Hey there from down under, beautiful Perth Western Australia,  students

I'm a seasoned Business Owner and Operations Director with a Mechanical Engineering degree and Finance Certificate.

Things I've mastered include:

Business Strategy; Financial Best Practice; IP Protection; Product Development; Company Board Participation; Operations Directorship; Mega Project Management; Business Optimisation; ERP Implementation; Business Turnaround; 5 Why's and Fishbone Root Cause Analysis; Lean Canvas; Play to Win

I’ve had great success with my “actions speak louder than words” leadership style and the collaborative, agile scrum management approach. Initially taught to me by early software development executives and consulting mentors, this has been a disruptive but effective tool kit for me to optimize traditional style businesses

I’ve found optimization potential in each role I’ve held. This has mainly been due to instilling Lean, 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, Agile and Scrum principles into each organization. Implementation of ERP solutions and ISO certification has also been part of that success. (ISO 13485, ISO 9001, ISO 9000, ISO 14001, ISO 18001)

Career highlights

• Operations director, board member and part owner of Wekaba Engineering

• Visiting Iscar's highly automated Factory in Israel as one of their largest clients in Africa.

• Project managed all scaffolding structures for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

• Inventory Optimisation software implementations at Barlow World Caterpillar and Sony Music

• New Refurbishment Factory set up and supply chain optimisation at Form-Scaff (300 vehicles)

• Engineering Manager at Lennings

Experience and Education:

20+ years' experience across the management consulting, construction, information technology, manufacturing, engineering, robotics and medical industries.

Studies and Courses:

BSc Mechanical Engineering (WITS)

Finance for non-financial managers (University of South Africa)

Railway Engineering Short Course (University of Pretoria)

Construction White Card (Australia)

My personal interests include kitesurfing, mountain biking, SUP, boating, snorkelling, travel and cars

Advanced Software Skills:

Project managed implementations of:

- JustEnough (Inventory optimisation)

- Siemens Preactor (Production Planning)

- IFS ERP

- AirTable

- User Efficiency

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