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Michael Brown

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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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David Rodwell

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David Rodwell

BEng Civil Engineering, Dip Project Management, MAPM

David founded XecPro Services in 2020 following a 21-year career with AMEC working in the UK and overseas and, more recently, 5 years working for National Grid Gas (NGG).

During his career, David has held senior operational and commercial positions applying his expertise in setting business strategy, business planning and growth, business management, programme and project management, commercial management, business transformation and business turnarounds.

Whilst at AMEC, David project managed a variety of utility, energy and construction projects ranging from consultancy, contractor works & services and turnkey design and build capital projects of values ranging up to £500 million. Geographically, David has worked across Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Bosnia and Serbia for 6 years and also spent 12 months in South Carolina working within the PMO of FluorAMEC project managing Iraq reconstruction projects.

At his time with NGG, David developed a growth strategy and executed a business growth plan for their internal contracting division, doubling turnover whilst maintaining +20% EBIT contribution. This was achieved in less than 4 years using a combination of securing new contracts, modernisation and transformation of the business by implementation of several improvement projects, improved workforce utilisation and the introduction of an apprentice scheme to mitigate a workforce demographic issue.

Trained in agile and scaled agile methodologies, David was appointed the Product Owner of the cost management transformation project for NGG in 2019. This project introduced a new cost library, end-to-end business cost management processes and controls and a new asset taxonomy based on ISO14224. The transformation project delivered a management procedure and asset management process to heighten the level of cost intelligence across the business. The subsequent improvements which allowed NGG to make better decisions on asset intervention selection, was estimated to deliver between £30 to £40 million of TOTEX reductions over RIIO 2. In addition, David was responsible for providing the cost justifications and presenting unit cost information to Ofgem to support the RIIO2 business plan worth £1.5 billion of regulatory income to NGG.

David now provides a wide range of business services to the energy and utility sectors via XecPro Services offering the skills and expertise he has acquired to help organisations deliver better business outcomes. For more information on these services please visit https://www.xecpro.co.uk/services.