Experience

• Over ten years in West Africa with CARES Ltd to enhance maritime Management and Operations of water-ways after completing 32 years of Service in the Royal Navy.
• Strong track record in project delivery, problem-solving, leadership, strategic/operational management processes, organisational re-structuring and cross-function integration.
• Extensive experience in building and implementing maritime operational capability.
• Aids to Navigation policy formulation and Implementation Plans.
• Identifying maritime risk ‘enabling activities’ to enhance port and ship safety.
• Specialist navigation expert and adviser to The Navigation Board.
• Lead Project Manager and Project Director for interventions to prove/test concept port channel designs.
• Sierra Leone – adviser the Government of Sierra Leone in adopting effective Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) of national waters and shore security to counter illegal activities.

Typical Recent Assignments

• IMO aligned maritime Formal Safety Assessments to enhance maritime safety risk for the Port of Lagos and Bonny River (Nigeria).
• The proving and examination – via a variety of processes including simulation – of new port capabilities (e.g. the inaugural planning for a Floating Production Storage & Offloading (FPSO) vessel to Nigeria
• Operational assessments (ship safety risks) of conceptual channel designs.
• Maritime interventions – including use of a navigation simulation capability – in West Africa for port companies/authorities such as: Maersk; Samsung; Pacific International Lines (PIL); Integrated Oil and Gas; ASPM Ltd; APM Terminals; Channel Management Companies; Tin Can Container Terminal; Nigerian Ports Authority.
• Advice at company Board of Directors level regarding vital port management requirements.
• Advice to senior management teams for appropriate capability and capacity development processes.
• Create bespoke ‘workshops’ for organisation staff to develop maritime corporate knowledge and ‘skills-transfer’.