Reliability of Systems and Equipment Operated in Harsh Environments

Andy Harrison: Engineering Associate Fellow - Life Cycle Engineering, Rolls-Royce

Andrew Harrison is a Rolls-Royce Engineering Associate Fellow, now in his 33rd year with the company. Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.  He holds a Bachelors degree in Pure and Applied Physics and a Masters in Business Administration. He is an Honorary Professor at Aston Business School and a Visiting Fellow to Cranfield University. Andrew is a Technical expert in Engineering for Service with a specific focus on Design for Service, Life Cycle Cost analysis, Service Knowledge Management and digitally enabled decision support, leading global capability development in each of these areas.

James Neophytou: Executive Partner, Watson Internet of Things, IBM

James works with Industrial and Oil & Gas clients across Engineering, Asset and Work Management and Operational Readiness. He has worked in Angola, Vietnam, Egypt, Ghana, Kuwait, UK and the USA. His clients include Chevron, Shell, BP, Tullow Oil, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Kuwait Petrochemicals. James specialises in Enterprise Asset Management, the Internet of Things and Predictive Maintenance. He is a Chartered Accountant by training, and a Member of the Energy Institute. James has been with IBM for 15 years.

Robert McMillan: Product Safety Officer and Head of Engineering Wind Power UK, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Limited

Robert McMillan joined Siemens in 2006 directly from the Military and has been in Siemens Wind Power since 2011. Before taking up his current roles Robert was the Head of Onshore Service Sales and subsequently as a Special Projects Manager looking at Product Improvements and associated safety in design. Prior to joining Siemens Wind Power, Robert worked in the Oil & Gas part of Siemens Energy Service, in engineering, sales and management roles for Small Gas Turbines in the Far East. Working out of the Siemens Lincoln facility, this involved travelling to meet, review & negotiate with customers in places such as Japan, Australia, Malaysia & China. Whilst also liaising closely with the relevant Siemens Regional Entity colleagues. After an apprenticeship from the age of 16 Robert spent over 20 years serving in the Royal Air Force as an aircraft engineer, managing and maintaining various fixed and rotary aircraft.  He has served in many Global Operations and also spent a period of time as a Unit Movements Officer; planning, coordinating and implementing overseas deployments.

Nigel Marshall: Engineering Manager - New Business, Typhoon General Systems, BAE Systems Plc

Nigel is an Engineering Manager for Typhoon General Systems. Having started his career in the printing industry, he moved to BAE Systems over 20 years ago and has worked on the Tornado, F35 and Typhoon projects.  Work on Life Support, Utilities Control, Propulsion, Secondary Power and Health Management systems has given Nigel experience of Flight Systems on combat aircraft throughout their design lifecycle.

Renzo Tostini: Senior Rotating Equipment Mechanical Engineer, Bechtel

Renzo Tostini is a PMP CEng MIMechE with extensive experience in the Oil, Gas and Chemical industry. Technical expertise in the field of Rotating Equipment, Turbo Machinery and Auxiliary Systems for Oil, Gas and Chemical Plant applications. He is actively involved in the API SOME for the API Standard 617. After a brief experience in the automotive engineering sector, he spent most of his career in the OG&C field, working with ENI/Saipem and Bechtel. His experience is diversified through various Large EPC Projects, including Ammonia and Urea Plants, Refineries and Gas Treatment Plants.

James Palmer: Senior Systems Engineer - Small Modular Reactors, Rolls-Royce

James is a senior systems engineer working for Rolls-Royce on the Small Modular Reactor programme. James has experience working on multiple reactor plant design projects in both the civil and defence industries. He has developed technical expertise in systems engineering, safety and reliability assessments, safety case development and thermal-hydraulic performance, specialised within the field of reactor plant design and operation. James studied mathematics and physics (MSci) at the University of Bath where he graduated with honours.

Bruce Henry: Mechanical Systems Engineer, SSE Engineering Centre

Bruce Henry is a chartered mechanical engineer who has worked in the wind energy industry in both the UK and the USA over the last 10 years. His experience covers managing a technical team involved in wind farm development and design for RES ltd., working as a mechanical systems engineer on a remote onshore wind farm construction site for SSE and also assessing reliability, performance and asset integrity risk of SSEs fleet of over 1000 onshore wind turbines.

Chris Pickford: Equipment Reliability Engineer, Sellafield Ltd.

Chris began his career within the aerospace defence sector as a Materials Engineer supporting products from cradle (concept) to grave (disposal). Chris developed and managed research programmes for establishing the performance and reliability of novel and traditional materials across diverse, harsh environments. Chris now works within the Equipment Reliability team at Sellafield where he is the Subject Matter Expert for Ageing Management of Assets. The processes he has developed utilise life assessment tools to predict component life across different operating environments directly informing other processes such as Asset Management and Maintenance.

Mark Norris: Managing Consultant, Sweco UK Ltd.

Daren Payne: Principal Systems Engineer, Landing Gear, Airbus

Daren has worked within the aerospace industry for over 25 years. He began his career within the space industry, designing attitude control systems for scientific satellites. This was followed by a move to military aviation, designing hydraulic and electro-mechanical flight controls. He now works within Airbus, responsible for the maturity and airworthiness of the landing gear systems on the A320 and A330 programmes.

Mark Jenkins: EHS Project and Stakeholder Manager for Global Centre of Competence (Offshore), Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Limited

Mark Jenkins joined the EHS Centre of Competence in 2014. The small grouping of safety professionals had been ‘handpicked’ to analyze significant risk in the offshore wind power sector. Prior to Joining the EHS Centre of Competence Mark was head of Health and Safety for the Service business for the UK and Ireland. Previously Mark held a EHS manager role during the construction and hand over of the London Array wind farm, at the time the largest offshore wind farm in the world. Before joining the wind industry Mark was a Safety Manager for the Siemens Electrical transmission business. Mark started his career with a regional electricity business where he trained and qualified as an electrician. Mark is a chartered member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and currently chairs the IOSH offshore group. Mark is also a Specialist Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Managers.

Ben Hunkins: Principal Engineer, Dynamic Positioning, DNV GL Noble Denton Marine Services

Ben Hukins has been involved in the oil & gas and marine industries for approximately 20 years involved in the design and supply of equipment and the verification of new projects for the offshore market. Ben joined DNV GL in 2008 working as a verification engineering on brownfield offshore project but following the merger of DNV and GL he transitioned to the Noble Denton marine services (NDms) business line in which he currently works. NDms are responsible for performing Failure Modes and Effects Analysis of dynamic positioning systems onboard vessels as well as other mission critical systems such as cable-lay, pipe-lay and cranes.

Keith Wishart: Partner, IBM

Keith is a partner in IBM's Watson and IoT business. He is an experienced executive leader and innovation consultant in major infrastructure and capital delivery programmes of multi-billion in the Energy and Utilities sector. He has a background in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and advanced analytics and now focuses on embedding innovation, business strategy and transformation in asset-intensive industries in particular where there is a high degree of collaboration across a global supply- chain required to deliver the required outcomes and efficiencies.