Kevin is a Mechanical Engineer with previous oil industry and fast marine craft experience. During a decade of employment with British Petroleum and a secondment to Oil Spill Response Ltd in the UK, he gained significant experience during several major international oil spill incidents.

He has directed, managed and participated in management, supervisor and hands-on training courses and response exercises in over twenty five counties on four continents.

Kevin is listed on the International Maritime Organization roster of approved consultants and is a member of oil company response teams.

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Virginia is a civil engineer and also has a degree in psychology. She has worked on a range of engineering projects, river defence contracts and risk assessments.

As the Oil Pollution Officer for a coastal local authority she was responsible for directing and managing oil spill clean-up operations and for the training of personnel.

She was also responsible for recommending Local Authority policy and making representations to both Council Members and Central Government on issues dealing with oil pollution, funding and vessel movements around 3000 miles of the UK coastline.

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Richard has attended over 50 oil spills worldwide, acting as Spill Response Manager for a large number of these incidents. Previously, he held several roles at Oil Spill Response Ltd in the UK, most recently as Response Manager.

Richard had overall responsibly for the development and implementation of spill management processes and procedures to ensure the technical quality of the organizations’ response services.

However, Richards experience goes far beyond the response to incidents and includes delivering training courses, development of contingency plans, conducting preparedness reviews and carrying out a wide range of studies.

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After graduating from university, Peter spent six years in environmental consultancy with the Oil Pollution Research Unit in the UK followed by ten years at Oil Spill Response Ltd.

He has been involved in many oil spill projects covering training, contingency planning and response exercises. Since 1998 he has been supporting an international programme to improve contingency planning around the world.

Peter’s current work includes managing the Oil Spill Preparedness Regional Initiative for the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and Central Eurasia region.

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John, a Master Mariner, started his distinguished career serving on oil tankers before leaving to join the Royal Danish Navy. He later joined the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Marine Division as Head of Section.

His most recent role was with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) where he acted as the Senior Advisor on Marine Pollution.

His extensive experience of serving on the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee coupled with his advisory role on the national implementation of MARPOL 73/78, OPRC 1990, OPRC-HNS 2000, CLC 1992, FUND 1992, Salvage, and Intervention Conventions makes him a respected international authority on marine pollution issues.

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Previously an Avionics Mechanic in the RAF Richie re-trained as a multimedia software developer. Having been involved in web/multimedia development for 6.5yrs, 4.5 of these have been in the e-learning industry where he was involved in streamlining courseware development and courseware/LMS integration. 

As Senior developer he is responsible for the development of the company LMS (PACES) as well as integrating our new and existing courseware.

Alistair completed an HND in Media Technology and Digital Production at Stow College, Glasgow in 2003. Gaining a wide range of multimedia skills there, he went on to work as a 3D Animator for a construction company and has almost 2 years experience in a role as Web/Graphic Designer for a large e-commerce company.

At The Oil Spill Training Company, Alistair works as a Flash Animator and Designer on the production of online e-Learning courses and electronic presentations.

Chris achieved a BSc Physics (Hons) from Glasgow University and went on to complete a MSc in Information Technology (systems) from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Chris is responsible for maintaining and building the organization's Information Technology systems and for programming associated with the further development of course and exercise material.