Scott Leonard Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

Member of the SURF team for the Trion project in deepwater Mexico, responsible for subsea controls and supporting multiple aspects and interfaces of a large complex development.The Shenzi Subsea Controls Upgrade (SSCU) was progressed from concept to field operation. The scope included design of a new MCS & EPU integrated into the topsides systems for.

Houston, Texas Area

Delivered & commissioned the direct hydraulic subsea control system for Angostura Phase 3 development in Trinidad & Tobago. This included 3 umbilicals and SUTAs (Oceaneering), a Wellhead Control Panel (Proserv), PLCs, software logic (UPI) and a DHPT assembly, chemical distribution and managed all interfaces with the existing platforms and subsea.

Houston, Texas Area

Lead for subsea controls & umbilical team. Supporting business development & bid-work for various proposals including generating CTRs. Resourcing and recruitment to match anticipated workloads. Conducting appraisals and competency assessments of team members to meet SEMS requirements. Supporting document reviews and providing background technical guidance.

Houston, Texas Area

While still Principal Subsea Controls Engineer at J P Kenny Inc, also a direct member of BHP’s Macedon offshore team as package engineer responsible for delivery of the subsea control system (Cameron in Germany). Reporting to BHP Perth, this role also included support for the umbilical package engineer managing OIE (Rosyth & Houston) and the delivery of.

Houston, Texas Area

Subsea Lead (JPK) for FEED Stage of BHP Macedon development = 100km subsea tie-back to new Onshore Gas Plant, NW Australia. Revised BoD and tech requirements & costs for subsea production system for handover for execute stage. Responsible for delivery of detailed specs for subsea controls, umbilicals (onshore trenched & subsea), subsea pig launcher, WGFM.

Spent three years (including two in BP Westlake Offices) on BP GoM subsea projects including Mad Dog, Holstein and Horn Mountain.Authored a BP GoM Site Technical Practice on Subsea HIPPS.Member of two Deepstar committees (Project 8302) to generate reports on “Placement and Integration of Deepwater Meters” and “Strategies for Subsea Meter.

Member of the FEED team for the BP Rhum (MNS-1) project with subsea HIPPS functionality. Responsible for procurement of two sets of controls equipment for spool tree tie-backs to BP ETAP Machar field. This included BP’s first intelligent completion comprising four downhole chokes. Also engineered a set of controls for BP Cyrus tied back to BP Andrew.Member.

Responsible for successful installation and commissioning of the Bruce WAD subsea production control system. As a focal point, responsible for generating procedures, organizing (and personally conducting) site work.Provided a 24 hour on-call service on a regular basis. This involved carrying a pager with a mobile phone for seven day periods and responding.

One year was spent in a bid team. This involved preparing and contributing to tenders and FEED stages. Project plans, fixed price quotations, functional design specifications and design basis documents were developed and submitted prior to handling over to project teams.Specified and procured a Rig Radio Shutdown System subcontracted to Data Marine Systems.

• Responsible for design of the power supply for the European Fighter Aircraft “black box” flight recorder (CSMU). Also generated the qualification test plan for rigorously testing the complete unit at the National.
• Experimental evaluation of an accelerometer and interface with high accuracy requirements;
• Development of an EHT power supply;
• Development of data-logger software for HP 9000 support equipment;
• Noise suppression of a signal acquisition unit;
• Systems analysis and calibration prior to flight trial qualifications.Development of an Air Pressure Indicator Module.Design, construction and operation of test equipment used for the urgent qualification of a Weapons.

B.Sc.(Hons), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Aberdeen University Engineering Association.

Diploma, Digital Techniques (Part-Time)

Thesis: Fiber-Optic Airborne Local Area Networks: An Introduction