Mike Sharp Email & Phone Number

Happily retired and having fun NOT working

Perth, Australia

Provide third party spend value add and process management services. Provide professional advice to internal clients regarding potential value add opportunities. Write and let contracts. Final sign off authority on all third party spend. During this time provided ad hoc consulting to external BP organisations. For example I visited Egypt and wrote a.

Perth, Australia

Managed the fastest, lowest cost and most comprehensive implementation of Maximo CMMS in BP at that time. Ensured complete migration of maintenance history and cost histories, introduced new work and spend management processes and assisted in role redefinitions and associated training for internal customers. Introduced auto replenish and simplified.

Perth, Australia

Managing the major maintenance contracts, budget and cost management and Shutdown management. Shutdown peaked at 600 men. Significant issues were discovered and much of the planning had to be revamped on the fly. Delivered to the agreed change budget and schedule once the scope changes were resolved.

Perth, Australia

Dual role. Team leader of a small professional business contracts team delivering value add services to ensure best value from all third party spend. The business information manager role focused on ensuring refinery forward business strategies were reflected in the systems and services offered by a centralised and primarily outsourced IT services.

Perth, Australia

Introduced the concept of value add procurement. Took the service from "stores" to an integrated value add service exploiting the opportunities offered by a CMMS. Tightened budget controls to the point where individual asset costing was enabled through slick processes. During a time of tight margins added to the refinery bottom line by implementing track.

Perth, Australia

Manage the delivery of information systems and services to all staff located at BP Kwinana Refinery. Includes budget management, forward strategy for systems and applications and risk management plans. During this period rolled out Windows desk top as a local initiative moving away from terminal based services with subsequent cost savings and enabling.

Perth, Australia

Implement a Computerised Maintenance Management System and manage the migration of said system from mainframe to mini (DEC) in order to reduce run costs and improve usability. Rolled out subsequent organisational change and training as required. A significant baptism in change management. Introduced professional budget management and asset costing tools.

Perth, Australia

Upgraded or decommissioned process quality measurement systems to ensure reliable input to refinery control and optimisation systems. During this period studied and passed with honours a Grad Dip in Engineering and Maintenance.

Adelaide, Australia

Primarily doing PLC system design for Santos and Delhi. Switched to Caltex Refinery control modernisation project. Left when project funds cut.

Perth/ Karratha/Perth

First plant operation staffer to site for domgas commissioning. Ran the site team for instrument electrical services for plant start up. Subsequently transferred to offshore group in the role of technical trainer

Toronto And Edmonton

Create bid estimates for offer to Exxon to build a heavy atmospheric gas oil expansion at Exxon refinery in Edmonton. Recruit design team and manage the delivery of the field control systems design and procurement process. Delivered on time and budget. Subsequently took up role as Construction Superintendent on site.

Trafalgar Refinery Burlington Ontario

Accountable for all aspects of instrument and control systems maintenance and engineering. Introduced a planned preventive maintenance system and assisted in the set up of BP's first implementation of a CMMS.

Toronto, Canada Area

service engineer running service contracts for all Ontario and the East Coast of Canada.

Uk And Middle East

Working at many locations typically doing shut down and new plant starts. Locations included Libya, Cyprus, Ireland and the Uk. Industries ranged from LNG to brewing to fertiliser production to refining.

Barry

Apprentice instrument technician. Learned basic trade skills