ACI Global's Tutor Network

RABQSA Certified Trainers

 

Ian Erskine - Managing Director and CEO.

Specialist Areas: Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety and Food Safety HACCP.

Qualifications - AFAIM, MIIA (Aust)

Professional Memberships - Australian Fellow Australian Institute of Management (AFAIM), Member of the International Internal Auditors Association of Australia (MIIA) and a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

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. A major passion of Ian is to provide extensive and wide ranging tools for the new age of learning as he is a firm believer that planning for a lifetime is achieved by education of People. He is presently Managing Director and CEO of ACI Global a World Registered Training Organisation (WRTO) based in Sydney Australia, specialising in training and education based around key performance and measurable outcomes in competency based learning outcomes.

Personal Commitment and Passion - 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 based around education and training. His services are invaluable in taking business's to the next level, being able to reinvigorate and untangle existing human resource systems to achieve strong bottom line results.

Tony Stephenson - Director Training and Professional Development

Specialist Areas: Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety.

Qualifications - BE [Melb] - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, ME [Auck] - Engineering and Industrial Management

Professional Memberships - FIQA - [Fellow Institute of Quality Assurance] [UK], Senior Member 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. 

Ivan Pearson.

Specialist Areas: Director of Specialist Training "Aviation Sector"

Professional Membership's and Qualifications - Member of International Register Certified Auditors (IRCA) Member of the American Society for Quality (RABQSA) Member of Australian Organisation for Quality Mechanical Engineering Certificate (City & Guilds London Institute) UK Civil Aviation Authority Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer.

Professional Experience. - Ivan has spent approximately forty years within the aviation industry that has given him an extremely broad knowledge base with both civilian and military operations. He has held positions as Quality Manager for a number of internationally recognised aviation organisations as well as being an Air Safety Auditor with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in Australia. Having completed a series of Quality Management Training Programmes and with significant audit experience with major international airlines, has led him to gain recognition as a Certified Lead Auditor (Aerospace).

Jon Bergsson

Specialist Area: Quality Management RABQSA Lead Auditor RABQSA-AU, RABQSA-QM and RABQSA-TL, Quality Assurance and highly experienced within the Pharmaceutical Industry NAICS 325412 - Pharmaceutical Preparations Manufacturing and ANZSIC code 2543 - Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Production Manufacturing.

Qualifications and Professional Development: M.Sc.Pharm., University of Iceland and Royal Danish School of Pharmacy. Member of Pharmacists Union of Iceland. Founding member of Quality Management Society of Iceland and is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Professional Experience. - Jon has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in management and executive positions. Specialized in quality management, quality assurance and control for pharmaceutical industry. Considerable experience in Central and East European Countries as Quality, Technical, and Operational manager and executive director, and as Project Director for reconstruction and new facilities. Extensive experience in assessing, reporting, and reorganizing of production and quality control facilities, human resources, organization, quality management, documentation and IT systems.

A Current CV will be made available upon request after initial discussions have been completed with the prospective client and ACI Global Contractor.

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.

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. Olga has also just completed Cert IV Workplace Training and BlueCard Construction for WA.

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.

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.

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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