Quality, Health, Safety, Environment, and Security Seismic Observer
Resume:
W. Alex. Baker
CURRICULUM VITEA
Date of Birth: December 6, 1974
Citizenship: Canadian Citizen
Language: English Excellent Written and Spoken.
Address: ***/** *** **, ****prue, Banglamung, Chon Buri, Thailand 20150 Email: ************@*******.***
Mobile Thailand: +66-86-145-****
Introduction:
Actively seeking full time or part time positions within the seismic exploration industry off shore or onshore. I have started a new career path in QHSES recently and have found it rewarding and challenging. I am willing to take other positions in managing, observing, logistics, surveying, and navigation and have proven experience and success in these roles. Please review my CV further, Thank-You for your time.
Summary of Seismic Exploration Skills
QHSES Management System Custodian, Use, and Implementation
Incident Investigation Team Leader/Member Report Writer
Promoting a Safety Culture.
Repeated demonstrated ability to work with personnel of differing nationality, religion, beliefs, cultural heritages, native and /or indigenous people and languages.
Conduct Peak Particle Velocity (PPV) testing and monitoring near well sites and other structures to ensure safe operations ensuring no accidents/loss or incidents. Completing a study for company and clients to use in future operations to be used in PNG Seismic Exploration Operations.
Logistics.
Field supervision, planning daily activities, organizational skills, strategic planning of job executions.
Supervision of Data Acquisition Quality in Real Time, and Reporting.
Investigating into operational faults; creating solutions and procedures to be followed to eliminate/ reduce the risk of reoccurrences in the future.
Experienced in creating successful program technical proposals for contracts awarded and execution.
Conducting and assisting in recording crew mobilizations, demobilizations, startups, acceptance testing, ensuring all aspects of recording equipment readiness, followed with the reporting and recording off.
Inventories creation of assets and consumables, and maintaining there off.
Creating maintenance schedules of all recording equipment, following recommended maintenance procedures by manufactures guidelines to ensure equipment is within technical specifications as outlined.
Excellent written and communication skills in English. Other languages spoken broken, but workable.
Excellent computer skills in software, hardware, networking, installations, troubleshooting, repairs, and upgrades.
Experienced in planning, coordinating, recording and surveying 3D &, 2D Seismic programs from multiyear programs to single day projects in many environments and climates. (TZ Zone, off shore based, jungle, rain forest, desert, farm land, mountain, artic, mangroves-swamp, muskeg, ice of different ages and salinities, forest, urban, residential, sensitive areas, marine and wildlife reserves, environmental sensitive, heritage sites, Native territories and reserves and sensitive cultural heritage sites. Military zones, bases, training grounds, post war zones, land mines, and hostile areas etc
Experienced in many aspects of recording sources in many combinations, their functionality, and controllers from Dynamite, Vibrosies, Air-Guns, Mud Guns with Nitrogen and Elastic Wave Generators
Experienced Seismic Surveying/ Navigation with multiple systems with a great understanding of all aspects of survey goals and limitations to maximize fold coverage.
Experienced with Air Drilling, Flushing, Ramming, in dynamite source loadings.
Experienced Heli- Coordinator with various types of machines for long lining and PAX’s. Education and Current Certificates Page 2
Instrumentation Software/Hardware Equipment Used Reference Page 2 Areas of Operations Page 2
17 Years Professional Seismic Experience, Employment History Page 3 - 4 W. Alex. Baker
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Education and OJT:
2013 Accredited Nebosh International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.
1992- 1996. Marine Navigation Technology at Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology in Owen Sound, Ontario. (Studied Part Time).
a. Work experience and On the Job Training (OJT).
i. GP Day Worker- Imperial Oil – MT Imperial Saint Claire an Ice breaker Class Chemical Tanker on deck, the wheelhouse and engine room, ii. Great Lakes Bulk Carrier- N.M. Paterson and Sons in Navigation. iii. Canadian Coast Guard –CCGS M.V. Tupper Ice Breaker Buoy Tender as a volunteer training as a third officer,
1992. Grade 12 Academic Diploma from Kensington, Prince Edward Island. a. I grew up working part time while studying through primary school in aquiculture, agriculture, forestry and in tourist industries in seasonal employments. Instrumentation Software/Hardware Equipment Used
Recording Instrumentation; Instantel MiniMate Plus (PPV), Sercel Searay, Sercel -428, Sercel 408, I/O System 2, RSR, Tele-Seis, ARAM 24, ARIES windows platform,
Recording Peripheral Devices:
Laser Links, Microwave Links, Thermal Plotters, NAS Intellique Drives, SEG-D Servers, Multiple Tape Drives,
Source Controllers/ Encoders/Decoders; eSQC-Pro, eSQC, VE-464, VE-432, Sercel TDMA, Pelton Vib- Pro, Pelton Advance II, Pelton Vib- Pro, Mocha Blaster/ Encoder, Seismic Source Boom Box, Seismic Source Universal Encoder, SGD-SP Blaster and Controllers, Seamap, Big Shot, Long Shot,
Air Guns/Mud Gun; Bolt Guns, G & GI Guns,
Navigation/ Survey; Gator, Triggerfish, Winfrog, Dyno-Nav, Nav-Pack, Kodiak, Leica 500’s, Leica 1200’s, Garmin’s Chart plotters, Various Navigational Aids. Valid On-Site Certification
NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Safety
Sercel Searay, 428, 408 Instrumentation Course
BOSIET
Advanced First Aid.
Incident Investigation
Advanced Open Water and Nitrox Endorsed Diver.
Police Clearance Check, No Convictions
Canadian Passport Holder with PNG Work Permit and Thailand Non Immigrant Type-O Visa
Up to date with Vaccinations.
Driver’s License
Areas of Operations; Countries worked in too date; New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Kurdistan, Iraq, Egypt, Southern Sudan, Kenya, Gabon, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mexico, Suriname, Beli ze, Guatemala, USA, Canada, and Artic Circle North west Territories Canada. Bodies of water worked on/in to date;
Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Mackenzie River, Pacific Ocean, Salt Spring Islands, Straights of Georgia and Salish Sea, Cold lake, Winfred Lake, All Great Lakes, Detroit River, Steering Testimonial of Great lakes and Saint Lawrence Sea Way, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Bay of Fundy-Canada, Gulf of Mexico, Rio Grijalva- Mexico, South Atlantic Ocean and Tributaries,, Dulce River- Guatemala, Suriname River- Suriname, Gabon Estuary-Gabon, Fleuve Congo- Angola, Walvis Bay- Namibia, Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea- Egypt, Gulf of Thailand, Andaman Sea-Thailand, South China Sea, Verdes Island Passage,- Philippines, West Papua- Indonesia, Dongara- Indian Ocean, Tasman Sea- Whanguanui, New Plymouth- New Zealand.
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Employment History
April 2013 to Present
QHSES Supervisor. Gama Projex LTD., Papua New Guinea
Custodian of HSES Management System reporting directly to Party Chief. Monitoring companies and all contractors’ performance in Project HSES Management Plan representing for client in remote field operations with up to 450 Personnel on Project . Ensuring company is compliant to national and international regulations and standards. November 2008 to February 2013
Assistant Project Manager, Chief Observer Sercel Searay-HOD. Geokinetics International Inc., Singapore, Singapore. Houston, USA,
Recruited for Sercel Searay OBC System launch in role of HOD of Recording Chief Observer and system development and deployment. Wrote and assisted in project technical proposals and bids. Designed and supervised support vessels, mobilization/ demobilization of various seismic support vessels, logistics, and deal with vendors, suppliers and contractors. Incident Investigations and assisted in product development. Supervise and manage seismic field crews, fleet, contractors and personnel. Liaise with clients and QC to ensure contractual guidelines are met. In charge of Installations of Sercel Searay Hardware/ Installations. Incident Investigation team member, Leader on recovery and loss team from Hurricane Nate 2012 and rebuilding.
July 2006- October 2008
Senior Observer Recording. Terra Seis Middle East Limited, Valletta, Malta, Recruited to Terra Seis to position of Observer, and promoted to Senior Observer Position upon demonstrating excellent skills, attitude, performance and technical abilities. Reported to Project Manager. Conducted on-site Sercel 408/428 software/hardware installations and training, implementation and application support. Coordinated personnel and assets to maximize utilization, efficiency of all resources ensuring client and company objectives, goals and quality standards are achieved to reduce costs, improve productivity and quality. December 2004- June 2006
Gun Boat Navigator - Senior Navigator/Technician. Grant Geophysical Int., Singapore, Singapore,
Recruited for Fast Mobilization TZ OBC Crew to perform installations on seismic support vessels, provide training to new navigators and provide technical support on survey instruments and navigational aids. Training of Captains and ship’s crew in navigating/ steering a seismic line and operational guidelines general seismic operations. Liaise with vessels owners and operators on behalf of company. Assisting Gun/ Compressor Mechanics in Umbilical’s, Gun’s, Compressors, Gun Controllers, general maintenance and major repairs. Testing and performed marine cable equipment repairs to meet specifications of contract, constructor and company.
January 2003 to November 2004
RTK-Rover, Surveyor. Enviro-Tech Surveys, Calgary, Canada Used locating devices and Leica 500’s and 1200’s in setting exclusion zones from sources and receivers followed by pegging out 3D and 2D Seismic Programs. I pushed different types of line clearance, such as slashing teams, cats, mulching units, etc. Responsible for reading and understanding land permit agreements to identify all aspects of survey. W. Alex. Baker
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2002
Nav-Pack Surveyor, Coordinator, Shooter. Western-Geco, Calgary, Canada Utilized and trained personnel in Gyro Nav-Pack Instrument to survey seismic programs in the harshest of terrains to minimalize line cutting in Full Heli -Portable Seismic Survey Programs.
Coordinating Recording Crew; Line Crews, and Helicopters using Kodiak Bag Drop System. Assisting in all aspects of seismic recording crew operations as volunteered, requested and required.
October 2001-January 2002
RTK-Rover-Seismic Surveyor. Eagle Navigation, Calgary, Canada Recruited to become a Seismic Surveyor using Kodiak System, reporting to Survey Manager. Staking out seismic survey program in the northern delta artic, survey and recording ice level thickness and the reporting there off.
May-October 2001
Operations Manager, Operator, Mechanic. Hydro Kinetics Surveys of Canada Recruited to manage marine seismic operations by owner/seller to assist in providing program technical proposals, on equipment and operational methods. Facilitated meeting of Clients, Vendors, Company, Seismic Recording Crews and other contractors. Providing of vessel support to clients for exploration support, recording companies, and other contractors in support vessels for line deployment and retrieval, and source vessels. Operation of all equipment and vessels. Managing marine seismic recording crew and marine staff. Reporting to Share Holders after company sale.
1997-2001
Observer. Norcana Resources Ltd., 1997-2001
Started out seismic career in line crew position progressively being promoted as shown quality, productivity, technical skills, communication skills, aptitude and attitude. Coordinating field crews with over 100 field personnel, 9000+ channels of recording equipment, multiple helicopter coordination in full mountain portable conditions, minimizing chopper time and maximizing crew productivity. Installation of recording instruments and operating I/O II and Sercel 408, and ensuring parameters are met and complied with. Responsible for keeping company inventories, maintenance log of equipment and setting maintenance programs to ensure equipment specifications are met to industry and client standards. Maintained production records for 2 straight years in all types of terrain. References available upon request, Thank-You for your time. Best Regards;
William Alexander Baker
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