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Disaster/Technical/Project manager

Work Experience

Aug 2001 - present
-Europe

is a print solutions company (classic printing plus web based products) was hired for the disaster recovery of an ERP system and subsequent re-engineering of the company business processes.

Job Description

was recruited as IT Project Manager for re-launch of a failed ERP package. The company had tried to develop an in-house ERP package based on Navision for multi-site use. The basis process was not documented and the development process, including set up of the new hardware, was vastly underestimated.A project plan was developed and the specification of the system reverse engineered, then clarified. As a result, the package was successfully launched at the end of 2002. During early 2003 the company performance began to suffer badly due to market reduction and increased competition. A team was set up to down size and re-engineer the business and was asked to stay on and co-ordinate the project. The project is on schedule and should be completed by the end of first quarter 2005.


Jan 2001–Aug 2001
Metavector

Metavector was a “spin off” from Siemens to develop a combined voice and data over IP gateway. The mission was to set up of technical infra-structure for the start up company and the first product: requirements management, structured planning, test, documentation, internal procedures, service.

Job Description

This company was set up initially as a research group and, as such, was heavily focused on research with little or no attention being paid to structure, ancillary services or production engineering of the product. role was to set up, within the available budget and time constraints, the best possible combination of such services.Primary emphasis was placed in developing, after the event, a requirement management system for the product to define its actual functionality.Some emphasis was also placed on setting up a structured test group, based on release documentation, functionally described tests and automated testing to ensure any production version of the product was viable.However it soon became clear from the reverse “requirement management” that the product specification was flawed and that the budget to re-engineer it to a commercially viable product was restrictive. The company was wound down and the basic research knowledge taken back into Siemens (the mother company) for possible future use.




June 1997–Dec 2000
NDS - SHOP 24

The company produced an “automated convenience store” – a large automat selling up to 200 products, accepting all kinds of money including cards, with a high level of integrated software and remote central management. was recruited as Engineering Manager at a time when the first production had been launched but was very unreliable, failing in use every few hours.

Job Description

The initial main challenge of the position was to make a launched, highly unreliable product, reliable. This was achieved by setting up a structured and automated test and performance monitoring group whereby all stops and errors in the product were logged, analysed and prioritised to drive a re-engineering programme. As a result the MTBF of the automat was increased from hours to the order of 21 days in the first year.Subsequent work concentrated on a release based improvement programme keeping the same level of reliability while adding functionality and, at the same, time balancing the need of making the system cheaper and faster. After 2 years initiated a comprehensive re-engineering of the product for reliability, maintainability, cost reduction and capacity increase, plus outsourcing of production and setting up of streamlined installation procedures and systems.The system reliability was maintained with a 35% drop in cost price and a 40% increase in capacity.

Nov 1989–May 1997
Alvey-Europe

Engineering manager for a Belgian company producing one off material handling systems for production plants to palletise, transport and store boxed products though all phases until shipment. was “head-hunted” by the company in England and re-located to Belgium

Job Description

was in charge of all aspects of engineering but concentrated on the controls engineering on a daily basis. This basically required development of control hardware and functional specifications for operation from which PLC logic could be developed or adapted from other systems. However for such large systems numerous new devices were produced and it was normal for the customer to select the make of PLC preventing standardisation. set up standard instrumentation and functional specifications for modules of hardware and developed standard PLC software for each unit using primarily generic logic commands (non-PLC specific) to alleviate the translation of the software from one type of PLC to another.He also developed capacity modelling theory and software for the systems, which were then implemented as sales support tools, and set up a MIS group developing systems for integrating the handling systems into other MIS tools or providing stand alone data.

Mar 1984–Oct 1989
A.V. T. - a noise and vibration company in the U.K. working in the North Sea offshore oil industry

The company had previously only worked on a consultant man hour basis. set up a condition monitoring system group producing PC based data logging and analysis systems.

Job Description

set up a small team of specialists in various disciplines who produced one-off condition monitoring systems using a standard set of software modules developed in house for statistical, spectrum and fatigue analysis plus data presentation and storage.. Having conceived the software structure and developed some of the initial spectrum and fatigue analysis software he moved on to manage the projects and conduct sales within the oil companies.





Oct 1978 –Mar 1984
Rolls Royce Aero Ltd.

initially worked for Rolls Royce Aero in Derby as a jet-noise specialist but was later seconded to a project funded jointly by Rolls Royce, British Aerospace, and the British government.

Job Description

At Rolls Royce, was responsible for all aspects of jet noise, planning all related research and running all related full-scale engine and aircraft flyover tests. In this role he became a specialist in modern data analysis techniques.As a result he was seconded to a project to look at using sound to cancel propeller tones in the cabin of a commercial airliner (active control). developed the control algorithm to produce an adaptive cancellation system. He also managed the flight trials.Test were highly successful when no one moved, but took time to adapt to staff and passenger movement in the cabin causing annoying sound peaks. Basically, at the time the idea was ahead of the technology. The project was cancelled at suggestion.

Education

1972-1975 B. Sc Mathematics (Imperial College, University of London)
1975-1978 Ph. D Mathematics (University of Manchester)

Courses

May 1982 Digital control
June 1984 Offshore survival
Feb 1985 Marketing for technologists
Nov 1992 PLC programming
Oct 1997 Introduction to Novell network management
Oct 1999 Priority Management
March 2001 Capability Maturity Modelling
May 2002 Value Stream Mapping

Skills

is an experienced change manager, team leader and project manager with a background in widely different technology areas including several multi-disciplinary products and projects.

Ian is at home in both start up environments and in “turn-around” situations, in long established businesses, taking hands on control of a project.

Ian has, on several occasions, developed plans and processes for new departments
(engineering and research groups, test teams, service departments and quality organisations) in start up companies with an initial research technology development mentality. He is a strong proponent of team and structure building in such companies.

Ian has also experience in established companies where the technical situation has been allowed to get out of control over the years and no longer meets today’s requirements. In such cases he is adept at analyzing and documenting the situation, often in the face of hostile response from the current personnel, and re-engineering the process or products.

Ian has an IT background which has included development and system administration, and has an excellent understanding of project management tools and database design and development. He has hands on technical know how of all windows environments and good program level understanding of ERP systems, .Net, and SQL.

Languages

Ian's native tongue is English.

Ian speaks Flemish/Dutch on a daily basis and has working level French.

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