Personal Information
Name Michael Thorpe
Date of Birth 7th February 1972
Marital Status Single
Nationality Dual – British/French
Languages – English/French
Driving Licence Full Car and Motorcycle
Availability 2 Weeks
Skills Summary
• Specialist in the use of the latest AutoCAD design drafting package.
• Over 20 years post apprenticeship experience in AutoCAD drafting involving electrical, mechanical, structural, piping and 3D.
• Pricing and purchasing of miscellaneous electrical, mechanical and drawing, office supplies.
• Document control, management, processing detail design submissions.
• Site survey’s overseas, producing As-Built drawings for drill support and pipe laying vessels.
Qualifications
Industrial Training Centre, Aberdeen
Full craftsman certificate as Mechanical Draughtsman
Scotvec National certificate modules
Courses Attended
AutoCAD release 11 2D training course
Mechanical desktop 3D training course
Training for Roland EGX-350 engraving machine
Employment History
Nov 2008 – Present
Electrical Power Engineering / Wartsila
Draughtsman / Document Control
Working on various electrical projects in Norway, Scotland and England.
In charge of all electrical drawings, technical documents, reports, timesheets, expenses, test sheets.
Help out with IT problems.
Operate Roland EGX-350 engraving machine.
Sept 2007 – Oct 2008
Helix – Draughtsman / Document Control
Galveston, Texas, USA
Working on a Semi-Sub rig. In charge of all electrical drawings, technical documents, reports, timesheets, expenses, test sheets, personnel flights, accommodation, per-diem, inductions, other duties involved in site management.
July 2006 – Aug 2007
Acergy – Draughtsman / Document Control
Schiedam, Holland
Working alongside ships getting modified in drydock at the Damen Ship repair yard.
Draughting includes electrical schematics, single line diagrams, general arrangements for distribution boards, control panels, control desks, junction boxes, fire and safety plans, some structural.
Jan 2006 – June 2006
Superior Offshore International, Llc
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Undertake all aspects of drawing office management including use of CAD drawing packages, organizing project activities.
Draughting includes electrical schematics, single line diagrams, general arrangements for distribution boards, control panels, control desks, junction boxes, fire and safety plans, etc.
Travel to ships for electrical surveys and on site as built draughting.
2003 – 2005
FIX I.T. Aberdeen Ltd
Managing Director
Set up FIX I.T. Aberdeen Ltd in December 2003, which dealt in all aspects of the I.T. world. We built, fixed and maintained personal computers, laptops, networks. We sold PCs, laptops, components, software, peripherals and maintenance packages both from our office in Aberdeen and on our website. We dealt primarily with home users and small businesses, in and around the Aberdeen area.
2000 – 2003
Electrical Power Engineering (Scotland) Ltd
Drawing Office/IT Manager
Supervising and providing technical support to AutoCAD draughtsmen and workshop staff during design and fabrication.
Undertake all aspects of drawing office management including use of CAD drawing packages, organizing project activities and IT systems.
Draughting electrical schematics for ships, rigs, buildings, quarries, etc, to ABS & DNV specification to suit global contracts.
Draughting includes electrical schematics, single line diagrams, general arrangements for distribution boards, control panels, control desks, junction boxes, etc.
Compiling documentation packages including technical literature, manuals, ABS certification and as built drawings.
Managing extensive technical library including indexing and cross referencing systems, both in digital and paper formats.
Pricing and purchasing of miscellaneous electrical, mechanical and drawing office supplies.
Responsible for establishing and maintaining office LAN and telephone systems. Organizing IT systems, developing and modernizing company IT network, including setting up new work stations and updating software.
1994 – 2000
MSD Design Ltd.
AutoCAD Draughtsman
Diamond Offshore
Cad draughting for various rigs including p & id’s, electrical, structural draughting
KCA Drilling
P & id’s, electrical & structural draughting
Total Oil Marine
Subsea protection frames for Dunbar Ellon project production of as built drawings including survey of same
Santa Fe Drilling Co – Rig Galaxy
Design & draughting air duct to welding shop
Subsea Offshore Ltd. – Conoco heidrun project draughting – tether inspection equipment & transportation containers
Subsea Offshore Ltd. – mobil – beryl b
Design & draughting of subsea grills and blind flanges c/w pipe penetrations
Global Marine Drilling
BOP Stack – Detailed construction drawings
Royal Edinburgh Observatory
3D draughting of the lens tracking system for the observatory
Edwards Engineering
Design & draughting of staircases, handrails, spiral staircases
Tecnomarine
Detail 3D draughting of offshore tools
1993 – 1994
Clockwork Promotions – marketing/sales
Trainee manager
1989 – 1993
Balmoral Group Ltd.
Served a four year draughting apprenticeship working both manually and on AutoCAD release 11.
Certificate achieved: ‘detail draughtsman’ in the following areas :- Component part detailing for marine products, assembly drawings for quotation. Preparation of sketches and details for manufacturing,dimensional checking of moulds
BP – Pointlaw Aberdeen – Project Draughtsman.
Design & installation drawings for epoxy piping deluge system including subterranean & above ground pipe spools, work included onsite survey & supervision of installation.
