Project/Construction Manager

Continued managment of challenging large scale international Oil and Gas construction projects.

Jun 2005 – Present Company Site Representative/Construction Manager Sakhalin Energy (SEIC), Sakhalin Island Russian Fed.

Reporting to the Project Construction Manager for the Sakhalin II, Phase 2, Pipeline Construction Project –
Responsible for ensuring EPC Contractor and Russian subcontractors compliance to health, safety, environmental, and quality objectives during implementation of pipeline and above ground facilities construction works.

2004 – 2005 Post Graduate, MSc in Construction Project Management, Lincoln University

After spending a continuous period overseas, decided to take 12 months out to complete an MSc degree; awarded Distinction in December 2006.


2002 –2004 Construction Manager Saipem SA/Starstroi Sakhalin Island

International EPCM Construction Company for onshore/offshore Oil and Gas projects.

1998 – 2002 Project Manager, McConnell Dowell, UK/Saudi Arabia/Australia

Australian construction company with annual turnover of AUS$900m.

1997 – 1998 Construction Manager Gulf Interstate/Serco Engineering Ltd, Islip, Oxon

Provided engineering and project management services to the Oil Pipeline Agency (OPA).

1996 – 1997 Project Manager Tropical Metallic Construction Co Ltd, Tema, Ghana

Construction of overhead pipe racks and crane gantries for the Takoradi Thermal Power Plant.

1995 – 1996 Construction Manager, CSI Construction Ltd, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Friction-grip-bolted structural steel building project for the Tanzanian Port Authority.

1994 Construction Manager Pipeline & Energy Contractors Ltd, Oxon

Multiple aviation fuel pipelines, RAF Brize Norton.

1993 – 1994 Construction Manager, Norwest Socea Joint Venture,

30-kilometres, cross-country, high pressure, welded steel Gas pipeline, for British Gas.

1987 – 1992 Contracts Director, KPS Ltd Civil & Mechanical Engineering

Set up a construction company from scratch in 1987, gained inclusion to a number of client’s select tender lists that culminated in an annual turnover of five million pounds sterling.

1974 – 1987 Construction Superintendent Various Pipeline Construction Companies,

Worked for a number of major pipeline construction companies.

1970 – 1974 Engineering Apprentice How Group Midlands Mechanical Services

2004 – 2006 Lincoln University
Post Graduate, MSc in Construction Project Management (Distinction)

1978 Leicester Polytechnic,
Diploma in Building Management and Economics

1977 HND in Advanced Building Studies

Continuous Development

RTN Certificate – Labour Safety 2006
RTN Certificate – Industrial Safety 2006
Russian Federation – National Attestation Committee On Welding Practice (NACWP) Specialist in Welding Production Certificate Level III (Certified Welding Technologist), 2003
P283/Sakhalin Energy – ‘Supervising Safety’. Unsafe Act Workshop’ 2003

Professional Bodies:

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI): Membership No 525118
Member, The Welding Institute (TWI): Membership No 508511

• Successful leader, combined with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Highly structured approach to major international project design, implementation and review
• Creative problem solver providing uncomplicated solutions to complicated problems
• Calm, analytical, and persuasive ability to stabilise crisis situations, and to generate robust corrective actions.
• Innovative approach to the reduction of costs and management of project timescales
• Influential communicator able to achieve commitment from all levels of the business.
• A team builder and mentor, able to manage and implement projects through others.
• Diplomacy in the management of Governments and other key stakeholders demands