Summary

Academic Qualifications

B.Eng Civil Engineering (University of Southampton).

M.Sc and D.I.C. Computing Science (Imperial College).

Ph.D Heuristically Seeded Genetic Algorithms Applied to Engineering Analysis and Optimisation (University of Portsmouth).

Professional Affiliations/ Memberships

CEng MICE

Research Interests and Supervision

Coastal defence engineering and practices, environmental and structural remote sensing, the optimisation of engineering design & construction processes via evolutionary computation, BIM.

Industry Experience

After leaving the British army I started working in Africa and the Mediterranean as an oilfield technical services Field Engineer.  After this I worked as a Coastal Defence Engineer for a local borough council and in 2003 I became chartered engineer with the ICE while working for Halcrow (now CH2M) as a Bridge Engineer (analysis, design, remediation, contract supervision etc.)