Education attended
- Ormond East Primary School
- Oakleigh Technical College
- Brighton Technical College
- Caulfield Technical College
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- Chisholm Institute of Technology
- Swinburne Institute of Technology
- Country Fire Authority CFA
Main Studies Undertaken
- Art Smith Apprenticeship
- Blacksmith Apprenticeship (RPL) plus added studies.
- Boiler Maker (RPL) plus added studies.
- Welding certificates 1 to 10 DLI
- Welding Supervisor
- Ultrasonic Technician. Production Equipment DLI
- Non-Destructive Testing NDT DLI
- Welding Engineering Degree
- Cryogenic affects on weldments. Ph.D
- Industrial Design
- Aerodynamics
- Marketing, Chisholm Institute
- Commercialisation, Product Development
- Advanced CAD 3D surfacing, Simulation, Key Creator Chisholm Institute
- Emergency Management, Logistics level III, Planning level III CFA Collage
- Advanced Firefighting, Strike Team Leader CFA
- Training and Assessment cert 3 Swinburne
Employment / Contracting
- Braumuller’s wrought Iron 1973 – 1975
- Overseas training Europe 1975-1976
- Melbourne Harbour Trust 1976 – 1981
- Teaching RMIT (part time) 1978 to 1987
- Production Equipment 1981 – 1982
- Contract Consulting 1982 – present
- Projects for
- Bechtel Pacific, GHA Engineers, Reid Wood, Goss Corp, Oceans P/L, UN, Construction Corporation, BHP, Dulux, Hyundai Engineering, PRA
- Department of Sustainability and Environment,
DSE, Victorian Dept of Agriculture - Vic Rail, Adelaide Brighton Cement, Fosters group, RMA, Rivalea (Australia) Pty Ltd
- US Dept Agriculture, Woodside, Australis Aquaculture,
- Airflow Vector 1992 – present
- Volunteer Fire fighter 1996 to 2012 (Captain, Main Ridge FB, 1999 to 2011)
Projects undertaken
- Railway line removal system and manufacture of rail equipment
- Rail installation systems and manufacture of rail equipment
- Bladder valve (liquid storage)
- Material handling equipment systems (various)
- Transport and loading systems for Rail, Heavy Vehicle and Mining (various)
- Modular mobile toilet and showering system, quick deployment
- Heat Exchangers, various, and associated spooling (Petrochemical)
- Refrigeration systems and monitoring
- Cryogenic environment equipment and systems
- Water Tank systems, storage tank and process design
- Water recycling and monitoring systems
- Sludge and viscous materials recovery, recycling systems
- Aquaculture mooring systems, nets, systems (various)
- Handling, processing equipment and systems in aquaculture
- Slaughter System (IKE JIME) Fish processing Automated (current)
- Anti-fouling treatment, nets, marine equipment e.g. buoys and work vessels
- Hydroponic systems and equipment (various)
- Vehicle storage systems design (various)
- Cold air induction systems (various)
- Air filtering systems for automotive and heavy industries
- Mining processing equipment (various)
- Marine, Piling, Platform, Mooring, Buoys, rigging, systems.
- Marine water craft, service boats, barges, apparatus for aquaculture and mooring (various)
- Feed processing, nutrition control, delivery systems, Biomass, monitoring control systems in Agriculture and Aquaculture (pigs, chicken, fish)
- Rota moulding process machinery (various)
- Film Extrusion bag processing line (various)
- Surface reclamation heavy equipment (various).
- Conveyor systems (various)
- Tool design and process systems in the following. Metal stamping, Rota moulding, Fabrication, Machining, Product assembly and control and monitoring of product output
- Structural steel fabrication and erection (various)
- Forging, light and heavy
- Product development of automotive accessories to market: Fuel tank, Bull bars, Air jacks, Snorkels, Spare wheel carriers, Suspension parts, Mobile water heater from vehicle engine, water storage, Impact absorbing systems
- Seaweed treatments, seeding and harvesting (current)
Through my Engineering Company and our team of engineers and systems people we have provided engineering solutions from R&D to product development and from design to commercialisation: in Agriculture and Aquaculture for intense farming, control of biomass inputs and outputs; and tooling for the Petrochemical, Automotive, Mining and Rail industries in plastics, metal and electronics. We have deleivered from final manufacture through to commissioning for many of the above projects.