Greater Brisbane Area
Experienced Instrument and Control Systems Engineer, Consultant and Business Leader with a proven reputation for driving business outcomes through clear, honest communications, authentic leadership and personal integrity. Passionate about identifying and implementing new technologies to achieve lasting business and community benefits. Extensive multi-industry expertise across Oil, CSG, LNG, Power, Manufacturing, Mining, Refining, Water Treatment and Chemicals, with particular capability in refineries, gas compression and pipelines, pulp and paper, chemical recovery and plants, boilers, converting and packaging, alumina, copper, uranium and gold mining. Accomplished engineering project leader on both small and large complex projects with a holistic approach to problem solving. Experienced in client representative, engineering design manager, and technology vendor roles with the ability to quickly and proactively learn and apply new technology and processes. Highly regarded interpersonal and communication skills with proven ability to establish strong rapport and garner respect at all levels of organisation's. Flexible, adaptable and resilient, thriving in fast moving and rapidly changing environments.
Helping clients achieve their goals with digital systems.
Role: Responsible for developing and delivery of the digital transformation program for Westside Corporation. Key Achievements: Led the development of the digital transformation vision 2025 and strategy Developed and gained approval for the 2022 and 2023 corporate digital transformation program with annual budgets Led developed and implemented several projects in the program Westside corporation central control room concept Compressor data analytics platform installed. Production and Asset Performance Improvement Project Began a cultural change program for treating data as an asset Data cleansing for core asset master data including wells, surface facility assets Definition of a corporate asset hierarchy for coal seam gas assets Proof of concept for re-development of the Aveva OSI PI Historian and asset framework. Developed and successfully rolled out a Westside Business glossary application. PI Process data asset framework re-design Developed a corporate applications and data governance policy, framework, procedures with an applications register. Provided support, staff training and development of Westside Corporations operational systems including: Westside’s document and drawing management system Aveva (OSI Soft) PI process data historian Developed and implemented quick wins (small but necessary application developments) including: Self service document and drawing register app. A self service process line number register app. Issue management app for Compressor analytics Program Management app Project Controls app Asset Tree Reference and Visualisation app using a multifaceted taxonomy People and Roles app Corporate Lessons Learned app Project Research and Development app Well Data Cleansing app
Role: Responsible for the team leadership of a team of eight engineers for Westside Corporation. Key Achievements: Successfully led and developed several projects including; Design and implement an engineering document management system, for Westside Queensland and New Zealand oil and gas production assets. Feasibility study for additional power generation at sales gas compressor station Water tank farm pumping station upgrade Flow meter technology proving skid Developed a concept proposal for development of a wind farm Development of a Safety Critical Element register for Westside New Zealand Gas Plant (Major Hazard Facility) Water tank overflow incident investigation and root cause analysis Water trunkline network and pump station upgrade Developed a capital project development process Develop processes for the engineering team Provided input to field development plan for communications network infrastructure Safely managed the engineering team during the Covid pandemic Developed and Implemented engineering standards Participated in a new generation wellhead control and metering skid design
Role: Responsible for all instrumentation and control systems support and improvement projects for Westside Corporation, including both coal seam gas assets in Qld and conventional oil and gas assets in New Zealand. Responsible for maintaining reliable SCADA, DCS and PLC and Safety systems Managing support contracts and contractors Participate in Hazop and safety reviews Key Achievements: Successfully led and developed several projects, including; Implementation of an engineering document and drawing management system across two Westside businesses. Recommissioning a 1MW gas driven power generator (grid connected) Upgrade of the Delta V DCS control system and upgrade/replacement of the control room console desk and equipment for Rimu gas plant Redesign of control system for well head gas skids with SCADA integration Wellhead skid integration with a new LTE network Electrical equipment in hazardous areas dossier system upgrade. Beam pump upgrade project, tender and install GE-Lukin water pump with SCADA integration
Role: Responsible for pre-sales consulting, customer training. Key Achievements: Developed a business plan and training modules for customer training program for Transmax traffic control applications.
My responsibilities included, managing a team of instrumentation and control engineers, including the responsibility for the safety, engineering quality and business performance of the group. The group specialises in engineering to maintain safe plant and electrical equipment in industries with hazardous areas such as oil and gas, refining, mining, chemicals processing, water treatment and transport. Key Achievements included: Consistently achieved safety, finance and project delivery KPI’s, in particular; - Achieved zero lost time injuries for the whole period - Achieved and maintained average utilisation above 85% for 3 years - Achieved and maintained invoicing efficiency above 95% for the group - Developed a business improvement strategy for Energy Developments central control centres which identified over $4M in benefits. - Contributed significantly to the successful startup of the APLNG plant on Curtis Island, consulting with Bechtel's Engineering Management on site and in Houston to provide instrumentation and control system engineering services for their Honeywell control system which resulted in a faster and incident free start-up of the LNG plant. - Facilitated client workshops for major clients such as Origin Energy, QGC (BG Group) which successfully reduced their risk and improved operability or their hazardous facilities. - Obtained funding for and implemented an instrumentation design tool which improved revenue, reduced costs to clients by more than 20% and improved quality and consistency of project deliverables - Developed an employee training plan for graduate engineers which increased their effectiveness and speed of transition into instrumentation and control system design and resulted in significantly improved productivity and reduced engineering costs.
Successfully led project teams for instrument and control systems preliminary and detail designs for various oil and gas and oil refinining clients including QGC, Santos, InterOil. This included facilitating alarm rationalisation reviews, performing safety integrity level (SIL) verifications and delivering design documentation including P&ID's, instrument lists, datasheets, cable block diagrams, cable schedules, specifications, scopes of work, IO lists, layouts, termination and loop diagrams, control software functional specifications, control system functional test procedures. Key Achievements: - Led successful engineering project teams for various multidiscipline projects for coal seam gas wellhead surface facilities for SANTOS with delivery to budget and very tight project schedules, with zero incidents. - Achieved clients’ goals to increase safety and reduce risk by applying safety in design to numerous instrument and control system designs for hazardous oil, fuel and gas facilities including: - Designing innovative gas and fire detection and shutdown system for InterOil’s refinery control room which resulted in improved safety for control room operators - Providing invaluable HAZOP input into an extensive study of two BP bulk fuel terminals including BP’s highest risk fuel terminal in the world - Verification of Safety Integrity Level (SIL) for power station gas turbine for IHI Engineering - SIL verification for Interoil Oil refinery bulk fuel tank overfill protection upgrade - Providing layers of protection analysis and improved control system design for Santos which enabled them to reduce the risk of environmental incidents from their water tanks - Successfully directed a large complex brownfield project for QGC, for the design of a fire and gas emergency shutdown system upgrade for gas fired plant, producing deliverables of such high quality that no construction queries or modifications were required and tight project schedules and budgets were met.