Personnel
Alan McKeown
Manager Milsearch-BPKP EOD Joint Venture Company, Vientiane, Lao PDR
Advanced Diploma in Clearance
Diving Management
Advanced Diploma in Explosives Safety
Certificate III in Frontline Management
Certificate in Vocational Instruction
Ship & Harbour Security (Train the Trainer)
Advanced EOD/IEDD Course
Advanced Clearance Diving Course
Alan has over 23 years of military experience in the armament and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) fields.
Alanserved with the Royal Australian Navy as a Clearance Diver for over twenty-one years. His duties throughout this period ranged from Explosive Ordnance Disposal/Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (EOD/IEDD) Team member through to EOD/IEDD Team OIC. Alan has been the senior EOD instructor at the EOD Section, RAN Clearance Diving School in Sydney and has personally instructed the surface EOD, underwater EOD and the IEDD phases of the School's Advanced and Officer Courses.
Alan has been involved in many security operations including IC IEDD Detachment for the Sydney 2000 Olympics and IC of all Navy IEDD Detachments at the 2002 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Alan took part in and supervised numerous UXO clearance tasks, both surface and underwater and assisted with the disposal of 110,000 of Australia's anti personnel land mines in accordance with the Ottawa Convention.
Since leaving the RAN, Alan has conducted a Merchant Navy ‘train the trainer’ course in ship's and harbour security.
Alan spent ten months in Iraq employed as a UXO II with the Captured Enemy Ammunition (CEA) mission and a further six weeks as a UXO II with a construction contract. In 2005 Alan was employed as a UXO Diver in Japan conducting an underwater clearance of a WWII Japanese chemical munitions dumping ground at Kanda Harbour. Alan then joined Milsearch for the first time as a Field Supervisor in Lao PDR conducting UXO Clearances at the Sepon copper and gold exploration and mining project which is sited within the former Ho Chi Minh Trail of Vietnam War fame.
Alan was subsequently employed by BACTEC South East Asia Pty Ltd, advancing from Senior Australian Project Manager, to Operations Manager and then Country Manager for BACTEC SEA’s Lao PDR operations. In that position Alan was responsible for the safe and professional conduct and financial viability of up to 17 concurrent projects, at the height of operations, employing over 400 people and with monthly sales of up to US$500,000.
Alan continues based in Vientiane, joining Milsearch once again in February 2011 as Manager of Milsearch-BPKP EOD Joint Venture Ltd.
