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A consulting company that customizes programs that provide businesses a strategic review; including operations, production, R&PD, business development, marketing and training. Recommends projects to improve business functionality and profitability and minimize risk exposure and develops guidance for project implementation. Where applicable identifies funding pathways for technology insertion into government agencies.

Significant technical engagement with the United States Navy (USN), Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA 05) Technical Warrant Holders, NAVSEA 21 Readiness and Modernization Program Managers, Ship Design Managers and Waterfront Program Manager Representatives and the USN’s technical support facilities; Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock (NSWCCD) and the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Similar technical engagement and business interaction with USN construction, modernization and repair industry partners.

Responsible for the day to day business operations and the technical direction of the company.

Technical Services Manager• Developed for the Senior Leadership Team a new manufacturing roadmap; underpinned by statistical decision making (six sigma) and lean concepts where information is managed in a collaborative environment• Created and implemented an integrated Technical Library for 10 plants and their supporting technical functions to enable the secure storage, and dissemination of, commercially sensitive operational and technical information.Plant Manager (Artisan Roofing)• Significantly improved process efficiency by reducing delay and waste which resulted in the cost of goods manufactured being stable when the price of cement and sand, the two main ingredients, had risen by 40%Technical Manager (JHResearchUSA)Hardie Pipe R&D Manager• Provided strategic direction and technical input to support ASTM & AASHTO standard submissions.• Co-inventor of a small soil box, enabling laboratory tests to replicate in-situ performance. Test results fundamentally changing the understanding on in-situ pipe performance and under-pinned the revision of the Australian standard (AS4139), resulting in a 14% reduction in the factor of safety and similar cost savings.• Reduced the cost of storm drain by reformulation; a 20% reduction of the most expensive raw material.

• Executed finite element analyses; including non-linear anisotropic material models and analyses to determine stress intensity factors.• In-situ acquisiton of strain and temperaure during a concrete pour at a New Zealand dam.

• Responsible for the negotiation, successful winning and subsequent management of the contract to strain gage and pressure test seven sonar domes. Executed the tests and formally approved each dome for use prior to being supplied to the Royal Australian Navy.• Experimentally measured deleterious residual stresses in gas cylinder necks and developed a method by cold working the neck to reduce them.

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Be, Aerospace