John Mcdonald Email & Phone Number

• Develop and maintain new products within the Engineering and Software teams.
• Support and develop existing software products.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Develop and maintain existing products within the Engineering and Software teams.
• Main point of contact for customers and the service team supporting controls, instrumentation and software issues.
• In-house subject matter expert on controls systems, instrumentation and software for all products including Torque Machines, Jar Testers, Centralizer Test Rigs and Taut Wire systems.
• Analysis of legacy control systems and recommendation of upgrades to clients with consideration to safety, risk, costs, regulations and down-time.
• Ensure that software revisions are controlled, documented and tested effectively.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Research, development and deployment of bespoke instrumentation and control systems for offshore drilling rigs, from design and prototyping to the testing and commercial release of products.
• Analysis of legacy control systems and recommendation of upgrades to clients with consideration to risk, costs, regulations and down-time.
• Development of PLC, HMI and PC software for all engineering systems.
• Steer selection of PLC, HMI, Networking and Server Hardware along with software packages, programming languages and technologies whilst conforming to industry standards, best practices and budgets.
• Ensure that software revisions are controlled, documented and tested effectively.
• Production of technical documentation for all control system projects.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Responsible for Research & Development, improving current and developing new engineering products.
• Provide first line engineering support for Project Engineers and customers in the field.
• Mentoring Project Engineers and Graduates, both onshore and offshore.
• Offshore commissioning of all systems.
• Development of Siemens S7-200, S7-300 and S7-1200 PLC software.
• Worldwide management and support of company IT.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of drilling instrumentation and control systems.
• Responsible for entire projects from sales handover to final invoicing.
• Production and delivery of engineering documentation, system manuals and databooks.
• Experienced in Travelling Block Monitors, Anti-Collision Systems, Zone Management Systems, Choke Control Consoles, Elmagco Brake Controllers/Battery Backup/Brake Monitors, Rig Monitoring Systems, Emergency Shutdown.
• Experienced with Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electronics and Instrumentation.
• Configuration and commissioning of Siemens S7-200, S7-300 and S7-1200 PLC's.

Dundee, United Kingdom

• Design, deployment and administration of scalable cloud based network infrastructure.
• Responsible for system performance, reliability, scalability, security and redundancy.
• Development of cloud based software including a content management web application and an automated statistics processing and reporting system.

Dundee, United Kingdom

• Management of the Programming, Art and Quality Assurance Teams.
• Day-to-day communications with clients and publishers, delivery of builds and the management of outsourcing.
• Responsible for ensuring the Development Team meets demanding schedules and deadlines.
• Successful completion of several projects through the entire product life cycle, including iPhone and Sony PSP/PS3 Minis titles.

Dundee, United Kingdom

• Programmer on several top game titles.
• Responsible for the development of games, game engines, processing algorithms and application frameworks.
• Responsible for the creation and implementation of all audio assets within the projects.
• Development and maintenance of a cross-project, cross-platform build system.
• Implementation and administration of a multi-project version control system.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Administrator on multi-million pound real-time oil well monitoring service.
• Server Administrator aiming for 100% server uptime, maximum server performance and system security.
• Direct client relations via telephone and e-mail, providing quick and efficient solutions for queries, problems and requests.
• Working alone on a 24 hour shift rota system.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Administration of an oilfield asset archiving system.
• Archiving, restoring and reordering business critical records.
• The production of automated archiving processes using custom Unix SQL scripts and programs.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Administration of an oil well logging archive system.
• Archiving and restoring business records.
• General data loading and archiving.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Producing and distributing time critical oil well logging data products.
• Distributing physical data within tight deadlines.
• General office duties.