Ben Mckelvey

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Co-Founder and COO @ Future Maintenance Technologies
Sydney, NSW, AU
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australia
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About Ben Mckelvey

An asset management, innovation and strategic planning specialist with international consulting experience, providing strategic insight adding sustainable business value and performance to clients. My key attributes developed in asset management and strategic roles are excellent problem solving and analytical thinking backed by clear and efficient communication to illustrate innovative unique solutions.- Strategic asset management establishing an effective Asset Management System, Strategic Asset Management plan for Downer Rail to achieve ISO55001 certification-Developed strategic thinking and critical analysis to strategic planning roles such as the Metro consortia bid for the Melbourne rail franchise. I successfully provided rail planning, strategic and advisory services based around extensive KPI modelling and data analysis resulting in Metro winning the $8billion franchise for a potential 15 years.- Engaging with stakeholders and generating close work relationships with European rail asset management experts requiring effective communication and strategic thinking to ensure timely, efficient and innovative project solutions aiding in policy development for all national rail infrastructure companies (EIM members)- Excellent verbal and written communication developed as a strategic consultant and continued in Europe, presenting project reports and analysis, delivering monthly workshops and creative presentations to stakeholders communicating difficult strategic and operational concepts accepted and introduced into EIM members policies.- Leading asset analysis and innovative segmentation solution on multiple European rail networks to develop asset management best practice aiding in developing long term strategic asset management policy and plans of members.- Excellent computer skills, including simulation software, Microsoft Office and SAP, building powerful operational and strategic models informing clients and aiding the decision making process

Ben Mckelvey's Current Company Details
Future Maintenance Technologies

Future Maintenance Technologies

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Co-Founder and COO
Sydney, NSW, AU
Website:
thinkfmt.com
Employees:
16
Ben Mckelvey Work Experience Details
  • Future Maintenance Technologies
    Co-Founder And Coo
    Future Maintenance Technologies
    Sydney, Nsw, Au
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  • Future Maintenance Technologies
    Director & Co-Founder
    Future Maintenance Technologies Jul 2021 - Present
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  • Downer
    Capability & Asset Management Lead
    Downer Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
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  • Downer
    Manager - Capability & Asset Management
    Downer Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
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  • Downer
    Asset Strategy Engineer
    Downer Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Asset Management lead in Downer's Rollingstock Services division, developing strategy and implementing an Asset Management system, building and creating the Strategic Asset Management Plan and fleet specific Asset Management plans and resulting in certification against ISO55001.Implementing TrainDNA and data analytics and innovatoins, providing strategic direction and business benefits of maturing our maintenance practices
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  • Pacific National
    Strategic Asset Planner
    Pacific National Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
    Sydney, Australia
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  • Sydney Trains
    Asset Life Cycle Analyst
    Sydney Trains Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
    Sydney, Australia
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  • Sydney Trains
    Benchmarking Analyst
    Sydney Trains Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
    Sydney Area, Australia
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  • Network Rail
    Strategic Planning Analyst
    Network Rail Feb 2011 - Mar 2012
    London, United Kingdom
    Providing strategic insight to the Efficiency and Benchmarking program establishing indicators of efficiency and performance within Asset Management. This analysis informed and developed innovative long term strategic plans and policy and set efficiency targets for future funding control periods. Additionally benchmarking Network Rail infrastructure performance against other European Rail Infrastructure providers to develop best practice asset management processes to incorporate into the strategic plans.Key responsibilities and achievements as a strategic planner were:- Communicated effectively demonstrating strong interpersonal skills establishing an efficient dialogue between European rail infrastructure managers.- Facilitation and promotion of the intra-company exchange of robust and reproducible information, demonstrating excellent communication and building trust within departments and supporting development of departmental business outcomes.- Undertaking a quality assurance program on asset management unit costs to ensure integrity, robustness and reproducibility in the development of policies in the Network Rail Initial Strategic Plan- Developing innovative efficiency models and tools within Excel and econometric software to optimise asset performance and identify the efficiency gaps between Network Rail and the industry leaders in Europe.- Facilitating bi-lateral benchmarking discussions through contacts developed in Europe resulting in Network Rail creating a new channel of dialogue with Infrabel.- Cost/benefit analysis of Network Rail's involvement in European organisations such as UIC and EIM resulting in a recommendation to increase political presence and diplomacy over paying large fees to non-delivering professional organisations- Developing a high level model of risk analysis to understand the potential underfunding risks presented for ₤32 billion over the 5 year funding period of CP5.
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  • Eim
    Asset Management Advisor
    Eim Feb 2011 - Mar 2012
    Brussels Area, Belgium
    Developed the Asset Management team at EIM, providing analysis of asset and financial data and benchmarking asset strategies on transport infrastructure on behalf of members. Key outputs are collaborating with UIC and CER, providing asset management discussions on best practice and individual capabilities. Constant managing of stakeholder relations and expectations to provide universal asset management indicators for international benchmarking. These indicators and the development of a unique network segmentation provided the basis for underlying efficiencies aimed at inform policies to diverse national infrastructure networks. Key responsibilities and achievements were:- Managing the technical and analytical stream of Asset Management at EIM and managing international experts to successfully decide on international indicators of best practice asset management.- Delivering valuable workshops and developing a benchmarking 'club' within European Rail Infrastructure Managers undertaking asset management discussions on best practice.- Developed asset management indicators focusing on business performance such as forecasting and business processes, as well as asset performance indicators in reliability, performance, capacity and quality (on time).- Utilising and developing SAP within Network Rail to draw newly developed European Asset Management KPIs from incompatible data and existing KPIs- Generating constructive working relationships with international rail asset management experts from around Europe requiring effective communication and diplomacy to ensure timely, efficient and valuable project outcomes maximising value to all national rail infrastructure companies (EIM members)- Collecting excellent qualitative and quantitative data and successfully managing its timely delivery from European Rail Infrastructure Managers and providing intelligent and insightful analysis.
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  • Systemwide Pty Ltd
    Consultant
    Systemwide Pty Ltd Oct 2007 - 2010
    Melbourne, Australia
    Consulting on rail planning and strategy, utilising outstanding problem solving, analytical thought and delivering innovative operational solutions to stakeholders throughout Australia. As a consultant I was leading strategic analysis on multiple projects, successfully delivering major infrastructure and operational projects to government and private industry. Key roles were building powerful operational and strategic models in Excel and other suites to identify operational savings, bottlenecks and capacity constraints on strategic rail projects. Extensive data analysis and strategy formulation to inform clients and aid in the decision making process. This included, operational capacity analysis on rail networks using simulation and analytical software identifying operational conflicts, bottlenecks and capacity constraints and proposing strategic and organisational solutions. The key consultancy projects were:- Simulation and modelling of ETCS safety systems for RailCorp on the Sydney Rail network to ensure future implementation of the system maintains the current operational performance and capacity- Successfully providing rail strategy and advisory services, extensive KPI modelling and business planning to Metro consortia bid for the Melbourne rail franchise resulting in Metro winning the $8billion franchise for 15 years.- Assisting TransLink in identifying rail service improvement opportunities and to developing key performance indicators and future timetables using Railsys simulation software and Excel analysisIdentification of conflicts in timetable for the new Melbourne timetable for Connex (Veolia) and reporting to key stakeholders- Creating a network model, simulation and organisational assessment of RioTinto’s future Pilbara rail layout and future capacity upgrade of the iron ore rail network to accommodate an increase from 220MTPA to 420MTPA
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Ben Mckelvey Skills

Strategy Project Planning Management Analysis Stakeholder Management Project Management Business Planning Rail Business Strategy Transportation Planning Business Process Improvement Business Analysis Asset Management Operational Strategy Benchmarking Dynamic Simulation Strategic Planning Risk Analysis Quality Auditing Entrepreneurship Financial Analysis Data Analysis Sap Bi Transportation Railway Asset Managment Risk Management Change Management Management Consulting Capacity Utilization Contract Negotiation Market Research Process Improvement Strategic Thinking Project Delivery Logistics Program Management Forecasting Feasibility Studies Public Transport Leadership Stakeholder Engagement Contract Management Economics Government Business Process Policy Efficiency Analysis Capacity Modeling Sap Bi/bw

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