Experience

Gaist

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  Lancaster, United Kingdom Responsible for leading the development and execution of the Company's long term strategy with a view to creating shareholder value and ensuring the Company stays firmly comitted to it's custmers and ethics.



Gaist Solutions Limited

• Managing Director

  • Feb 2008 - Dec 2017

  West Yorkshire MD of Technology and Technical Services company supporting Government organisations in strategic and emergency management of assets. Working across sectors with small and large organisations, my company works with people, in a 'no nonsense' way to recognise the true value of their infrastructure information and other data in general and how it can be leveraged to provide improved services for all stakeholders and gear up significant investment. Gaist work hard to produce the next… Show more MD of Technology and Technical Services company supporting Government organisations in strategic and emergency management of assets. Working across sectors with small and large organisations, my company works with people, in a 'no nonsense' way to recognise the true value of their infrastructure information and other data in general and how it can be leveraged to provide improved services for all stakeholders and gear up significant investment. Gaist work hard to produce the next generation of asset management systems and techniques. Working collaboratively with Universities we are developing long term models and simulations of asset performance/condition to underpin robust long term management and investment strategies. Gaist is also developing new supporting technologies such as mobile data systems, video imaging, high speed data visualisation tools. We are in essence creating decision making tools for infrastructure managers and empowering them to share their information intelligently with all stakeholders including the public to unlock the value of the information they hold. Gaist is also supporting emergency responders and emergency professionals with create inter-agency collaborative systems and tool sets that allow mission critical information to be shared real time in a highly visible way. This is being rolled out across the UK via Project Beacon. Show less



Data Collection Limited

• New Zealand
• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Director

  • 2003 - 2005

  West Sussex, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Headed up the development of a Automatic pavement condition surveying vehicle (ARAN) to work in the UK as part of the DfTs SCANNER survey initiative. Responsible for building client base and day to day sales and marketing.



Omnicom Balfour Beatty

• United Kingdom
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • 2000 - 2003

  Project Manager for a national survey of the UK rail network. Also managed the introduction of a highways video survey system.



Horizon

• Assistant Party Chief

  • 1992 - 2000

  Second in Command of a seismic survey vessel. Later worked as a project manager converting and building new vessels.



Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG)

• Field Surveyor

  • 1990 - 1992

  UK, Germany Field based Land Surveyor for Seismic Survey crews working in UK and Germany. Mapped the water table of Lake District on contract to NIREX



HM Armed Forces (Army)

• Technical Assistant

  • Apr 1982 - Aug 1990

  Germany / UK Worked in the Royal Artillery in various positions, mostly as a Technical Assistant as a field surveyor and processing targeting and ballistic information for heavy weapon systems. Operating in various environments inc; Central America, Canada, Germany and the UK