Experience

Britest Limited

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Services Director

  • Jul 2022 - Present

• Senior Innovation Specialist

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  Delivering facilitation expertise and training programmes using Britest proprietary tools help organisations define, structure and translate process knowledge and information into process understanding. Developing tools and methodologies to add to those available to Britest members. Participating in the ADDoPT digital design of drug products supply chain project (www.addopt.org) and other collaborative projects in Britest’s innovation programme. Developing methodology for making complex decisions to invest in process innovation.



Johnson Matthey

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Research Manager

  • Dec 2010 - Jun 2016

  Research & Development in Precious Metals Refining• Key member of steering team for a multi-disciplinary R & D collaboration project involving 2 multinational companies, 33 people over 3 sites with 15 work packages• Established technical risk assessment as a key tool for the management of a large, complex process development programme• Drove technology understanding including the use and development of modified proprietary tools• Initiated collaborations in-house, with partner company and with multinational suppliers, universities, industrial research and engineering design houses • Working with and influencing across commercial, technical functions and international collaborators• Recruited and developed 15 strong team of process and project engineers



Johnson Matthey

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Manager

  • 2002 - 2010

  • Introduced process improvement masterclasses resulting in 28% sustainable capacity increase on one line, 5% reduction in site energy usage and grade changeover time reduced from >48 to 12 hours• Identified and implemented a scheme to deliver 78% capacity increase on one line through changed reactor recipes• Devised and implemented a concept for process de-bottlenecking to deliver 40% capacity increase over 3 production lines.• Introduced new product manufacturing process in 5 months from request to commercial operation



Synetix

• Alcohols Technical Manager & Process Engineering Team Leader

  • Jul 1997 - Dec 2000

  • Led 500,000 USD project to develop concept and catalyst for alcohol process for external customer• Wrote and trained out new product design guides for catalyst and absorbent products • Led 500,000 USD project to develop concept and catalyst for alcohol process for external customer• Wrote and trained out new product design guides for catalyst and absorbent products



Tioxide UK Limited

• Process Development Engineer

  • Sep 1984 - Jun 1997

  • Improved plant reliability by developing and implementing concepts to automate the start-up procedure and rationalise the safety trip system• Modelled site to predict impact of equipment reliability on throughput• Feasibility study for fired heater to supply oxygen at 1000˚C• Develop, scale-up and commercialise oxygen plasma heater to operate at pressure• Patent application for mobile plasma-fired hazardous waste incinerator • Improved plant reliability by developing and implementing concepts to automate the start-up procedure and rationalise the safety trip system• Modelled site to predict impact of equipment reliability on throughput• Feasibility study for fired heater to supply oxygen at 1000˚C• Develop, scale-up and commercialise oxygen plasma heater to operate at pressure• Patent application for mobile plasma-fired hazardous waste incinerator



Shirley Institute

• Process Engineer

  • Jul 1983 - Sep 1984

  • Two patent applications concerning application of dye to wet textiles • Two patent applications concerning application of dye to wet textiles