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Stafford, Texas

Profitable growth of a Systems Services business that comprises Applications Engineering, Field Services, Project Management and Manufacturing. Market segments include Upstream Oil and Gas and Downstream Chemical and Petrochemical industries. Main technology focus includes Distributed Control Systems; Machinery Health Systems and Flow Measurement Systems. Overall thrust is driving Reliability Improvement within our Customers installed base.

Houston, Texas Area

Define Strategy including market analysis, resource and infrastructure requirements to set up a Productivity Consulting company.

Houston, Texas Area

Development of Strategy for start-up of an Industrial Energy Efficiency business in North America aimed at establishing a significant and incremental revenue stream over 5 years. This included Product Development to migrate an Energy Efficiency Consulting offering toward an Implementation model; team recruitment and business development across multiple energy intensive industries. Integral within the Strategy was development of an Energy Performance Contracting capability with Solution design and implementation funded from the savings generated by targeted conservation measures.

Houston, Texas Area

Defined and deployed Business Strategy for the US 'Demand Service' team comprising over 150 Automation engineers proficient in drives, control, and process analytical products delivering double digit growth and improved margins. Contributed to business growth by development of innovative programs like Field Engineer sales program securing over $12M of incremental orders at over 35% Gross Margin. Improved organizational competence, agility and customer satisfaction by conceiving and leading a continuous improvement strategy including focus on a step change in Net Promoter Score by initiation of a High Performance Team to drive improved responsiveness within a multi-faceted large US business

Houston, Texas Area

Defined and lead Strategy Development to double the size of the US Analytics Service Business over a 2 year period. Development of the Project Plan included migration of existing separate product factory service offerings into an integrated regional Service Organization to leverage Processes and Practices required to establish a professional industrial service capability; the analysis and improvement of the complete Supply Chain from Factory shipment through to Start-up and Commissioning; and step change increase of Field Service footprint by development of a channel partner strategy to improve local/regional service capability.

Houston, Texas Area

Turnaround of a large Automation Service business including both Demand and Resident engineering capability from a loss generator of 14% Gross Margin to one consistently delivering over 35% Gross Margin. Increased profitability and improved Customer Satisfaction by initiation of 'Whole Team' behavior from front end Sales and Marketing through to Field Engineering, leading to improved agility and reduced cost. Designed and lead the Field Engineer Sales program as a trial on the Gulf Coast, generating over $1M of incremental business within 6 months by empowerment of the Engineer to discuss service opportunity with Customers. Success of this 5 State trial led to the initiative being rolled out across the remaining 4 US Service Regions.

Houston, Texas Area

Lead the financial performance of a large US Analytics and Automation Service business, focused mainly on Chemical and Paper Industries, exceeding aggressive budget requirements for Orders and EBIT, and securing growth of over 20% year on year with in excess of 35% and 18% Gross Margin and EBIT respectively.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Lead the development and incorporation of a Manufacturing and Supply Chain improvement Consulting Start-up business from zero market presence, infrastructure and processes, generating $550,000 Rev/Hd at Gross Margin >65%. Eutech Ltd was acquired by ABB Inc in February 2001 and the center for US operation moved to Houston, Texas

Greater Memphis Area

International assignment (2 years) to North America to set up a Manufacturing Consulting business supporting all of ICI plc interests in the region including Paints, Specialty Starches, Fragrances, Surfactants, Adhesives, Forest Products and Acrylics. Initiated a cross business Manufacturing Excellence Group with progressive agenda to drive improvement culminating in launch and facilitation of Manufacturing Improvement Projects with cumulative annual benefit of $20M Gross Margin and 10% reduction in fixed and variable cost. This step change in performance was subsequent to overseeing a comprehensive regional benchmarking exercise across all ICI's major manufacturing assets. Sustainability of gains was cemented via training and development of business staff in World Class Manufacturing methodology through focused project specific training and also general regional Training and Development Workshops including JIT, Lean, CEDAC, SMED, Project Management and Empowerment etc. In addition to the financial performance improvement and increase in overall organizational competence the work led to several of the ICI plants competing for Industry Week's 'Americas Best Plant' competition.

United Kingdom

Led the exposure and development of World Class Manufacturing methodology, originally defined within Discrete manufacturing industries ( Lean, JIT, 6 Sigma etc ), across ICI's continuous and batch process manufacturing assets including Paints, Acids, Plastics, Surfactants, Nylon, Explosives and Acrylics in UK, Central Europe, US and South Africa securing over $30M of incremental annual gross margin. In addition to leading a step change in business profitability through manufacturing improvement the work also secured the viability of two plants (250 Union employees) slated for closure by turning them around from 'make to stock' to 'make to order', achieved with minimal CAPEX spend. Ensured sustainability of gains through the formation of networks ( Manufacturing Systems Engineering Network for professional inter-business engineering collaboration and Manufacturing Improvement Leaders Forum for personal and professional growth of First Line Supervision ) to drive WCM competence deep into the heart of the organization. Helped lead the development of one of the worlds largest manufacturing performance benchmarking databases aimed at quantifying the 'Hidden Plant' that exists through sub-optimal operation and maintenance of manufacturing assets, measured via Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). This Hidden Plant can be significant in value and can be activated, typically, with minimal CAPEX spend.

United Kingdom

Lead the safe performance of a large ( >150 staff ) mechanical/electrical/instrument engineering team to maintain the engineering integrity of an Acids/Fertilizers and Plastics business area. Introduced the concept of treating Maintenance as a Reliability function vs. break/fix, leading to step change in Overall Equipment Effectiveness ( OEE ) from 75% to 93.5% within 12 months and 15% reduction in maintenance cost. Lead a progressive and collaborative agenda to turn a combative Union environment into one focused on partnership and business improvement, in addition to a paradigm shift in Safety Performance via focused learning from world leaders in Safety like Dow and Dupont. Conceived and initiated the Certificate of Supervisory Competence to drive higher levels of performance and personal/business achievement through focus on the development of First Line Supervision. Also applied Work Structuring Analysis to drive improvement in Cost and Efficiency in addition to Customer Service.

Master Of Science (Msc), Engineering, Manufacture And Management

Activities and Societies: Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers since 1989Graduated with Honors with 4 year double Degrees (BSc.

Bsc Beng, Engineering/Industrial Management