Strategic and operational planning, resourcing, monitoring, and management of research and business conducted by the Measurement & Control division at Mintek comprising of 30 professional engineers. Ultimate responsibility for the long-term sustainability and growth of the business unit by growing a robust pipeline of innovative and attractive products for delivery to market, whilst ensuring the availability of the correct breadth and depth of specialist research, development, and commercial implementation skills to execute.https://www.mintek.co.za/technical-divisions/measurement-and-control-solutions-machttps://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mintek-process-control

Plan, manage, and execute the business and research conducted by the Furnace Control group within the Measurement & Control Division at Mintek. Product Owner for the successful development and commercialisation of 6 new products. Named inventor on 3 patents and author on 6 international papers Successfully completed over 50 control system commissionings across more than 10 countries as lead engineer Worldwide market share of Mintek furnace control system doubled, and share of addressable market in South Africa increased to over 90%

Development and commissioning of Mintek Furnace Control systems (Minstral, FurnStar). The delivery of control systems required engagement with customers at all levels, from Executives to Operators, in many different environments and cultures across the world, together with extensive technical knowledge of industrial process instrumentation, electrical circuits, PLCs, SCADAs and historians. R&D comprised of the development and integration of electrical control algorithms, control platform software, communication drivers, data acquisition software and hardware, and electrical instrumentation. Developed a ground-breaking new power control algorithm for submerged-arc furnaces that received international acclaim and is in use today on over 100 furnaces worldwide Software developer in team that produced the institution’s advanced process control (APC) platform Wrote several industrial communication drivers as well as the OPC Client for Mintek’s APC platform