Qualifications: BSc Electrical & Electronic Engineering

BSc Geography

Courses: Apollo 3 Day Root Cause Analysis Facilitators Course

5 Day GEC Protection Relay Course

Offshore Survival Course

Team Leadership Skills Workshop

Several Empowerment Programmes

Time Management Course

Present position:Maintenance Engineer

AMEC Process & Energy Limited

2007 - Present

Position: Team Leader / Maintenance Engineer

Project: BBL (Shell)

Team Leader on Shell's Sakhalin Project (based in Aberdeen) responsible for co-ordinating the creation of all maintenance routines for the Liquid Natural Gas Plant, and associated sub plants as well as the writing the Performance Standards for the Tanker Loading Unit. Responsible for the daily planning and control of all project matters working closely with the Project Manager, and standing in for him every second month when he is working in Sakhalin Island.

2004 - 2006

Position: Maintenance Engineer

Project: BBL (Shell)

Responsible for the creation of POPM's (Platform Operating Procedures) for Shell's Bacton reception facility. On-site liaison with client and support engineers. Laterally was team leader.

Position: Maintenance Engineer

Project: Britsats (Conoco / Philips)

Responsible for the creation of maintenance routines and procedures for Conoco Philips satellite installation.

2002 - 2004

Position: Reliability Engineer

Project: Shell Sigma 3

Responsible for the identification and elimination of the root causes of offshore equipment failures resulting in significant production loss or impairment to critical safety systems.

Close liaison with 3rd party and in-house HVAC expertise for the improvement of the HVAC systems on 15 Shell installations.

Responsible for addressing and closing out of 3rd party Verification Findings to ensure the compliance with each of the installation Safety Cases and Verification Schemes

Close liaison with the other Shell Reliability Engineers in Scotland, England, Holland and Norway to identify and implement best-in-class reliability improvement initiatives.

1998 - 2001

Position: Review and Improvement Engineer

Project: Shell ISC

Responsible for the establishment and updating of maintenance strategies, controls and procedures relevant to topsides installation maintenance, using analytical techniques and best practice.

Responsible for ensuring SAP PM data integrity through liaison with SAP Team Leader.

Responsible for ensuring the alignment of safety critical routines with their relevant procedures.

Involvement and partaking in numerous 'expert panels' for the ongoing Planned Maintenance Optimisation and implementation within SAP (Shell's preferred computerised maintenance system)

1996 - 1997

Position: IMIS Data Engineer

Project: Shell MMSC

Responsible for managing all IMIS related matters including ensuring the validity and integrity of Shell's IMIS database by maintaining it to Shell's IMIS data input standards.

Responsible also for the compilation of maintenance reports as requested by the platforms and onshore maintenance section.

Time also spent on several projects identifying and co-ordinating maintenance improvement initiatives.

Assisted in the preparation of a tender for a Shell integrated services contract, primarily responsible for aspects relating to benchmarking and maintenance strategy reviews.

Strategic Maintenance Engineering

January 1992-1995

Position: Project / Electrical Engineer

Responsible for the implementation of several maintenance strategy reviews for Shell's Brent field.

Responsible for the safety criticality categorisation of maintenance routines for Shell's Brent Field and Northern Plants.

Also responsible for:

· the writing of the electrical routines and procedures for Mobil's Gas Plant expansion

· assistance in the development of a computerised maintenance synchronising, scheduling and man-hour estimating tool.

· the presentation (onshore and offshore) of a computerised data logging and trending package.

· the monitoring, recording and analysis of fiscal metering data from Shell's Northern Business Unit.

· the recording and presentation of data appertaining to the power generation sets on Shell's Kittiwake platform, and analysis and presentation of data on Shell's IMIS system.

· various other ad hoc technical audits and performance indicating reports for several Shell departments.

Electrosonic

August 1991-December 1991

Position: Technical Co-ordinator

Responsible for the co-ordination of work concerning the repair and calibration of customers equipment. Also responsible for the hiring out of inspection equipment and for the assembly of subsea flaw detectors.

Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology

August 1988-July 1991

Student studying for BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Western Atlas Wireline

Summer 1990

Industrial placement as part of degree course. Developed and constructed an electronically controlled downhole tool heat tester.

Wimpey Offshore

May 1988-June 1988

Position: Technical Clerk

Assisting in the preparation of tender presentations.

Self Employed

January 1987-April 1988

Position: Sales Agent

Selling chemicals to transport related outlets.

Bryant Engineering

March 1986-December 1986

Position: Technical Assistant

Placed on secondment to Chevron Petroleum (UK) Limited. Responsible for the upkeep of the computer database for the drilling department and for the updating of all xmas tree and well valve refurbishment records on Lotus 1-2-3. General assistance to engineers on various drilling projects.

Marshall Manpower Planning

August 1985-February 1986

Position: Technical Assistant

Placed on secondment to Ferranti Offshore Systems Ltd. Responsible for the planning and collation of offshore communications systems manuals.

Solus Engineering and Inspection Services

July 1984-August 1985

Position: Technical Assistant

Placed on secondment to Shell UK Exploration and Production. Responsible for the creation, maintenance and supervision of manufacturer's data hard copy / microfiche system which included verifying and updating the computer back-up of the system.

Other duties included assisting engineering and technical authors with their queries using computer search facilities, creating computer input sheets for production, documentation, abstracting and registering data from installation improvement packages and updating and maintaining equipment registers.

Aqua-Dyne

May 1984-July 1984

Position: General Assistant

Engaged on the maintenance of tanks and employed offshore on the Piper Alpha platform for Occidental.

Solus Ocean Systems

January 1984

Position: Technical Assistant

Placed on secondment to Shell UK Exploration & Production on a temporary contract. Engaged in the inspection department, responsible for the compilation of document files for use by inspectors, notification of sponsor department of stages of inspection work, updating inspectors day-to-day reports and the maintenance of registers.

December 1983

Position: Invoice Controller

On secondment to Shell UK Exploration & Production. Engaged in the costing department, responsible for checking timesheets from offshore contractors, identification and coding of invoices, documentation control and generally assisting the cost engineer in all matters.

L.A.Recruitment

November 1983

Position: General Assistant

Placed on secondment to Stenhouse Marine at Flotta Oil Terminal in the Orkney Islands. Employed as a general assistant on a 4 week contract.

Marktrace Limited

August 1982-June 1983

Position: Technical Assistant

On secondment to Grootcon UK Ltd. Working in the drawing office / engineering department controlling documentation, compiling formatted information for computer input, coding and identifying isometric drawings, logistic verification and general assistance in tender presentations.

Total Oil Marine Ltd

July 1981-August 1981

Temporary employment with Total in the geological section of the exploration department. Duties involved checking and indexing documents pertaining to geological information on North Sea exploration wells. Much time also spent verifying and correcting information held on computerised data base of European petroleum exploration wells.