EDUCATION

· M.Eng (hons) - 1 ^st Class Honours (2004)

· B.Sc (hons) - 1 ^st Class Honours (1999)

· HND in Electrical / Electronic Engineering (1991)

· OND in Electrical / Electronic Engineering (1989)

· Diploma in Information Technology (1997)

· Diploma in Computing (1999)

· City & Guilds 224-1/2 Radio & TV Servicing (1989)

· O Levels (Maths, English, Physics, Computing, Geography, Chemistry) (1987)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bechtel Ltd, London

Lead Engineer, EMMIS SCADA HS1

September 2002 to-date

Lead Engineer for the design of the EMMIS SCADA system supervising the high speed line section from Kent to St Pancras International Station. The EMMIS system supervises (1) the traction supply infrastructure of the system; consisting of the 25kV overhead catenary system, 400kV National Grid connections, 25kV feeder stations, auto-transformers (parallel posts and sectioning / parallel posts) and isolation transformers (AC/DC interfaces); (2) all HV/LV distribution schemes, consisting of 30-off 11kV sub-stations and all downstream LV distribution schemes.

In addition, EMMIS also monitors building services within all technical / signalling buildings, points heating equipment, lighting schemes (ie. point, compound, tunnel evacuation, assembly point, siding), drainage pumping stations, dewatering system, and lift systems within tunnel shafts.

This position has involved the following roles :-

· Overall responsibility for the development of the EMMIS reference design; distributed from a central control centre at Ashford IECC to over 150 field based outstations (based on Schneider Premium and Momentum PLC systems).

· Production of the reference design package, ie. design layout drawings, system architecture schematics, block cable diagrams, etc. This also included gaining client approval for the technical, functional and interface specifications.

· Providing technical verification to the Contract Manager up to contract award in 2003.

· Working alongside the contract cost engineer and planning manager to ensure that the system was delivered to budget and programme.

· Management / design approval of the SCADA contractor's software and hardware design.

· Interface management - co-ordination of 10-off separate contractors providing field interfaces to EMMIS.

· Managing a team of system design engineers producing the detailed design package for all field interfaces within EMMIS. The detailed design package included the production of several thousand termination schedules, cable schedules and all associated installation documentation.

· Overseeing a small team of field engineers supervising the EMMIS installation being undertaken by 3-off geographically separated contractors.

· Overseeing the testing and commissioning of the system through to system handover, including migration from existing systems.

Systems Engineer

Bechtel Ltd, Warrington

March 2001 to September 2002

Responsible for the control system design on two wastewater treatment schemes in the North West of Scotland.

Moray Wastewater Scheme covering 3-off wastewater treatment plants and 22-off remote pumping stations. This position entailed the design, development, installation supervision, testing and commissioning of local SCADA systems (RSView32 ADS servers), localised PLC systems at each treatment plant (using devicenet technologies) and PLC systems at the remote pumping stations. Design, testing and commissioning of a Wide Area Network (WAN) using digital circuits (KilostreamN) to centrally connect the pumping stations and the SCADA functions across the wastewater treatment plants.

Inverness WwTW - responsible for a major upgrade to the monitoring and control system at the wastewater treatment plant. This involved modifications to the existing PLC, SCADA and telemetry infrastructure. Including modifications to the inlet flow control process and storm storage control logic, expansion of the Lee Dickens telemetry system, the design of a communication interface to support a remote interlock with an upstream pumping station and the extension of the plant SCADA system to incorporate the new / modified plant. The design involved the addition / expansion of Allen Bradley SLC5/04 and 5/05 processors, re-configuration of the data highway to incorporate a series of additional PLCs and modifications to the RSView32 SCADA system.

Systems Engineer - EMMIS - HS1

Bechtel Ltd, Warrington

June 2000 to February 2001

Responsible for the production of the technical, functional and interface design specifications for the expansion of the EMMIS SCADA system covering Section 2 of High Speed 1.

Control Systems Engineer

Bechtel Ltd, Warrington

January 1994 to May 2000

Responsible for a number of control automation projects for water and wastewater treatment projects.

Amongst other projects, this has included :-

Regional Phosphate Dosing

Responsible for the control system design of Phases D and E of the regional phosphate dosing programme. This involved the development of standard software modules for Allen Bradley SLC5/03 PLCs and AFE/GE Fanuc Datapanel HMIs. The position involved the design, development, installation supervision, testing and commissioning of the dosing control system. The position also involved the resolution of problems associated with dosing control systems supplied under Phases A and B of the project (developed and supplied by others).

Regional Secondary Disinfection - Phase 2

Responsible for the control system design of Phase 2 of the secondary disinfection (sodium hypochlorite) dosing programme across 20 separate sites. This involved the development of standard software modules using the SattControl 0P45 PLC. This position involved the design, development, installation supervision, testing and commissioning and control-loop optimisation of the dosing control system. The position also involved the resolution of problems associated with Phase 1 of the project.

Bathing Waters SCADA

Responsible for the implementation of 2-off SCADA (RSView32 ADS) servers at Preston WwTW and Fleetwood WwTW, including the implementation of RSView SCADA dial-up client workstations located at remote pumping stations (Anchorsholme PS, Manchester Square PS, Chatsworth Ave PS, Lytham PS, Fairhaven PS). The position also involved the development of a Visual Basic reporting system to automatically generate management reports for remote access.

The design involved the extension of existing PLCs on the plants - Siemens S5 and S7 PLCs controlling the new storm storage facilities constructed at Fleetwood WwTW, a Siemens S5 PLC at Lytham PS, and the extension of the existing Siemens S5 PLC and Satt 05-35 PLC at Fairhaven PS. All sites were inter-linked by Kilostream circuits to create two wide area networks for central reporting to the SCADA servers.

Hodder WwTW

The position involved the SCADA design of the monitoring and control system, covering 3-off SCADA (RSViews32) workstations and a number of PLCs supervising various stages of the treatment process, including primary and secondary filtration plant, sludge treatment, etc. The design involved the implementation of a number of Allen Bradley SLC 5/04 and 5/05 PLCs on separate data-highways, the design of an ethernet gateway to create the 'data highway to ethernet' bridge for SCADA communications, and the design, development, installation, testing and commissioning of the SCADA platform.

Control Systems Modelling Engineer

North WestWater Engineering, Warrington

January 1991 to December 1993

Responsible for performing control system studies during the early design phase of water and wastewater treatment projects. This involved the production of mathematical models within the MATLAB / SIMULINK environment to analyse, understand and hence optimise the performance of the control system. A number of these optimisations led to significant reductions in capital cost to the project.

Projects involving these studies included the Fylde Bathing Waters scheme, Cryptosporidum removal, etc