Elected as a Trustee of this charity for a 3 year term.

Wansbeck Consulting Services provides advice, coaching and training in business improvement and management techniques, such as 6 sigma, Lean, Agile, CAP, etc.Worked for clients in UK, Norway, USA and the Netherlands.> Helped a UK business to review its operation, rationalise costs and decide on its long term strategic direction.> Worked with Norwegian business to review its IT operation and recommended to outsource this function in order to improve IT security and system availability, and enable the company to expand globally.> Went on to implement these recommendations. Selected new IT service partner and negotiated IT pricing model. Managed the transition to the new IT service partner.> Reviewed Client's data processing, analysis and reporting operation. Devised long term strategy to reduce unit costs and cycletime to enable the customer to increase operational capacity without significant increase in resources. This strategy proposed exploiting advances in cloud processing and storage as well as investigating the potential machine learning.> Led software development to implement the initial stages of this strategy to simply and parallelise the data processing chain over a small network of processors then migrate this onto the new IT cloud.> Facilitated technical sessions to enable teams to discuss and agree how to investigate and find solutions to operational problems or expand their systems' operational envelope.>Briefed a client in the USA on the history of in-line inspection tool development and the pros and cons of magnetic and ultrasonic technologies in the detection, classification and sizing of metal loss and crack defects in oil and gas pipelines.>Worked with a Dutch business to review its strategic development plan. Value stream mapped their main production process. Made recommendations to focus on their development on the top 10 activities.>Delivered a Proof of Concept of using AI to facilitate their production process.

Deliver technical solutions, systems, methodology and expertise into Halfwave studies and projects. Support continuous process improvement.

> Set out IT and Data Analysis strategy to enable the business to grow rapidly over the next 5 years.> Set up a data analysis team that delivered a significant increase in operational capacity in 2017 enabling the business to deliver on its revenue and profitability targets for the year.> Delivered software tools to facilitate in-field operations and data processing, analysis and reporting.> Derived cost models that enable operations to be planned and budgeted more accurately and to act as a baseline from which to drive efficiency improvements.> Worked with IT service partner to improve IT support to all Halfware employees and to support our cloud data processing developments> Provided technical leadership and experience on a number of major business development projects.> Visited and liaised with customers in Europe, USA and Australia to present project progress and results, explaining how the technology works and its advantages over competing technologies.

> Managed global software development teams to deliver new, leaner services in pipeline inspection and integrity assessment through continuous improvement.> Delivered increased operational analysis productivity and reduced cycle time through guided workflows and innovative algorithms that save over $4M in operational costs each year.> Consolidated operational software from eight separate analysis software suites into one, standardising analysis and reducing future maintenance costs. > Managed electronics team to develop and deliver a very reliable, state-of-the-art data acquisition system that can be utilised across the entire inspection tool fleet; reducing operational costs and accelerating development of new tool sizes.> Improved processes to deliver more accurate corrosion sizing models, that have been validated through customer pipeline excavations that have enabled a new, super high resolution inspection service to be sold to customers.> Conducted blind studies for several customers to determine inspection capabilities and develop new analysis processes, leading to significant new contracts with those pipeline operators.> Initiated the transition from a waterfall to an agile software development process.> Passed annual Lloyds’ audits to maintained TickIT and ISO accreditation.

> Coached stakeholders across the business to improve the New Product Introduction (NPI) process. Organised and led cross functional, Lean 6-sigma events to simplify key activities, and develop, document and roll out new processes. Benefits included: shorter lead times, increased productivity, better resource planning, better NPI project selection and project risk assessment.> Delivered seven 6-sigma DMAIC and Lean training courses. Mentored the use of lean, 6-sigma and CAP on over 30 engineering projects that improved productivity, performance and reliability.> Conducted internal quality audits and facilitated Lloyds’ ISO certification visits.> Completed EW Discrimination feasibility study sponsored by PRCI. Developing a rule-based method to accurately classify ultrasonic reflectors as cracks or non-cracks. Proposed new data capture, compression and processing technique on the existing inspection system.