CURRICULUM VITAE of IAN DAVID HARRISON
Date of Birth 27.04.1960
Status Married, with two children
Computer
Literacy Competent business user including Auto CAD
Qualifications HND Construction
OND Construction
GCE ‘A’ level: 1 subject
GCE ‘O’ level: 7 subjects
Driving
License Full, clean
Nationality British
PROFILE A successful senior site engineer and surveyor with a wide experience within Construction and Civil Engineering. Good communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills able to train and motivate a team to produce quality results. Hard working and resourceful, working on own initiative or as part of a team, with the ability to work under pressure within a fixed budget.
CAREER HISTORY, MAJOR PROJECTS ( 1980 to 1996 upon request )
2000 to date SeniorSite Engineer and surveyor for Systems Engineering Ltd. of Tortola,B.V.I
Key responsibilities: -
- Full control over all topographical and hydrographic surveys in the field, including costing
- Downloading, exporting into Auto CAD and the final production of surveys
- Engineering setting out and as-builts
- Site inspections, dimensional control and checks
- Day to day operations of office
- General administration and programming
- Liaising with the client, engineer and architect
- Problem solving
- Quality control and assurance
- Health and safety
- Working to a high specification
Pockwood Pond Power Station Extension: Working for Rolls Royce Power as their civils representative on site, in close unison with sub-contractors. Responsible for checking setting out, inspections of drainage and excavation and pre concrete pour inspections. Checking of quality control on site and documents. Producing completion reports, snag sheets and as-built drawings.
Nanny Cay Improvement Project: Site Engineer, responsible for initial topographical survey, all setting out and site decisions for new roads, culverts, outfalls, conduits and new 100-ton boatlift.
Nail Bay Virgin Gorda: Site Engineer on a seventy-acre residential development. Responsible for topographical surveys for road design and architectural purposes. Setting out of roads and buildings and inspections at various stages of construction.
New Peebles Hospital Tortola: Phase 1 Bulk Excavation: Sub-consultant to Page Sutherland Page Architects making daily visits to site ensuring that the works are being carried out in accordance with the drawings and specifications. This includes line and level checks on the 70,000 cu yd removal of overburden and rock.
Building surveys on St. Croix and Tortola: Dimensional, structural surveys for the assessment of further use and improvement design purposes.
Old VI Hotel St. Thomas USVI: Topographical survey for the design of a major new Veterans residential project.
CCT Boatphone towers on Jost Van Dyke, Anegada Virgin Gorda and Tortola: Setting out of holding down bolts for tower legs (zero tolerance) Checking of reinforcing etc
Scatliffe Ghut improvements Tortola: Full topographical survey of existing ghut, the establishment of datums, elevation checks and volumes calculated on materials both excavated and placed for payments and records.
Treasure Isle Tortola: Full land and hydrographic surveys for development purposes.
Peter Island: Pre- construction surveys and setting out of luxury villas, luxury spa, roads and helipad. Follow up surveys and as-builts of all rock cuts and construction. Testing of backfill compaction using Troxler NDT
Oil Nut Bay Virgin Gorda: Coastal survey of a 400 acre property to determine the extent of mangroves. Setting out and establishing the best route of three miles of road cuts through virgin terrain.
Nanny Cay Tortola: Full topographical survey of Hotel and marina on thirty acres of coastal property. Beach survey to monitor changes in profiles, ongoing on a yearly basis. Setting out and checks on new groynes for the protection of a new beach area.
Cedar School Tortola: Initial survey then setting out of new artificial football pitch and basketball court. Site supervision of contractors.
Money Bay Norman Island: Topographical and hydrographic surveys with seabed sediment analysis for the design of a new beach area.
Various topographical and hydrographic surveys and setting out: On Tortola, Norman Island, Buck Island, Scrub Island, Jost Van Dyke and Virgin Gorda etc. for engineering and architectural purposes.
Equipment Used: Nikon EDM and automatic levels, Hewlett Packard 48G Data Logger with “Foresight” software. AutoCAD.
1998-2000 U.K Site Agent/Engineer for Norwest Holst Soil Engineering Ltd working on a self employed basis responsible for a number of projects from concept to completion including ground consolidation projects in Scotland and flight auger piling jobs throughout the U.K
Key responsibilities: -
- Day to day operations
- Setting out and as-builts
- Working to timescales and within a budget
- General administration and programming
- Liaising with the client, engineer and architect
- Problem solving
- Quality control and assurance
- Health and safety
- Working to a high specification
Site Engineer for Blackwell at the “Earth Centre” Doncaster, setting out roadways, car parks and cycle ways.
Site Engineer for Hewlett Civil Engineering at Mansfield on a new Asda Superstore, responsible for setting out all external works.
Surveyor for Balfour Beatty on the A1-M1 Link Phase 3, setting out major earthworks, both cut and fill and setting out for sub-base and asphalt. Providing control for structures.
1996-1998 Site Engineer for J.H.Hallam Builders working on a five-storey complex in Nottingham. Responsible for all external works setting out and supervision.
Site Engineer for May Gurney working on South Leeds Tennis Centre and Stalingborough Power Station. Setting out external works at the Tennis Centre and setting out all piles and producing as-builts at the Power Station.
Site Agent/Engineer for Norwest Holst Soil Engineering Ltd. at Stoke responsible for setting out pile positions producing as-builts and supervising sub-contractors on the refurbishment of a Victorian theatre.
Site Engineer for Multi Build setting out all works for new Public Houses and Travel Lodges in Chesterfield and Milton Keynes.
Equipment Used Total Station EDM’s, Automatic Levels, Laser levels, Psion with NSS “Road Engineer” software programme and printer.