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UNIVERSAL QUALITY - CYGNUS SYSTEMS- MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS UPGRADING & IMPROVEMENT; COMPUTER SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE; ANALYSIS & PLANNING; IS09000, AS9100, EASA PART 21, JAR-21, EASA PART 145, JAR-145; JAR-OPS & CAA REQUIREMENTS; PROPOSAL/BID MANAGEMENT & METHODOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, QUALITY CONTROL, AND TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, MAINTENANCE AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; COMPANY WIDE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROCEDURE WRITING; LANGUAGES - FRENCH & RUSSIAN; WRITING SKILLS & DOCUMENT PREPARATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; INTERIM MANAGEMENT; TENDERING; BID PREPARATION; PRESENTATIONS; WEB SITE DESIGN & BUILDING/HTML

 

This Page outlines my computer background and general capabilities and provides information on assignments and work carried out.

Overview

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Used sophisticated airborne analogue computers in the 1960's.     Highly involved in digital computers from 1985 onwards.     Member British Computer Society.

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In 2002 - spent the year in the United Arab Emirates implementing Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) that had been selected the previous year (see below).

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In Nov and Dec 2001 - carried out an assignment in the United Arab Emirates managing the selection of a computerised maintenance management system for an oil refinery.

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For period Sep 2000 - Sep 2001 undertook lengthy assignment in Lotus Development UK Ltd (an IBM Company) as Proposal/Bid Manager.    Prior to this - used company wide computer systems and PCs extensively in the work place.

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My hobbies embrace building and upgrading computers, reading computer books, eg HTML, DOS, BIOS, etc, application software, computer magazines, web site management and internet use.

This Page contains details of:

1. Consultancy Assignments & Work in Computers Systems 2. Analysis and Authoring of Computer System Procedures 3. Total Manufacturing & Maintenance Systems
4.  Applications User 5. Web Site - Design & Building 6. Hardware - In Support of Consultancy Assignments

1.  Consultancy Assignments and Work in Computer Systems   

EASA Part 145 MOE Procedures Development and Writing

2005.    EasyTech - While the main task centred on the generation of MOE and Department Procedures Manuals, a significant element in the assignment was in the development and creation of working procedures to maintain an electronic MOE and Department Manuals on the Company's website, available both on the Internet and the company's intranet.  Procedures covered the electronic document control processes, file naming, the uploading of original and amended files to iNet via Center Boxes, and the conversions between .pdf and doc files.

Air Traffic Management Project

2003 - 2004.    Eurocontrol - Flight Data Management Project.    Work as Management Consultant/Deputy Project Manager – TRS078: Flight Data Management Project – with Exemplaris Ltd. Task centred on the evaluation and analysis  of climb and descent data for 50 most common types of aircraft flying in Europe.      Location:   Belgium/United Kingdom.    See Aviation Page.

Aerospace Manufacturing - Production Control System

2002 - 2004.    Thermal Engineering Plc.   While defining the Quality Management System (QMS) in Thermal Engineering Plc to the requirements of ISO9001:2000 and AS9100, all the Redthorn processes we analysed, mapped and procedurised and integrated with  other applications, eg Excel, Word, etc, and other card indexing processes.   Production procedures covered: 

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Entering New/Repeat jobs

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Contract Review

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Creating a Job Card

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Printing Job Cards

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Job Packs

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Production Scheduling

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Production Tools, Jigs and Fixtures

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Calibration

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Document Control & Archiving system

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First Article Inspection Reports

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Procurement/Purchasing

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Goods In operation

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Inspection

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Handling, Storage & Packing

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Management of PCS/Network Administration

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Creation of Material Codes

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Control of Machine Centres

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Control of Non Conformity

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Auditing

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Final Release/ Certificate of Conformance/Release

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Cleanliness of Facilites & Maintenance

See Manufacturing Page.    Location:   SE England

Fujairah Refinery Company Limited - United Arab Emirates

2002   Consultant - Implementation - Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).  

Feb – Nov 02.   Fujairah Refinery Company Limited, United Arab Emirates – Working as Consultant to Petrofac, FRCL and MCP Consultants.  Tasks comprised:

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Acting in the role of Project Leader (as Consultant) in the implementation of CMMS, based on Datastream MP2.    CMMS went “live” in Nov 02.

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Conducted 2-week CMMS training Programme as part of “Go Live” Programme.     55 users in multiple roles.

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Production of Maintenance Management Procedures Manual – comprising CMMS and maintenance procedures/process maps.

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Developing and writing process maps to define fundamental Company processes.

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Teaching procedures to management, supervisors and staff.

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Progression and development of maintenance improvement strategies.     Working as an interim IT manager.

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Co-ordinating setting up of hardware network of PCs linked to several servers.

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Development, writing and implementation of procedures incorporating best practices.

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 Defining and carrying out CMMS and maintenance improvement programmes, based on the use of Datastream MP2.

 

See Case Study Documentation for fuller account.

Part of Maintenance improvement programme. 

Location:   United Arab Emirates. 

Fujairah Refinery Company Limited

 

Datastream MP2 Quick Access 

2001   Consultant - Selection by Tender - Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).  

Nov 01 - Dec 01 - Selection of computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) for Fujairah Refinery Company Limited.   Choice between Maximo, DataStream and other systems.

Lotus Development UK Ltd / IBM

Sep 00 – Sep 01.  Worked as Proposal/Bid  Manager for Lotus Development UK Ltd (an IBM Company) and IBM managing and writing bids (ITTs, RFPs, RFIs, E of Is, etc) for application software, hardware, operating software, project management, and implementation and training services.    Work carried out as an Associate to Practical Bids Solutions Ltd and  implemented Lotus Proposal Management System (LPMS) – a bid/proposal methodology and project management framework.   Personal win rate for proposals = 80%.   Proposals covered numerous solutions, involving Document Management Systems, Collaborative Software Solutions, Website Design, Portals, Lotus Notes Infrastructure Upgrading, E-Mail Service Management Support, etc, dealing with a wide range of IBM/Lotus products and services.

Article - "Win That Bid -  Published in Quality World - January 2002

Lotus Park

Aerospace Surface Treatments Limited

1999    Analysed, created, defined and procedurised the Company's working computerised management, manufacturing and cost routines in Manufacturing Total Managment System (MTMS) and Shogun Manufacturing System.     Flow charted computer operating sequences from reception of orders to final despatch of manufactured products on the two factory wide work management computer systems - MTMS and Shogun - and produced procedures in terms of data flows, individuals' responsibilities, 'who does what' and screens.    Procedures produced covered Work Order creation, treatment of orders from different origins, inter-site transfers, Job Pack and Card creation, Planning, Document and Data Control, Purchasing, Release and Invoicing, etc.

Inflite Engineering Services Ltd

1998-99    Conducted an appraisal survey of computer manufacturing systems, including BAAN, Western Data Systems, CinC, Sanderson (PIC),MDS-Glovia, etc, and produced implementation plan solution.    Analysed, created, defined and procedurised the Company's working management, manufacturing and cost routines in Manufacturing Total Managment System (MTMS) and Shogun.    Defined procedures for the use of Q-Pulse, an integrated system for the computerised management of documentation, human resources, quality and on-line management.     Procured and set up a Work Record Document Archiving Centre, using Egami Software on a Novell net, scanning and indexing over 3000 documents/day.

Assessed and defined the computer modules for MTMS and supervised the presentation of user/working level operating procedures.

 Flow charted computer operating sequences from reception of orders to final despatch of manufactured products on the two factory wide work management computer systems - MTMS and Shogun - and produced procedures in terms of data flows, individuals' responsibilities, 'who does what' and screens.    Procedures produced covered Work Order creation, inter-site transfers, Job Pack and Card creation, Planning, Document and Data Control, Purchasing, Release and Invoicing.

Siemens Business Services

1998    Participated as a leading member of Bid Team for joint bid with Intergraph Corporation for the development of a European Information System Database Project for EUROCONTROL Agency.   Acted as aviation, quality and documentation specialist for production of 126 tender books.

Associated Octel Co Ltd, Ellesmere Port

1997-98   Worked on the development, instruction, and promulgation of company wide Maximo computer procedures for the management of maintenance for a large chemical plant.     Procedures generated in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Maximo for 15 defined stages of maintenance management - and promulgated in Acrobat Reader on the company wide computer system.        Within the framework of this maintenance management system a raft of user/operative procedures were produced covering such computer- based elements as equipment criticality, the operation of Maintenance Documentation Control Registers, creating Maintenance Job Plans, and raising Work Requests, Maintenance Work Orders (MWOs) and Sub MWOs in Maximo.

Air UK Engineering Ltd

1992-95    Set up and developed Flight Safety procedures for BASIS (British Airways Safety Information System).   Managed implementation and at the same time defined how BASIS was to be used to capture Mandatory Occurrence Reports (MORs) and air safety data, and how the data was to be input, correctly categorised and reviewed.   These activities were then aligned with the Group Flight Safety Organisation and the accompanying technical reviews.   Access and terminal procedures were developed to ensure that all data was input in a timely and correct fashion by all users.

Introduced 'Quality Manager', a computerised system for managing quality, into the Company.

Royal Air Force

1985-89    Led project for the introduction of OMAC 29, a computerised manufacturing management system to a 600 man factory.    Chaired the implementation meetings and supervised teams in the development of scheduling, database, MRP and CRP systems, and was instrumental in making the eventual transition from a manual and paper-driven factory, to a fully computerised factory, in under 2 years.

1960-74   Operated state of the art analogue computers in navigation equipments in 'front line' operational aircraft.

2.  Analysis and Authoring of Computer Systems Procedures Computer Systems

Work undertaken in the analysis, creation, definition and  authoring of procedures for company wide computer management systems.

3.  Total Manufacturing & Maintenance Systems

Experienced with the use of a number of total manufacturing/maintenance computer systems:

OMAC 29     MAXIMO      MTMS     Shogun     DataStream     Redthorn

and, have carried out comparative studies on:

BAAN    Cincom Systems    Kewill Trifid (IBS)       MDIS-Glovia        Sanderson (PICS)         Western Data Systems (Compass Enterprise Suite)    MAXIMO Datastream MP2

4.  Applications User

Highly experienced user in wide range of application software, including: Windows 3.11/95/98/XP Pro; MS Office 2000, MS Office 97 and MS Office  6.0 - Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Project 97/2000; Lotus Notes, Lotus SmartSuite; Paint Shop Pro  7; Viseo; Floorplan 3D; FrontPage 2000/98; CuteFTP; Publisher 98; Project 2000/98; HP Deskscan; Epson Perfection 2400 scanning software; Internet Explorer 6; Outlook/Outlook Express; RF Flow; CyrWin (Russian WP software); PKWARE (PKZIP), Winzip, Xara3D3, QuickLink, Java j2sdk2.4.1_03, etc.

Multiple/Large Document skills - using Formats, Styles and Templates, and advanced techniques in Word 2000/97 and Lotus Word Pro.

5.  Web Site - Design and Building

Web Site Design & Building - particularly using FrontPage 2000/98 and HTML modification.    Built this site.

Experienced in the creation, modification and manipulation of graphics imagery and files in such applications as Paint Shop Pro, PowerPoint, FrontPage, etc.    In addition, good level of performance in the creation/use of:

Web Structures Banners Tables Borders & Layouts
Thumbnails Hot Spots  Formats  Dynamic HTML Effects
Marquees Hyperlinks Position Boxes Navigation Bars
Sound Music mid, au & wav, etc, files Crescendo

6.  Hardware - In Support of Consultancy Assignments

Three PCs - Pentium 4 2.8 GHz - Systemax Venture 3663, plus 17" TFT LCD Monitor; Pentium 3  600 MHz, plus 19" Monitor; Pentium 3  550 MHz;  Pentium II 200 MHz, plus 17" Monitor.Computer Keyboard    I built the Pentium 3 600MHz myself, others have been progressively upgraded.

Two Laptops/Notebooks - Satellite Pro M30 PM -1.7 GHz 15.4 TFT wide view (Intel Centrino); Dell Inspiron 3800 700GT P3 14.1" TFT.

Printers - Epson Stylus Color 900; Epson Perfection 2400 Photo; Canon BJC-80, Canon BJC-70; Brother HL-1250 Laser Printer; HP 2510 Photo All-in-One.

Ancillaries -  Digital Camera Pentax Optio 330 and associated software and CompactFlash memory cards, Internal and External ZIP Drives 250MB & ZIP Drive 100MB; LaCie 40MB Mobile HDD, QuickLink Pen, CD-ROM, CD-DVD, CD-RW/R, DVD ROM, numerous internal PCI and  PCMCIA cards, etc.

Netgear - Internet Gateway Hub and ADSL supporting Broadband to office network, supporting full file/ancillaries sharing between computers.    Network protected by Network Address Translation (NAT) (firewall) and AVG and McAfee (anti virus) software.    Networked - Windows XP Professional.

Organisation of the Consultancy pages with hyperlinks

 

 

 

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