Michael Ratcliffe

Drafting Manager CPT Engineering | Co-founder of Next-Task and Next-Shift. Building intelligent software tools that leverage AI to optimize team productivity and automate workflow processes.

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

About

I like to find the easiest and simplest way to create or do something. Over the past three years, I have worked as the drafting manager for CPT Engineering, focusing on building systems, automation, and processes to improve team efficiency, creating consistent output drawings, and overall boosting performance. We have made huge progress, built an amazing team, established standard frameworks, and now deliver consistent work to production on a daily basis. During this time, it also led me to create Next-Task, as I couldn't find a simple and specific task and document manager tool that was available. It's been two years in the making, hundreds of hours working late at night, and constant iterations from feedback. I wouldn't want to work without it now, and I think my team would tell you the same thing. I really do believe it can make design teams' and managers' jobs easier.

Experience

  • Drafting Manager at CPT Engineering
    Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Mechanical Engineer at Mech Engineering Design
    Jun 2012 - Mar 2021 · 8 yrs 10 mos

    Mech Engineering Design is my own business which offers product design, prototype and manufacturing services. Responsibilities: Provide design and manufacturing services for clients Projects Completed by Mech Engineering Design: Design of a number of ultrasonic cleaning machines Production of workshop drawings of radiator frames for large earth-moving equipment Project management and design of a large machine incorporating sheet metal fabrication, pneumatic system and high pressure water system, all integrated into a fully automated machine Program PLC software and HMI interface for an ultrasonic machine

  • Co-founder at Onekleen
    Aug 2016 - Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • CTO at Swap Kitchen Order
    Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 · 6 mos