Michael Kerley

Global Technology Manager - Business Line Pulp, Paper & Fiber @ ABB | R&D Management, Product Development, Software Development

Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland

About

Technology Manager @ ABB | R&D Management, Product Development Technology Manager @ ABB | Pulp and Paper Industry Leading Innovation and Technology for ABB's Pulp and Paper Products As the Technology Manager for ABB's Global Pulp and Paper Business Line, I lead the R&D management for ABB's product portfolio in this sector. With over 30 years of product development experience in software, hardware, and industrial automation, I have a strong technical background and excellent business acumen. I lead teams of multidisciplinary and geographically distributed engineers to deliver innovative and cutting-edge products to the global market, managing the full product development lifecycle. I also collaborate with universities, customers, and other stakeholders to ensure our products meet the highest standards of quality, performance, and customer satisfaction. My mission is to enable the pulp and paper industry to achieve greater efficiency, sustainability, and profitability with ABB's solutions.

Experience

  • ABB (22 yrs 11 mos)
    • Global Technology Manager - Business Line Pulp, Paper & Fiber
      Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    • Global Business Line Pulp & Paper - Technology Manager
      Oct 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Technology management for ABB's Pulp and Paper product portfolio..

    • QCS Technology Center Manager
      Apr 2012 - Oct 2022 · 10 yrs 7 mos

      Site Manager responsible for all R&D, project engineering and customer support groups at our Quality Control Systems (QCS) Technology Center in Ireland. Here we develop a portfolio of cutting-edge measurement, actuator, controls and software products for the global Pulp and Paper industry. Our manufacturing plant is based in Shanghai.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Measuresoft Development Ltd
    Aug 1993 - Jul 2003 · 10 yrs

    Senior Software Engineer in software company specialising in industrial monitoring and control systems for oil and gas, manufacturing, instrumentation and test and research laboratories. SCADA product and applications development Data logging product and applications development C++ / VB6 / XML / XSLT / SQL / ATL / MFC / ADO / Windows Platforms