An instrumentation professional with more than 10 years experience of design, installation, commissioning and maintenance within UK and international oil & gas, paper manufacturing and distillation industries.

Currently working for KBR Energy & Chemicals as a key member of the ConocoPhillips SNS onshore Field Maintenance Team providing Instrumentation, Fire & Gas, HVAC, Wellhead Hydraulics, Portable and Fixed Safety System support to ConocoPhillips' Southern North Sea assets.

KBR Energy & Chemicals Jan 2001 - Present

ConocoPhillips SNS OU, Aberdeen

Principle Technical Professional - Instrument and Controls

· Focal point for providing first line support to the offshore maintenance and operation teams for all instrument, control, safety & shutdown systems issues.

· Providing technical judgement for practical cost effective solutions and strategies ensuring all maintenance activities on the facilities are, and remain aligned to the company / client business goals in terms of safety, environmental discharges, equipment performance and maintenance costs.

· Accountable for the Instrumentation, Fire & Gas, HVAC, Hydraulics and Safety equipment budgets for the SNS business unit.

· Managing inventory of equipment and ensuring critical spares holding align with the planned maintenance activities as well as reviewing for obsolescent equipment and identifying replacements where practical.

· Reviewing current working practices within clients maintenance management system (SAP), with a view to standardising and adopting best industry practices.

· Contract Manager for the Tyco Wormald Safety & Service sub-contract, which involves continuous control of budget, scheduling of planned maintenance activities and initiating regular vendor and client progress meetings.

Varco International Inc. June 1999 - Jan 2001

Rig Technology, Aberdeen

Electrical & Instrument Commissioning Engineer

· A member of Varco International's project support team, on the commissioning of SCADA-based mud mixing and solids control systems on Smedvig's 'West Venture' & 'West Navion' and Sedco Forex 'Sedco Express' drill rigs.

· Responsible for the completion of all associated written documentation and E&I as-building.

· Attended daily meetings with client to update on the progress and discuss issues arising during the hook-up and commissioning stages.

· Configuration and set-up of Pepperl & Fuchs RPI I/O system for the automated mud mixing and solids control system and commissioning checks of field I/O points for interfacing with the Sitex SCADA software.

· Offshore Operations & Maintenance support and training of E&I rig crews.

Brown & Root Energy Services Jan 1998 - June 1999

Conoco Partnering, Aberdeen

Operations / Maintenance Specialist

· A member of the Operations & Maintenance support team on the 'Conoco partnering alliance' providing technical support to the clients assets in the Southern North Sea.

· Designed and commissioned a 'stand-alone' gas detection system to conform with the existing GP Elliott ESD/PSD/F&G system on the Murdoch platform.

· Implementation and commissioning of acoustic gas detectors on the LOGGS platform and the V-field satellites.

· Rationalisation of instrumentation prior to the control system upgrade for Honeywell SCAN 3000 SCADA-based system on the LOGGS platform and the V-field satellites.

· Preparation of offshore workpacks including developing scopes of work, creating and revising both CAD and manual type drawings and devising list of materials required.

Brown & Root AOC Aug 1997 - Dec 1997

BP 'Schiehallion' FPSO, Belfast

Instrument Commissioning Technician

· Fault finding and loop checking of Fire & Gas, ESD and field instrumentation to GE Fanuc PLC's/ Silvertech DCS.

· Assisting Demag/Delaval Stork vendor on high compression systems, commissioning instrumentation to Allen Bradley PLC/ SCADA system.

Electrical Services (Aberdeen) Limited July 1996 - Aug 1997

Instrument Technician

· Project workpacks taken from design stage through to installation and commissioning on various projects within the distillation and paper manufacturing industries.

· Providing technical expertise and performing planned maintenance tasks for the Aberdeen paper manufacturing industry on an ad-hoc basis.

Electrical Services (Aberdeen) Limited Aug 1992 - July 1996

Apprentice Instrument Technician

· One year off the job engineering training at Tullos Training Ltd.

· Logbook kept over the 4-year period that was inspected regularly by an ENTRA representative.

The Robert Gordon University

· Final stages of BEng in Electronic & Electrical Systems (Graduation June 2006)

Aberdeen College

· HND Electronic Engineering (June 2002)

· HNC Electrical/Electronic Engineering (June 1998)

· ONC Measurement and Control (June 1994)

· ConocoPhillips Contract Managers Training

· SAP R3 Onshore Maintenance Engineers training (In-house)

· SVQ Level 3 Engineering maintenance

· Entra Engineering parts 1, 2 & 3C

· R.G.I.T basic survival (Expires Feb 2006)

· Current Offshore medical (Expires Oct 2006)

· Microstation version 5 package (In-house training)

· AutoCAD R14 (In-house training)