SDG PPI Business System Senior Manager supporting divisional leaders within the Specialty Diagnostics Group to identify, assess, and analyze opportunities for continuous improvement. Lead utilization of the PPI Business System within the group and business units to drive project execution.

Supporting the Perth site with implementation of the PPI Business System to help drive continuous improvement through Operational Excellence and Lean Transformation.

Recently established Business Process Management consultancy firm based in the UK. With the ultimate goal: to help businesses help themselves by better understanding, management & execution of their Continuous Improvement (CI) efforts to ultimately reduce costs and increase profits within their operations.

Working with a team of Continuous Improvement experts within the organisations Lean Deployment Office responsible for leading and developing a central team of Change Agents to support continuous improvement efforts. Set up Country specific Continuous Improvement Support Hubs; Development of CI Plans aligned to business strategy goals & objectives and the development of Change Agents to support the improvement activities. Supported both software and engineering project teams with the implementation of Agile Project Management using the Scrum framework, developed training and process implementation support materials.Developed an Enterprise Change Management Procedure and associated supporting documents based on Kotter’s 8 step change model. Facilitating cross-functional teams in using structured Continuous Improvement methodologies to deliver measurable results in improved quality, improved cycle time, reduced costs, and increased customer satisfaction.

Generated business prospects in the ME region for Nexus Global and proactively facilitated the setup and management of Nexus Global United Oman LLC. Delivered specialist training and consulting support for clients in the Middle East in all areas of Asset Performance Management.Designed, developed and implemented a 3-tier business model for lean support; tier 1 - full lean organisation implementation, tier 2 - business process value stream mapping, feeding organisation continuous improvement project plan, tier 3 – specialist support for specific improvement events using lean Kaizen DMAIC process.Proactively supported the company to develop the APM Sustainability Model - business improvement offerings designed to support organizations in key areas of Asset Performance Management, fully compliant with the ISO55000 series standard.

Professionally trained, educated and mentored client Petroleum Development Oman regarding maintenance, integrity and execution process which was key element of the client’s operational excellence program. Formulated the implementation of a sustainable asset continuous improvement plan and provided training and personal development support to PDO’s internal Trainers, ensured internal MIE expertise and coaching capability embedded within the organization.Played a pivotal role as a Lead Trainer for PDO MIE related training courses, which included leadership, planning and scheduling, work preparation and developing and delivering additional courses as requested by the client.Successfully delivered and managed coaching support on all PDO assets to ensure assets, achieved the goal of sustaining Shells Operational Excellence Standard of Calculative Levels in the areas of maintenance and integrity execution.Facilitated teams to successfully implement improvements to support sustainment of Maintenance & Integrity Management best practices using Lean Kaizen Methodology for process improvements, 5s concept for management of material stores and Leader Standard Work Implementations.

Developed Maintenance & Integrity Management business offerings an “8 Step Maintenance Reliability Change Management model” incorporating all elements of Total Productive Maintenance Practices and a “Lean Operating model” based on Kaizen Continuous Improvement. Actively contributed and supported the development of a production loss reduction program and expedited RCA events to eliminate un-planned production losses – Talisman Energy UK. Proficiently provided wide-ranging business improvement consultancy and training services to support and embed sustainable continuous improvements in organizations areas of production, process, people and plant to deliver measurable bottom line results.

Evaluated the efficiency of working practices and systems with a view to continuously improve systems, personnel and team performance. Accomplished maintenance and organization mission by completing related results as needed.Administered, directed and coordinated offshore teams, including maintenance, services, engineering and all 3rd party vendors and contractors supporting activities. Competently maintained safe and healthy work environment by ensuring compliance to standards, procedures, legal codes and regulations.Implemented and improved maintenance management processes and systems, recognized safety and production equipment and developed assurance tasks to sustain, optimized PM activities, plant/equipment shutdowns and outages.

Productivity Project - Engineering & Maintenance Kaizen Leader Offshore Production - (PSN contracted out to Shell)Worked collaboratively with a multi-discipline project team, facilitated the application of Lean Techniques across Shell’s European Operations. Qualified as Kaizen Leader through expert onsite coaching and training from skilled consultants namely from Ross International and George Group Consulting (now part of Accenture). Spearheaded the facilitation of Kaizen Events across Shell’s operations in Europe to help eliminate waste, reduce complexity, embed a lean culture and assist with the delivery of Top Quartile performance.Developed a structured Kaizen Event Replication Process to ensure benefits and savings from specific Kaizen Improvement Events were efficiently implemented across all applicable Shell assets.

Maintenance Work Management Improvement Project Implementation Coach, PSN, Sigma3, (Shell TRilogy Project)Operated professionally with a project team and spearheaded the implementation of a world-class maintenance delivery process, which was a key part of shells maintenance and integrity disciplines improvement program. Delivered onshore training and offshore coaching to both maintenance and operations staff on Shell assets both on and offshore in maintenance workflow management. Implemented the change process both on and offshore, conducted offshore reliability audits onsite resulting in opportunities for continuous improvement. Incorporated work preparation, scheduling and execution, through an integrated SAP ERP - PM structured work program.Adeptly delivered training and coaching of the use of SAP ERP - PM module and interfacing modules such as MM, PS, FI, CO to align to and support the organizations Maintenance Management Process, including the Cross-Application BW module to manage the business measures and KPI’s to drive continuous improvement towards the benchmarks of operational excellence