Engineering Manager, leader and managing consultant specialising in digitally driven engineering management.  Extensive and practical background in multidisciplinary, automation, project management, engineering team management.  Innovation in engineering information management, asset data driven processes, engineering quality, and design.  Broad industry experience across transport, rail, oil & gas, minerals processing, coal, manufacturing and utilities.

Project Manager & Principal Engineer for NorthConnex Road Tunnel Plant Control Systems providing project management, technical documentation and software engineering leadership for project involving traffic and tunnel plant systems.

Systems Design Manager –  design team management and engineering processes for complex multidisciplinary project incorporating rail and supporting systems.

Strategic engineering advisory for control and automation systems for utilities operations. Innovative collation of strategic drivers and concepts using a data base to provide holistic and flexible assessment approach.  Innovative presentation of future state control centre using a real-time 3D graphical environment to facilitate strategic communication and stakeholder engagement.

What is IT OT and what is it so significant about it in today’s business? This article provides a brief history of industrial control and information systems and its emergence into a new era of integrated solutions.  The systems integration business is based on the combining of information technologies (IT) and industrial controls environments; SCADA, PLC, instrumentation and…

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Operational Technology (OT) is that component of an industrial business that supports control systems, instrumentation, PLC and DCS systems, SCADA systems and plant information systems. This discussion takes a CEO’s perspective and looks at key considerations in management of this key business function, making the case for bolstering OT representation and capability to help assure…

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IT OT standardisation is critical in establishing cost effective solutions, yet standards are notoriously underdone in many organisations.  How does a business improve the level of standards? Firstly, it is important that we understand what we mean by standards. Here is a definition: A “standard” is defined as a document that has been approved by…

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