Simon Cooper Email & Phone Number

Guildford, England, Gb

Compliance & project management, strategic supply chain management, continual business process improvement, also responsible for providing manufacturing costs.

Management of ISO:9001 and ISO:14298 certification and compliance.Project management and sub-contractor management. Continual improvement of business processes. Member of the operational management team.Responsible for internal manufacturing costing process.

Management of Origination facility, staff, scheduling and planningOrigination of over 400 complex classical OVD’s for high end security marketsEnsuring OVD designs are effective as well as counterfeit resistantTechnical support for internal sales and consultancy for De La Rue groupDevelopment of new and existing production processesCapital expenditure projectsDepartments compliance to ISO 9001:2000, 14001 and 18001 standardsCompany wide internal ISO auditor

Specifying, purchasing and commissioning of industry specific equipment in order to improve the company’s core capabilities and quality of productEstablishing and maintaining a quality systemAll quality related issues including customer complaints and training of staffComputer network supervisor, supporting Novell, NT, MS office, user related issues and establishment of internal IntranetProvision of technical support to sales team and customersNew product developmentResearch and development

Assisting with the origination of complex classical OVD’s

Ph.D. research programme entitled “The relationship between surface microstructures and optical properties in diffractive/holographic surface relief devices”. Conducted in conjunction with an industrial partner this involved the holographic production, analysis and characterisation of a series of novel diffractive microstructures. This work lead to a publication in the Optical Society of America titled “Surface-relief diffraction gratings recorded by multiple-beam coherent phase exposure”.

Post Grad Research, Diffractive Optics

2:1, Physics

Passed, All