2015 – October: Subsea Electronic Module Group:Involved most recently as part of this group which contributed to the successful design, development and commercialisation of the companies bespoke Subsea Distribution Electronic Module. Responsibilities include:Make necessary engineering changes to product drawings and participate in investigation and disposition of non-conformance or improvement actions, as required.Generate equipment assembly, test, FAT procedures as required. Provide necessary support to the various internal groups as equipment is progressed through the facility. Insert, maintain and review data on electronic register system.2013 – 2014: Subsea Distribution Engineering Group:Involved as part of this group which contributed to the successful design, development and commercialisation of the companies bespoke Subsea Distribution Cabling. Responsibilities were similar to above but also included:Present designs to engineering staff during internal design reviews and prepare and review detail drawings prepared from design layouts.

Involved as part of the Concept Design Engineering group. This group contributed to the successful design, development and commercialisation of the companies bespoke Subsea Drilling and Decommissioning Equipment. Responsibilities included:Designing mechanical components and systems, checking stress calculations, producing Inventor CAD models, drawings and design documentation. Advising on equipment for new tools and development work, participating in design reviews and maintaining design files and documentation.

Involved as part of the Capital Drilling Engineering group, within the drilling and production function. This group is responsible for the assessment, revision, upgrade and implementation of customer’s part orders, to the latest industry standards and third party inspection, by the management and supply of assembly drawings and BOM’s to the manufacturer within agreed schedules. Responsibilities included:Technical participation in the design assessment, and engineering activities undertaken by the CDE group, from project order to completion. This involved the following parts: HT3 diverter handling tools, SHD-H4 mandrels, MR-10 handling tools, diverter overshot mandrel and telescopic joints.The provision, review and supervision of engineering calculations, detailing of parts and assemblies. Participation in engineering change activities, part number generation. Gaining familiarity with company procedures, industry standards and regulations.Provision of factory acceptance tests and operating procedures.Driving design activity throughout each project, assisting in progress reporting, with close adherence to GEs’ design process, and ensuring rigorous execution of sound design practice and methodology. Includes the use of appropriate software and hardware tools, and ensuring applicable standards, regulations and GE procedures are followed.Within this group an idea was developed for a rotational riser coupling; allowing for a greater offset mating angle. Thus allowing drillship / rig to be stationed further from the subsea wellhead. This was submitted for patent application.

Involved as part of the Gas Management group within the Projects Design Office. This group is responsible for the design of the life support system within each saturation diving system, inclusive of the diving bell, chambers and hyperbaric lifeboat. Responsibilities include:Test commissioning planning. Devising and writing test protocols. Technical participation in gas management design and engineering activities undertaken by the Divex Projects group, from project inception to completion. These include gas pipework specification matters, circuit design and valving.Pressure and flow control and monitoring equipment.Compressors, gas distribution, reclaim and gas storage along with other high value gas control equipment.Panels / human interfacing issues.Adaption of existing Divex gas management equipment.Technical direction of junior engineering and drafting resource in the generation of concepts, drawings, specifications, and other design output.Adherence to Divex’ design process, and ensuring rigorous execution of sound design practice and methodology. This includes the use of appropriate software and hardware tools, driving rigorous design practices, and ensuring applicable standards, regulations and Divex procedures are followed. Driving design activity throughout projects, assisting in progress reporting, preparation and presentation of project and design matters to senior management and customers at formal and informal design reviews and meetings.Liaising with customers and vendors to clarify requirements. Liaising with other teams to maintain good design interfaces with other subsystems and design functions working on the projects.Liaising as required with other business functions through to project completion.

Involved as part of the Mechanical Tooling Design group in modelling, designing and trialling of moulds for the manufacture of compressed ceramic components used to control, protect and monitor liquid steel in the continuous casting process industry. This includes rapid design calculations for the plastic bag mouldings, and producing detailed design drawings for the internal pressing mandrels, ancillary components, and of various final products. Liasing on a daily basis with our international customers concerning their tooling orders and queries, and with our local tooling supplier. As well as the daily design work, valuable experience was gained in being solely responsible for a number of special projects, such as the new design of the porous ring pressing tool, which resulted in a cost reduction of approximately 25% for each tool produced, a saving of almost £15K per annum. Also responsible for the new design of a split pressing tool for inversed tapered moulds, which enabled them to be produced three times faster and at 25% of the previous cost. Responsible for designing a completely new telescopic fill device, which eliminated the need for expensive PUR’s and moulds and drastically reduced the set-up time and costs. Also designed a variable locating fill device that could be used on a wide variety of products, cutting the cost of supplying and storage of individual fill devices.Designed a magnetic roller frame for slab caster wraps, enabling the product to be filled and the frame removed without damage to the delicate and expensive wrap material.Over 7 years’ experience gained in the use of Autocad and SolidWorks.

Involved as part of the Server Mechanical Design group in 3D modeling of various parts of the PC system unit. This included plastic mouldings such as fan housings, card supports and lift mechanisms, as well as pressed steel parts such as the chassis and interior metal work.Was responsible for producing detailed engineering drawings to allow successful manufacture of the initial design parts, within the internal tool-room facility and external engineering vendor sites. Engineering drawings were also produced for each part and released to various production facilities world-wide.Worked closely with server manufacturing engineers and ensured that any product build problems on the box assembly line were quickly assessed and rectified. Within this group, evaluated and solved various problems, one of which required the quick design and supply of a plastic moulded lifting device for handling processor cards. All the problems encountered were successfully resolved and resulted in two patent applications being made. Was responsible, as part of the Physical Design group, for the physical layout and routing of PCB's. These PCB's covered the complete range of cards developed in Greenock, ranging from server planars, processor cards, desktop planars, small LED cards etc. The cards varied in type from two layer NIPs through to 10 layer 6S4P cards. Normally the cards were 6 layer 4S2P and the tracking used on these was a minimum of 5mils wide.Was responsible for the successful rawcard manufacture and the PCB assembly in it's initial design stages, through close liaison with the respective vendors. Nine years’ experience was gained in the use of the Catia design system, using 3D solid modeling and 2D draughting. Experience was also gained in the use of thermal simulation for optimization of PC units, using Flotherm and I-Deas software packages.

Responsible for auditing the process for out of spec conditions and the manufacture's adherence to procedures. Selecting areas of the process for review and examine the operations in detail, noting areas for action. Carried out investigations of problems and recommended solutions to the engineer responsible, as well as manufacturing, if required. Assisting the line yield auditors on key focus items. Responsible for calculation of manufacturing PPM figures, and for generation of departmental action plans to meet PPM targets.

Responsible for configuration, test, and installation of over 50 indexer machines onto the SMT assembly line. These units were interfaced with various pieces of line equipment. Also responsible for the configuration, test, and installation of 4 indexer units onto the assembly line in IBM Toronto. Instructed engineering and maintenance personnel in Greenock and Toronto in the operational and maintenance aspects of the indexers, as well as assisting Greenock maintenance with breakdowns if required.Assisted with the installation of both tote-stacker and conveyor systems and any reconfiguration required on the assembly line. Responsible for the layout, installation and maintenance of the I/O bracket fitting and card packing mini lines, and for the design, manufacture, and introduction of inspection masks onto the assembly line.Responsible for the PCB router m/c's on the assembly line, as regards producing PCB support jig designs for vendor manufacture, and also producing router programs for each design of PCB. During this period, over four years’ experience was gained in the use of the Cadam drawing system.

1984 - 1985: Graduate Trainee:After graduating, time was spent in the production department in jig and tool design work, and through working closely with the metrology and quality assurance departments and factory foremen, a greater understanding of production problems was acquired. 1980 - 1984: Internal Assignment:Whilst studying for the BSc, various work placements were undertaken within the design, quality assurance, and production planning departments. This was to develop a better understanding of the function of each department and of the problems they dealt with on a daily basis.1977 - 1980: Draughtsman:Responsible for producing detailed drawings of various component parts for different types of marine diesel engines. These included bedplates, crankshafts, frame-boxes, cylinder frames, exhaust systems, pistons, pipe systems, gallery brackets, fuel pumps, and manoeuvring systems.Involved in factory tests, dock trials and sea trials of each engine prior to hand over. This involved taking power cards and other various readings then evaluating them to assess the engine’s performance. This was normally carried out alone on dock and sea trials. 1975 - 1977: Apprentice Fitter:Served apprenticeship in various departments involving all aspects of fitting and assembling of components for slow speed marine diesel engines. Awarded apprentice of the year.