Experience

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  Sinomine Specialty Fluids

  • United Kingdom
  • Oil and Gas
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Laboratory Manager

    • Jul 2019 - Present

  • Laboratory Manager

    • Jul 2019 - Present

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  Cabot Specialty Fluids

  • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  • Laboratory & Product Quality Control Manager

    • Mar 2008 - Present
    • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Experienced Laboratory & Product Quality Control Manager skilled at prioritising workloads ensuring the smooth running of the laboratory, involved in quality control testing to support the Operations team. Working with the Research & Development Manager and Operations Engineers based around the globe coordinating and planning R&D projects and providing operational and technical support. Extensive experience of cesium/potassium formate completion and drilling fluids covering both operational support and R&D projects. Experience of Brine Reclamation Process, treating brines and drilling fluids to remove polymers and contaminants.

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  Sinomine Specialty Fluids Limited

  • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  • Laboratory & Product Quality Control Manager

    • Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
    • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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  Scottish Environment Protection Agency

  • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  • Senior Chemist

    • Nov 1992 - Mar 2008
    • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    • Management Experience including recruitment, staffing issues, carrying out staff appraisals• Project management including coordinating the development of new methods in three labs in Aberdeen, Edinburgh & East Kilbride, preparing monthly reports.• Experience in Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry including analysis of Pyrethroids, Organophosphorus Pesticides, Hydrocarbons and Identification of samples from Pollution Incidents.• Experience in Trace Organic Analysis including the analysis of freshwater river and effluent samples for organochlorine pesticides, pentachlorophenol, using automated GC and data handling system.• Responsible for Budget Control within the Trace organics Lab.• Prioritising workloads to cope with quickly changing priorities.• Coordinating national groundwater surveillance monitoring & reporting.• Reviewing loadings data & writing summary reports.• Qualified internal auditor experience of carrying out internal audits and writing audit reports covering ISO 9001:2000, UKAS ISO/IEC 17025:2005 & ISO 14001.• Laboratory Radiation Protection Supervisor

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  Aberdeen University AUCHEM

  • Analytical Chemist

    • Jul 1989 - Oct 1992

    • Experience in Gas Chromatography including the analysis of marine sediments and water samples for organochlorine pesticides, pentachlorophenol, faecal sterols and n-alkanes.• On-Site Analysis- Landfill Gas Monitoring and sampling and identification of waste drums from Offshore Installations. • Environmental workplace monitoring including GC analysis of solvents and hydrocarbons trapped on charcoal tubes.• Analysis of Sulphate by Dionex Ion-Chromatography, HPLC analysis of scale inhibitors and Isocyanates, Cold vapour mercury analysis and GC analysis of gases.• Hydrocarbon content of water and sediments by FTIR.• Analysis of LSA scales using gamma spectrometer.

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  Lyne, Martin & Radford Public Analysts

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • Analytical Chemist

    • 1987 - 1989
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Pesticide residue analysis utilising gas chromatography; Asbestos Monitoring – On-site clearance tests and identification.Soil and cement analysis, including atomic absorption spectroscopy; fertiliser and feeding stuff analysis and also food analysis