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Greenfield, In, Us

Providing people and technical leadership to a large, multi-skilled team of site based IT/OT professionals serving manufacturing and research and development customers across 10 facilities in the North America region.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Working within the Manufacturing & Distribution practice, part of the Global Enterprise Sales group covering US HQ’d international customers. Providing strategic consulting on how future technology can enable outcomes and solve business challenges across the industry. With a unique OT viewpoint combined with IT operational experience, I also help bridge complex topics with both line of business and IT partners, accelerating value and buy in from all sides.

Greenfield, In, Us

Working within the BRM (Business Relationship Management) organization of Elanco IT I oversaw the completion of the manufacturing site migrations from Eli Lilly to Elanco. I also provided enterprise architecture services for the manufacturing space and consulting participation representing manufactuing in other areas such as Information Security and TechOps (infrastructure).I was execution lead for the divestment works of a large manufacturing facility in Kansas City. This involved early work defining scope through to execution of migration of all infrastructure and required systems to new owners.

Greenfield, In, Us

Responsibility for leading MQ sites through the site cut-over and solution adoption process for each of the MQ IT solutions and transition of local solutions. Work with ETS (Enterprise Technology Services) Organization on site infrastructure cut-over coordination and work across the Elanco organization with each of the global MQ IT Business Process Architects and the site IT Points of Contact to coordinate the deployment of these solutions at each siteOverseeing laboratory IT work stream for the Elanco separation project. Acting as primary interface between business teams and IT for existing and future global laboratory systems.Areas of focus for Laboratories:Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)Chromatography Data System (CDS)Laboratory Execution System (LES)

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Responsible for global strategy around manufacturing specialised workstations and mobility solutions. Cyber security responsibilities and expertise, including integration with the wider Industry 4.0 projects.Projects Delivered:Overseeing LCM to Win10 for industrial and regulated systems globally Global Patching Platform servicing industrial endpoints at all network levelsIntroduction of global mobility and industrial hardware selection and qualificationGeneration of patching and endpoint management procedures and standardsProviding Consulting to the Eli Lilly and Elanco manufacturing organisations:- Industry 4.0, specifically around Augmented Reality, IoT, Cloud Computing and CyberSecurity- Industrial workplace needs and standards provided by global infrastructure services- LCM and planned maintenance for specialised industrial systems- Proper application of network standards (S95) and security framework (NIST)

Greenfield, In, Us

Responsible for IT and automation at a pharmaceutical manufacturing site covering numerous areas such as warehousing, laboratories and bulk liquids manufacture. Day to day duties covering:- Local capital and opex managment - Execution and oversight of key strategic engineering and automation projects- Generation and maintenance of the sites digital plant strategy and technology roadmap- Engagement with operations and other support functions to ensure alignment and encourage adoption of new technologies- Custodianship of all applications and infrastructure (GxP and non GxP)- Engagement and management of external vendors- Participation in wider industry forums (GAMP, Industry 4.0 Scotland) providing input and company representation. Provided site based project management and execution oversight for migration of all IT systems and services from Novartis to Elanco (Eli Lilly) for the site, including but not limited to:- Industrial automation platforms from Siemens and Rockwell supporting primary manufacturing - Various standalone laboratory instruments and their full validation- Business and industrial networks- Business informatics and ERP

London, Greater London, Gb

Responsible for all IT, communication and automation systems for Rio Tinto Alcans UK operations which comprised of:- 2 Reduction Pot lines of 80 pots using AP18 technology with a line current of 215kA- Casting Plant- Power Stations (Lochaber & Kinlochleven) and associated Hydro schemes across the Highlands of Scotland-Remote ship unloading facility located in the Port of BlythThe Smelter and its associated operations employed 158 people, had over 250 users and 500+ endpoints.Operational Responsibilities:- Local capital and opex management - Execution and oversight of key strategic engineering and automation projects- Generation and maintenance of operations technology roadmap- Engagement with operations and other support functions to ensure alignment and encourage adoption of new technologies- Strategic policy generation for digital plant in conjunction with global leadership for smelting operations Projects Delivered:- Plant wide trunked UHF radio system for mission critical comms and messaging- Remote outstation monitoring network for hydroschemes leveraging sat-comms and VHF radio- 75+ IP CCTV camera network for safety and process monitoring- Introduction of a dedicated, secure ISA-95 compliant plant network (including firewalling and monitoring)-Migration from physical to virtual HMI and SCADA for all plants on site (over 50 SCADA systems, interfacing with 20+ complex plants)- Alarm management program, rationalisation of alarms and responses for power station facilities- Design and refurb of control rooms in line with modern human factor considerations- Storage and compute infrastructure upgrade (ESX hosts, NAS)- Design and implementation of MES for Smelting and Casting operations - Shutdown of automation and IT operations at Lynemouth Smelter including movement of historic data and applications to Lochaber Smelter- Planning of migration to Rio Tinto global SAP from Oracle ERP and Maximo CMMS

London, Greater London, Gb

Partcipated in the Rio Tinto Graduate Program with Accelerated Development. This program provided foundation leadership and operational experience through 6 month rotations at various facilites and departments. Involvement in $100M+ power station and distribution upgrade projects covering electrical engineer and controls aspect. This role provided me with excellent exposure to a regulated, heavy industry across multiple countries and continents. Technical supervision skills aquired allowed me to progess into my next role as an IT/OT leader at a complex and strategically important operation.