Suffolk Survey & Subsea Services is a private limited company, based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK, providing management consultancy services & solutions to the marine survey/ geoscience and offshore energy sectors.Consultancy with Passion.Consultancy via Collaboration.Local roots with a global reach.

NEXT Geosolutions is an international turn-key geoscience and engineering services provider operating in the Energy, Infrastructure & Utilities markets.

Director and part owner at RMS Submarine Limited, a marine resource solutions company. 100% Acquired by Next Geosolutions on 10th April 2017.Resourcing and management services/ solutions for the marine survey, submarine cable, renewables and oil & gas industries.RMS pride themselves on high quality and competence in their delivery of services & solutions.www.rmssubmarine.comKey services include:- personnel supply (survey, marine geoscience, UXO, subsea inspection, ROV and submarine cable/ telecoms personnel)- consultancy services for marine survey, cable operations (O&M) and subsea inspection (IRM)- project team management services- resource services solutions for submarine cable/ telecoms operations, O&M, IRM, vessels, ROV's & subsea vehicles, survey, UXO, subsea inspection, software and training, amongst others- R&D/ Innovation for the offshore renewables sector

Managing the marine survey, subsea inspection, subsea engineering and software side of OMM’s business (Survey & Subsea department/ business unit), having set this up from scratch in early 2009.

Dealing with project management of OMM offshore projects, survey personnel resourcing & competency, survey & windfarm software development/ solutions and R&D, subsea data integrity monitoring solutions, project reporting and final deliverables, training/lecturing for Offshore Marine Academy, marketing, presentations, tenders & proposals, OMM survey and project documentation & QC.

Dealing with various projects (umbilical installation & ROV surveys – Egypt, pipeline leak repair & associated ROV surveys – Libya, pipeline & structural inspection – Libya). Coordinating, writing and lecturing training courses (as below including survey appreciation courses for CTC).HR business plan and presentation for DeepOcean UK/NL including recruitment campaign coordination. Marketing trips to Egypt.Survey/ROV personnel resources, recruitment, competency & assessment, training coordination & lecturing, personnel development, staff welfare, and survey support for all UK/NL projects and resources. Also software specs and development for Inspection. IMCA representative for TCPC and Digital Video workgroup.In-house & external software training coordination and programs, lecturing (QINSy, VW & survey theory courses) & personnel development/competency/appraisals, operational personnel management & staff welfare for between 4-6 vessels in N. Sea and Mexico, including personnel recruitment. Also VisualWorks digital video support.

Survey party chief for Marine Offshore Designers, ISS and Century Subsea as well as principle lecturer for Maritech for 4 week survey appreciation course (writing, compiling and coordinatining).

(Survey & geophysical personnel supply/consultancy and training company). Main role involved setting up, coordinating and running a survey and marine geoscience training centre at the new Innovation Centre in Gorleston, Gt. Yarmouth. Other duties included marketing, IT (office & training suites), company website design, implementation and updating, company publicity and personnel management.Setup, initiated and trained staff on use of Digitec SelectPro personnel management software.

(Hydrographic survey software house and survey personnel supply company). Company dealt with clients in the hydrographic, submarine cable/telecoms, dredging, port and harbour, civil engineering and offshore research industries, including GMSL, Jan De Nul, Cefas, Musing, Fathoms, Alfred McAlpines, ABP Southampton, Medway/ Forth/ Bristol/ Dublin and Dover Ports, to name a few.Dealing with marketing, personnel management, software/survey support, software and survey application training/lecturing (49 courses in total - mainly for GMSL staff in Boreham, Racal Survey staff & contractors in Aberdeen), software QC & QA, Survey R&D and accounts.Primary contact & support for the Global Marine Systems contract with upto 30 submarine cable/ telecoms and associated support vessels.

(Party Chief / Reports & QC/ Senior Surveyor / Senior Data Processor). Working worldwide for the likes of Cable & Wireless Marine, BT Marine, Seateam, Racal Survey/DSOL, NeSA (CSD), Oceaneering, Subsea Survey, Britsurvey (Svitzer), Land & Marine (Costain)

(Stand in Chief Surveyor, Reports/QC Surveyor, Senior Surveyor, Surveyor, Data Processor). Working worldwide and in the Rotterdam office for NeSA (CSD) on ROV pipeline construction, pipelay support and inspection projects (mainly suppporting Allseas) as well as rock dumping projects. Working in the North Sea for Racal Survey (Geophysical Services Division) as a surveyor/navigator for numerous North Sea site surveys - high resolution seismic & hydrographic/geophysical.

Working predominantly out of the Den Helder, NL office. Assistant Surveyor for ELU workover ROV survey (Amoco). Pre/Post lay surveys, plus various inshore surveys, drafting & data processing.