Key Responsibilities / Achievements

• Established a department to set up and run major navigation systems across the North Sea in the face of established and aggressive competition and a massive clamp-down on offshore safety following the Piper 'A' Disaster.
• Hired personnel, controlled budgets and reported on the financial status and progress of numerous projects.
• Brought many and varied projects to successful conclusion on time and within budget.
• Managed the off-shore routing of major cable laying operations from Japan to Taiwan to Philippines to Hong Kong.
• Project Manager covering many aspects of offshore construction.
• Offshore Consultant representing clients' interests, overseeing projects and ensuring that the sub-contractor met contract specifications. Includes offshore oil operations and cable route and lay operations.

• Reporting to the Managing Director, attending board meetings in Oslo, customer liaison, hiring of personnel, reporting on the offshore status of projects, quality control.
• Increased the company profile throughout the oil industry by means of sales visits and introducing customer relationship building initiatives.
• Gained personal expertise of another specialisation within the oil business.
• Established a major database for Texaco's offshore sub-sea and positioning data.

• All aspects of sales and marketing, customer development, financial control, research and development.
• Obtained recognition and high reputation of the company within the offshore business.
• Developed a survey instrument, built a working prototype, sold the unit to a company having operational resources to enable further development and marketing.

• Client representative offshore for two major oil companies.
• Management of several UK offshore operations, personnel and general operational issues.
• Provided training and operational support to the Spanish and Bombay offices.
• Customer support, personnel recruitment, research and development, planning.
• Played a major role in the team that assisted in bringing the Ninian oil field on stream with the positioning of the South Central and North platforms and associated connecting pipelines.

• Established the Aberdeen survey department. Recruited personnel. Sales and marketing. Project management of ongoing offshore operations.

• Management of vessels offshore during shallow seismic surveys.
• In charge of vessel during site survey and anchor patterns for rigs.
• Report compilation and chart production.
• Trained surveyors and engineers.
• Subsequently managed own projects with a dedicated vessel.

• Ships charting and stores, survey boats during detached survey operations, survey laboratory and training, maintenance and upkeep of all vessel survey instrumentation.
• Surveyor / Diver responsible for all diving and associated equipment.
• Maintained and re-surveyed Europe's and the 'Iron Curtain' countries' wartime beach landing and air strike covers at MOD, London.
• Member of the team that surveyed the real Atlantis - Iceland to South America.