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Experience

  Latest "odd job" contracts
- 2 weeks at CCC Athens holding a workshop in "reverse engineering" data from Intergraph's PDS software.  21.9 - 4.10.98
- Temporary trainer for "Unix shell and AWK programming" course held by Intergraph UK Swindon.  24.8 - 28.8 1998.

CAD Freelancer, July 1995 -  present
Various odd job contracts for Scopus Engineering - Aberdeen, Datacad / Babcock King Wilkinson, AMEC Engineering - Aberdeen, Cambrian consulting -Gwent, Cadcentre - Cambridge, Bechtel ltd. London,  Raytheon Engineering - Holland, ASD UK - Ashford and Philips Paging ltd. - Cambridge.
At Cadcentre I wrote a PDMS PML macro application and also advised Cadcentre on improving their Microstation Import/Export applications.  Whilst working for Cadcentre I began working part-time for Bechtel doing "Odd Job" PDS support and troubleshooting.  I worked for Bechtel until January '98.   I have recently been working part time for ASD UK ltd. customizing their PDMS set-up and doing odd jobs.   

AMEC Engineering, Aberdeen, July '93 - May '95, Oct - Dec '95, Mar - Jun '96
CAD contractor for the IT department.
AMEC Aberdeen did the "Brown field" engineering on the Brent platforms using Photogrammetry and 3D modeling.   My main responsibilities in the CAD group were support and development of the hybrid installation of Intergraph's PDS software and Rebis's Omnipipe software.   This involved writing MDL programs, Dbase and UNIX scripts.    Other responsibilities were; general CAD and network support for UNIX and PC Microstation, co-ordination of CAD developments in Aberdeen with the London office, creation of MDL conversion programs  (e.g. Omnipipe to PDS Equipment).
 
Kværner Engineering a/s, Oslo Norway, Dec. 1991 - July 1993
CAD Supervisor for the Electrical department.
Responsible for the 3D/2D CAD environment involved with the detail-engineering phase to the topsides for the Heidrun and Sleipner oil platform projects.
Software used by Kværner consisted of EE Raceway, PDS HVAC, PDS Piping, PDS Equip, ModelDraft and DesignReview.
My duties consisted of; supervision and support for 3D and 2D CAD, co-ordination of the software used by the electrical department with software used in other departments, creation and updating of the project database and reports using RIS on an Informix database, trouble shooting  "beta" software, bug reporting and creation of workarounds for these, evaluation of alternative software (e.g. PDMS, CABSYS).

BECHTEL (UK) ltd., London, Sep. 1991 - Dec. 1991
Senior Engineer, PC support (CAD) 
My responsibilities were; support and development of the BECHTEL PC Microstation environment, software and hardware support of PC installed base, support of PCSA network software, trouble-shooting and help desk.

ABB Transformers, Oskarshamn Sweden, Sep. 1990 - Oct 1990
CAD Consultant
The work entailed moving 3 years of drawings from a VAX  based CAD system to a Compaq 386 Novell network.  This involved; creation of a Autocad DXF translator, installation of PCSA manager on VAX  cluster, installation of PCSA network card together with Novell card, use of VAX DCL, VAXTPU, MS DOS batch files and Autocad script files to automate the process. 
At the end of the contract I also customized the Autocad / Novell network and created a few parametric programs in Auto Lisp.  My consultancy at  ABB Transformers AB was very challenging, educational and enjoyable.  I learnt a great deal about;  AUTOCAD's database,  AUTO LISP,  Novell,  Digital's PCSA PC/VAX network, and about the system manager side of VMS.


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