About Me

Summary

I am a versatile marine technician and systems engineer, and East Asian-language speaker, with proven ability to learn and adapt to the needs of any marine technology project, whether deep sea, or nearshore. Able to mobilise from Phuket, Thailand; or Yorkshire, England, at short notice.

Over 10 years’ experience in a variety of offshore work environments all over the world, ranging from operational oceanography (marine science), to seismic geophysical survey and UXO survey, deep sea salvage, and subsea construction for Offshore Wind Farms.

Task Profiles

Types of jobs, or tasks within jobs I have done and can do:

  • Survey & Subsea Operations: Oceanography, geophysical multibeam, sidescan & seismic survey, subsea construction, UXO, sea trials.
  • Vessel Mobilisation: Gyro, ROV Multiplexers; Current Meters/DVL/ADCP; Pipetracker; AUV/ASV/ROTV/glider sensors.
  • Vessel systems installation: Networking, IP Cameras, winch systems & software, electrical, coaxial, and data cable installation.
  • Vessel systems maintenance: Cable termination, electrics, networking, software, AUV/ASV/Glider/ROTV vehicle maintenance.
  • Offshore data management: Marine Science data, survey & science data acquisition, processing, management; video eventing.
  • Offshore data processing: Data cleaning, acoustic model inspection, event processing, SV data, virtual sensors for data acquisition.

Role Profiles

Marine Robotics Engineer

AUV / UUV, ASV / USV, Ocean Gliders, ROV, Argo Profiling Floats; sensor integration for autonomous systems

  • Marine Operations: Robot piloting, deployment & recovery, lifting & slinging; working at heights, powerboat handling.
  • Mechanical: Marine diesels; marine plant maintenance; metalwork; welding; pneumatics; hydraulics; winches.
  • Electrical: HV awareness; wiring looms, rack-building, PAT & electrical testing; PLC; CANBUS, UDS diagnostics.
  • Electronics: PID control; payload integration; soldering, PCB design, schematics, fabrication; cable termination.
  • Acoustics: Hull-mounted acoustic transducers, geophysical survey software; USBL, LBL; ADCP; SVP; SBP.
  • Sensors & Instrumentation: Positioning; INS; MetOcean sensors; coaxial video, fibre-optic cable termination; LiDaR. faultfinding.
  • Networking: Servers, network installation, tech support, MUX, DAQ units; fibre-optic, serial and ethernet networks.
  • Telecommunications: Security; installation; satellite (Iridium, VSat); marine VHF; Navigation systems; marine telecoms.
  • Offshore Admin: Logistics; documentation; risk assessments, marine law; IOGP golden rules; ColRegs for AUV/ASV.
  • Offshore Data: Dataloggers, operational software, data acquisition & processing; data troubleshooting, video data.


Marine Online Survey Engineer

SONAR Sidescan Survey, UXO survey, Geophysics survey, SBP survey, Floating Offshore Wind Farm survey

  • Subsea Construction (OWF cable) EIVA NaviSuite/NaviPac, Gen5 MUX, Ranger2, SeaBat, TSS440, ROV Gemini, Octans, DVL,VisualSoft,
  • Remote Operated Towed Vehicles: EIVA dual Scanfish Katria deployment and driving, multiple-Magnetometers, Sidescan SONAR survey.
  • Survey Software: Kongsberg SIS, K-Sync, CARIS Hipps & Sipps, HiPAP, EIVA NaviPac, NaviScan, Helmsman; QINSy.
  • Seismic Hardware: Pinger, Sparker, Boomer, Airgun maintenance, streamers, HP Pneumatics, SONAR spelter termination.


Marine Acoustics Technician

Geophysical Acoustics, Seismic Survey, ADCP, SVP, USBL, Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Marine Mammals

  • Marine Mammal Protection: JNCC MMO, marine mammal medic; volunteering at DCMR Phuket Marine Biology Centre, Thailand.
  • Passive Acoustics Equipment: Passive Acoustic Monitoring, PamGuard, Ishmael, MBES; ADCP, USBL, sidescan, hydrophone setup.