Global Speakers

Adrian joined ABB from General Electric, where he was a founding member of GE Mining, responsible for Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. In his current role in ABB, Adrian leads the IT/OT integration strategy for mining and is responsible for both product management and solution strategy for Intelligent Mining Solutions and Ellipse Enterprise Asset Management. He is also currently the Alternate Director for Austmine.

Andres has over 18 years engineering experience across mining, manufacturing, and oil and gas industries. He held key roles in maintenance, engineering, project engineering, maintenance management, and plant engineering at different levels. He developed specialized skills through this experience in continuous improvement, business optimization, and systemic change management focusing on technical and managerial aspects of change. Currently in the third year of his doctorate degree majoring in industrial optimization. He is also working full time as an engineering team leader for a magnetite producer located north of Perth in Western Australia.

Burcin Ozturk Demirhanoz has been in and professionally in mining and machinery industry more than 12 years in Europe and in Australia. She has completed her Bachelor of Science, Mining Engineering (ITU, Istanbul) and Master of Engineering, Mining Engineering, Mine Management and also Business Administration (UNSW, Sydney). She is currently working as a Principal, Mining Applications and Performance Engineer at WesTrac CAT and leading mining business and machine applications performance optimization projects for best practices at Western Australia region for some of the biggest mining companies in the world. She is also Six Sigma trained, Black Belt and Project Manager qualified. Her expertise is mainly mining and machine performance analysis and cost modelling applying data analytics and machine learning in engineering and business management.

Craig has over 30 years’ experience across Operations, Maintenance, Reliability Engineering and Asset Management roles from Tradesman, supervisor, and superintendent, to Engineer, Senior Engineer, Principal Engineer, Consultant and Manager within Australia, France and China. Mostly Mining and Minerals Processing within Coal, Gold and Copper. Plus experience within Military and Defence through the RAAF, where he completed his trade qualifications, to Aluminium Refining, smelting and rolling, Sugar, Manufacturing, and QLD’s Industrial Maintenance Round Table Facilitator for SIRF, until his most recent role within the Oil and Gas sector, being the former APA National Manager for Maintenance Plannin g and Scheduling.

Andrew started his career in the Army completing 15 years in maintenance, logistic and engineering roles. After leaving the Army, Andrew completed his PhD in Reliability Engineering, published a book on statistical modeling, and became a Certified Asset Management Assessor and Certified Reliability Engineer. Andrew co-founded Relken Engineering, a consultancy that operates across the defence, aviation, maritime, mining, utilities and nuclear industries, that recently won the 2016 Telstra Business Awards.

Bill has over 34 years of experience in Operations, Maintenance and Asset Management especially for in smelting, mining and petro/agri-chemical industry segments. His early career experience includes Production Manager, Engineering Manager, Production Superintendent, Maintenance Superintendent and various engineering roles at Incitec Pivot, BHP Billiton, South Blackwater Coal and Boyne Smelters (now part of Rio Tinto Aluminium). He also helped Ausenco Rylson establish its the North American business arm and led asset maintenance management audit and benchmarking assessments globally. He is now responsible for developing SIRF’s Industrial Maintenance Roundtables in Queensland, New South Wales and New Zealand.

Bruce has 30 years of experience in inspection, assessment and consulting across a wide range of industries including power generation, alumina, mining, food, mineral processing and oil & gas. Joining WTIA in 2014 as Chief Technology Officer, Bruce is focused on the commercial delivery of the wide range of services including everything from training and technical support, to advisory services and facilitation of R&D activities. Bruce is dedicated to ensuring the future of Australia’s welding industry, believing Australia needs a strong, vibrant, internationally competitive welding industry so that jobs and industry develop into the 21st century.

Colonel Evans has served for over 30 years in the army, with his career being dominated by aviation maintenance. He has lead and managed aviation workshops and logistics organisations at the Squadron and Regiment levels and, as a Lieutenant Colonel, was Commanding Officer of a Joint Logistics Unit. He has been heavily involved in the acquisition, introduction into service and ongoing sustainment of the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (Eurocopter Tiger) capability. In more recent years, Colonel Evans was a senior staff officer advising and governing technical airworthiness and logistics matters in Headquarters Forces Command. Currently, he is the Program Manager for a 5 year strategic reform of aviation maintenance and logistics.

David started his career in fabrication 36 years ago with experience across mining, food (sugar mills) and transport. He has worked in varied size companies, delivering successful custom solutions for diverse clientele. Joining Henkel Australia in 2014 as an Application Engineer for brand LOCTITE, his expertise has grown to include wearing compounds and their applications in asset protection- particularly in mining industries. He continues to develop and implement cutting edge systems and products to meet and exceed the extreme demands of heavy industries, with keen focus on increasing reliability and production for Henkel’s partners. He also facilitates workshops in Papua New Guinea.

With over 30 years of experience in maintenance and engineering, Derek has done it all from design engineering, project management, reliability and maintenance leading practice development to SAP plant maintenance implementation and manufacturing excellence. He successfully built effective teams, lowered costs, improved plant condition, increased equipment availability and uptime for many major engineering and capital projects. He is therefore well positioned to provide comment on many leading practice topics including insourcing vs outsourcing.

With a Bachelor Degree in (Mechanical) Engineering, Erik has a vast experiences in practical application of Maintenance and Reliability Engineering and Asset Management in areas focusing on maintenance shutdown planning and execution, maintenance strategy development and optimization plant bottleneck analysis and plant reliability improvement process. He is exposed to diverse industries including mining, water utilities, power generation and steel making. He is currently working on various plant reliability improvement initiatives such as lubrication handling and Bad Actor Analysis at Caltex Refinery.

Kaine has considerable experience in mechanical condition monitoring over a wide variety of machinery including steam, gas and hydro turbines, boiler feed pumps, fans and conveyor drives. He specialises in root cause analysis (RCA), machinery dynamics and machine fault troubleshooting applying a variety of specialist testing methods. Kaine is an ISO category III vibration analyst and has a strong background in multi-shaft machinery rotor dynamics. He specialises in developing customised testing solutions to determine root causes of the most complicated machine problems. Kaine is experienced in vibration and oil analysis, thermography, strain gauging and multichannel data processing.

Larry commenced working at the BHP Steel Plant Port Kembla steelworks to finally hold the position of Chief Maintenance Engineer. Since 1992 Larry has consulted to, and achieved successful outcomes for industry and governments at the federal, state and local levels throughout Australia and overseas, in the area of strategic asset management, life cycle asset management, process improvement, technical audits and benchmarking, life cost asset budgeting, maintenance management and risk management.

With a unique understanding of asset degradation and whole of life planning, Larry has been able to develop complex maintenance and capital funding scenarios and advanced asset degradation modeling to simulate whole of life cost asset budgeting, future work programs and projections of future asset condition and risk.

With a passion for aviation, Mark Petersen has moved domestically and internationally to pursue his goal Of leading and directing airline maintenance activities. Living and working in Australia, Mauritius, and New Zealand, He now resides in Brisbane with his wife and two beautiful girls. Initially graduating from Ansett Australia as a trade Qualified Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, he has become a multi licensed Engineer with Australian and international certification privileges. Emirates, Air Mauritius and Virgin Australia have been well served by his enthusiasm, dedication and commitment. More recently, He has completed his Masters in Aviation management at Griffith University, majoring in leadership, economics and safety and fatigue management systems. He believes maintaining superior health and fitness allows him to enthusiastically and energetically work and play at consistently High levels.

Matthew has over 20 years of experience working in the water industry. Matthew’s experience began in the Australia water industry in 2006, moved from the UK to work on an array of asset management related projects across the Queensland community. Matthew has worked in large and small utilities as well as consultancy with all requiring a high level of organizational accountability and responsibility. Matthew’s current role has been to refresh asset management throughout Unitywater as a principle that delivers Operational Excellence focused on customers.

Michael founded ARMS Reliability in 1995 after 12 years in the oil industry and 5 years in alumina refining where he witnessed a real gap in the market for strategic, supportive decision-making tools for engineering and maintenance functions. He established close relationships with Apollonian Publications (USA) and Isograph (UK), and began teaching reliability methods throughout Australia, USA and Canada. Over the past 22 years, Michael has lead and expanded ARMS Reliability to become a global leader in helping organisations be safe and successful by making reliability a reality. Michael is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP).

Michael has over 25 years of experience in asset management, procurement, supply chain and ICT. He has been responsible for asset bases of over $2.5 billion and has successfully lead the delivery of multiple high-profile enterprise-wide projects in industries ranging from manufacturing and mining to commercial aviation and rail. He was the Project Director on the biggest commercial aircraft repair ever undertaken and through Asset Management Council of Australia, involved in the development of a range of asset management models and assessment tools.

Neil in his capacity as the Technical Director Asset Management for Aurecon based in Newcastle brings over 35 years’ experience in the steel, energy and manufacturing industries to clients. Over this time he has worked in business and process development, project management, marketing and site manager of a large manufacturing facility where he was responsible for delivering major safety, performance and cost improvements by implementing major asset management reform. During his time at Aurecon Neil has delivered many asset management projects including asset management strategies and maintenance improvements for clients.

Romain has been working in the Oil and Gas Industry as an Asset Integrity Engineer for 8 years, supporting LNG projects and operating plants in Western Australia. His experience touches on all aspect of the integrity management, from defining the corrosion management plan, assessing the inspection strategy to implementing its execution. One of his biggest achievements is the Integrity Operating Windows (IOW) Surveillance System he developed for a Wood Group client to monitoring all parameters that affect the integrity and damage mechanism on pressure static equipment. This innovative strategy is aligned with API 584 recommended practice.