Summary: Experienced leader with successful track record of working with teams to systematically drive high performance and continual improvement in a wide range of project and operational/quality metrics.

Employment History:

Lotus cars

Jan 2004 to July 2004

Working in Supplier Quality Inspection department in order to broaden experience, working with suppliers to facilitate defect-free supply of incoming parts

Agilent Technologies (Formerly Hewlett Packard, prior to 1993 BT&D Technologies)

2001 to 2003 (site manufacturing and semiconductor activities ceased)

Quality and Manufacturing Services Manager

Led function responsible for all aspects of quality systems / assurance and reliability engineering, together with purchasing & procurement (to $5M per month spend), logistics and manufacturing systems.

Successfully slimmed down organisation and changed culture of these teams from functional to process perspective to ensure recognisable contribution to business.

Re-invigorated supplier selection processes to make relevant to changed business.

Championed deployment of closed loop defect elimination processes from design to manufacture

Led site's successful transition to ISO9001:2000

European lead (Ipswich plus 2 Italian sites) for move from legacy systems to Agilent's new global Oracle enterprise resource planning system. This involved detail design, build, test, training and transition together with analysis of process change on the roles of individuals.

The switchover occurred smoothly and on time with no significant adverse impact on business continuity or customers and facilitated significant reduction in requirement for IT and other support.

2000 to 2001

Manufacturing Manager - Devices Wafer Fabrication and Test

Responsible for manufacture of devices, including 'sustaining' process and product engineering

Ramped production 6X over 9 months, consistently achieving on-time delivery to meet correspondingly aggressive ramp of internal customer's needs.

Introduced new working practices moving high volume products from 'jobbing shop' methodology to disciplined predictable flow, this resulted in improvements to yield, quality, and cycle-time as well as labour efficiency

Formed strong formal and informal linkages with customer site in Singapore, and marketing in Ipswich, to ensure that demand was met with minimum inventory risk

1998 to 2000

Devices Engineering Manager

• Dramatically reduced laser batch qualification costs and lead times by changing qualification build and justifying move to sample stress testing of high volume wafers.

• Ensured process engineering, equipment engineering device engineering teams delivered against challenging yield, cost and NPI objectives in cooperation with R&D teams.

• Led new implementation of Workstream MES (Manufacturing Execution System). Implemented consistent maintainable models, easier for operators to use and gave better data reporting capability.

• Designed and implemented on-line SPC system, working with process engineering to identify critical parameters benefiting from SPC, and defining standard for responding to 'Out of Control' indicators - leading to significant improvement in process reliability and consistency of product.

• Introduced cost accounting software linked to MES system giving Devices manufacturing a method for financially exploring loss and variance and driving prioritisation of improvement projects.

1994 - 1998

Production Manager (discrete products).

Responsible for manufacturing and sustaining engineering of discrete opto-electronic products (Revenue typically $1.5M pcm plus optical sub-assemblies for modules)

• Reduced manufacturing cycle-time by factor of 3 and improved productivity by 50%

• Introduced robust scheduling system taking on time delivery from 70% to 95%

1991 to 1994 - Devices Technology Manager

1989 to 1991 - Production Manager - 'Advanced Products' (Hybrid based products)

1987 to 1989 - Epitaxy process engineer / Epitaxy manager

1979 to 1987 (Plessey Research Caswell - now Bookham Technologies)

From Senior Scientist to Chief Chemist grade - research in opto-electronic devices.

1978 to 1979: M.Sc. in solid-state chemistry (UCW Aberystwyth)

1976 to 1978:Completed Chemical Sciences degree course (UEA Norwich)

1970 to 1976: (STL Harlow, now Nortel) - Research Engineer

1968 to 1970 - Start of Chemical Sciences degree course (UEA Norwich)

1966 to 1968. (STL Harlow, now Nortel Networks) - Research Assistant

1965 to 1966 (Equipment Comparison Ltd) - Technician

Education:

MSc in solid-state chemistry (UCW Aberystwyth 1979)

BSc in chemical sciences (University of East Anglia 1978, 2ii)

'A' levels: Maths (D), Physics (B), and Chemistry (B) - Ware College (Evening class 1968)

Languages: Intermediate Finnish (Institute of Linguists)

Training courses include: ISO9000:2000 external auditors course (have current certificate), APQP, Train the trainer, Project Management, Negotiation skills, Effective presentations, Introduction to ProModel, Influencing skills, Building customer focussed organisations, Creative Thinking, Best Factory, Finance for non-financial managers, HSW act , Environmental awareness, SPC, Unix, DCL, Workstream, Matrixone, OU PT611 (Structure and design of Manufacturing Systems).