Senior UXO/EOD specialist with more than 30 years of operational, supervisory and training experience in military, civilian, offshore, port and land environments across Europe and the Middle East.
He has commanded demining patrols on UN and NATO missions, trained military EOD personnel, managed land clearance projects across Poland and supervised marine UXO identification and clearance on the Szczecin–Świnoujście fairway. Today he works at the interface between field operations and project delivery, advising investors, contractors and project teams on risk-based decisions.
UNPROFOR/UNCRO in Croatia, UNDOF on the Golan Heights and KFOR in Kosovo. Planning and command of mine clearance, identification and neutralisation of mines, UXO and explosive remnants of war. Nearly three years in conflict zones.
Instructor at the Officer School of the Land Forces: training of military EOD personnel and contingents for international missions in identification of mines and UXO, neutralisation procedures and demolition. Contribution to training programmes and the national Mine Information Centre.
EOD specialist, clearance supervisor and project manager on forest, road and infrastructure projects. Risk assessment, choice of clearance methods, coordination with clients, authorities and military disposal units, completion documentation.
UXO supervision of coastal and port works, UXO risk analysis for sea areas and leadership of identification and clearance on a strategic navigational fairway.
UXO risk assessment and review of documentation, methods and contractor deliverables for offshore, port and onshore projects. Advice to investors and contractors on risk-based decisions.
Based on references from clients, contractors and military units.
EOD works manager and underwater UXO specialist on the modernisation of the Świnoujście–Szczecin fairway. Identification, assessment and clearance of UXO along the fairway, coordination of up to six vessels at once, assessment of found objects from divers' descriptions and diver camera footage, safety reporting to the client and maritime authorities. Earlier, deputy clearance supervisor during deepening of the fairway to 12.5 m.
Between 2012 and 2019, technical EOD supervision, specialist opinions and advice on the clearance of sea areas and coastal land: offshore sea areas, the seabed at a port fuel jetty, the waters of a water-tourism centre, land and water in an operating port, and 160 ha of water and 77 ha of land for coastal protection works.
Polish law at the time set no procedure for checking clearance quality, so the controls were based on IMAS:
Contract manager, clearance supervisor and consortium leader on projects across Poland:
Instructor at the Tadeusz Kościuszko Officer School of the Land Forces in Wrocław. Training of military EOD specialists and contingents for international missions in identification of mines and UXO, neutralisation procedures and demolition. Master-class military specialist in the military engineering corps (2001) and specialist course in the destruction of munitions (2001).
Articles by the senior technical advisor on EOD practice and UXO risk.
What an ALARP certificate confirms, what it does not, and seven questions a client should ask before accepting it.
Read the article →Why residual risk accepted on paper remains a human decision, with consequences that stay on site.
Read the article →How an area officially declared as surveyed can be more dangerous than one never surveyed at all.
Read the article →The gap between a short qualification course in Poland and the responsibility carried in UXO work, and what procurement should require.
Read the article →An analysis of the S/S Stuttgart wreck in the Gulf of Gdańsk based on survey materials from the Maritime Office in Gdynia.
Read the article →Send a short description of the location, the planned works and the current project stage.