Consultant with Flight Refuelling Ltd.

FMECAs on various Refuelling pods and pylons.

FMECAs on launch equipments

Numerous Fault tree analyses of airborne equipments.

Assessment of specifications and client requirements

General reliability support.

3/11/2000 to 10/08/2001

Joined staff at Marconi - Reliability Demonstration Manager in Systems Assurance Section

Took voluntary redundancy when Company fell on hard times

Continued work started as Contractor as listed below

Salary £ 40 000

9/8/99 to 3/11/00

MARCONI as a PAYE Contractor of Comms & PC People

Reliability Demonstration Manager

Salary - £51,520

Reliability demonstration of communications equipment installed on Jubilee Line at London Underground

FRACAS-Monitoring and analysis of all faults. Detection and rectification of design faults, investigating trends. Calculation of predicted MTBFs. Produce monthly reliability status reports.

RAMS study of Northern Line Final Radio System including availability, Maintainability and testability, FMECA and HAZOP.

ILS including Spares calculation for Jubilee line equipments

General RAMS and AMT Studies

Inputs into Hazard Analysis and FMECAs including critical items listing

Reliability prediction of systems for West Coast Main Line using Workbench and Relex.

Support of bids with RAM studies and ILS predictions and spares calculation (LSA)

1990 to 1998 (Jardine & Associates formerly Baker Jardine & Associates)

Salary - £39 500 plus BMW 318I

Aberdeen Regional Manager - Jardine & Associates

(Management Representative - Quality)

Aberdeen Operations Manager - 1995 to 1998

Management Representative (Quality) - 1993 to 1998

Reliability Consultant JARDINE AND ASSOCIATES

Manager of JALs Aberdeen based Reliability group including Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM). Responsible for the Management and execution of numerous projects including:-

FMEA and reliability evaluation of drilling control system for ABB

Risk based inspection techniques for Mitsui-Babcock

FMEA workshop Chairman for Kvaerner

RCM of Brent Delta Flare System for Shell

Copy across of 9 systems RCM on Brent Delta for Shell

Risk Analysis Modelling of Kingfisher HIPPS system for W S Atkins

RCM and risk model of Brent Delta Firewater for Shell

Modifications to Kingfisher model for McDermotts

Modifications to Brent model for Shell

Further Modifications to Brent model for Shell

ETAP RAM study for Brown & Root

RCM and Model of Warrington Compressors for British Gas

Update and align PMRs in Brent Charlie Dossiers for Shell

Management Representative (Quality) - Devised and Implemented JAL Quality System to ISO 9001 - Certificated 1995.

Developed all Procedures, Forms, Work Instructions and Quality Manual for JAL to become ISO 9001 accredited. Responsible for ongoing operation of Quality System in Aberdeen, Glasgow, London and Houston offices.

Manager of JAL's Glasgow based reliability group. Responsible for management and execution of numerous projects for offshore operators, including:

Subsea actuator investigation for Occidental.

Safety audit of crane for Conoco.

Specification of cranes for Conoco.

Dropped objects study for Sun Oil.

Well risk analysis for Maersk

Analysis of HIPPS system for Statoil.

FMEAs on numerous offshore cranes

Firewater reliability analysis for EEC

BOP drop study for Maersk

Crane safety device study for HSE

LCC performance Block 9/2 for Statoil

Smorbukk Sor power generation study for Statoil

Failure investigation Eiger crane for Shell

FMECA Mole Sieve for EEC

Murchison dropped object study for Conoco

Brent redevelopment maintainability and criticality evaluation for Shell

Crane safety audits on five cranes in South China Sea for Esso Malaysia

RCM on Linkbelt Cranes for Shell

FMEA on Kenz Cranes

RCM on NCK Cranes for Shell

Kingfisher HIPPS study

ETAP HIPPS Reliability Study

1979-1990

Principal Scientific Officer National Engineering Laboratory, DTI

Manager of the Applications of Control Engineering Section. Responsible for the management of a section of up to 16 engineers and others seconded to large projects. Responsible for obtaining, costing and carrying out industrial projects for British industry. Also responsible for putting together research programmes worth £1m per annum with the Department of Trade and Industry.

Specific projects included:

Development of microprocessor controlled automatic potato planter

Development of microprocessor controlled collar stitcher

Development of automatic guided vehicles

FMECAs on offshore cranes for Conoco, Shell, BP and the Royal Navy.

Failures investigations on offshore equipment for Conoco, BP, Occidental, Shell, Hydrocarbons GB and Britoil.

Design audits and full-scale testing of offshore equipment.

Design and build of various novel hydraulic circuits for a variety of industrial sectors including offshore, agricultural, mining, crane companies, food industry etc.

1975-1979

Senior Scientific Officer NEL, DTI

Section Leader of Control Engineering Applications Section. Responsible for a section of six engineers. Development of special purpose grinding machines. Design and development of novel space mirror lapping machine. Safety Audit of Priestman Sealion Crane for Conoco's Murchison field. Development of hydraulic motors and valves.

Consultant Designer of multiple hydraulic circuits.

1968-1975

Higher Scientific Officer NEL, DTI

Instrumentation and analysis of hydraulic equipment. Development of linear and rotary hydraulic equipment. Investigation of bulk models and measurement. Development of novel mass flowmeter. Investigations of Hydraulic equipment malfunctions and putting in place corrective actions.

Testing of hydraulic motors pumps valves and accumulators.

Design of hydraulic circuits.