Career Experience

October 2006 Subsea 7 Limited

To Present Position: Senior Contracts Specialist

Responsible for establishing front end contracts required for two newbuild vessels: one Diving Support Vessel and one ROV Support Vessel. Position involved travel to liaise with international subcontractors.

April 2004 Petrofac Facilities Management Limited

to September 2006 Position: Senior Contracts Engineer

Responsible for all contracts associated with their Client Tullow in the SNS, whose installations include: Hewett, Bacton, Schooner, Ketch and Horne & Wren. Previous activities have included the transition of ownership of the Schooner & Ketch facilities to Tullow, the newbuild of the Horne & Wren asset and support to the Offshore Cost Challenge, aimed at making the Hewett Field wholly unmanned.

September 2003 Geoservices S.A., Paris

to March 2004 Position: Contracts Consultant

Whilst Geoservices were predominantly a mudlogging company they were starting to branch out into operations and maintenance contracts and full control of well operations, these works were classified as 'Special Projects'. I was the contractual representation for the 'Special Projects' department. Duties include the following responsibilities:

· Reviewing calls for tender for special projects from clients worldwide, and negotiation of international contract terms and conditions. Contracts involved various legal systems and languages.

· Establishing procedures, pro-forma contracts and guidelines

· Training contract co-ordinators for various districts i.e. N&S America, Asia, Europe etc.

· Internal audit carried out in Venezuela

November 2002 to Technip Offshore UK Limited, Aberdeen

September 2003 Position: Contracts Engineer

Working within the project 'Newbuilds and Conversions' office. Duties include the following responsibilities:

· Contract administration for vessel based works, including the purchase of a universal carousel system, rental of dry dock, j-lay systems and upgrade works on existing vessels. General duties involve drafting, tendering, negotiating, awarding and subsequently controlling contracts post-award.

· Involvement in the pilot usage of electronic tendering through the epc-business website.

August 2002 to Sigma 3 (North Sea) Limited, Aberdeen

November 2002 Position: Transition Contracts Engineer

Working as a member of Sigma 3 (the Integrated Services Contractor for Shell (U.K.) Expro), responsible for the management and maintenance of subcontracts for Shell's offshore assets. Duties include the following responsibilities:

· Executing the transition of all contracts associated with offshore work and onshore support for the Nelson Field.

· Contract administration for contracts in connection with TENC (Tern Alpha, Eider Alpha & North Cormorant) and CADA (Cormorant Alpha & Dunlin Alpha)

· SAP database maintenance, outline agreement inputs, raising call-offs etc and general reporting.

October 1999 to Kerr-McGee North Sea (U.K.) Ltd., Aberdeen

August 2002 Project Office

Position: Contracts Engineer

Oct 2000 to August 2002:

Working on the "Leadon Development Project" (FPSO), "Maclure Development Project" (tie-back), "Tullich Development Project" (tie-back) and the "Hutton Decommissioning Project". Duties include the following responsibilities:

· Contract administration for Subsea Facilities EPIC Contracts, Subsea Controls, Construction, freight forwarding etc and various minor contracts, comprising drafting, tendering, negotiating, awarding and subsequently controlling contracts post-award.

· Buyer responsibilities for procurement of major items of equipment i.e. grippers, xmas trees, swivel hoses and metering etc.

· Claims advisor responsibilities comprising of identifying warranty or insurance claims, issuing notices to contractors, co-ordinating claims packages, liasing with insurers etc.

Oct 1999 to Oct 2000

Working within the Contracts Department, duties included the following responsibilities:

· Contract administration for onshore service contracts comprising drafting, tendering, negotiating, awarding, and subsequently controlling contracts post-award. Oracle database maintenance, service order inputs and general reporting.

· Post contract administration for IT service providers, including Oracle consultants, helpdesk facilitators, FPAL registration agreement etc.

· Major tendering exercise executed in 2000 to reduce number of manpower agencies utilised by KMG and generate significant cost savings. Large scale tendering process involving pre-qualification round, tendering round and post tender clarification meetings of numerous tenderers to discuss processes, reductions and any cost saving ideas i.e. multiple invoicing. Achieved significant savings for KMG.

March 1998 to Mobil Ltd., Aberdeen

October 1999 Beryl Success Plan

Position: Contracts Advisor

Initially employed by Mobil on a University work placement for a period of 3 months, after which I returned to University but continued to work at Mobil a minimum of 3 days per week until going full time again following graduation. Responsible for providing contractual support to the Beryl Success Plan and the contract operations group. Duties included the following responsibilities:

· Contract administration for Personnel (agency and direct recruitment), IT Services (SAP provider, Licensing Agreements and web page set-up) and Camelot Decommissioning, comprising drafting, tendering, negotiating, awarding and subsequently controlling contracts post-award. Utilising the SAP system for costing information.

· Major manpower exercise carried out to reduce number of agencies utilised for offshore Beryl support.

· Preparation and compilation of monthly and weekly project progress reports.

Additional Details

Further Education: Attained a PG Cert in Construction Law and Arbitration with distinction at Robert Gordon's University in Aberdeen and have obtained exemption form Level III exams for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Attained 2:1 BA Hons in Law and Administration, and a Diploma in Conveyancing and Executary Services at Robert Gordons University Aberdeen in 1999. Subjects covered include: Contract Law, Administrative Law and IT and the Law etc.

Education: Aberdeen College, Aberdeen. 1993 - 1995

Attained 5 "H" Grades - English (B), History (B), Biology (C), Human Biology (B) and Computing (A).

Computing Experience: Experience with: Microsoft's Word, Excel, Outlook software, Oracle, SAP, Datawright, Microsoft Project etc