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Main responsibilities include:EstimationCost PlanningContracts ManagementQuantity SurveyingProject ManagementCurrent Projects:Costain UK. Working on a project design and method to block a flooded mine audit in Brighton UK. Brighton wants to use the mine as a water supply for the city but contaminates are flowing along the mine audit. A drilling and grouting procedure from the surface 40M above is proposed.Bam Nuttall ,Berwick on Tweed, breakwater repairs, Fabriform bag supply.Fabriform Scour bags for a New Danube Bridge at Vidin, Bulgaria .Seals for a Hydro dam In New BrunswickSeymour Capilano Tunnels North Vancouver, Supply and design of 170 NO,12ft dia. tunnel seals for 7 mile twin tunnels.China- Harbour Ensenada, Costain Mexico, Supplying Fabriform Grout Bags for breakwater anchor units at Ensenada in Mexico

Canadian Securities License {Stockbroker Exam}On list of approved U.S. Army Engineering Consultants\Military Contractors (Nuclear)Registered for VAT in UK, GST in Canada, and with US Internal Revenue Service

Agreed contract deviations. Extra Work orders, and updated Project Budgets on a Consortium Contract with Aker Kvaerner and Foster Wheeler. Siemens was the senior partner providing the power station turbine and supervising and agreeing payment to the other partners on behalf of the client.( Intrusion Prepakt Client)High school 100 Mile House, Lifted gymnasium building and attached toilet block and replaced flood damaged foundations under BC seismic program. Zeballas, British ColumbiaRunning Drilling and grouting crews and providing specs for grouting a new hydro dam. This called for blocking a underground river running 80ft beneath a 2000 year old rock fall.

Estimation, SalesNegotiation of contracts and supervised sub-contractors involved in the construction of roads and sewer work. Still do the occasional take off and estimate for this company.

Recruited London UK moved to New York. Oil and Gas and CoalIndustries Consulting assessing accuracy of Project Cost and Planning reports for ClientsFoster Wheeler ,New JerseyCities Service Sulfer LoiusianaArco, Prudhoe BaySyncrude Fort McMurreyKerr McGee OklahomaAramco, Dharan Saudi

I provided estimates on all plant expansion projects. Opened all bids, awarded all construction contracts and negotiated contract payments on citric acid and hydrogen plant with 700 employees. Set up and supervised various new computer cost systems. I am familiar with all aspects of civil, mechanical and electrical construction and contracting.

100 Km undersea 36" pipeline from Block K13 in the North Sea to Den Helder in the Netherlands. Responsible for project cost reports, progress reports, and project contract negotiations with onshore and offshore suppliers. This project also included a temporary railway and removal and replacement of the sea dyke. Project cost $120 million

Building a North Sea Platform construction yard at Hunterston in the River Clyde Estuary, Scotland Basically a hollow sand Island with a center 13M below sea level 1km offshore. I was responsible for all cost records on the project. I submitted monthly project invoices right down to bank overdrafts etc; to The British Government Offshore Supplies Office which was the client. This project was built by a coalition of UK and Dutch civil engineering and dredging companies.

Hydrographic survey and supervision of dragline dredging and harbor wall sheet piling for new offshore supplies base

In charge of runway maintenance and various office building repairs and alterations at US Air base, Wurzburg, Germany for 2 years .Prepared construction specs, for new facilities and awarded contracts and supervised contractors.

Civil Engineering Contractors,Quantity Surveyor Kenilworth Bypass Site Agent Built 13 warehouses and attached small office blocks in Coventry and one 24-floor high rise project, in Nottingham. Supervised trades carpenters, electricians, plumbers etc.