David Thomson Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Canada Area

Senior Project Management and execution of technically complex international EPS projects.

Burnaby, British Columbia

• Full Profit/Loss responsibility, revenue and expense forecasting, control and reporting for Medical Equipment Business: sales, service, supply chain, installations, warehousing, logistics, AR/AP, HR, safety.
• Developed vision, strategic plan, identified business opportunities and target market segments.
• Set sales objectives, operating budgets, and execution tactics.
• Forecast and reported annual revenue and expense progress.
• Monitored and controlled through KPIs and business performance metrics.
• Established organizational structure, standard operating procedures and controls, systems, policies and guidelines.

Burnaby, British Columbia

• Product development, Project execution, Business Development and Commercial Leadership within an innovative start-up company developing novel gas separation technology into commercial plants.Product Management
• Leadership of Product Development Programs; design, development, international deployment, and commercialization of technically complex gas separation plants.
• Synthesized customers’ needs and developed comprehensive product requirements specifications, and development and commercialisation plans.
• Developed business cases for new product development initiatives.
• Managed 126 patent intellectual property portfolio.Project Management
• International EPC project management of the engineering, fabrication, start-up and technical support of industrial gas separation plants.

North Vancouver, British Columbia

• Day-to-day technical support and management of Chlor-alkali industrial chemical production plant.
• In partnership with front-line Supervisors and Operators, managed safe and efficient Plant operations and environmental stewardship within a unionized production environment; normal operation, start-up, shut-down, and.
• Identified and managed realization of operating efficiency improvements.
• Performed troubleshooting of plant and equipment upsets, and quality issues.
• Represented Production in project development, managed commissioning and start-up of new Plant and Equipment.
• Management of Quality Management System including re-certification and upgrade to new ISO9002 standard.

Montreal, Quebec

• R&D characterization and day-to-day production support of high explosives and pyrotechnic production units.
• Provided technical support to unit production management within a unionized production environment
• Troubleshoot production interruptions and quality issues
• Identified opportunities for improvements in process reliability and operability, justified capital and managed projects from start to finish
• Led technical support teams in the characterization and enhanced understanding of production process through the application of statistical analysis, improving up-time, operability, controllability, and product.
• Process designed and commissioned 500TPA Sodium Azide pyrotechnic production plant including azide reactor and explosion pressure relief and containment.

United Kingdom

• Development and application of tools, techniques and procedures for the early-stage project viability evaluation.
• Created technical and commercial financial models of operating plant for capital expenditure business cases justification, alternative processes evaluation, and profit optimization.
• Brokered newly developed technology across corporate business boundaries.
• Co-wrote successful $20,000,000 European Community Eco-grant proposal.

North York, Ontario

Technical and financial evaluation of early stage projects.Operations management of innovative waste-acid recovery technology proving the operability and reliability of its full scale demonstration plant.