Experience

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  Control Risks

  • United Kingdom
  • Business Consulting and Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Sub-Saharan Africa Security Advisor at Control Risks for SLB

    • Oct 2020 - Present

    Proactively provided advice, support, instruction and training to all employees in the Sub-Saharan Africa area on security issues and is the technical advisor of all Emergency Management teams at the country and region level.

  • West & Central Africa Security Advisor at Control Risks for Schlumberger

    • Feb 2017 - Oct 2020

    Providing strategic and tactical security consultancy for Schlumberger Oilfield Services in West and Central Africa

  • Regional Security Advisor at Control Risks Group with Schlumberger

    • Apr 2013 - Feb 2017

    Providing strategic and tactical security consultancy for Schlumberger Oilfield Services in West Africa:- To provide with expertise that will help to conduct business to be conducted in a low profile manner and which provides for optimum protection of its employees, families and assets in event of political or criminal aggression.- To ensure that the employees’ exposure to violence, blackmail, threats, kidnapping or civil war is minimized and managed. - To deploy, train and manage a Security organization, adapted to the Security risk level, which allows him to fulfill all his responsibilities. - To issue and implement guidelines on good security practices for employees and their families in countries of operation. - To assess all potential hazardous situations in countries of operation and define prevention and mitigation plans for these hazards.- To perform security assessments of all locations to make sure that all existing and future locations have an optimum standard of security to enable business to be conducted in a safe and secure environment.- To prepare and keep updated evacuation plans for all the locations in the countries of operation. - To ensure, where practically possible, the level of security provided stays as constant as is practically possible.

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  GARDIAN'S ASSISTANCE

  • Abidjan

  • International Security Manager

    • Dec 2007 - Apr 2013
    • Abidjan

    - Responsible for the management of all components of the Security contract for the Delegation of the European Union to the Ivory Coast- To ensure and maintain global quality control of the Contractor’s services- To collect information on threats and security to ensure the safety of the EU Delegation - To supervise and organize the Security Control Center (SCC)- To coordinate the immediate intervention in the event of an incident/emergency situation and evacuation/relocation- To immediately report any significant external security incident related to the Regional Security Officer, including threats, alerts, vulnerability issues, public disorder, vital security information, etc…- Responsible for developing the draft SOP (Standard operating procedures) and draft RP (Reporting procedures). - To organize and protect all movements of the head of the delegation and the other diplomats in the country and especially in Abidjan

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  French Ministry for Armed Forces

  • Operation Non-Commissioned Officer

    • Oct 1988 - Dec 2007

    MILITARY INTELLIGENCE • Develop a research plan about strategic information, synthesize the information collected and integrated into an information system. • Set out and comment the information, present some situation updates using multimedia. • Prepare and train research teams for their projection in a crisis. • Coordinate specific, technical and human resources in order to obtain information.MANAGEMENT SKILLS:• Leading team management (up to 120 persons), planning and work organization (realisation of personnel timetable)• Preparation and conducting specialized training courses.• Follow-up of staffs’ career perspective and attendant measures towards civil lifeRESPONSIBLE OF MINE CLEARANCE CONSTRUCTION SITES:• Technical advisor at a decision-making level in mine clearance.• Supervisor for mine clearance construction sites (approximately 25 staffs) in France and abroad (notably Afghanistan).• Training and supervision of mine clearance experts.• Awareness campaign on the danger of mines and ammunitions for civil and military publics.