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Skills:
* Extensive use of extranet based collaborative working environments (4Projects, BIW, Business Collaborator-B.C, Documentum and Primavera) on very large projects, across multiple sites.
* Able to work alongside electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, and commissioning engineers.
* Some experience of Scada, and Plc's, in the water, and rail network industry.
* Review, and collation of, various types of packs(tender/test), FBC (Full Business Case), commissioning/completion, design (drawings, RDS/C'Sheets, DCN/DCR's, RFI's, TQ's), construction, asbuilt (schedules, drawings), surveys (Bat, Topographical, Geotechnical, Asbestos. Etc.), and H&S files to BAA, and United Utilities standards.
* Extensive use of Adobe Acrobat, MSOffice, various file formats (drawings, document. Etc), image capture/manipulation, printing, basic use of ACAD 2007, and Crystal Reports.
Accomplishments:
* Implemented standards, and procedures for the collection, and issuing of O&M information to manual providers.
* Controlled and produced technical documents for new sludge drying plant (test packs. maintenance schedule, equipment schedules, etc. using MS-Word, MS-Excel, and MS-Access).
* Set up and managed my own helpdesk in MS-Access.
Employment:
Aug. 2007 – July 2009 Rok Group, Stansted & Heathrow Airport, London
DOCUMENT CONTROLLER/HANDOVER COORDINATOR (Contract)
* Obtaining, compiling, and issuing H&S file's to BAA standards, and specifications (part A's, B's, C's, partline, CSV file, drawing files (model, dwf, cadchecker report), and asset integration worksheet (AIW)), for various projects ranging in value from £30,000 to £4,000,000.
* Ensuring drawings/documents are compliant to BAA's standards, and getting them amended/amending accordingly.
* Maintaining projects H&S file deliverable schedule, and reporting on projects H&S file status.
Nov. 2006 – Aug. 2007 GallifordTry-Costain-Atkins Joint Venture, Warrington, Cheshire
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR-HANDOVER DOCUMENTS (Contract)
* Coordination of the issue of draft, and final O&M manuals (part 1, 2 &3, Schedules, POI's & PMI's) for the AMP4 project (60+ United Utilities sites, worth £500Million) working to United Utilities specifications, and standards (SO1 V7, and V8).
* Obtaining and review of O&M information, and uploading onto B.C for issuing to manual providers.
* Liaising with design coordinators, document controllers, engineers, project leaders and various sub contractors, for "Construction", and "As-built" issue information for inclusion into the manuals.
* Created/maintaining O&M manual tracking spreadsheet and reporting on projects H&S file status.
* Attending project meetings.
Apr. 2006 – Nov. 2006 Sir Robert Mc Alpine, Leicester, Leicestershire
SENIOR DOCUMENT CONTROLLER-London & S.E Region(Permanent)
* Experience of £350Million D.B shopping, retail, and residential development (1 project, across 2 sites).
* Use of 4Projets, for approvals, work packages, tender packages, notifications, DCR's, and issuing of documents.
* Experience of working with a great number of contractors/subcontractors.
* Managed 2 other staff, created training guides/courses for subcontractors on use of 4projects.
* Obtaining, and compiling subcontractor information into H&S files.
Oct. 2004 – Apr. 2006 Taylor Woodrow Construction, St Helens, Merseyside
DOCUMENT CONTROLLER (Permanent)
* Experience of working with a £1.2Billion D.B.O PFI funded project, across 2 sites, and 3 projects.
* Experience and use of 4projects document collaborative extranet, and Avanti standards.
* Ability to work to extremely short deadlines, and accurately using external supply chain members.
* Manage, and maintain in-house document control EDBMS, for issuing document transmittals, report generation and correspondence.
* Understand and negotiate S.L.A rates with external national reprographics company.
* Experience of tender/FBC documentation.
Jun. 2003 – Sep. 2004 Ondeo Degrémont, Workington & Barrow WwTW's, Cumbria & Lostock WTW, Lancashire
TECHNICAL DOCUMENT CONTROLLER (Contract)
* Control and produce test packs, (from plant technical drawings-P&ID's, Loop drawings, O&M's, etc.), and created a number of standards, using MS-Word, and MS-Access.
* Maintain and produce valve, equipment, cable, and maintenance schedule using MS-Excel.
* Provide general administration duties, document archiving, filling, ordering stationary, photocopying etc. and managing calls for project manager.
* Provide Engineers with Instrument/Equipment installation, test, commissioning sheets, and compile them into Commissioning/Completion packs, for very large plants.
* Issue drawings and documents by means of Transmittal notes, to various parties.
* Work with preliminary, construction, and as-built drawings, mark-ups, maintaining and issuing them accordingly.
* Produce&provide electronic version of O&M's on DVD or CDROM, by means of scanning, linking etc.
* The ability to maintain and convert various electronic documents formats
Dec. 2002 – Jun. 2003 I worked as a freelance computer engineer, troubleshooting, and teaching people how to use a number of software packages (MS-office, Adobe etc.).
Jul. 2002 – Dec. 2002
(Made redundant) Claremont Electronics, Greenock, Scotland
SENIOR TECHNICIAN (Permanent-Contracted to IBM mobiles division)
* Attended production quality meetings, and develop notebook hardware testing procedures.
* Maintained and produced a number of custom approach databases.
* Maintained a number of Lotus 123 quality reports, and email them using Lotus Notes 5.
* Use of IMS stock control inventory system, booking in and out the movement of notebook commodities.
Feb. 2002 - Aug. 2002 I decided to give up my job in Holland, so that I could become a full-time carer for my mother, she died in August.
Sep.2000 – Jan. 2002 Acer Computers, Tilburg, The Netherlands
SFCS ENGINEER (Permanent)
* Designed and developed Shop Floor Control System Functions, and provide user training.
* Provided program specifications, solutions using VB6, Crystal reports and documentation.
* Supported user's using custom MS-Access databases, and Excel spreadsheets.
SENIOR FIELD ENGINEER (Permanent)
* Installed and maintained plant production equipment, including high volume thermal label printers (Tec, Zebra and Datamax), Symbol and PSC handheld scanners, DTA's, etc.
* Supported users using custom in-house software, throughout the whole production plant, and maintained an MS-Access helpdesk database, provided user training.
* Provided Oracle sql queries, in MS-Excel format, for staff that had external customer queries.
Nov.1999 – Dec.1999 Acer Computers, Tilburg, the Netherlands
PC TECHNICIAN (Contract)
Built and tested IBM/ACER range of PC's, to ISO9001 quality control standards.
Nov. 1997 – Dec. 1999 North West Water, Warrington
LINE 2/LINE 3 – SUPPORT ENGINEER (Contract)
Supported the "Monitoring and Control Project", resolving IT issues. I managed and created my own MS-Access helpdesk database, which was used to record details of over 300 field engineers, and in-house engineers computer systems, and provide user training.
Aug. 1997 – Oct. 1997 Mott Mac Donald's Controls and Communications, Altrincham
EMBEDDED 'C' PROGRAMMER (Contract)
Created in ANSI C an application, which allowed the ability of two Allen-Bradley co-processors to communicate to one another via an Ethernet link, the application runs on OS9 operating system.
1996 – 1997
Halton College of F.E, Widnes
GENERAL ASSISTANT (Contract)
Carried out the relocation of the college instrumentation lab, library, and various offices between various sites.
1993 – 1994
University College, Stockton-On-Tees
IT SUPPORT OFFICER (University Placement)
* Provided maintenance and support for hardware, and software to both staff and students.
* I was also involved with setting up an MS-Access database of all the births in Yarm, which I set it up so that they scanned it in from the original documents using OCR software.
1987 – 1991 Colloby's Enterprises, Liverpool
RETAIL SALES PERSON (Permanent)
Responsible for increasing turnover, customer care and cash handling.
Training and Education:
Dec. 2008 GSAT (General Security Awareness Training)
Oct. 2007 ACTA (Airport Construction Training Alliance)
Jan. 2007 National Water Hygiene Card No. EUSR62340
Jul. 2006 CSCS - Regular Visitors Card No. 01668902/1
2005 SHE - 3 day course
1991 – 1996 BSc. (Honours) Software Engineering
1984 – 1987 BTEC HNC & ONC - Industrial Measurementation and Control
1981 – 1985 BTEC ONC – Mechanical and Production Engineering
Additional Information:
I have a valid passport, I am single, a non-smoker and enjoy problem solving. I am used to getting the job done regardless of how long it takes.
Interests:
I enjoy travelling, experiencing different cultures, and cycling.
Referees:
Available on request.
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