WOOD - Key Persons
Jonathan Baker, PhD, is a chartered engineer with extensive experience in asset integrity and specialization in vibration and noise, both in the oil and gas and marine industries.
With over 25 years of consultancy experience, he has worked on projects from FEED through detailed design, construction, commissioning, and operations, including on-site troubleshooting. He has also been involved in a number of Joint Industry Projects developing a greater understanding of industry problems and generating industry standard guidelines. Jonathan will lead the business development activities within the team.
Mark Hutchinson, PhD, is operations manager of Wood's UK vibration team.
Mark has over 30 years of specialized engineering experience in oil and gas and renewable energy. He specializes in structural integrity, FEA, fitness-for-service assessments, advanced materials, fatigue and fracture mechanics and failure analysis. Over the last few years, he has been working on new computational analysis techniques for FFS Level 3 assessments of corroded, eroded and damaged pipelines and risers. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and chartered as a mechanical engineer, naval architect, European engineer, and professional manager.
Rob Swindell, MSc, has the role of R&D and technical authority.
Rob is a mechanical engineer with over 30 years of professional consulting experience in the marine and oil and gas industry in both the upstream and downstream sectors. Areas of particular expertise include vibration and fatigue relating to structures, static plant and rotating machinery; this includes topsides, subsea and onshore production systems. Rob has been involved in the provision of specialist plant integrity and engineering consultancy to a number of operators and engineering contractors. This has included advice at the design stage as well as troubleshooting problems on operational plants around the world.