Marie Leslie
Senior Document Controller for ABL Aberdeen, in Scotland
Can you tell us a bit about you?
My name is Marie Leslie, I am 55 years old, happily married and have a 30 year old son.
I was born and live in Aberdeen, Scotland. My husband was previously in the armed forces, so I have also lived in Germany, Ireland and Edinburgh.
In my spare time, I enjoy socialising with my friends and spending time with my two French bulldogs, Trevor and Millie.
What is your current role?
I am the senior Document Controller at ABL, Aberdeen.
ABL, part of ABL Group, is a leading independent global energy and marine consultancy, working in energy and oceans.
As part of the ABL Group, we do third party verification of documents for small and large projects: I am the central point of contact for all project incoming & outgoing documents and deliverables for the Aberdeen office.
I am also a super user for the ABL document control software.
Can you describe your professional experience?
I started working in Retail management at the age of 19, I continued working in this profession in a few different retail stores, Chelsea Girl, River Island, Oliver Timpson’s, my last position being a Dual Site Manager for Bravissimo & Pepperberry in 2012.
I wanted a change from working in retail management, so I started working at Falck Safety Services in April 2012. I stayed at Falck Safety Services for 6 years holding a few different roles such as Receptionist, Administrator and Administration Team Leader.
I then moved to ABL (previously LOC) in 2018, I took on a multi-functional role of carrying out all Administration, Finance Support, Office Manager and Document Control duties.
As ABL grew, an opportunity to streamline my role became available and I naturally moved from carrying out a multi-functional role to a Document Control role which I thoroughly enjoy.
Which Consepsys course did you attend and when?
I attended the Certified Document Controller Course in June 2024.
As part of my development in this profession, I intend to do the Advanced Document Control and the Certified Lead Document Controller Course with Consepsys too.
What did you think about the course? How did it help you in your current role and career development?
I found the course to be well prepared, easy to follow and enjoyable with a good balance of theory, practical and homework.
I came away from the course with lots of new ideas to enhance the current document control processes currently in place within my company.
I created an action plan of things I would like to change/amend with target dates and am currently working through this, the benefits are being seen and appreciated by the team in Aberdeen already.
In my experience of Document Control I work with documents received for third party verification purposes, the course allowed me to see Document Control as a whole profession and gave me an insight into our clients side of things and Document Control as a whole.
Interview date: September 2024
