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Truro, England, United Kingdom

Estimating & Supply-Chain Support for Marine & Offshore Projects

Falmouth, United Kingdom

Leading KML's Business Development activities across Offshore Renewables, Marine Civils and Decommissioning sectors.

Falmouth, Cornwall

Representing JFMS in the pursuit of cost reduction across a range of offshore renewable technologies; working together with strategic clients, partners & markets.Currently focused on promoting our "FEED to Farm" project life-cycle capabilities for Floating Wind, and building on established strategic accounts within Fixed Offshore Wind.

Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Business Development & Bid Manager for James Fisher Marine Services' Subsea Projects delivery team. Responsible for the co-ordination & delivery of bids, frameworks & agreements to clients and partners.Primary focus on our EPC services for the emerging renewables markets; floating wind, tidal & wave.Additional promotion & bidding responsibility, in support of JFMS' construction support services for offshore industries.Always available on +44 (0)7789 037554 and at d.start@james-fisher.co.uk

United Kingdom

Responsible for primary contact with clients, from first enquiry/project lead through to execution of service contracts and beyond.Proven all-round ability to create and maintain relationships with key clients and stakeholders for major international construction projects; from project managers to director level.Aim to understand my client requirements and tailor LDD and Acteon Group products & services to offer our client a distinct advantage for their project, adding value, or simply saving costs. Personal objective to exceed expectations and gain repeat business.Continued research and mapping of key opportunities and potential clients within the market place.Independent organisation and execution of global BD tours to meet clients old and new.Marshalling of multi-company tenders; this includes consulting with multiple sister companies, and their respective engineering and commercial teams to put group companies in the best win position.

Hamburg Area, Germany

Seconded to sister company in Germany to work as the principal driveability engineer.Independently carried out geotechnical interpretations and driveability assessments for the evaluation of equipment selection for marine construction projects. Included use of finite analysis models.Attendance alongside a project meeting with designers and main contractor for the Sandbank OWF development, acting as the geotechnical expert on behalf of company.

Completed summer project work for British Gypsum critically analysing the stability of the current stope and pillar dimensions at an underground operation in Cumbria. This included the use of both empirical and mathematical modelling of historical lab data and in-situ data collected on-site. Finite element analysis was also introduced within the analysis.

Camborne School Of Mines

-Graduated in 2013 with an MSc in Geotechnics at Camborne School of Mines. This course included modules in Rock Mechanics, Soil Mechanics, Hydrogeology, Surface Excavation Design and Underground Excavation and Tunnelling in addition to an industrial project with British Gypsum.-Majority of experience has been focused on rock mechanics for mining.-Additional experience in soil mechanics investigations.-Industrial summer project with British Gypsum; produced a focused report on critical analysis of underground room and pillar design utilising empirical and mathematical techniques in addition to finite element analysis.-Experience in using Dips, Slide, Phase2, Examine, UNWEDGE, SWEDGE, RocPlane, and RocLab for MSc report purposes

Master Of Science (Msc), Applied Geotechnics, Pass With Merit

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Geology/Earth Science, General