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Sedgefield, County Durham

Process development, separations, scale up, proof of concept, process data modelling, DOE, innovation.Delivered separations strategy for a key commercial "recovery" project.

Seal Sands, England, United Kingdom

Project management. Rolling out Lean Foundations and interpreting how to implement the famous "Job Value Evaluation" (antiquated in-house productivity methodology).Championing safer ways of working, highlighting significant safety issues. Transferring new product(s) from Development to production.

Newton Aycliffe, England, United Kingdom

I did it ... I am a teacher

Palatine

Providing low cost Lean Six Sigma and data modelling consultancy to small and medium sized enterprises.Provided income stream modeling to local non-profit.Provided survey feedback data analysis to a local non-profit.

Aurora, Illinois

Recruited to build and lead a team of engineers to develop and introduce step-change improvements to existing manufacturing processes, in a mature and conservative industry.• Led a team of 5 engineers evaluating various manufacturing technologies.• Led a team of 4 engineers leading global capital projects.• Mentored Green Belt Six Sigma candidate.

Gurnee, Illinois

Provide technical leadership, manufacturing excellence, process engineering and chemistry, and new product/process scale-up, to the Vantage Performance Materials operations at Gurnee, Illinois. Led a team of 3 - 5 professional engineers, ranging from Management Trainees to seasoned Process Engineers. Delivered significant productivity improvements for key assets using Lean and Six Sigma approach. Introduced manufacturing KPIs to measure performance improvements. Delivered year on year improvement in productivity and capability. Drove down non-conforming and distressed products to a record low of 0.4%. Worked closely with marketing and R&D to project manage scale up and technology transfers to site, new products and processes, generating in excess of $10mm revenue. Successfully transferred new microencapsulation technology to Gurnee, ensuring addition $1mm annual sales revenue. Commissioned $5mm new technology jet reactor at Gurnee.Stepped up to provide leadership and direction during the 13 months period while recruiting a replacement Manufacturing Manager. Supported shift supervisors ensuring customer needs were met, and timely operations decisions were made, and OTIF wasn’t adversely impacted.Delivered supply chain cost savings through approving new lower cost raw materials, value stream mapping processes in order to remove non-value added activities, and establishing “Fix Cycle Scheduling”, improving schedule adherence. Led continuous improvement transformation as part of the ISO 9001 Management Team. Developed 5S/cGMP auditing program to ensure continued FSSC22000 compliance.

Mentored leadership team at US Chemical Plant in Lean approach focussing on value stream mapping, value analysis, "flow" and supply chain.Prepared and delivered Manufacturing Improvement training and consultancy at a US Chemical Plant, yielding a 10% capacity improvement through changes in “ways of working”. (Using Lean Sigma methodology including; Workplace Organisation, OEE and S-curve Analysis, Fixed Cycle Scheduling, Root Cause Analysis and Problem Solving)Prepared and delivered Lean foundation training and consultancy to SMEs in the Adana-Mersin, Turkey as part of their European accession programme.Delivered regional Manufacturing Excellence benchmarking study and improvement workshop. Delivered Sustainable Manufacturing Excellence feasibility study to Chemicals North West, as part of a multi-disciplined team. Delivered bespoke OEE and s-curve tool to local, global speciality chemical company.Developed a process improvement tool based on OEE and s-curve exploitation for NEPIC and Newcastle University Industrial Statistics Research Unit (ISRU).Delivered ERDF funded “As Is” study on current limitations within North East England engineering supply chain, and subsequent opportunities to develop small and medium sized enterprises.Contracted to write online LEAN skills training course for a North East Change Management consultancy.Contracted to ISRU on the development of an Statistical Process Control course for the Process Industry.

Selected to lead Uniqema’s Continuous Improvement transformation across Europe, using Lean, TPM, CI and Six Sigma methodology. Responsible for leading and delivering a number of global cost saving and improvement projects.Initiated and led Uniqema's European CI Network. Delivered Quest International CI training to our Malaysian site. Launched several cost saving projects on site. E.g. Reduced ISO document publication time by 75%. Pioneered the use of Lean and Six Sigma methodology on internal logistics project at our Gouda (Dutch) and Emmerich (German) site. Delivered cost savings of over €1million. Introduced a fixed cycle schedule on one of the Wilton batch plants. This reduced planning time by 50%. Saved €20K on Uniqema Solid Form plant through yield improvement.Led SKU (stock keeping unit) rationalisation project spanning, manufacturing, marketing, sales and supply chain.;

Responsible for providing technical leadership and development management to Uniqema's Wilton assets. Including the direct management of the 24/7 Quality Control laboratory. Led Site Improvement Council, responsible for overseeing cross-site conversion cost reduction projects. Delivered conversion cost reduction of over €200K for key site product. Delivered improvement in manufacturing KPIs such as OEE, OTIF and batch cycle time.Selected to restructure site QC laboratory. Reduced 2 FTE and launched ongoing improvement projects that delivered further savings of a minimum of 3% year on year. Directly managed QC team of 9 in addition to my development manager role.Delivered process improvement and cost savings of ca. €20Kpa through collaboration with toll storage, packaging and logistics partner.Improved numerous products and processes. Significant reduction in batch cycle times were gained using Lean and Six Sigma methodology. This included; value stream mapping, SPC and also Statistical Experimental Design, SED. (Using JMP software). Collaborated with R&D, supply chain, sales and marketing for new product introductions.Played a significant role in a number of crucial customer audits. Customers included; L'Oreal, Beiersdorf and Shell.

Various Team Leader roles Led the General Chemistry area of ICI Acrylics project Alpha, where I co-authored several patents in the separations area. Technologies included distillation, liquid-liquid extraction and crystallisation.Seconded to new business development team to lead the development of acrylic foam products. Investigated aspects of post-consumer recycling in parallel to developing novel recycling technology.Internally selected to lead the development of a novel centrifugal acrylic depolymerisation technology. Collaborated with a third party vendor and toll manufacturer.

Delivered significant conversion cost savings through the incorporation of recycled methyl methacrylate into the polymer process.Pioneered statistical techniques in the development of a range of new products and processes. Remember folks, Statgraphics was crunching numbers when JMP was dribbling down its bib.

Phd, Physical Chemistry

Thesis: Chemical Sensors using Modified Silane Coupled Monolayers

Pgce, Chemistry Teacher Education, Pass

Bsc (Hons), First Class, Chemistry