Voltaire's Bio
@voltaire-4MxWke
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Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024
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Hi Everyone
This is just a short intro to let you know who I am and how we can all help each other.
I read Engineering and post-grad I read project management. I have done many things over my professional career including metallurgy but my main focus has always been petro-chemicals. I have also managed plants and facilities as an operations manager. Being multi-disciplined gave me an opportunity to take projects from concept through design, implementation and commissioning...brown fields as well as green fields.
It is a big responsibility to take charge of a project. Many people trust you with hundreds of millions of dollars of their money to deliver a project on time, in budget and on specification. You will also have accountability for the safety of personnel and in green fields projects you will need to set up all the systems (management and statutory) to make sure your operation is legally compliant. It is therefor important to keep your head clear and your feet firmly on the ground at all times. People look to you for guidance and you must take the lead by example. Remember: you attract more flies with honey than with vinegar.
I have worked in different parts of the world including Africa, the US, Europe and even Australia. Sadly, I have not been to India but I can relate an interesting event that happened to me one day as I was en route to Dubai from Brisbane. We had been traveling for some time and I eventually fell asleep. Out of no-where I woke up with a chant in my head; I could not shake it. To me it sounded like a Hindu chant like I had seen in the movies; it was quite disconcerting as I could not explain it.
Then I reached over and turned on the in-flight display and guess what? We were right over India. Makes one think...
In my spare time I build electronic circuits and I have a small workshop with all kinds of spares such as transistors, resistors and stuff that I play with. I am also active in environmental applications and I do designs for some of my clients RE solar, wind and water systems.
If you want to talk you can get me on the PM system. I'll help where I can.
Peace
This is just a short intro to let you know who I am and how we can all help each other.
I read Engineering and post-grad I read project management. I have done many things over my professional career including metallurgy but my main focus has always been petro-chemicals. I have also managed plants and facilities as an operations manager. Being multi-disciplined gave me an opportunity to take projects from concept through design, implementation and commissioning...brown fields as well as green fields.
It is a big responsibility to take charge of a project. Many people trust you with hundreds of millions of dollars of their money to deliver a project on time, in budget and on specification. You will also have accountability for the safety of personnel and in green fields projects you will need to set up all the systems (management and statutory) to make sure your operation is legally compliant. It is therefor important to keep your head clear and your feet firmly on the ground at all times. People look to you for guidance and you must take the lead by example. Remember: you attract more flies with honey than with vinegar.
I have worked in different parts of the world including Africa, the US, Europe and even Australia. Sadly, I have not been to India but I can relate an interesting event that happened to me one day as I was en route to Dubai from Brisbane. We had been traveling for some time and I eventually fell asleep. Out of no-where I woke up with a chant in my head; I could not shake it. To me it sounded like a Hindu chant like I had seen in the movies; it was quite disconcerting as I could not explain it.
Then I reached over and turned on the in-flight display and guess what? We were right over India. Makes one think...
In my spare time I build electronic circuits and I have a small workshop with all kinds of spares such as transistors, resistors and stuff that I play with. I am also active in environmental applications and I do designs for some of my clients RE solar, wind and water systems.
If you want to talk you can get me on the PM system. I'll help where I can.
Peace
