Michael Brown

Michael Brown

BSc.(Hons) (Open) C.Eng MIET MInstMC

Controls and Instrumentation Consultant

EJB Engineering Solutions Ltd.

Michael founded EJB Engineering Solutions after returning from overseas assignments with a long career in lead engineering positions within the oil and gas sector.

He has a strong background in instrument, controls, telecommunications, and metering engineering. Roles held encompass a variety of practical applications ranging from Technical Authority, Lead I & C Engineer (both operations and projects), Lead E, I, C & T Engineer and consultant.

Michael has over 30 years’ experience in manufacturing and energy industries both operational and in a range of project environments. During this time he has worked for a number of oil and gas organisations of varying sizes, including major ‘blue-chip’ companies.

His geographic experience includes numerous locations throughout the UK, Singapore, Japan, Korea and Indonesia, which includes the proposed development of a carbon neutral facility within a new oil and gas basin within the Southern Atlantic.

He has a working and detailed knowledge of functional safety (TUV certified); alarm management; industrial automation; cyber security; all elements of Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSS); Integrated Intelligent Operations (IIO); marine telecommunications; metering packages; power generation packages and distribution plus systems interface management and has a keen interest in human factors engineering. 

As a Lead C&I professional in his field, Michael is highly experienced in:

• Understanding end user goals and effectively framing these requirements

• Capital project engineering design, procurement as well as construction and commissioning management

• System development from initial project specifications through detail design, commissioning and operation

• I, C & T vendor and subcontract management

• Managing and guiding multi-national / multi-cultural teams.

Michael’s varied skillset can support issue resolution; short term operational support; minor projects; PEER reviews; major capital investment decisions and development of forward-thinking strategies.

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Len Taylor

Len Taylor

Having operated in many market sectors (power, petrochemical, renewables, pharma and oil and gas), Len is able to bring the benefits of operations/technology transfer across sectors to increase business performance for international companies operating in both the UK and overseas. He has worked within owner operator companies (both in operations and manufacturing) and EPC organisations (with multinational offices for project delivery and design).

Roles in these sectors have been at senior management levels including C-Level, focusing on business strategic direction/implementation, and new market and product development. Len is currently engaged as Northern Powerhouse Sector Specialist Offshore Wind and Renewables for the Dept for international Trade.

As a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, ex Regional Board member of the EEF (now called Make UK), and ex Regional Chair of the ECITB, Len is a highly qualified and experienced person; his knowledge and experience is focused through consultancy activities to SME’s and larger organisations.

Len’s considerable business experience means he is able to offer support in any business environment, be it through directly supporting the management team through coaching and mentoring, through to facilitating an organisation to develop strategies and address key business challenges. Organisations benefit from his expertise in business transformation, operational improvement and strategy, delivered from a perspective of experience, common sense and pragmatism.

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Gary Pettite

Gary Pettite

MBA MSC

P3M Advisory

Operations Optimisation

Productivity Coach

K2i Ltd.

An experienced Project Leader and accredited Coach with over 25 years’ energy sector experience, working effectively in collaboration with industry, clients, PMCs and Tier1 delivery organisations..

Before joining Travivas, Gary completed over 20 years' service with a leading consultancy and project management business where he gained a wealth of technical skills and leadership experience working at different levels in the organisation.

During this time, he was actively involved in the delivery of some of the largest capital investment programmes within the UK, providing increased resilience to client infrastructure across the energy sector.

Customer focused and people centric, Gary is passionate about elevating performance levels and helping individuals, teams and organisations positively succeed.

In 2018 Gary founded K2i Limited with the primary purpose of supporting clients to shape their future, inspiring change and making their world a better place.

K2i is a coaching-led consultancy that uses a combination of industry leadership experience, current research and breakthrough coaching concepts to work with clients to find strategies and solutions to the problems and challenges they face.

The approach offered by K2i provides the necessary expertise, knowledge and focus to enable clients to clearly understand what needs to be done to implement straightforward action-driven solutions, leading to embedded change and long-term personal and business success.

K2i services offered through Travivas include:

P3M Advisory

• Project, Programme and Portfolio Management

• Bid management and support

• Project controls and risk management

• Stage-gate reviews, peer reviews and project sponsorship

• Turnaround and recovery

Optimising Operations

• Process design and capacity configuration

• Performance benchmarking

• Process re-engineering

• Continuous improvement

• Failure prevention & recovery

Productivity coaching

• Helping people, teams and business positively succeed

• Personal coaching to elevate performance levels

• Leadership coaching to make more of a positive impact

• Team coaching to move beyond team building

• Business coaching to improve productivity and performance results

Gary holds an MBA in Business Administration and MSc in Manufacturing, Management & Technology. He has successfully completed the Effective Leadership Programme, and the Project Sponsors Programme at Cranfield School of Management. He is also an active member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (MIET) and the Association of Project Management (APM) and is an accredited coach.

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Jon Tallis

Jon Tallis

BEng Hons CEng MIMechE

Mechanical and Turnround Engineer

Tallis Engineering and Consulting Services Ltd

Jon is an enthusiastic Chartered Mechanical Engineer with proven abilities in preparation and execution of major maintenance events in the petrochemical sector through team mobilisation, scope definition, event preparation, execution and closeout, both at management level and in the field.

Jon’s 18 + years’ experience in heavy maintenance and outage management at all levels, plus an additional 10 in wider engineering brings deep expertise, gained not just in the petrochemical sector, of what works (and what doesn't).

Direct and to the point, Jon takes a pride in getting work done safely and integrating easily into a client's organisation at whatever level is needed, seeing projects from inception to completion or undertaking short-term interventions to support execution or carrying out “cold eyes” review of event preparation. Jon has the expertise, inter-personal abilities and energy to see challenging assignments through to a successful conclusion.

Jon is available for worldwide assignments both long and short term

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Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

MCIPS

Director & Founder

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited (JPS) are a UK North East based procurement specialist, founded by Steve Johnson in 2016. Following a long and successful career in the procurement and commercial sector across a range of organisations, Steve has amassed a wealth of knowledge and has established JPS as a result of his learnings and a desire to add value, offer exceptional performance and provide an integrated service on an interim or outsourced basis.

Prior to founding JPS, Steve held a number of leadership positions in large blue-chip companies with annual spend responsibility ranging £400-£500m.

These included Laing O’Rourke, one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction companies. AMEC Power & Process Europe - later AMEC Foster Wheeler now Wood. With an excess of 25 years’ experience, Steve is a driven procurement and commercial leader with extensive experience and a track record in Energy, Oil and Gas, M&E Services, Telecommunication Networks, IT, Construction Procurement and Commercial Management within the UK and Europe.

Working in leadership roles, Steve has led and completed numerous strategic transformation programs as well as established strategic category procurement targets delivering multi- million-pound annual cost reductions to each business. He has implemented business wide systems and procedures to provide greater cost visibility and governance controls as well as streamlining the key process to establish lean working.

Steve mentors and develops key staff, recruits, trains and provides leadership in order to ensure business objectives are achieved. He engages with other senior business leaders on a day-to-day basis to ensure communication and stakeholder engagement are fully integrated to support the delivery teams.

Steve was on the board of the AMEC global supply chain steering group and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply (MCIPS). Steve has presented procurement and supply chain strategies at major supply chain events and forums including the Energy Industries Council.

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Adrian Fenton

Adrian Fenton

BSc CEng MIMechE MAPM

Partner and Founder

LordFenton Associates

Adrian founded LordFenton Associates after a long career in senior positions in various sectors. He joined AMEC in 1999 after 11 years with Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. Adrian worked as Global Lead Project Function in developing a role as Project Sponsor as part of the CEO’s Operational Excellence programme. He worked in the transport sector in the 1980’s.

In January 2009, Adrian was appointed Head of Project and Programme Management for AMEC Power and Process Europe, which had an annual turnover in excess of £500m and employed over 5000 people.

Adrian has over 30 years experience in project delivery, leading projects in transport, power, infrastructure and oil and gas. He has performed as the leader on major alliance projects delivering major capital investments, as well as performing management of portfolios of smaller projects, together with major business transformational growth work.

His geographic experience includes 2 years in Indonesia working in a Joint Venture with a Japanese contractor to deliver a $2.5bn refining investment, where he was Lead Engineering Manager on three large process units including an 85,000BPD Catalytic Cracking Unit.

As a Head of Project Management in a large business for several years, Adrian has developed experience and provided sustainable growth by:

• Supporting recruitment and retention

• Developing staff and career paths, including developing functional content for the AMEC Academy

• Producing and maintaining procedures, guidelines, and processes to enable the business to execute and manage work effectively and profitably

• Leading the governance of projects by carrying out start up and peer reviews

• Developing relationships with customers through internal and external stakeholder management

• Collaborating across the markets and sectors to share best practice

Adrian is a Chartered Engineer with a Diploma in Engineering Management and bachelors degree from Loughborough University. He was the business member representative with the Association for Project Management, and achieved accreditation from the APM for project management development programmes and coaching.

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Ian Glendinning

Ian Glendinning

MBA, BSc(Eng), CEng, MIMechE, MWeldI, ACGI, DIC

Engineering & Information Management Consultant & Founder at Glenco IS Ltd

Ian is a professionally qualified engineer and manager, with over 40 years process plant systems engineering.

This covers the full life-cycle from requirements & functional schematic development, through design, materials, welded fabrication, construction, assurance & handover to operators & authorities. This includes containment system integrity, trouble-shooting, revamp & turnaround experience on operating facilities in oil & gas, LNG, refining, energy, chemical & pharma assets.

With that first-hand perspective of the real engineering life-cycle, Ian has been active in recent decades in leading the implementation of information-standards-based interoperability and handovers, for EPC & O&M customers and software solution providers, extending to collaboration & digital transformation projects for an even wider range of industries, in infrastructure, nuclear, transport, aerospace, as well as oil and gas.

In that period Ian has been instrumental in the evolution of reference data architectures for flexible & future-proof industrial standards for lifecycle-information ontologies.

Apart from football, sailing, hiking and gardening, most of Ian’s spare time is taken up by a hobby researching epistemology, asking “What, Why & How do we Know?” applied to decision-making and change in human organisations.

However, Ian remains first and foremost an engineer specialising in information management at plant facilities business interfaces that maintain system & information integrity across the full life-cycle and is flexible about contract and/or employment terms that enable client engagement towards useful solutions.

Tools & Technologies come and go, but Lifecycle Information lives on forever.

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John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw

Dynamic experience business leader and consultant, with a successful track record of leading Business Development, Operational Leadership, change and delivery, in both contracting and consultancy environments across a diverse range of highly regulated industry sectors, from privately owned SME’s to large multinational corporations.

A strong business acumen and demonstrated capacity to optimise all operational aspects of growing a business by striving to improve quality, productivity, and efficiency and through work winning. Trusted leader and business partner adept at mentoring and coaching individual managers to build team’s abilities and support attainment of agreed indicators related to financial and operational performance.

A professionally qualified Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a former member of the process industries division of the IMechE. A BSi certified 6Sigma Black Belt and has successfully instigated and delivered a number of major organisational change programmes based on Lean principles.

A wealth of transferable skills and experience gained across the Nuclear, Infrastructure, Engineering and the Built Environment. With a flair for seeing beyond the obvious, possesses a rare capability of being a strategic visionary, but equally able to translate that into practical application and delivery.

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