Curriculum Vitae

Education

Secondary: 1966 to 1970 Vale of Leven Academy

Comprehensive Education & French

TechnicalCollege: 1966 to 1972 Falkirk Technical College

City and Guilds in Agriculture

Languages: Working Knowledge of French and Spanish

Driving Licence: British & Saudi Arabian

Hobbies: Football, Bowls and Rugby

Employment Periods

2005 to Present: Parson Fluor Daniel JV

2002 to 2005: Law Mining-Trio Management

1998 to 2000: Amey Services Ltd

Motorway Construction

1992 to 1995: Beresfield Civil Engineering Ltd

Civil Engineering Contractor

1989 to 1992: Al Khobar Construction, Saudi Arabia

De-Salination Plant

1984 to 1988: Algeria; Baxter Fell International;

Civil Engineering Contractor

1982 to 1984: Moorfield Drainage Co Ltd.

Drainage Contractor

1980 to 1982: Clachan Excavations

Earth Moving Contractors

1978 to 1980: Hafar Al Batin, Saudi Arabia

Rock Excavation & Transportation

1977 to 1978: George Leslie Ltd

Civil Engineering Contractors

1976 to 1977: Lam Kara, Togo, West Africa

Earth Moving Contractors

1973 to 1975: George Leslie Ltd

Civil Engineering Contractors

1970 to 1973: Farm Workers

Employment History

TCO Asset Development Project Kazakhstan USD 4.8Billion Dollars

This is the Largest Oil field in the World and currently one of the largest projects in the World. I was initially employed on this project as civil supervisor in the Offsites area of the Project. I was then promoted to Area Superintendent. Covering major Civil engineering works, this includes all Foundational works , Structural steel , Fireproofing of steel and equipment, Underground piping , all Architectural works. I am on site and in constant contact with all sub contractors.

Channel Tunnel Rail Link Contract 342

I was employed on this project as a Senior General Foreman. I was put in charge of the A2 road works and the railway alignment works. I was supervising three section foremen. The A2 Improvement works involved some major utility diversions and was though by the client, CTRL, to be of central importance to the success of this particular project. This involved me in constant liaisons with the utilities sub-contractors

Included in the A2 works was a major tunnel needed to carry the high speed Rail link under the A2. I was involved fully in this from initial piling right through to final excavation works.

The A2 is a heavily used 3 lane dual carriageway and the works involved major Traffic Management all of which I was responsible for.

On the railway alignment side of the job, I found myself in charge of the initial large-scale drainage and river retaining works. This involved me in working directly with the site environment team. I found this interesting and their procedures are now very familiar to me.

Safety was a major concern of the clients on this job. I was glad to see that the Norwest Holst Group Plc procedures fitted in well with the clients stringent requirements and feel I have learned some very effective ways of carrying out complex, critically timed, operations safely and economically.

Finally we took a major bridge slide, which as, at the time, the largest attempted in Europe. It presented me with a particularly unique set of challenges from both a construction and safety point of view. I was enormously satisfied with its successful completion.

2000 to 2002

General Foreman, on Civil contract prior to opencast coal and clay mines, roads, river diversions, lagoons and setting up of screening and crushing plant and organising all operatives.

1995 to 2000

APC----Amey. In 1995, I started work with APC Ltd as a foreman on Civil Engineering projects in Scotland, E.G.; Roads, drainage and all types of civil works. APC had the main earthworks and drainage on the prestigious M6 A74 project before going into liquidation. I was then asked by the joint M6 Venture, Amey Senior Partner, if I would be willing to join them as a senior foreman, which I did until January 2000, until final completion. Senior Foreman overseeing final completion of Motorway Works to final Completion.

1992 to 1995

Foreman on various contracts mainly roads and sewers, foundations, up to ground beam level and all general works.

1989 to 1992

General Foreman on De-salination plant. Overseeing excavations, concrete works, associated pipeline works to final completion. End of contract after three years.

1984 to 1988

Foreman over ex-pats & local labour. Bulk Earthworks, roads sewers & foundations ect. Worked in desert location throughout the province. End of contract, after 4 years.

1982 to 1984

Foreman and made up to Company Director. Responsible for plant and labour, materials, negotiations of contacts and the company then went into voluntary liquidation due to Government cutting of Land Drainage Grants.

1980 to 1982

General foreman on the bulk excavations contacts throughout Scotland and England. Responsible to the contracts manager on the construction of roads, sewers, building excavations and pipeline contracts i.e. water and gas. Responsible for ordering all materials needed on site and ordering plant and transport.

1978 to 1980

MorrisonKnudson K.K Military City, Damman Saudi Arabia. In charge of quarry excavation, stripping overburden, forming roads and in general quarry operations. Organised transportation of aggregates to batching plants. Worked in severe desert conditions. Worked two and a half years to end of contract. Managed American, Dutch, British, Turkish, Thai, Salvadorian, African and Asian manpower responsible for training plant operators and dump truck drivers.

1977 to 1978

Charge hand plant operator on building and Civil Engineering Works.

1976 to 1977

Rockfall Co Ltd, Bos Kalis, Westminster Group, Victoria Road Glasgow. Employed as heavy plant operator and then promoted muck shifting foreman on earth and Rockfill Dam project in Togo, West Africa. Responsible for overburden strip spillway excavation, rock separation, muck shifting to dam and transportation of aggregates from crushers to roads and dam. Supervised Ghanaian supervisors and Tolgolese labour, responsible for training plant operators and dump truck drivers.

1973 to 1976

Plant operator on roads, sewers and building contracts throughout Scotland.

1973 to 1975

General farm work