A Master Mariner with a multitude of experience as a seagoing deck officer, a harbour pilot, a maritime lecturer/trainer, a senior officer at the Brunei Darussalam Marine Department, senior fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), maritime consultant, human resource general manager with a shipping company and a general manager at a private maritime training outfit. He specialises in the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) convention on the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) 1978, as amended.