Personal Details

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6CSE'S

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English

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Work Experience

April 2003 -Present Company ALSTOM Transport

Life Cycle Costing Engineer for Central Engineering

Career Level Mid-Senior Level

Description Reporting to the "UK LCC Technical Manager.



Implement transfer of existing databases to Metaphase Project Data Management modeling system.



Collection of data for Life Cycle Cost models.



Supervision of Life Cycle Cost Analysts and Engineers.



Implementation of Life Cycle Costing techniques to projects.

December 2001 to March 2003 ALSTOM Transport

Life Cycle Costing Manager

Career Level Mid-Senior Level

Description Reporting to the Development Engineering Director.



Collection of data for Life Cycle Cost models on all maintenance phase projects.



Development of Life Cycle Costing policy within international core management group.



Supervision of Life Cycle Cost Engineers and Analysts on all projects.



Implementation of Life Cycle Costing techniques at Maintenance depots.

April 2001 to November 2001 ALSTOM Transport

Assistant Life Cycle Costing Engineer for Central Engineering

Career Level Intermediate Level

Description Reporting to the Life Cycle Costing Engineer.



Responsible for constructing Life Cycle Costing models for Scotrail, First North West, and Jubilee Line.



Supervision of Life Cycle Costing Analysts for Scotrail, First North West, and Jubilee Line projects.

August 1996 to March 2001 ALSTOM Transport

Life Cycle Cost Analyst for Finance/R&D project Accountant

Career Level Intermediate Level

Description Cost benefit analysis for all design changes requiring financial decision. Rolling stock and depot equipment and facilities.



Developments of cost benefit comparison models.



Validation of Life Cycle Cost models for all contracts and all phases.



Reverse engineering Life Cycle Cost models where original constructor and records unavailable. Reconciliation of Life Cycle Cost revisions with Tender.



Participation in the development of new LCC modeling tool.



Producing business cases for procedural change and new ventures.



Maintaining Project Accounts for R&D projects and Development Engineering department.

January 1996 to August 1996 Jet Filters

Sales Support Engineer

Career Level Intermediate Level

Description Production of Tenders.



Sales and cost estimating for prototypes and batch production. Productionplanning of prototype batches.



Specification of tooling and amortization.

May 1995 to September 1995 Sudmo UK Ltd.

Internal Sales Engineer

Career Level Intermediate Level

Description Preparing quotations.



Ensuring accuracy of specification.



General sales activities.

April 1987 to February 1995 Battenfeld Gloucester UK

Project Cost Estimator

Career Level Intermediate Level

Description Sole responsibility for estimating tenders, quotations and cost benefit analysis.



Researching special products, materials, and services for inclusion in estimates and bids.



Estimating conceptual designs to customer product specification.



Monitoring estimate to production cost through design and manufacture and adjusting for specification changes.



Maintain indices and factors for parametric estimating.



Devising parametric estimating techniques for rapid cost estimation of new designs with variable parameters.

April 1979 to March 1987 Battenfeld Gloucester UK

Cost Analyst

Career Level Intermediate Level

Description Project costing of contracts using manual recording systems and MRP & MRP2 .Estimating material costs for production.



Estimating for spares sales.

Skills

City & Guilds Metallurgy



Level: 3, Experience 5 Years, Last Used: 5 or More Years Ago

Training Cost Analysts/Engineers



Level: 3, Experience 3 Years, Last Used: 1 Year Ago

QA Auditor trained to audit to ISO 9001:2000 and 1994 standards. (Certified)



Level: 4, Experience 4 Years, Last Used: Currently Used

Microsoft office



Level: 4, Experience 8 Years, Last Used: Currently Used

SAP



Level: 3, Experience 2 Years, Last Used: 2 Years Ago

Metaphase



Level: 2, Experience 1 Years, Last Used: Currently Used

RCM



Level: 3, Experience 4 Years, Last Used: 2 Years Ago

Excel advanced



Level: 5, Experience 8 Years, Last Used: Currently Used

Affiliations, Memberships & Professional Licenses

The Association of Cost Engineers M.A.Cost E.



Dates: June 2001 onwards

Additional Information

29 years Costing/Estimating experience.







7 years Railway/rolling stock (Intercity, regional, underground/trams) also maintenance depot infrastructure and equipment)







17 years Special Purpose Machinery







5 years Automotive Components