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Australia

Clevedon, England, United Kingdom

Define requirements, facilitate collaboration and solution implementation.Achievements• Reduced spare request processing time by 32%, through establishment of inter-departmental strategy, with phased actionable steps to align with modularisation and vision of Product Lifecycle Management software (PLM) integration.• Expanded data driven decision uptake through Power BI reporting, from team Key Performance Indicators up through sub-department to department overview and global stakeholders. Creating consistent centralised reporting and removing data set duplication, improving global communication.• Promoted to lead new team, with product servicing focus, collaborating for improved scoping and implementation.Additional Responsibilities• Coordination and presentation of improvement projects.• KPI visualisation and data analysis, generating data driven decisions though live Power BI reports.• Team management.

Clevedon, England, United Kingdom

KPI visualisation and reporting, data management transition and process rationalization.Achievements• Transformed KPI reporting to a live Power BI dashboard report with dynamic list of actions, from a OneNote weekly email, increasing inter department cooperation. Directly connecting databases using SQL queries.• Succeeded in transitioning Product Maintenance department, in the post-cutover, to a new database system (SAP ERP).• Improved response speed to customer and reduced potential for error, by developing new iterations of VBA coded excel tools and centralising data.• Streamlined data and pre-empted commonly reported problems by conducting in-depth analysis and then mass changes, reducing errors reported and enabling role expansion.• Empowered crucial team expansion, communication and response time by transforming task management with MS Teams. Integrating MS Forms to centralise task creation, MS Planner for management and status sharing, interconnected using MS Power Automate. Successfully increasing time for value added work.• Met all year objectives despite majority remote working, showing self-sufficiency and focus.Responsibilities• Procedure writing and training of newly expanding team.• Correction and management of data for products.• Data support and technical authority, creating and sustaining good rapport with members of the department, inter-department and global team.• Responsible for the raising of commercially available products in SAP ERP, within a 1-day service level agreement, for quotation.• Release of SAP Bill of Materials and Production Version upon order placement, for planning and production.

Taunton, England, United Kingdom

Marine geospatial data management, stabilising overdue entry requirements.Achievements• Stabilised a key performance indicator by taking control of overdue data types.• Quickly generated working relationship with team members and Database Manager.Responsibilities• Quick establishment of bespoke Geo-analysis software for oracle database, applied data handling techniques to new unfamiliar domain data, achieving real value within weeks.• Collaborated on marine environment tactical decision aids, to provide operational dominance for the disconnected user.• Operated in high security level open plan working environment.• Attended talks and workshops.• Gained a broader understanding of other departments by having meetings with key members.

Shepton Mallet, England, United Kingdom

Plan, implement and coordinate development of a production information management system.Achievements• Successful creation, implementation and stabilisation of a bespoke database system, including full manufacturing adoption, eliminating all secondary data entry.• Creation of production efficiency insights, by visualising in simple automatic reports and connecting data using PowerPivot and Power Query; similar to Power BI.Additional Responsibilities• Plan and manage phases of system development.• Development of load vs capacity planning.• Write SQL reports in MySQL, visualising in Excel.• Coordinate with external Software Developer.• Trial Microsoft Project for more effective task tracking.• Procedure writing and training.• System equipment review and maintenance.

Shepton Mallet, England, United Kingdom

Solve complex problems faced by production, sales and finance departments.Achievements• Vastly improved data entry time, inter-department data transfer and reporting efficiency, bystandardising, simplifying and organising data processing into a connected Excelproduction system. Demonstrating advantages of full database adoption.Responsibilities• Data entry, management and reporting.• Manufacturing resource requirement assessment.• Order processing and feasibility assessment.• Order scheduling and production line balancing.• Internal auditing to EN ISO 9001:2015.

Shepton Mallet, England, United Kingdom

Contributed in creating technical specifications at a busy period of incoming projects at FTI. Supported my studies at Portsmouth University.

Shepton Mallet, England, United Kingdom

• Glass reinforced plastic fiberglass production, quality assurance, packaging and shipment.• Identification of potential efficiency, relations and problem solutions.• Teamwork experience.• Pursued company goals, completing orders before shipment deadlines.• Contributed to training new staff at a similar level.• Introduced to a manufacturing environment.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematics

Activities and Societies: University of Portsmouth Swimming Team Modules completed: • Modern Heuristic methods • Technometrics • Advancing.

Gcse'S And A Levels

Activities and Societies: Rugby, Football, Athletics, Drama club, Chess club. • A-levels including Mathematics (B), Chemistry (C), History.