CURRICULUM
VITAE : RESUME
INSTRUMENT ENGINEER
Date of Birth: 23 December 1944
Marital Status: Married
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QUALIFICATIONS
MEMBERSHIPS
COURSES ATTENDED
Moore products (computer control), Baily (boiler controls), Sack fillers (automatic packing machines), Oxford automation (micro processor temperature scanners), Electrical installations in hazardous areas and intrinsic safety systems, P.L.C. introductory course, Moore products micro controllers, Professional development course (two years part time), Various safety and fire prevention courses, Shell offshore and swimming tests.
EXPERIENCE
July 1991 - present
Company: Sudrohrbau GmbH & Co. West Germany.
Location: West Germany, Syria.
Position: Instrument Engineer & Site Manager duties:
Initially employed at the company's head office in West Germany as part of a bid team to estimate the modifications to a gas treatment station for the Syrian government (Al-Furat). Later (Aug 91 to March 92) working on site at three locations in Syria as the Instrument engineer and site manager, responsible for the commissioning and modification of electrical and instrument systems associated with gas compression stations for the Syrian Petroleum company. Responsible to Sudrohrbau management for the technical and commercial success of this project.
August 1990 - June 1991
Company: Spencer & Partners, consulting engineers
Location: Nigeria (Port Harcourt)
Position: Project instrument design engineer
Duties: Responsible for the design of instrument systems, calculations, specifications, loop sheets, P&ID~s, MTO, etc. Preparation of design and maintenance manuals, hazop studies for both pneumatic and electronic instrumentation involving process control and ESD systems necessary to upgrade two gas treatment plants. Modifications to offshore well clusters and hook-up's to production platforms. Both of the above projects were carried out on behalf of Shell Petroleum Development Company.
September 1989 - August 1990
Company: B.P. Hythe Chemicals
Location: Southampton U.K.
Position: Instrument design engineer duties:
Instrument design work and construction supervision of projects to upgrade systems on a speciality chemical plant, covering a wide variety of instrumentation from pneumatic local loops to full computer control systems.
September 1988 - September 1989
Company: Exxon Chemical Ltd.
Location: Fawley Refinery Southampton U.K.
Position: Instrument design engineer
Duties: Design work associated with the expansion project of a chemical plant. Preparation of specifications, control valve and orifice plate calculations, selection of materials, preparation of loop sheets, index sheets, material take off and vendor selection. Co-ordination between instrument, piping, electrical and process groups. Scheduling work, checking drawings and supervision of two instrument draughtsmen
1987 - 1988
Company: C.H.B. Fabrications Ltd.
Location: Southampton U.K.
Position: Manager, Instrument and Electrical section
Duties: Management of CHB's own staff and sub contractors on various projects throughout the south of England. Responsible for the financial and technical success of these projects. These included management of well shut down systems for B.P. at Wytch farm on shore facilities, management of instrument engineering at Carless Exploration during a gas turbine co~generation project and design I construction of a skid mounted analyser for Exxon Chemicals Fawley.
1980 - 1987
Company: The Bahrain Petroleum Co (Caltex)
Location: Awali, Bahrain, Middle East.
Position: Contracts Engineer (instrumentation)
Duties: Employed initially as an instrument designer assigned to the engineering department responsible for the preparation of drawings and specifications on a wide variety of projects including the updating programme of crude units, tank gauging and FCCU (catcracker); all these included computer control systems. Promoted in 1982 to instrument contracts engineer overseeing a variety of instrument projects during the modernisation phases of the Bahrain refinery including the light isomate production (LIP) project ESD systems on four refinery units and the installation of a Honeywell TDC 3000 control system.
1976 - 1980
Company: Comsip Enterprise
Location: Bahrain, Middle East
Position: Manager
Duties: Employed by an instrument contractor to manage projects within the local oil refinery during a modernisation phase.Converting pneumatic control systems to electronics and the installation of up to date control consoles and panels. These included a DEC computer control system, replacement of a temperature logger with an Oxford automation micro processor based control system and all the associated field work. The majority of these projects were carried out on live process units and involved 'hot' cut overs without loss of production.
1975 - 1976
Company: Kent Instruments
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Duties: Installation and commissioning of instrument systems on an oil rig platform, including updating drawings and producing 'as builts' up to final acceptance tests.
1974 - 1975
Company: Comsip Enterprise
Location: Bahrain, Middle East
Position: Instrument Specialist
Duties: Compilation of data for a refinery instrument survey, including field work, report writing, drawing loop sheets and instrument logic diagrams for existing pneumatic control systems and recommending changes. Reports were compiled for the whole 250,00 bpd refinery and producing fields.
