I am an innovative Electrical Engineer, manager and a multi-disciplinary generalist. I tolerate ambiguity and find pragmatic solutions to complex and difficult problems. I actively seek opportunities to learn what I don’t know I don’t know and am quickly able to apply new techniques practically from a base of core principles.
I have performed the roles of:
- Manager
- Programme and Project Manager
- Consultant
- Process Control and Automation Engineer
- Electrical Maintenance and Reliability Engineer
- Project Cost Controller
I solve problems through systems and frameworks.
- I have applied management approaches for the effective and efficient delivery of services, have implemented ISO9002 quality systems and managed technological change in businesses:
- Integrated steel-making process control and automation.
- Precious metals catalyst recycling electrical engineering, process control and automation.
- I have led teams of engineers, technicians and journeymen of various disciplines.
- I have had to retrench over 100 people. I conducted each interview myself.
- As a programme and project manager I have applied both PMBOK and Prince2 to:
- Deliver a technological solution, based on fundamental metallurgical principles, which automatically controls steel-making electric arc furnaces.
- Convert an agricultural co-operation into a corporation while migrating their management and IT systems from a mainframe to instances of Microsoft Great Plains.
- Transform management and IT systems in government for the provision of improved home affairs services.
- I have overcome an antagonistic client to deliver a successful solution as originally promised.
- I have herded cats on a multi-disciplinary, multi-faceted programme of projects to deliver a successful implementation.
- As a consultant I have acted as:
- Principal client consultant to implement real-time control and online information systems from the shop floor to the boardroom for a greenfields heavy minerals sand mines and processing plant.
- Integration manager implementing real-time communication between SAP R/3 ERP and process control systems.
- As an electrical engineer I have:
- Specified and designed process control and automation systems.
- Specified and designed automation and IT network architectures.
- Specified and designed digital and mesh radio communications systems.
- Commissioned and verified load studies and arc flash analyses.
- Verified and managed Safety Instrumented Systems.
- In process control and automation I have designed, built and implemented industrial solutions to:
- Automatically control steel-making electric arc furnaces.
- Detect and prevent stainless steel continuous caster breakouts.
- Detect and prevent heavy minerals furnaces breakouts.
- As a maintenance and reliability engineer I have:
- Installed and replaced million dollar mission-critical plant and equipment.
- Established systems and procedures for efficient and effective preventative maintenance.
- Conducted root cause analyses.
- Maintained new and obsolete electrical switchgear, high voltage distribution networks, motor control centers and electrical equipment.
- As a project cost controller I have:
- Administered the costs of multi-billion dollar projects.
- Created interfaces and front-end applications to significantly accelerate the capture of data and the reporting of results.
- reduced the time to initiate project controls for an EPCM project from 6 weeks to less than 2 weeks through the motivated introduction of commercial-off-the-shelf software.
I aim to ensure that your business evolves into Industry 4.0 and the circular economy to make money now, and in the future.