CURRICULUM VITAE

NATIONALITY: British.

OCCUPATION: Instrument Engineer / Maintenance Specialist / RCM Consultant.

FURTHER EDUCATION:

College Attended:Reid Kerr College, Paisley (1980 - 1981).

Qualification Achieved: SCOTEC 1 Electrical, Electronics.

College Attended: Motherwell Technical College (1981 - 1986).

Qualification Achieved: City & Guilds Part II Certificate in Maintenance Craft Studies in Measurement and Control. 225 Course.

City & Guilds Part III Certificate in Maintenance Craft Studies in

Measurement and Control. 225 Course.

SCOTEC II & III in Electrical, Electronic and Instrument Engineering.

College Attended: Stow College, Glasgow (1986 - 1987).

SCOTEC V Electrical and Electronic Part 1.

Currently studying BEng Honours Degree.

Professional Membership: MInstMC (Member of the Institute of Measurement & Control).

MSaRS (Member of the Safety and Reliability Society).

P.C.G. (Member of the Professional Contractors Group).

CAREER HISTORY:

Company: Nexen Aberdeen.

Location / Duration: Aberdeen. Nov 2005 to Present.

Job title: Instrument Engineer.

Acting as Instrument Engineer on Nexen's Buzzard project I am responsible for Criticality Assessment and allocation of Instrument maintenance for all Buzzard Instrumentation in line with platform design. Reporting to the project Manager I am also responsible for completion of asset hierarchy prior to load up to SAP CMMS and RCM analysis of project critical pump sets.

Company: Optima Engineering Aberdeen.

Location / Duration: Aberdeen. July 2005 to Oct 2005.

Job title: E&I Maintenance Engineer.

Acting as Rep on behalf of Total, and located in EPC contractor (Wood Group) offices I was responsible for ensuring all aspects relating to maintenance of new equipment associated with the Forvie sub sea tie back to North Alwyn and Dunbar Platforms are implemented into the Total SAP system.

In parallel with above project, I acted as Lead Engineer in CMMS build for Exxon Neftegas Chayvo EPF in Sakhalin Island. Responsible for hierarchy build, construction of PMR's and ensuring all project output conformed to GGT legislative requirements before load up to Maisy CMMS.

Company: Pertofac Aberdeen.

Location / Duration: Aberdeen / Manchester. May 2005 to July 2005.

Job title: Instrument Engineer.

Rationalisation of SAP CMMS in line with HRL platform simplification project. Responsible for development of procedures to allow interrogation of SAP system and facilitate a simple and robust method of aligning CMMS with post simplification of DP 8 platform.

Company: Optima Engineering Aberdeen.

Location / Duration: British Gas Tunisia. August 2004 to March 2005.

Job title: Project Coordinator.

Responsible for technical output and management of engineering team tasked with population of BG Tunisia's Maximo CMMS system for the Miskar Platform gas compression upgrade. Development and execution of all project phases including Data Build, Critical Assessment, RCM, Job Plans and PM, Failure Codes, Performance Standards, CMMS customisation and final data load / QA.

Company: Baker Energy MO Houston.

Location / Duration: KPO Kazakhstan. July 2002 to July 2004.

Job title: RCM Manager.

Responsible for management of team dedicated to the production and delivery of Criticality Assessment / RCM analysis on all functional units associated with the Karachaganak field development in northwest Kazakhstan. Initially responsible for development of processes to allow deliverables to be achieved i.e. setting deliverable formats. Reporting directly to the project manager my duties also included provision of ad-hoc assistance to the data team based in Houston, Texas on all Maximo maintenance database issues including PM / Job plan / Route development in accordance with project availability targets, RCM philosophies and project guidelines.

Company: Baker Energy MO Houston.

Location / Duration: BP Grangemouth. Jan 2001 to July 2002.

Job title: Project Coordinator.

Primary interface between the Data Integrity Project Team in Houston, Texas and client at the Grangemouth Petrochemical complex in Scotland. Responsible for co-ordination and control of all technical queries and solutions relating to Data Integrity Team operations for the joint Grangemouth / Hull / Baglan Bay Maximo CMMS implementation (MAXAM Project). Duties included advising client in areas of Equipment, Inventory, PM's, Inspections and Procurement including interface to SAP financials package prior to CMMS go live.

Company: British Energy.

Location / Duration: Dungeness 'B' AGR Power Station. Oct 2000 to Jan 2001.

Job title: Work Optimisation Facilitator. (Project phase 2)

Second iteration of Work Optimisation process and continuance of optimisation of systems not completed during phase 1.

Location / Duration: Dungeness 'B' AGR Power Station. May 2000 to Sept 2000

Job title: Instrument Commissioning Engineer. (AFS / CO ₂ Projects)

Provision of assistance during the commissioning phase of Reactor Additional Boiler Feed (AFS) and new CO ₂ systems for the Dungeness B Nuclear Facility. Reporting directly to the BE Commissioning Manager, my duties consisted of review and acceptance of Commissioning procedures produced by EPC contractor, providing technical support and advice to the contractor in order to ensure procedures accurately reflected design philosophy. Acceptance and sign off of systems on behalf of BE as official witness to contactor commissioning activities.

Location / Duration: Dungeness 'B' AGR Power Station. Sept 1999 to April 2000

Job title: Work Optimisation Facilitator. (Project phase 1)

Optimisation of Dungeness 'B' Nuclear facility Maintenance and Operations by facilitating British Energy's tailored RCM methodology. Responsibilities included ensuring all technical requirements were in place prior to system review and co-ordination of system review prior to implementation into the Passport CMMS system.

Company: Offshore Design Ltd.

Location / Duration: Aberdeen & Overseas. June 1995 to Aug 1999

Job title: Senior Maintenance Engineer / RCM Consultant.

Employed as a Senior Engineer / RCM Consultant, and from May 1995 until Sept 1999 was involved in the following projects in the UK and Overseas. Overseeing a team of maintenance engineers, RCM specialists and CMMS specialists in the development of Preventative Maintenance and Inventory Management programs for various clients prior to data load to their CMMS systems.

o Amerada Hess AS: South Arne Platform (Aberdeen / Copenhagen)

o Bluewater: Bleo Holm F.P.S.O. / Glas Dowr F.P.S.O. (Aberdeen)

o Shell Venezuela. Urdaneta West De-bottlenecking (Aberdeen)

o Petronas Carigali, Sarawak. (Borneo)

o Bluewater Glas Dowr F.P.S.O. (Aberdeen)

o N.S.P.C North Sea Producer F.P.S.O. (Aberdeen)

o Amarada Hess Telford upgrade to the Scott Platform. (Aberdeen)

o Chevron Alba Phase II upgrade. (Aberdeen)

o A.O.P.C. Nan Hai Sheng Li F.P.S.O. (Jurong Shipyard Singapore)

Company: TA Consultancy Services.

Location / Duration: Aberdeen. Feb 1994 to June 1995.

Job title: RCM Engineer.

Responsible for the Maintenance Strategy Review of Shell's central field platforms. Application of RCM using Shell MSD software.

Company: Statoil Norway.

Location / Duration: Zeepipe Gas Terminal, Zeebrugge Belgium. May 1992 to Dec 1993

Job title: Instrumentation & Control Systems Consultant.

Acceptance of design from EPC contractor on behalf of Statoil. Advising Statoil in all aspects of Mechanical Completion, Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning.

Company: BNFL.

Location / Duration: Sellafield - Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant. July 1991 - May 1992

Job title: Instrument Engineer.

Inspection of Instrument and Electrical systems prior to setting up the THORP Maintenance Regime.

Company: MacGregor Service.

Location / Duration: Hoogovens H.O.7 Steel works, Netherlands. June 1991 - July 1991

Job title: Instrument Commissioning Engineer.

Precommissioning of iron ore granulation plant prior to start up.

Company: Pecom Technologie Europe N.V.

Location / Duration: Fina Neste NC3 Project Antwerp, Belgium. Jan 1991 - May 1991

Job title: Instrument Commissioning Engineer.

Precommissioning and commissioning of Naphtha Cracker III Control Instrumentation. Design and implementation of critical flow loops.

Company: Design and Technology Ltd.

Location / Duration: Emerald Producer oil platform Dundee. August 1990 - January 1991

Job title: Instrument Supervisor.

Precommissioning and commissioning of platform Marine, Process and Drilling Instrumentation & Control systems.

Company: Wood Group Engineering.

Location / Duration: Brent Delta. May 1990 - Aug 1990

Job title: Instrument Technician.

Routine and breakdown maintenance of platform Process and Drilling Control systems.

Company: BP, Hamble oil terminal.

Location: Hamble, Southampton. March 1990 - May 1990

Job title: Instrument Commissioning Engineer.

Precommissioning and commissioning of all instrument systems relating to 'Wytch oil' project at the Hamble terminal.

Company: Glaxochem.

Location / Duration: Glaxochem Ltd, Montrose. Sept 1987 - March 1990

Job title: Instrument Technician (Staff).

Installation and maintenance on a wide range of instrumentation and control systems.

Company: Ciba - Geigy Pigments Division.

Location: Ciba - Geigy, Paisley. Sept 1980 - Sept 1987

Job title: Instrument Technician (Staff).

Apprenticeship: 4 Year E.I.T.B monitored apprenticeship in Instrumentation & Control.

Instrument Technician working on maintenance of all on site pneumatic and electronic instrumentation and control systems.