The ACI Global Business Improvement Specialist and Technical Advisors Register provides organisations wanting part time highly experienced contract personnel, a brief overview of the experience and skill set for a number of people over a wide range of Industries sectors that can add significant value for an Organisation.
ACI Global will only release full details for each of its Business Improvement Specialist once a formal request has been made from an organisation and agreement has been made with the Business Improvement Specialist. Once an agreement has been reached a full and comprehensive CV providing Industry Experience and Prior Learning will be provided and an Interview between both parties will be arranged.
Candidates BIO's and Brief Industry and Professional Experience.
Ian Erskine - 
Managing Director and CEO.
Specialist Areas: Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety, Food Safety HACCP and Corporate Governance..
Professional Membership's and Qualifications. - Australian Fellow Australian Institute of Management (AFAIM), Member of the International Internal Auditors Association of Australia (MIIA), member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and founding member of the Global Reporting Initiative in Australasia (GRI).
Professional Experience. - Ian is an experienced senior executive with over thirty five years of executive management experience highlighted with outstanding successes in business development and creating overachievers within the workplace. Ian is an Associated Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management as well as a member of the International Internal Auditors Association, and able to draw upon a very extensive network to add to his experience. He is presently managing director of ACI Global a Global Quality Assurance service provider based in Sydney Australia, specialising in professional development through training of personnel to achieve high achiever status. He also provides specialist advice, analysis, planning and implementation of unique tools designed to significantly lift the growth and profitability of medium to large enterprises.
His work is based on the commitments and values developed during his years in senior management within the Energy, FMCG and Primary Industries. These capabilities have significant relevance to medium to large scale enterprises, none the least is a commitment to corporate governance through personal accountability, plus a passion to create an environment for strong and sustainable results. His services are invaluable in taking business's to the next level, being able to reinvigorate and untangle existing systems to achieve strong bottom line results.
Tony Stephenson - Director Education, Training and Professional Development
Specialist Areas: Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety.
Professional Membership's and Qualifications - BE [Melb] - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, ME [Auck] - Engineering and Industrial Management, FIQA - [Fellow Institute of Quality Assurance] [UK], Senior Member and Country Councillor American Society for Quality Professional Member Institute of Accredited Business Consultants (PMIABC).
Professional Experience. - Tony has significant experience with technical, service and management roles in manufacturing, education, primary production and "supply chain" industries. Tony has worked in many countries worldwide from Japan, Brazil, the USA, UK, to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia to Australia and NZ. He has been a Director of the Quality Society of Australasia, Design Awards Judge, and a Chairman / Committee member for the Independent Business Foundation, the AIEF and SEAANZ for many years.
Alan Kirkham OBE.
Specialist Areas: Quality, Environmental, Telecommunications and Maritime.
A versatile, achievement oriented leader with over 35 years experience in international markets. Has a very successful track record working for multi-national corporations and small enterprises in various strategic, operational, and general management roles and today provides mentoring support to New Zealand based businesses. A Sales and Marketing specialist, and an innovator, whose personal attributes include a strong commercial drive, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the necessary leadership qualities to succeed in the most competitive markets. Awarded an OBE for services to the Telecommunications Industry in January 1998. Alan's moto improvement delivered through a results oriented "hands on" approach
Olga Lihou
ACI Global Lead Tutor - Specialist Area's: Quality, Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety, Accident Investigation and Risk Management.
Professional Memberships - Full member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), member of the International Training and communications association (ITC) Wollongong NSW and a current memeber of JAS-ANZ Technical Committee for the Review of PO2 Procedure Issue 3. Olga has also just completed Cert IV Workplace Training and BlueCard Construction for WA.
Professional Experience. - A result orientated, self motivated Analytical Chemist with 4 years direct Technical and Managerial experience in Quality Environmental and OH&S Systems and another 31 years in the field of Industrial Chemistry. Olga is also a senior RABQSA Auditor in Environmental, Quality and Health and Safety Management Systems.
Valuable expertise has been gained across various fields of Analytical Laboratories, including Safety, Stack and Air Emission Testing within BHP Port Kembla and the Science Faculty of Wollongong University.
Key attributes include excellent Organisational skills, Commitment to "Share Best Practice" for Quality, Safety and Environment Systems within Organisations and a strong desire to reach a successful outcome. Olga has been actively engaged in OHS issues such as a Safety Officer, including over 24 years with direct involvement in the OHS issues relating to Work Place Environments. Key responsibilities included Safety Training, Hazard Risk Management, Management of Hazardous Substances Register, Implementation systems for Management of MSDS and Associated Risk Assessments, Safety Incident Reporting, Safety Meetings.
Glenice Mayo
Specialist Area: Quality, Education and Professional Development
Qualifications and Professional Development Bachelor of Applied Management (Otago Polytechnic), Lead Auditor Quality Management Systems, Certificate in Quality Education, NZ Teachers Registration Board Practising Certificate, Secondary Teachers College Diploma (with distinction).
Professional Experience. - Currently Manager of the Academic Quality Unit at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, Glenice's career has spanned the secondary and tertiary education sectors, and workplace training opportunities at national, regional and local levels.
Dr John H Troughton
Specialist Area: Design and implementation of Performance and Conformance Management Systems
Lead Author of The Quality Guru BLOG Site: - Environmental Sustainability (GreenHouse Gases, Emissions Trading and carbon Footprint.
Qualifications and Professional Development M Ag Sc, Ph D, D Sc, FRSNZ, Director, Guntonia Investments, Business Associates Networks, HomeNet Pty Ltd, and The Management Practice. NZ National Research Fellow 1966-69, Carnegie Fellow 1973, Eisenhower Fellow 1984, Member of Australian National University Council 1968-69.
Dr Troughton, through research at the Physics and Engineering Laboratory, DSIR, NZ and international projects, has developed a professional background in food processing, agriculture, horticulture, biotechnology, biophysics and ecology. His training was at Canterbury University NZ, Australian National University and Stanford University, USA. He has produced over a 100 papers and books, and lectured and consulted internationally in fields as diverse as energy, biology, information technology and business management. Corporate management experience has been gained in both Public and Private institutions such as the DSIR NZ, Goodman, Fielder, Wattie, and as Director of eight companies in the food (fresh and processed), information technology, management and high technology sectors. These companies have been in NZ, Australia, Asia, and the USA, and have involved production and marketing for both domestic and export markets
Diana MacDonald
Specialist Area: Health
Qualifications and Professional Development Accelerated Development Programme, General Management Australian Graduate School of Management Completed November 1999. Centre for Vision Leadership Palmerston North, Certificate in Leadership, 18 month course completed November 1999. Central Institute of Technology Wellington - Certificate in counselling, 2 years Completed November 1992. Palmerston North Area Health Board, Registered General Obstetric Nurse, 3 years June 1984, Registered Community Nurse, 2 years May 1975. Diana completed a 3 Day training Level 4 NZ Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS) July 2002
Professional Memberships Alumni Member - Australian Graduate School of Management Australia, Full member New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC), Registered General Obstetric Nurse, Full member of the Public Health Association NZ (PHA).
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
Geoff Edwards
Specialist Area: Transport Industry, Management Systems and Auditing - Mass, Maintenance and Fatigue.
Qualifications and Professional Development Heavy Vehicle Accreditation (HVA) Auditor + Fatigue Scope, Heavy Vehicle Accreditation (HVA) Skill Examiner.
Professional Experience. Engineering Services Manager, Manager Accreditation and Intelligence - NSW, Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) Australia, Team Leader Technical Enquiries - Vehicle Regulation RTA, Heavy Vehicle Motor Mechanic. Geoff has vast experience from working closely with the joint owners of the Australian National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme, administered and run by RABQSA International Inc. Geoff played a leading role in the development of much of the audit material and has just assisted in the development of the Fatigue Module.
John F Rule
Specialist Area's: Quality and Transport Industry, Fatigue Management Tutor, Mass, Management and Maintenance, Fatigue Management Plus Auditing RABQSA HVA Auditor (Pending Skill Examination) and Transport Systems Analyst.
Qualifications and Professional Development Workplace Trainer Assessor, Diploma of Logistics Management, John's experience is in the transport/heavy vehicle industry with a particular focus on heavy vehicle driver fatigues. His experience includes business management, fleet management, costing KPI's, managing service and maintenance facilities, all aspects of procurement, supplier contracts tenders, focus on transport legislative requirements and the implementation and management of quality and NHVAS systems.
Ribhu Nath Lavania
Specialist Area: - Software Quality, CMMI and Software Metrics, Consultant and Trainer.
Lead Author of The Quality Guru BLOG Site: - Software Quality, CMMI and Software Metrics Topics.
Qualifications and Professional Development - Platinum member of SEI Repository, active member and contributor of working professionals Yahoo group on CMMI, Participating in ATLAS (ask the lead appraisers) #12 and 14 series of CMMI model change proposals, reviewer of articles submitted to SEPG Europe. CMMI mentor of Siliconindia.com.
Professional Experience. - Ribhu has thirty one years of IT experience in Software Quality and IT manufacturing highlighted with outstanding successes in Software Quality Implementation and PC manufacturing. He is very strong in software quality concepts, Software CMM & CMMI-Dev, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 90000-3: 2004, EFQM and TQM implementation using Phil Crosby methodology. A qualified lead auditor of ISO 27001:2005 based Information Security Management Systems; he has conducted more than 67 third party ISO 9000 audits on behalf of American Quality Assessors and also a number of EFQM audits. Ribhu has led four CMMI initiatives in India and Philippines and is presently perusing to become a SEI Authorized CMMI Trainer and Lead Appraiser.
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
John Petersen
Specialist Area: - Training Services Manager
Professional Qualifications - Bachelor Business [SYD] - Majoring in Accounting certification - Sales and Marketing [SYD], Quality Auditor, OHS Training.
Professional Experience. - John is an experienced senior executive with over 15 years of management in areas that include Project Management, Quality Assurance, Accounting and administration, Business Development, Sales and Marketing. These positions were held in a variety of industries that include Smartcard Technology, Hospitality, Marine Engineering, Catering, Information Technology, Advertising and Industrial Machinery.
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
Dr Joy Murray - Triple Bottom Line Reporting
Joy Murray is a part-time member of the multi-disciplinary Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. In 2006 she completed a two-year action research project working with representatives from business and industry, government and non-government organisations to turn the ISA TBL methodology into a user-friendly software tool. Joy's other part-time job is with The Benevolent Society, the oldest charitable organisation in Australia, building leadership capacity among residents of government housing estates in Eastern Sydney. In a previous life she was the New South Wales manager of the state government's IT training strategy for teachers.
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
Dr Yan Poh Soon
Dr Yan is an internationally recognised engineering & management system auditor and trainer. He provides services to industries covering food, chemical, automotive, marine, aerospace, mechatronic and info-com technology.
Qualified with a Doctorate in business administration, Dr Yan is also a USA Registered Professional Engineer in manufacturing, UK Chartered Engineer in electrical & marine engineering, as well as UKAS recognised Lead Auditor.
With his expertise, Dr Yan is well equipped to provide you with total solutions to your strategic and operational needs.
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
Ann N. Bersbach
Professional Qualifications; Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, A.A.S., Electrical Engineering Technology, 1993, Alexandria University, Egypt, M.B.CH.B., Biology and Physical Science, 1982. Degree is equivalent to BS plus graduate study towards Masters Degree. Class IV Municipal certified operator in wastewater Class D Industrial certified operator in wastewater Current OSHA 40 hours certificate, Certified in drinking water microbiology laboratory.
Representative Project Experience Wastewater Treatment Manager - Green Coating Division, Connersville Indiana. Industrial plant experience includes: Systems design and update. Maintenance programs and equipment purchases. Solids handling and disposal. Chemicals storage transport and disposal. Compliance reports and permits. Treatment of heavy metal wastes, hexavalent chromium, complexed zinc and cyanide. Designed cyanide destruct system. Experience in meat packing industries, DAF systems and biological treatment. Ammonia removal and ponds systems.
Certified Operator: Class "IV" municipal and class "D" Industrial wastewater Certified operator in Indiana. Completed and submitted Monthly reports of operation, discharge monitoring reports and sludge annual reports to the government. Completed and submitted state and federal reports related to hazardous waste such as biennial report, SARA title II report and underground storage tank.
Wastewater Engineer: - System Design: Municipal: Activated sludge plants, trickling filter plants, SBRs and combined plants. Industrial: Electroplating and metal finishing plants, automotive industry, oil refinery, pulp and paper, food, poultry andmeat-packing.
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
Robert Dewstow
Senior Executive with diverse industry experience and a strong General Management, Legal and Commercial background. Bob has well developed interpersonal skills, results-oriented and is dedicated to cost effective business solutions and customer satisfaction. He has excellent educational credentials including holding an MBA.
Bob is presently Managing Director of his own business "The Corporate Doctor" assisting businesses as a Strategy Consultant, developing business plans, including financial projections, for company's seeking to enter the telecommunications resale market. He is currently assisting a group to set up a VoIP telecoms business; assisting in creating the business plan, negotiations with various service providers, determining the marketing strategy, pricing, and advising on channels to market.
From January 2002 through to late 2003 Bob held the position of Commercial Manager for Tenix Australasia's largest defence contractor. He established the commercial and contractual frameworks for the company's IT security subsidiary, promoting and selling its hardware and software products and services internationally and ensuring its Intellectual Property was protected. He was instrumental in gaining access to the UK market through agreements with HP and Cap Gemini. The company's product was mandated by the UK Department of Defence in a $15 billion contract to modernise its systems. He also played a leading role in establishing the company's US office, as well as undergoing many other programmes for the company throughout the world.
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
Ron Guthrie
Professional Qualifications C. Eng. - Chartered Manufacturing Engineer, FIEE - Fellow Institution of Electrical Engineers (Manufacturing Division), FNZIM - Fellow New Zealand Institute of Management, MIOD - Member Institute of Directors (NZ), MNZOQ - Member NZ Organisation for Quality
Professional Experience - Ron has some forty years experience in manufacturing management as a CEO and as a consultant in a number of different industries including, Electrical, Timber and Food Manufacture.
A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.
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