Experience

Achelous Energy Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder / Director

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  Kent, England, United Kingdom Achelous Energy established in 2017 is headquartered in Kent, UK and is fast to become one of the leading global hydrokinetic river technology and project developers in the world, suppling turnkey solutions to the market. In a world which is striving to reduce carbon emissions and to provide energy access to the off-grid population, Achelous Energy patented (pending) hydrokinetic floating power plant solution can support its customers by providing access to clean affordable energy in the most… Show more Achelous Energy established in 2017 is headquartered in Kent, UK and is fast to become one of the leading global hydrokinetic river technology and project developers in the world, suppling turnkey solutions to the market. In a world which is striving to reduce carbon emissions and to provide energy access to the off-grid population, Achelous Energy patented (pending) hydrokinetic floating power plant solution can support its customers by providing access to clean affordable energy in the most sustainable way www.achelous.co.uk Show less



London Marine Consultants (LMC)

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

• Director

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2017

  London, United Kingdom Hexicon Dounreay Tri FLoating Wind Demonstrator 10MW (2016-2017) Position: Turret Engineering/Project Manager – EPC Phase Key responsibilities: Responsible for technical and commercial package at bid stage to contract signing; Responsible for managing the detail design and taking the design of the submerged turret mooring system to fabrication stage. Concept/FEED design was undertaken by Atkins Houston; Liaised directly with Project team, fabrication yard and HSE at various… Show more Hexicon Dounreay Tri FLoating Wind Demonstrator 10MW (2016-2017) Position: Turret Engineering/Project Manager – EPC Phase Key responsibilities: Responsible for technical and commercial package at bid stage to contract signing; Responsible for managing the detail design and taking the design of the submerged turret mooring system to fabrication stage. Concept/FEED design was undertaken by Atkins Houston; Liaised directly with Project team, fabrication yard and HSE at various phases. Directly reported to Keppel Shipyard during start up of fabrication and liaised with project team and HSE. Pioneiro de Libra FPSO - TURRET EPC (2014 – 2017) Position: Turret Engineering Manager / Project Manager – EPC Phase USD+100m contract Key responsibilities: Responsible for Turret detail Engineering, Construction & delivery of the EWT Libra external cantilever Turret; Managing of cost and schedule budgets and personnel for the provision of services (to JSPL/TeekayOdebrecht); Responsible for all major Turret equipment packages. Responsible for delivery of turret assembly from Vietnam to Singapore shipyard. Position: Turret Engineering Manager – FEED Phase Responsible for compiling the FEED study, technical & commercial proposal to Odebrecht Oil & gas for the EWT Libra FPSO; Supervising of all engineering design for the FPSO Turret mooring system for quotation to Odebrecht. Involved in the preparation and overseen the creation of all technical and commercial documentation of various mooring system packages; Detailed technical review and comment on all documentation issued by selected Turret vendors, including: design reports, design drawings, analysis reports, installation procedures, test procedures. Sustainable Marine Energy - Plat-I Turret and Hull Design Key responsibilities: Supervised all engineering design activities for the column type turret, hull and mooring analysis for the Plat-I. Show less



London Marine Consultants Asia Pacific

• General Manager / Director

  • Mar 2012 - Sep 2014

  Singapore Appointed General Manager of LMC Asia Pacific in early 2012, James was responsible for managing and promoting LMC’s Asian operations (Singapore office) as well as carrying out a number of technical engineering tasks. He was involved in all engineering design aspects of Turret Moorings and subsea structures, and provided Project Management for various projects undertaken by LMC.

• Lead Structural Engineer / Project Engineer

  • Sep 2011 - Mar 2012

  Singapore



London Marine Consultants

• Lead Structural Engineer

  • Dec 2009 - Sep 2011

  London, United Kingdom



Ramboll

• Denmark
• Civil Engineering
• 700 & Above Employee

• Structural Engineer / FEA Analyst - Offshore Wind / Oil & Gas

  • Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

  Design of substructures for offshore structures. Linear & Non-Linear finite element analysis of primary and secondary structures.

• Structural Engineer

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2008

  Responsible for the dynamic analysis of the new Liverpool Football Stadium grandstands under rhythmic activities using SAP software. Responsible for lateral analysis of individual stands under various load combinations.



GKN Aerospace

• United Kingdom
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Stress Engineer

  • Jan 2007 - Jul 2007

  I was part of the Airbus A380 Continuous Product Development (CPD) team. Tasks included stress hand calculations, writing check-stress reports for Airbus UK. James quickly learnt, designing parts of aircraft wasn't for him and decided to focus on heavy engineering sectors. I worked on the A380 fuel pump fairings modification using a combination of hand calculation methods and finite element software (Nastran).



University of Bristol

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Undertook 1 year on a PHD award and was involved in developing a suite of conceptual design tools for multidisciplinary design optimisation of morphing winglets in conjunction with Airbus UK. James decided research was not going to be his career so pursued a career in industry instead.