Responsible for Operations Engineering at Amazon Fulfillment Centres throughout the UK.

Interim Project Director for Sony DADC UK re-developing an existing site to re-instate and enhance a former UK Distribution Centre destroyed by fire in the London riots of August 2011. Construction started in January 2012 and the DC went live in record time, on time on 2nd July 2012 and within budget. Great result. Great Team. The Sony assignment ended in September 2012.

Provided leadership to the Engineering, Quality and Technical functions within Technicolor HES comprising Manufacturing locations in Poland and Australia - all operating 24hrs per day and 7days per week plus Distribution locations in Rugby, Coventry and Milan.Established a new Distribution centre for J Sainbury's entertainment products in an extremely short 3 month window. Met Client SLA whilst shipping 45m units in the first year, all units "live price" labelled.Established… Show more Provided leadership to the Engineering, Quality and Technical functions within Technicolor HES comprising Manufacturing locations in Poland and Australia - all operating 24hrs per day and 7days per week plus Distribution locations in Rugby, Coventry and Milan.Established a new Distribution centre for J Sainbury's entertainment products in an extremely short 3 month window. Met Client SLA whilst shipping 45m units in the first year, all units "live price" labelled.Established budgets, execution plans and timelines for Capital Projects ranging in value from €1.8m to €72m with aggressive payback periods not exceeding 12-18 months.Project director for a €20m investment over two years in BluRay manufacturing for Technicolor Poland. The format introduction was successfully delivered against a tight 3 month timeline, within budget and with class leading manufacturing KPIs. Show less

Defined and implemented a set of meaningful and measurable KPIs across the International business to provide the building blocks for a culture of Continuous Improvement and Best Practice sharing.Project Director for a brown-field start-up in Poland involving site search, plant layout, construction, site services, capital procurement, installation, technical training and equipment commissioning.Phase 1 investment was €22m on a 5k m2 footprint, running from March to Sept 2002.… Show more Defined and implemented a set of meaningful and measurable KPIs across the International business to provide the building blocks for a culture of Continuous Improvement and Best Practice sharing.Project Director for a brown-field start-up in Poland involving site search, plant layout, construction, site services, capital procurement, installation, technical training and equipment commissioning.Phase 1 investment was €22m on a 5k m2 footprint, running from March to Sept 2002. Phase 2 investment was €72m at a separate 100k m2 site, selected and designed to be capable of absorbing the expected growth of the EU business for the next 5 years. Access was March 2003 and Go-live was Sept 2003 on time and within budget. During this time my role covered manufacturing sites in the UK, Luxembourg , Poland and Australia plus Distribution sites in the UK and Milan for which I was instrumental in defining and implementing a set of meaningful and measurable KPIs across the International business to provide the building blocks for a culture of Continuous Improvement and Best Practice sharing. Show less

Reporting to the Managing Director and responsible for a team of 5 senior managers leading a workforce of 400 people in a 24-7 media manufacturing plant.Led the Team to deliver the UKs first DVD manufacturing capability against a backdrop of exponential growth in DVD demand. Instrumental to the award of a WW DVD contract from Walt Disney. The DVD format introduction was completed within tight budget and time constraints.Acted as internal consultant when the sister plant in… Show more Reporting to the Managing Director and responsible for a team of 5 senior managers leading a workforce of 400 people in a 24-7 media manufacturing plant.Led the Team to deliver the UKs first DVD manufacturing capability against a backdrop of exponential growth in DVD demand. Instrumental to the award of a WW DVD contract from Walt Disney. The DVD format introduction was completed within tight budget and time constraints.Acted as internal consultant when the sister plant in Luxembourg added DVD capability the following year. Show less