Brendan Fitzgerald Email & Phone Number

Perth, Western Australia

Managing Director and co-founder of Vanguard Solutions Pty Ltd and Vanguard Enviro Pty Ltd, based in Perth, Western Australia. Also, Vanguard Risk & Safety Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore.

Safety and Risk Engineer, responsible for providing safety and risk engineering input to design development projects, preparing Safety Case documents for cients, liaising with regulators. Project leader for several large offshore projects. HSE Manager on Malampaya Gas Platform project for Brown & Root Engineers, on assignment from Granherne.

Managed Safety & Reliability Engineering section in North West England office, Warrington, Lancashire. Provided safety and reliability engineering consultancy services to clients in various industries, including defence, nuclear, oil & gas, chemicals, petroleum refining, transport.Was Resident Engineer for major risk assessment study in Hong Kong. Also led project providing technical support and analysis to lawyers representing a major equipment supplier at the Piper Alpha Inquiry… Show more Managed Safety & Reliability Engineering section in North West England office, Warrington, Lancashire. Provided safety and reliability engineering consultancy services to clients in various industries, including defence, nuclear, oil & gas, chemicals, petroleum refining, transport.Was Resident Engineer for major risk assessment study in Hong Kong. Also led project providing technical support and analysis to lawyers representing a major equipment supplier at the Piper Alpha Inquiry, including extensive attendance at the Inquiry. Main author of report that disproved one of the two main theories for the cause of the initial explosion.Also business development role for dynamic process simulation services. Show less

Provided technical support to process simulation programs, mainly on telephone "hotline", for international clients. Also provided consultancy services to clients on site, involving problem solving, process modelling, process matching, etc.. Key experience in petroleum refining, oil and gas, petrochemicals and chemicals.

Sale, Cheshire, Uk

Developed process design for various engineering design projects, including developing Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams, Process Data Sheets, Process Flow Diagrams, Operating Procedures, etc. Produced report evaluating heat-up of an enclosed work environment for a nuclear facility, including study of effectiveness of various proposals to provide cooling.Completed graduate traineeship, with experience of all major engineering departments.

Bsc, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chemical Engineering Society, Gliding Club, Hiking Club,

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