Total years of experience :30 years, 8 Months
Fore n’ Aft Marine Surveyors / Knot Buoys Marine Services.
Upon returning home to Canada after a 4-year assignment in the Middle East, I assembled a small team and established two companies at home (Creston BC.) in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia, Canada, designed around and encompassing my earliest core technical and BDM skills: “Fore n’ Aft Marine Surveyors” and “Knot Buoys Marine Services.” (www.knotbuoysmarine.com) Which still allows me, should I choose, latitude to take on other work within my now more polished and extended skill set, away from home, whilst maintaining a business and secondary income stream at home, its intended purpose at its onset. The work of “Fore n’ Aft” is self-explanatory, we survey vessels together with any associated equipment for regulatory compliance, safety, structural integrity and operational efficiency. Knot Buoys has a broader scope as a “Yanmar” Marine Diesel Engine dealer and Canadian representative for “IPU, ” a UK based OEM of non-electric spring, air & hydraulic starter motors and complete turnkey starting systems for diesel engines up to 370 litres in displacement. I own the high-profile repair yard and workshop facility we operate our service business from. Our parts business is steady with 50% of that business being conducted online. At our high-profile highway frontage business premises, we also offer new and used marine sales.
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Employed on an 18-month fixed term contract as Regional Airports Manager. Responsible for all local, Territorial and Federal (CAR‟s / TP312 4th & 5th Edition / ICAO Annex 14) regulatory, administrative, commercial development, environmental and contractual aspects of airport operations for the Arctic ‘A’ and ‘B’ airports within the South Slave Region. Maintaining strict operational efficiencies within budgetary constraints, whilst adhering to mandatory regulatory compliance. Additional duties were to mentor two associates in the full suite of airport operations management practices. Interfaced with independent government department operating a flight of 5 aerial firefighting aircraft. My term position ended 01 March 2017.
/ Canadian Base Operators JV.
With RCL / CBO I was employed as the Logistics Service & Support Manager by this Joint Venture, responsible for the maintenance and management of 46 short and long-range radar sites across the High Arctic Region of North America. The annual O&M budget for this project was US$100+M. Collectively this radar system is known as the North Warning System, (NWS.) my role in this very dynamic working environment was to ensure we had and safely maintained consistent and reliable radar facility performance through a closely monitored and very elaborate timed preventative maintenance system. This includes 24/7 close technical support the movement of skilled maintenance trades and IT personnel, spare parts, mobile and static equipment, dangerous goods, fuel, rations and arctic airport / heliport maintenance, repair and operations (per Canadian Civil Aviation Regulations TP312.) across the Arctic. On this jointly funded by USAF (NORAD) and Canadian DND job, I held a high-level security clearance to perform this work. My duty rotation in this position was 6 weeks in and 6 weeks out.
Employed by the AGL principal contractor (CCH) on the Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) 2K runway expansion project, I provided direction and leadership to a core team of 12 expatriate engineering airport professionals on the ICAO CAT IIIb airport lighting component of the $6.4Bn project
•Responsible for overseeing the installation of ICAO CAT IIIb airfield ground lighting (AGL), airfield lighting control and monitoring system (ALCMS) and taxiway guidance signage (TGS) on parallel 14, 000 feet runways, associated taxiways and aprons, whilst maintaining full active compliance with the established KPI
•Managing and liaison with the US based OEM team to plan, implement and maintain a cost effective and efficient national and international communications and supply chain, for internationally sourced parts and materials
•Supervise planning and performance of a local sub-contracted groups comprising various third country national trades personnel, vehicles, plant and equipment
•Working effectively within the GCAA, ICAO and airport license holder regulatory framework ensuring all contractors meet with their contractual obligations to the client, and the applicable ICAO CAT IIIb standards, while completing the CAT IIIb AGL and ALCMS installation works on time, around live airport operations in order to ensure stiff financial penalties are not incurred by the employer
•Per FIDIC contract terms and conditions, wherever possible launched, pursued and justified EOT and contract variation claims, resulting in US$17.5M in additional revenue over the contract period
•Programming and overseeing the completion of the works within the politically, technically, culturally and administratively challenging environment of an abbreviated form of FIDIC and the confines of a highly regulated aviation environment of a very large and rapidly developing CAT IIIb international airport facility (One of 3 in the world at the time.)
•Completed all US$168m supply and install phase 1 contracted works in 2011 without penalty
•Thereafter led and successfully pursued ADAC for ALCMS maintenance contract with CCH eventually being awarded the annual ALCMS maintenance at AUH on a service contract with a value of US$7.3m
Programme Managers: Parsons International Limited.
RE Services: Halcrow International Partnership.
Employer: Formerly; Sub Committee for AUH, Latterly; ADAC FM.
End User: Abu Dhabi Airports Company.
Western Sudan, Somalia & Mozambique.
1969 - 1977. Corporal, British Army, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
Marine Surveying, Lloyds of London Maritime Academy