Senior Risk Engineer with 20 years of experience in power generation and renewable energy project engineering and management.

Leverages deep technical and operational expertise to identify, assess, and mitigate risk across complex energy projects, developing robust frameworks and providing strategic guidance to ensure safe, compliant, and successful delivery.

Recognised industry authority with experience providing expert witness testimony, offering authoritative technical insight on engineering standards, risk liability, and project conduct in legal and regulatory proceedings.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Visionary engineering leader with 18+ years of strategic and technical experience across power generation, oil & gas, renewables, and energy storage.

Proven track record of managing multi-disciplinary teams and large-scale engineering projects from concept to commissioning.

Expert in developing and leading high-performing engineering functions, driving process and product innovation, and delivering on-time, on-budget complex infrastructure programs.

Committed to operational excellence, safety, and continuous improvement. Adept at stakeholder engagement and aligning engineering with commercial objectives.

Areas include: 

Governance- Organisational development, risk management, CDM principal designer.
Product and project engineering – lifecycle delivery, system integration, root-cause analysis, on-time delivery excellence and quality control.
Innovation and technical expertise – Fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, thermodynamics, FEA, Energy Storage design, nuclear power generation, fossil fuel power generation and cogeneration including waste heat recovery, propulsion.

Gas turbine, steam turbine, turbomachinery, heat exchangers, stop and emergency control valves, HAZOPs for process plants including power generation and gas plants.
Process safety compliance – HAZID/HAZCON/HAZOP/LOPA/DSEAR/Fire Risk/Regulatory Navigation.
Commercial acumen – cost optimisation, value improvement, product strategy, stakeholder engagement, vendor oversight.

Case examples I have acted independently as RCA lead:

340MW Steam turbine and generator shaft lines failure causing loss of availability.
Grid-scale battery energy storage fire incident working with insurance, OEM and client/owner.
Conducting product quality assurance and investigative visits to large number of OEMs across energy and power generation sectors.
Peter Brotherhood manufacturing and assembly at Peterborough, UK.

Alstom and General Electric turbine manufacturing and foundries in Poland, Switzerland.
Condenser manufacturing at Spain.
Alstom Engineering and design audit at China (Wuhan, Shenyang).
BESS manufacturing and assembly of BYD, CATL in China.