Overview
Malcolm is a graduate mechanical engineer with 9 years engineering and 16 years management consultancy
experience.
Consultancy experience and achievements
In 16 years of management consultancy,
Malcolm has worked with around 500 companies. With these companies, the
following are some of the achievements:
·
Successful audit and implementation of ISO
9000 "Quality Systems" and resultant 3rd party certification of
almost 200 clients.
·
Successful running of ISO 9001 training
courses, including internal auditing workshops, on behalf of Business Links,
Chambers and directly for clients.
·
Measurable improvements in the quality of
clients' products and services during the implementation of ISO 9001 Quality
Systems.
·
Diagnosis, action planning, implementation,
pre-assessment and final assessment of the "Investors in People" Standard for
training and development. Worked with almost 300 organisations on Investors in
People.
·
Successful implementation of Business Link
and Chamber of Commerce sponsored "Managing Change” and “Process
Re-engineering” Projects.
·
Successful implementation of the
environmental management systems standard ISO 14001
·
Annualised savings realised by clients
of up to 8 times the cost of the project.
Qualifications, skills and expertise
Malcolm
has an honours degree in mechanical engineering from Queens University in
Belfast. He is a registered lead auditor for ISO 9001 with the International
Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA registration number 01180024) and a
registered assessor and adviser for Investors in People, through the
Centre for Assessment and Recognition (North West). Malcolm is qualified
through the “Audit Commission” to conduct “Best Value” inspections of local
government in England and Wales. Malcolm is a trained “Charter Mark” assessor.
Malcolm is a listed consultant with several Business Links and Chambers of
Commerce and was originally listed under the DTI Enterprise Initiative for
Manufacturing and Quality. Malcolm's computer skills include "Microsoft Access"
programming along with web page development, along with word processing,
presentation slide and spreadsheets.
Employment experience and achievements
1989-1998, Operations director, UK based management consultancy
Built
up a £400,000 consultancy business. Achieved ISO 9001 registration for the
consultancy in November 1993, latterly transferring most systems to a computer
database. Coordinated the achievement of Investors in People recognition in
March 1994. Left in 1998 to set up Hawkstone Consulting.
1980-1989,
Senior Project Engineer, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
Responsible to the Senior
Projects Manager for the management of complex, multi-million pound,
international, engineering
projects. Responsibilities included product design, development and
qualification, specification of manufacturing
routes, supplier evaluation and selection, design and implementation of Quality
and Information Technology Systems, control of project cost and installation
schedules. Management of six to ten subordinate design engineers or draughtsmen.
Successful completion of a £90 million project, i.e. within the planned
timescale and cost, and operating at better than the design output.
