ANDY GRAY                            

PRESIDENT

Graduate of Glasgow University with a BSc in Topographic Science.  Over thirty years in the offshore survey business with 25 years at senior management level.  Founding Director of NCS Survey Ltd.

 

CHRIS ERNI

COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying / Geography with over thirty years broad experience in the offshore survey industry, with the last seventeen years at management level. A Director of NCS since its inception in 2005.

 

DAVE BOWDEN                                        

TECHNICAL AND QA MANAGER

Over thirty years experience in the offshore survey industry, specialising in the provision of surface and sub-sea positioning solutions. Twenty years as a Senior Project Manager.

GRAEME LORNIE                    

DATA PROCESSING AND HSE MANAGER    

Expert knowledge of data processing, charting systems and techniques having worked as a Cartographer and Senior Data Processor in the offshore industry for over twenty five years.

DICK WHITING                                         

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Over thirty years of broad industry experience in hydrographic surveys,  pipeline and cable installation support. Currently manages rig positioning services.

ANDY McMURTRIE                  

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

The latest appointment to the management team, Andy has a wealth of experience in the offshore survey industry.

TOM JERVIS                            

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Tom is a highly experienced Surveyor and Project Manager with over twenty five years experience in the offshore, land survey and construction industries.

SHONA GEE                                                              

FINANCIAL MANAGER

A  senior manager, very experienced in all aspects of finance and management within the oil and gas sector.

 

ALAN McDONALD                                    

ENGINEERING MANAGER

HND in Maritime Electronic Communication Engineering from Glasgow College of Nautical Studies.  Over twenty years experience as an Engineer and Workshop Manager in both the on and offshore industry.

STEVE WHYTE                                                          

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Over thirty years experience in providing survey support for offshore construction and structure installation projects. Currently manages AUV and pipeline inspection projects.

CAROLYN GRAY                                      

ADMINISTRATION MANAGER

An experienced administrative professional providing support to the directors as well as co-ordinating training, recruitment and personnel requirements.

IAN NAPIER                                              

DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Graduate of Robert Gordons University, Aberdeen with a BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence.   Three years experience supporting all aspects of survey work carried out by NCS.  Now specialising in new software developments.

GORDON WATSON                                 

BASE ENGINEER   

HNC in Computing from Aberdeen College.  Has eight years experience as a Workshop Engineer in the offshore survey industry with previous experience in logistics and IT support.

COLIN BENSON                                                        

SENIOR SURVEYOR

Graduate of Glasgow University with a Post Grad Diploma in Surveying.    Has eighteen years experience specialising in precise surface and subsea positioning for rig/barge operations and subsea structure installations. 

JOHN HIGHAM                                                          

SENIOR DATA PROCESSOR

HND in Technical Illustration. A senior data processor with extensive experience of construction operations.  Has expert knowledge of a wide variety of data processing, charting systems and techniques gained over a period of fifteen years.

GEMMA DAVIS                                                          

SENIOR SURVEYOR

Graduate of Southampton University with a BSc in Oceanography and an MSc in Coastal Conservation and Management from Glamorgan University.

Three years experience gained on a wide variety of pipeline inspection surveys at Party Chief level.

LUKE PINSON

GEOPHYSICIST

A Marine Geophysics Research Post-graduate with a practical field survey background.  Expert knowledge of acquisition and processing and interpretation of data from a variety of sub-bottom profiler systems.

JOE TURNER

BASE TECHNICIAN

Graduate of Plymouth University with a BSc in Ocean Science.

MARK MASON                                                           

SURVEY ENGINEER

Graduate of Exeter University with a B.Eng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering.  Joined NCS after five years as a CP engineer working on a wide variety of pipeline and structure inspection projects.

MARTIN THORPE                                                      

SENIOR SURVEYOR

A Senior Surveyor with over ten years experience, initially as a Royal Navy hydrographer before joining the offshore survey sector. A highly competent Party Chief with experience of vessel and rig positioning operations on a world wide basis.

PHIL BANKS                                                              

PROJECT SURVEYOR

Graduate of Plymouth University with a BSc (Hons) Hydrography. Has extensive experience of the positioning and offshore construction industry,  with  expert knowledge of a wide variety of vessel, rig and barge operations, including precise surface and subsea positioning. Project Leader for AUV operations.

ROBERT DAVIDSON                               

ASSISTANT DATA PROCESSOR

Graduate of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen with a BSc in Architectural Technology.   Currently supporting the rig positioning projects team.

ZECH JOHNSON                                                       

SURVEY ENGINEER

An experienced systems engineer with over ten years in the RAF, including a number of years as team leader.   Has gained a wide variety of experience of positioning both in construction and rig move activities during his two years at NCS.

STEVEN BRAITHWAITE

SURVEYOR

Graduate of Hull University with a BEng Mech Engineering. An experienced MBES operator conducting site and pipeline surveys. Also experienced in using the SVS MBES system  for real-time cable lay touchdown monitoring .

JEANIE DELF                                                             

DATA PROCESSOR

Graduate of  Glasgow University with a BSc in Topographic Science.  Has five years experience on a wide variety of data processing projects across the range of offshore activities including inspection and multibeam surveys.

MARK OGDEN                                                           

SURVEY ENGINEER

Over 10 years experience in the offshore survey industry, with broad experience of a wide variety of projects specialising in operation and maintenance of geophysical survey equipment, multibeam systems and other survey sensors.

DEBORAH DOHERTY                                              

SENIOR DATA PROCESSOR

Graduate of Luton University with a BSc in Mapping Science.   Has  over 10 years experience expert knowledge of a wide variety of data processing. charting systems and techniques on a wide variety of offshore projects including AUV projects.

MARK SEMPLE                                                          

SURVEYOR

Graduate of  Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying and Geosciences. A highly competent surveyor gaining a wide variety of experience on construction support and rig positioning projects

PHIL HART                                                                 

SENIOR SURVEY ENGINEER

Graduate of University of Wales with a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology.   Survey specialist with 5 years experience in site survey and pipeline inspection projects. Has expert knowledge in multibeam sonar systems, DPS positioning and subsea sensors.

BRYAN MUNRO                                                         

SENIOR SURVEY ENGINEER                

Bryan has over 12 years’ experience working as an engineering technician and for the past 4 years has been working as a Surveyor on various projects for major Oil and Gas companies

THOMAS BANKS

SURVEYOR

A graduate of Keele University with BSc (Hons) in Geology and Physical Geography.  An experienced SVS MBES operator, specialising in site surveys, pipeline inspections, seabed clearance operations and touchdown monitoring operations.

ALAN BRUCE                                            

SENIOR SURVEY ENGINEER

HND in Electronic Engineering.  Survey Engineer with over twenty years experience.    Expert knowledge of rig, barge and general construction operations including precise surface and subsea positioning operations.

STEPHEN IMESON                                                    

SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying and Mapping Science. Over twenty years experience in the engineering field before recently completing his surveying degree. Has quickly integrated into the rig positioning team.

WILLIAM KELLY                                                         

SURVEYOR

Graduate of  Glasgow University with a BSc (Hons) in Geographic Information and Mapping Science. Currently gaining experience across the wide spectrum of NCS offshore surveying activities.

DAVID HUCK                                                             

ASSISTANT SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying and Mapping Science. Joined the company in August 2009.

RICHARD SMITH                                                       

SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc (Hons) in Surveying and Mapping Science.   Richard has gained experience on a wide range of construction and rig positioning projects since joining NCS in 2006 as well as experience of NASNET systems gained in the last year whilst supporting Nautronix.

ANDY ALLISTER                                                        

SENIOR SURVEYOR

Graduate of Plymouth University with a BSc in Ocean Science.  Has experience in all aspects of construction support and rig positioning and also has expert field knowledge of NASNET systems gained  whilst supporting Nautronix.

RONNIE McVEIGH                                                     

SURVEY ENGINEER

HNC in Electronic Engineering. Had considerable experience as a systems engineer in the Royal Navy before joining NCS in 2008. A key member of the construction support and rig positioning team.

JASON ESSEX                                                           

ASSISTANT SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying and Mapping Science. Joined the company in August 2009.

BERNARD McVERRY                                               

SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc  in Surveying and Mapping Science. Has gained a wide range of experience since joining NCS in 2008 and is developing specialist skills in dimensional control survey.

MARK HEMING                                                          

SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc (Hons) in Surveying and Mapping Science.    Has gained experience on a wide range of construction and rig positioning projects since joining NCS in 2006

The NCS Survey team comprises over 60 highly experienced onshore and offshore  staff.

Personnel

JOHN MILNER

SENIOR SURVEYOR

A graduate of Hull University with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Physics and an MSc (Laser Applications in Micro-Machining and Processing).     John has a solid background in multi-beam surveys specialising in MBES site surveys, pipeline inspection and sea bed clearance operations.

RAFE MONTGOMERY

APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Rafe has many years experience in developing and testing multibeam software for specialist survey applications at SRD,   Rafe and has a key role in overseeing new software developments for NCS Survey..

GARY HILLAN                                                            

SURVEYOR

Gary is a HNC qualified senior land surveyor with 12 years industry experience in land surveying with specialist knowledge of laser scanning and platform airgap surveys.

ROBIN FRASER                                                         

SOFTWARE ENGINEER/DATA PROCESSOR

A software engineer & data processor with 15 years experience of subsea survey operations in the oil & gas industry during .Has good knowledge of a wide variety of data processing and charting systems and techniques.

LEWIS SMITH                                                            

ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER

A graduate of Plymouth University with an MSA in Hydrography. After gaining 4 years offshore experience with NCS, Lewis was appointed as Assistant Project Manager in 2011.

 

NEIL LAWRENCE                                                      

PROJECT MANAGER

A graduate of the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Neil has 8 years experience as an offshore survey engineer followed by 2 years project management experience with specialist knowledge of rig positioning operations.  Neil joined NCS in 2011.

 

SIMON STILL                                                             

SURVEYOR

Simon is a former RN surveyor with 12 years experience of deep ocean, coastal and inshore surveys on a world wide basis. Highly experienced in MBES survey planning, data acquisition and processing.

KEITH BELL                                                               

ASSISTANT SURVEYOR

After gaining experience as a land surveyor Keith completed an MSc in Geospatiial and Mapping Sciences at Glasgow University in 2010. He joined NCS survey in April 2011 .

SANDY WILSON

BASE TECHNICIAN

Sandy joined NCS after gaining 4 years experience as a base technician with another local survey company.

MANAGEMENT AND ADMIN STAFF

JOHN MEADEN

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

John has an MBA from Aberdeen University and is also a graduate of the Harvard University programme for Management Development. He has over thirty years experience in the offshore survey industry, with over fifteen years at senior management level.

 

BASE ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE SUPPORT STAFF

FIELD STAFF

DIANE STARRS                                                         

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

Diane joined NCS in 2011 and has experience in the banking sector and offshore industry.

ED COTTLE                                                               

ASSISTANT SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying and Mapping Science. Joined the company in September 2011.

GREGORY TINDER                                                  

ASSISTANT SURVEYOR

Graduate of Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying and Mapping Science. Joined the company in September 2011.

PAUL  SMITH                                                             

TENDERING MANAGER

Paul has over 10 years experience in commercial and tendering roles in the offshore survey industry.

Prior to this he spent 3 years as an offshore surveyor after graduating from Plymouth University with an Msc in Hydrography. 

STEVE SANSOM                                                       

PROJECT MANAGER

After serving 11 years as SRD Ltd. Operations Manager and Director, Steve joined NCS as a Project Manager after NCS acquired SRD’s operations division.  He holds a BSc (Hons) in Geology with Geophysics and has  over 29 years experience in providing survey services in the oil and gas sector

SUMALATHA VENKATESH

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

After graduating from the Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2009 with a BE in Industrial Engineering and Management, Sumalatha completed an Msc in Software Technology at the Robert Gordon University in 2011. She joined NCS survey in 2011  to assist  with new software developments.

MAGGIE CAMERON                                

ADMINISTRATION   COORDINATOR

Maggie has over 40 year experience  in providing secretarial and administration support at a variety of companies, including major oil and offshore construction companies. She  also has a BA (Hons) degree in Management from the Robert Gordon University.

RHODA ALLAN                                                          

ACCOUNTANT

Rhoda has over 20 years experience  in accounting, both in practice and in industry.  During this time she qualified with an HNC in Accounts at Aberdeen College.

 

MIKE WARD                                                               

SURVEY ENGINEER

Mike has extensive operational, instructional and management experience flying and supporting maritime and overland operations all over the world working as a Military Electronic Sensor and Technical Specialist for the RAF.

SEAN HOLEBROOK                                                 

SURVEY ENGINEER

A highly experienced multi-disciplined Chief Engineering Technician with over 20 years’ experience in

the Royal Navy .

JANE HICKMAN                                                         

ASSISTANT SURVEYOR

Graduated from Glasgow University with Masters in Geospatial & Mapping Sciences.  Has experience in the marine environment and working on service vessels.

NEIL KINGSTON                                                        

SENIOR SURVEYOR

A highly experienced Senior Surveyor.  Neil has over 35 years’ experience within the Oil and Gas industry

STEPHEN CAVE                                                        

SURVEY ENGINEER

A graduate from the City & Guilds Institute. An oceanographic and SONAR Specialist with a proven background in real-time passive and active acoustic monitoring systems. 

ARISTEIDIS MANOU

ASSISTANT SURVEYOR

Graduate of the University of Plymouth with a MSc in Hydrography.  A motivated individual with 3 years’ experience as an Assistant Surveyor/Hydrographic Surveyor latterly working on projects within the United Arab Emirates

DALE WOODMAN                                                      

SURVEY ENGINEER

A graduate from the Open University and City & Guilds Institute. with a highly effective, proven track record as an electronic aircraft sensors specialist working in multi-discipline engineering environments.

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OLIVER BATTERSBY                                               

SURVEYOR

Began employment in 2008 with Neptune Geomatics (Perth, W Australia). Worked on several large construction projects and various rig moves before moving to NCS in June 2011.

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