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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Business transformation via focused training and implementation of business change programs. Providing training/coaching to Cert II, III, Cert IV and Diploma level on continuous improvement programs.The Vative company was founded in 2010 by Steven Farrugia,and have grown over the last 10 years to be a recognised leader in its field of expertise. Vative is a dedicated business optimisation consultancy and training organisation. With a highly respected team of process improvement specialists, Vative provides business optimisation through leadership alignment, staff engagement, capability development and project implementation using Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies. Vative seeks to develop and sustain a culture of continuous improvement in every individual and organisation they serve.

Melbourne, Victoria

Trainer & Assessor in Competitive Systems and Front Line Management. Providing training/coaching to Cert III, Cert IV and Diploma level on these training programs.Spectra Training is one of Australia’s largest Registered Training Organisations (RTO's) with over 100 full time staff and 5 national offices. Formerly known as CLB Training & Development, the company has been in operation for 11 years.Spectra Training's vision is to provide world class workplace training solutions to more clients in Australia than any other company by 2015.Spectra Training has trained over 5,000 trainees and apprentices during the past year from 200 client organisations at 350 locations, mainly in fields such as manufacturing, engineering, mining services, transport and logistics, warehousing, printing, business management, property services and sales.Most of Spectra Training's management team has worked in the 'real world' in line management roles in major companies, so the operational 'value add' and service needs of clients is well understood.Spectra Training offers over 100 different training programs and services to clients in every state and territory of Australia.

Waterford, Ireland

I lead successful projects in change management, lean manufacturing, supply chain management, quality management and product flow management.The Honeywell turbo technologies business is part of the Honeywell transport division which itself is part of the multi-national Honeywell group that employs over 100,000 people. Honeywell (garrett) turbochargers are the leaders in the field of automotive turbochargers. The Waterford facility produces turbine and compressor wheels for the automotive turbocharger industry.

Waterford, Ireland

Trained 40 employees to six sigma greenbelt status. Lead or mentored six sigma and lean improvement projects (plant-wide) in process improvements, computer IT implementations, work health & safety projects, financial and HR projects.

Waterford, Ireland

Managed tool room facility and all injection moulding facilities on-site and at outside contractors. Developed toolmaking capability, and injection moulding capabilities. Developed people skills and optimised the people process interface.

Melbourne, Australia

Customer relationship management, problem solving, design consultations, training.GE Plastics was part of the US General Electric multi-national. Its Plastics division was a leader in the field of engineering polymers. The plant in Dandenong compounded plastics locally for the Australian and New Zealand market.

Melbourne, Australia

Computer aided engineering (CAE) consulting projects for world-wide clientsTraining and application supportWorld-wide customer support co-ordinationMoldflow Pty (Ltd) was founded by Colin Austin in Melbourne Australia, and became a world leader in computer aided engineering (CAE) for the plastics moulding industry. In later years the company has been taken over by Autodesk, Inc. an American multinational software corporation.

Masters Enterprise And Innovation, Business Development, Management, Business Modelling

Graduate Diploma In Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Engineering Degree, Polymer/Plastics Engineering