I started Wagtail Engineering in 2015 to offer independent services to energy operators, consultancies and service companies. Drawing in my previous experience and skills I assist my clients throughout the lifetime of their assets, from initial concept selection through to operations, life extension and ultimately decommissioning. My focus is primarily to subsea assets and I provide technical engineering and project services to assist my clients to adopt project and asset management strategies that best suit their infrastructure and the approach they take to asset risk management.For more details please see the Wagtail Engineering website.

I was responsible for the delivery of specialist subsea engineering consultancy services to our clients, throughout the full life cycle of projects. Typical projects include feasibility studies, market/strategy reviews, and due diligence work. My particular interests included integrity management, and reuse and decommissioning studies.I took a lead role in a number of joint industry projects including the Cause-Oriented Inspection Strategy (COINS) project facilitated by the ITF and the Decommissioning JIP run by Oil and Gas UK. I managed the Good Operational Practice Forum on behalf of the Pipeline Users Group.I managed the Subsea team within Atkins, with responsibility for business development, resourcing, recruitment, staff development, and mentoring. I had direct and indirect management responsibility for approximately 30 staff and contractors.I was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Atkins Subsea office in Newcastle, which included general “house management” and ensuring that all legal and HSE requirements were met.

I was responsible for managing the development, preparation and submission of all of CTC Marine Projects’ tenders for subsea work in several worldwide marketplaces. My team provided proposals selling trenching and installation services to the open market and provided ongoing support to main contractor framework partners in their tenders.I directly managed a team of up to five Proposals Leaders and Engineers and worked with an extended tender support network comprising all company departments as well as external consultants. The team produced in excess of 200 proposals per annum, ranging from vessel charters to large-scale installation and trenching projects. My role involved review and evaluation of technical solutions and assessment of commercial viability. The company underwent significant growth during the period that I was in this role.My team and I liaised with all functions within the company to prepare tenders that offered customers technically and commercially attractive solutions to their requirements. We worked on bids from the Invitation to Tender stage through to contract signature and project-team handover. I had responsibility for pricing projects based on in-house and subcontracted equipment, and for obtaining approval from the Commercial, Financial and Managing Directors.

I was employed as an engineering technical specialist responsible for performing pipeline integrity work including: corrosion and damage assessment, review of repair and rehabilitation options, pipeline inspection, reliability and availability assessment, risk-based assessment, pipeline audit and offshore pipeline survey.I was involved with projects at all stages including discussion of client requirements, preparation of technical and commercial proposals, quality assurance, project management and execution, and project reporting and presentation. I had profit-loss responsibility for the projects under my control.

My PhD research investigated asset care of power generation equipment through the development of generic methodologies, under the sponsorship of a world-leading diesel engine manufacturer.My work involved the creation of tools for predictive maintenance of medium speed diesel engines and concentrated on using a fuzzy logic database to analyse fault pattern data, resulting in a generic method for system-independent facilitation of fault recognition. The work culminated in proof-of-method for the scheduling of predictive maintenance through fault prioritisation.