John is a Chartered Engineer with a BA Hons degree (1st Class) and over 40 years of instrumentation, control, telecommunication and automation experience, Including a period of 10 years involved in the development, manufacture and commissioning of instrumentation, process control,telemetry equipment and LV Switchgear.
Over the past 30 years John has held a variety of positions within
North West Water, Bechtel Water, Bechtel Telecommunications, Bechtel
Rail and
United Utilities Engineering including Principal Engineer, Senior
Engineer, Lead discipline engineer, and EICA site manager. During
this period John also spent time working with NWW Australia
commissioning the MacArthur Water Treatment Works in Sydney.
John also spent a five year period working throughout Europe in the high speed telecommunications industry, developing network infrastructure for the Viatel & Pangea global communication networks, including sub-sea cables, landing stations in the North Sea and Baltic, network hosting locations in all the major European and Scandinavian cities and 2000 km of interconnecting long haul fibre optic cabling.
John’s latest role was Technical Strategy Manager (Operational
Technology) for United Utilities plc. having responsibility for the
development of company OT strategy and policy that is aligned to UU
Business/ICT strategies and industry best practice for automation.
John has been extensively involved in the development of
specifications for Electrical Control Panels, Electrical
Installations, Motor Control Centres, Instrumentation, PLC & SCADA systems
and process control software. Including working with TATA
consultancy services in India to develop software standards/costing
models and the establishment of
framework supply agreements with international equipment
manufacturers.
In addition to this, he is a Registered European Engineer (Eur. Ing,) a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a member of the Institute of Engineering Technology (MIET) and he sat on both national and international industry steering groups.