CV Details
My qualifications and experience include:
- CEng, BSc(Eng), PhD (Aberdeen University), FIET, FIMechE, FNucI
- Director posts in two major international safety consultancies
- Engineering Manager in a major nuclear power company
- Nuclear Safety Manager of a major nuclear power company
- Chair of International Nuclear C&I Conferences 2004 and 2007
- Safety consultancy in the UK, France, Germany, Romania, Finland, Russia, Sudan, Qatar, UAE, India, Kazakhstan, Japan, Brazil, USA and Canada
- Awarded the Nuclear Institute Pinkerton Prize for 2013
- Advanced Management Programme, Oxford University
- Senior Nuclear Plant Management Course, Institute of Nuclear Plant Operations, Atlanta
- Author of Engineering Safety Assessment (Longman 1987)
- Co-author of Elements of Nuclear Power 3rd Ed (Longman 1989)
- Author of High Integrity Systems and Safety Management (Butterworth-Heinemann 2015)
- Project visits to some 13 offshore platforms, 3 refineries, and at least 30 operating nuclear reactors
- Shift Manager of a nuclear power station
- Safety case author
- Lead engineer on a major nuclear upgrade project
- Design and Development Manager on a major nuclear construction project
- Lead engineer on the specification of a work control system
- MSc in Earth Science, Open University, 2020
My full CV can be downloaded here.
I was a shift manager at the Prototype Fast Reactor, Dounreay (on the far north coast of the UK mainland) in the early 1980s. In 1984, the UK Atomic Energy Authority made a recruitment video that, three decades later, has been put online by Dounreay. You can see it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODUUqH0b-Q. My 29-year-old self-talks to the camera from 16:55 onwards. It was quite alarming to see this…..
