Career History

Offshore Contracting                                                                                         2015 - 2019

Communications Engineer

• Carry out and close work orders required by MOD and Whitehall and create corrective orders for unfinished/incomplete work scopes.

• Complete the work order history for MOD DII maintenance systems from paper copies.

• Commissioned, maintained and repaired secure voice and data communication systems down to component level.

• Carried out HSE Risk Assessments by local and national policies.

• Created and carried out internal training for both personnel and site visitors.

• Commissioned, maintained, repaired and configured Radar Early Warning Systems for offshore installations and shipborne assets

• Maintained company I.T. equipment and ensured relevant security measures were in place to prevent external threats damaging system integrity.

• Designed, built and configured I.T. systems for monitoring various client assets throughout the North Sea, South Korea, Middle and Far East

 

Kongsberg Maritime Ltd.                                                                                  2011 - 2015

Technical Training Instructor

• Commissioned, maintained, repaired and configured Marine Automation Systems (including Merchant) & Dynamic Positioning Systems.

• Developed, prepared, conducted and evaluated customer training programs within all manner of Technical operations including Automation and Dynamic Positioning.

• Assisted in the planning of courses ensuring that they are conducted with a minimum of cancellations.

• Assisted in regular reviews to ensure that the company is addressing training requirements of customers worldwide.

• Participated in UK Offshore industry training initiatives.

• Assisted in recruitment, training and cross utilisation of staff.

• Supervised employee training and coaching as necessary to increase team skills to achieve personal performance objectives.

 

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Cormon Ltd.                                                                                                       2008 - 2011

I.T. Manager / Offshore Service Engineer

• Led a team of multi-skilled engineers on various North Sea assets and provided detailed reports to clients.

• Set clear work objectives, career development and training plans by performing regular meetings to ensure a highly motivated and efficient team.

• Worked closely with various vendors to attain affordable solutions for clients.

• In charge of creating quotes and proposals for prospective clients and arranging work packs and personnel for the required jobs.

 

British Army – Royal Corps of Signals & The Highlanders                          1995 - 2008

Soldier / I.T. Manager

• Squadron Sergeant responsible for the management, training and development of over 100 personnel.

• 1st in line supporting all I.T. supporting all software & hardware issues and the setup of military network and communication systems.

• Appointed as Regimental administration manager, responsible for triangulating enemy positions and interoperating intercepted transmissions to land command.

• In charge of setting up and maintaining Domain Servers, Active Directory and workstation computers for everyday use in both friendly and hostile environments.

• Responsible for the passing of information between parties through various types of communication structures and or media, including digital L.A.N.D. based wide area networks, satellite and digital encrypted radio signal.

• Delegated person within the workplace for hardware installation & setup for various types of computer systems and all other I.T. equipment.

• Accountable for the receiving, storage and issuing of various I.T. equipment including servers, workstations and peripherals.

 

High Profile Events

• Designed, built and installed; as per BP specification complete video wall (including server, workstation and software) for monitoring entire North Sea offshore installations and shipborne assets over a period of 4 months, completed April 2016.

• Designed and oversaw the commissioning, maintenance and repairing for the entire communication array for 1st Mechanized Brigade during Operation Agricola 8 in Kosovo 2002.

• Project managed the installation of the internal Military Network and external internet connections within ‘Slim lines Barracks ‘(Pristina) during Operation Agricola 8.

• Project managed the commissioning of Account monitoring equipment in the ‘Amal’ field, Libya and oversaw the handover from ‘Bosna-S’ to ‘Harouge Oil Operations’.

• Took part in Royal duties at Buckingham Palace as part of 16 Signal Regiment.

• Managed the ‘Bi-Annual’ audit for 1 Mechanized Brigade totalling several billions of pounds of Government equipment.

• Deployed to various war zones throughout the world including, but not limited to Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.