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- Dr Alan Gibbs - Technical Director
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| The founder of Midland Valley, Alan deals with global leadership and strategy along with MVE's technical profile and business objectives.
Alan has worked as an academic, senior specialist in a state company and is founder and director of Midland Valley. He is responsible for a number of seminal publications in the application of structural geology to oil and gas exploration and production. Over the last 20 years he has been involved in projects globally in several cases seeing projects through several technical and commercial cycles.
As a decision maker he has steered technical and commercial development of an international technical group and in managing change.
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Colin's main role in Midland Valley is to plan the development team strategy and deliver leading and innovative Move software.
Colin originally joined Midland Valley in 1993 as a member of the 3DMove software development team. After a brief break working with Cambridge Animation as a Graphics Programmer Colin returned to Midland Valley in 1999 to be involved in a new development project concentrating on using Software Workflows to enhance and speed up complex Geological tasks. Colin's broad experience and keen interest in 3D Graphics in general has enabled him apply his knowledge to geological data in 3D visualisation for the oil and gas industry. He was key in the inception of the Midland Valley 4DMove project, as well as being part of the team coordinating and delivering last years landmark Move2008 MVE Product initiative.
He is involved in software design, build and deployment management on a day to day basis, but his role also takes into account the broader perspective of emerging IT trends, toolsets and the industry to make sure that Midland Valley's Move Software is proactive and accommodates the needs of our clients, both today and tomorrow.
He enjoys spending time with his family, especially during weekends away in his ageing VW camper parked up on a remote white coral northern Scottish beach!
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| Roddy joined MVE in 2006 after seven years with Fugro Robertson Ltd in North Wales, where he was responsible for managing the Geophysics and Structural Geology Group and the Petroleum Training Centre. Before joining Robertson's as a structural geologist, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Roddy has a strong background in structural geology, with particular emphasis on the influence of basement structure on basin architecture.
In addition, he is an experienced petroleum geologist, having worked on numerous prospect evaluation studies ranging in scale from global deep water basins to detailed licence block and field reviews.
Roddy's primary role at Midland Valley is to help develop new business, and to oversee the successful delivery of technical studies to clients.He enjoys spending time with his family at home, in the hills or on the water.
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| Helen joined Midland Valley in March 1997 after graduating from Glasgow Caledonian University with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics for Business Analysis. She has worked her way through various roles in Midland Valleyto now taking overall responsibility for finance, administration, all aspects of systems and IT support.
Through her time she has gained great insight into how the administration and system work both within Midland Valley and in the wide variety of organisations we deal with. This experience allows her to direct and develop strategies for our way forward enabling our core business to run as smoothly as possible.
Helen has also completed an MBA focusing on the affects of teleworking on organisational culture. |
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