CV Technician - Instrument and Electronic; ROV Technician; PLC or DCS Programmer

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CV/Resume ID no.: 77481
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am applying for an ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN position in your industry. I have over thirteen years experience in offshore diamond-mining with De Beers Marine, encompassing drillships as well as subsea crawlers. All electronics on board the vessels I work on are my responsibility - a physically and mentally demanding job often involving long hours and hard labour. I love it, but I am bored with diamonds and would like to pursue new challenges in the offshore industry.

I am an experienced instrumentation technician with a strong background in advanced hydraulics, pneumatics, and ROVs. I have been working at sea for over thirteen years on deep-water (over 100m/300ft deep) mining vessels for De Beers Marine. For this past year, I have been heavily involved with the commissioning and maintenance of a 270-ton undersea 'crawler' for mining that uses dredging technology at depths up to 150m(450ft) off the west coast of South Africa. I have experience in underwater technologies, particularly subsea connectors, cameras and lighting, depth compensators, and positioning and survey equipment. I also have extensive experience with 'Hyball' and 'Navajo' inspection ROVs. I have been working at sea for over thirteen years on deep-water mining vessels of which over ten years has been on several drillships, using converted drillships from Global Marine's "Glomar" fleet, among others.

I am responsible for all electronics equipment on the vessel and supervise two technicians and a trainee.

While the vessel I am serving on (The mv "Peace In Africa") was being designed and converted, I was assigned to the design team and was instrumental in many of the design decisions. Some of my larger contributions were the assistance in designing a retractable boom for holding the vessel-mounted acoustic survey equipment manufactured by SRD, and overseeing (on behalf of the owners) the conversion of the vessel's Engine Room Management System to a Yokogawa DCS based system for Lloyd's approval. The work was carried out at A&P Tyne's shipyard in Newcastle, UK.

Academic
Matriculated from Witbank High School in 1982.
National Diploma (Electrical Engineering Light Current) from Vaal Triangle Technikon in Gauteng, South Africa (1985-1987)

Training

In-service Instrumentation training at Rosherville, various dates 1985 to 1988
Courses covered: Basic and Advanced Pressure, Flow, Temperature, Analysers, and Valves. Hand tools, basic turning and shaping. Basic and Advanced circuitry. Automatic Control.

Training at Eskom training center, Midrand, Gauteng, 1987 to 1988
Courses covered: Microcontrollers, phases 1 and 2; Digital Electronics, phases 1 and 2; and Digital Apprications, phases 1 and 2.

Training at Goedehoop Colliery, 1988 to 1994
Basic and Advanced Hydraulics; Nuclear Instrumentation; Electromechanical Conveyor Belt Weightometers.

Training at De Beers Marine, 1994 to present
Safety and Accident Investigation; Advanced Drillship Hydraulics Systems; Meissner UPS; Several computer networking and data communication courses; Varispeed and ABB AC drives; Yokogawa µXL Engineering; Yokogawa CS3000 Engineering; MS Office products: Word, Excel, Access; and AutoCAD 2D drawing.

Statutory STCW courses
Marine Fire-fighting (Expires July 2011); Personal Safety and Social Responsibility with Personal Survival Techniques (Expires June2009); Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (Expires March 2009)

Membership of Professional Bodies
Member of SAIEE - South African Institute of Electrical Engineers

I am proficient with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint.
I can use AutoCAD for basic and intermediate 2D and basic 3D drawings.
I can program with Visual Basic, and used to program in C++. I can still read a C++ program, but I'm very rusty.

I have extensively programmed both PLC and DCS systems, specifically Mitsubishi and Rockwell PLCs and Yokogawa uXL and CS3000 DCS. I have a little experience with Siemens PLCs.
I am a useful carpenter and DIY enthusiast.