Colin Clark | Production Manager
Colin is an experienced Land and Measured Building Surveyor with 20 years experience in Topographical Surveys, Measured Building Surveys, CAD and Project Management.
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Colin entered surveying in 1989 and was employed as a surveyor for Mason Land Surveys. Over the next fourteen years Colin steadily progressed through the ranks and has undertaken a wide portfolio of works – setting out, dimensional control, topographic, hydrographic, GPS , GIS, CAD, measured building surveys, project management and estimating. Colin has worked throughout the United Kingdom from the Shetland Islands to Penzance and globally from Rotterdam in Holland to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. He has qualifications in Architectural Technology and Management.
His interests are architecture, mapping, books and sport. Colin has completed 10km runs in aid of Cancer Research UK at Hopetoun House near Edinburgh and The Great Edinburgh Run over the past two years. He hopes to again run The Great Edinburgh Run this coming year.
Colin has recently moved home to Balfarg, Fife.
Colin joined CMCR Limited at a very early stage and is playing a prominent role in driving the company forward towards future success. Colin is currently our Production Manager in charge of staff, resourcing and deliverables. Colin is also involved in estimating, business development and quality control.
Jim Melville | Project Surveyor
Jim is a highly experienced Land Surveyor with over 20 years experience in the public and private sectors. Jim controls the survey staff and all major projects.
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Jim started his career as a woodworker for Clark Hunter (Cooperage) straight from George Heriots School in Edinburgh. However, he quickly realised that this job was not the barrel of laughs he had expected and soon left to take up a position with Edinburgh District Council as a Temporary Clerical Assistant in the Improvement Grants Section. It was in this section that Jim’s ability to read maps and plans was spotted and he was transferred to the Council House Sales and Land Survey Section where he progressed rapidly and was put through his HNC in Topographic Studies.
Jim subsequently moved on in 1999 to the private sector,taking up a position as a Senior Land Surveyor before joining CMCR Ltd in April 2005. Jim and his wife Norma reside in a listed building in Ormiston near Edinburgh, a building that they have been restoring for as long as they can remember! His major hobby is motorsport, and he has been a past president of Dunfermline Car Club, Scotland’s premier rally club. Jim has held several other roles within the sport including editor, chief photographer and interviewer for “Pacenotes” which has won several awards in the motoring press.
Jim also enjoys ice skating, snowboarding, hill walking and racqet sports when time permits - we can only wonder how he finds all the time in addition to providing all our clients with such an efficient service!
Ian Black | Project Measured Building Surveyor
Ian joined us as a Principal Measured Building Surveyor working closely with Colin Clark. Ian has a proven track record on surveys in both the Commercial and Private sectors.
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Ian lives in Perth with his wife Kim, daughters Megan (11) and Kaytie (8) and their dog Rudi (age unknown as rescued!). He says he has only one hobby which is running and is currently in training for the Glasgow half marathon in September and then the Edinburgh full marathon next May. This is to fulfil a promise made to himself of running a full marathon before he turned 40!
Ian joined CMCR at the start in April 2005 as a Measured Building Surveyor and has recently been promoted to Project Measured Building Surveyor overseeing all aspects of this expanding area of business.
Ian states ”I am looking forward to this challenge and all the new aspects it brings with it. One of the main reasons for joining CMCR was the thought of joining a forward thinking company investing in new technology in all areas of survey disciplines. So far the Company has wherever possible, promoted young people from within and invested substantial sums of money on providing up to date technology for all employees. I look forward to playing a full part in the years ahead as CMCR continues to grow within the industry."
Neil Brannen | Principal Surveyor
Neil is an experienced and highly productive Land Surveyor having over 20 years experience in the field. Neil is responsibile for the production of all minor works.
Liam Hill | Principal Surveyor
Liam has vast experience of topographic, volumetric, boundary, monitoring, construction and measured building surveys having worked in the industry for over 8 years. Liam is responsible for training and developing junior and graduate surveyors.
David Kerr | Rail Division Manager
David joined us in time for the launch of our new Rail division in April, accepting a senior position as Rail Division Manager and reporting directly to the Operations Director. David has over 30 years experience in the Rail Industry with major companies such as Network Rail, First Engineering and British Rail with particular expertise in Service Delivery and Permanent Way works.
David will head up our newly created Rail Division and be the first point of contact with clients.
Paul Noble | Senior Surveyor
Paul joined us at the start of April 2008, accepting a position as a Senior Surveyor and reporting to Colin Clark (Production Manager). Paul has significant experience in both aerial and ground surveys having worked for such diverse companies as The Ordnance Survey, Kampsax Geoplan, W S Atkins (Transportation) and 3Di International. Paul’s experience will be an invaluable asset to us as in order to achieve our ambitious growth forecasts.
Gavin Bruce | Surveyor
Gavin joined CMCR in April 2007. He has gained valuable experience in a range of disciplines and has extensive knowledge of working with the latest Leica surveying equipment, as well as the processing of his work with AutoCad and LSS Software.
Maik Pfalz | Rail Division Surveyor
Maik joined the team in February 2007. He graduated with a Diploma in Surveying from the University of Dresden where, as part of his course he gained experience with placements at a survey office in Auckland, New Zealand as well as nearer to home at Intermetric and Chawales, both in Dresden.
Romy Lohse | Rail Division Surveyor
Romy also joined us in February 2007 coming over from Germany with her partner Maik (above). Romy’s career and experience covers a similar path having graduated from the University of Dresden where she also had a placement at a survey office in Auckland, New Zealand before starting employment in Bianga in Germany.
Carina Krinke | Surveyor
Carina joined us in December 2007. Carina has an M Eng in Land Surveying 2.1 specialising in Engineering surveys, Rural Practice, Topographical and Cadastral Surveys and Photogrammetry. She is also highly experienced in the use of Leica Total Stations and Levels together with the use of GPS Equipment and processing with the use of AutoCAD software.
Goncalo Da Cunha | Surveyor
A native of Portugal, Goncalo joined us as a Surveyor in November 2007. Goncalo has over 20 years experience in surveying and site engineering and had his own business in Portugal before, like many of his countrymen, he had to seek work outside his homeland due to a significant downturn in business in Portugal.
Marco Diaz | Surveyor
Also from Portugal, Marco joined us at the same time as Goncalo and taking up a position as a Surveyor. Marco has over 11 years survey experience and actually started his career as Goncalo’s trainee! Marco has particular experience in Topographic, Building Surveys, Levelling and Setting Out.
Antonio Salvador | Surveyor
Antonio followed Paulo’s example and also joined us as a surveyor at the end of March 2008. Antonio has over 15 years experience in the industry specialising in both surveying and site engineering.
Lesley Allan | CAD Technician
Lesley joined us in September 2006 reporting directly to David Motion (Operations Director). Lesley brings with her a wealth of experience having worked in the survey industry for over 15 years and will play a major role in our Quality Control as CMCR continues to grow.
Calum Hoggan | CAD Trainee
Calum joined us as straight from school as a CAD Trainee in mid March 2008 working directly for our CAD Technician, Lesley Allan. Lesley shall be responsible for supplying him with full training and we look forward to Calum developing his skills and becoming an integral part of our CAD team.
Brian Kelly | Utilities Division Technician
Brian joined us at the beginning of April 2008 as part of another new segment of the business - Utilities Division and reporting directly to our Project Surveyor (Jim Melville) who will be leading this niche segment. Brian has already achieved an HNC in Architectural Technology and both HNC and HND in Computer Aided Design and has also gained experience whilst working with Balfour Beatty.
Stuart Fyfe | Utilities Division Technician
Stuart joined us at the same time as Brian and completes the Utilities Division team. Stuart has recently completed an HNC in AutoCAD 2007 at Stow College in Glasgow, and also has an HNC in Computerised Draughting and Design. As with Brian, Stuart will report directly to Jim Melville.
Stephen Somerville | Administrator
Stephen joined us at the start of 2008 taking up the newly created position of Administrator. Stephen has had 25 years service with Central Scotland Police Force from which he has only recently retired. In his own time he has also attended Falkirk College to further enhance his IT skills and knowledge achieving Higher National units in Multimedia & web Development, HTML, PHP and MySQL Scripting.
Stuart Milligan | Rail Survey Assistant
Stuart joined us as a Survey Assistant, looking for an opportunity to pursue a career in Surveying. Stuart will work closely with all the senior surveyors and will be given full training in all aspects of the job. Stuart joins us straight from College where he has recently completed courses in Building Physics and CAD for Construction.
Alan Westgarth | Rail Survey Assistant
Alan joined us as a Survey Assistant in January 2006, looking for an opportunity to pursue a career in Surveying. He will work closely with all the senior surveyors and will be given full training in all aspects of the job.
Jaroslaw Krzak | Junior Surveyor
Jerry is a qualified surveyor from Poland having joined us as a Junior Surveyor in November 2007. He qualified in 2004 as an M Eng in Land Surveying and Cartography and has particular experience in the Construction and Engineering sectors.
Andrea Lischewski | Junior Surveyor (Placement)
Andrea joined the team in March 2008 following in the footsteps of her University colleagues Romy Lohse and Maik Pfalz who joined us in February 2007. She graduated with a Diploma in Surveying from the University of Dresden specialising in GIS and, as part of her course gained substantial experience with a placement in Switzerland. She will undertake a role as a Junior Surveyor for the period she is with us (End of September 2008).
As a result of a number of significant contract awards recently, CMCR have taken on the following survey assistants who have the opportunity to embark on a career in the survey industry. All the assistants have been PTS (Personal Track Safety) passed and have also undergone the mandatory medical examinations:
Brian Kirkham | Rail Survey Assistant
Brian joined us in June 2007 as a Survey Assistant having completed a course in Architectural Technology at Forth Valley College in Falkirk. Since his start Brian has made considerable progress and it is anticipated that he will be ready to step up to the position of Junior Surveyor within a short period of time.
Andrew Kirkham | Survey Assistant
Andrew joined us last July as a Survey Assistant and has been working on major projects both down in London and also closer to home here in Scotland, learning the basic techniques under the watchful eyes of our senior surveyors.
Suzanne Burt | Survey Assistant
Suzanne joined us as a Survey Assistant last July and has gained a variety of experience working with a range of surveyors across all the disciplines that CMCR currently offer. Suzanne is shortly due to go off on maternity leave and we all wish her all the best for her impending arrival and look forward to working with her again in a few months time.
Colin Williamson | Survey Assistant
Colin joined us in January 2008 as a Survey Assistant. He will work closely with all our surveyors on a variety of projects and will be given full training in the use of all our equipment.
Alistair Hardie | Survey Assistant
Alistair joined us in March 2008 as a survey assistant having spent a year at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh studying Architectural Engineering. Alistair will undergo an extensive training programme and will work closely with all our surveyors to gain the necessary experience to further his career.
