CURRICULUM VITAE

Colin Munro1 Pettycur Bay, The Harbour, Kinghorn, Fife.KY3 9SB

EMAIL:Colin@digiconsoles.com TEL. NO.:01592 890735 (Home) 01592568390(office)

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

I am a highly competent technical Manufacturing / Production Specialist in the electronics and mechanical industry, with extensive management level experience/ decision-making and problem solving/fault finding skills, with excellent work ethics, and ability to lead teams at all levels.

I Served my apprenticeship in Electronics, going onto specialize in Avionics, Radar at Raf Cosford, moving to Raf Leuchars to work as a Electronic Technician servicing/fault finding Phantom/Tornado Radar aircraft systems. The skills/attributes which I gained, I have applied throughout my career.,

With all these skills I have worked within manufacturing growing with companies from £1million turnover to approx. £64million.

I have the knowledge and experience of implementing ISO quality standards into a manufacturing site.

I manage, plan and coordinate the manufacturing facility to ensure optimum use of personnel and equipment to meet sales, stocking policies and service requirements, within budgetary, quality, personnel and scheduling constraints.

I have the ability to communicate with staff/customers at all levels, thus developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and out with the organization.

Fully conversant/implementation with Materials Requirement Planning, Kanban, Continuous Improvement and Lean manufacturing.

Implementing and reviewing, new products, new processes and working practices, including all procedure and work instructions that enhance overall business performance to ISO 9001/2000

Full understanding/implementation of both Electronic and Mechanical design/trouble shooting/reading and understanding of electronic/mechanical drawings

Ability to fault find electronic systems, fault find down to component level using various electronic debug equipment. to get system up and running, involving Analogue/Digital electronics, Pneumatics/ac/dc motors etc.

Fully conversant with employment and HSE legislation, ensuring a fair and safe working environment. Comprehensive knowledge of IT hardware systems and software packages.

CAREER HISTORY & EXPERIENCE

Technical Production Manager Digico Uk Ltd sept 1995 to present.www.digico.biz

. Key areas of responsibility include:

Introduce and implement flexible production planning, processes and working practices that will enhance a profitable business and overall business performance. i.e. 5s, Lean Manufacturing, 7 wastes.

Daily targets are set to meet the demands of the customer, running a pull system.

Interact with suppliers, customers ensuring deliveries are being met to us and to our customer using MRP

Manage all aspects of new product development within the manufacturing plant from initial prototype build to final release for manufacturing .Generating all procedures/work instructions to enable all personnel to carry out the job from initial build to final test, working to the required to ISO9001/2000 standard.

Proactively pursue design changes to improve the manufacturing process and quality of product.

Quality control and supervision of all departments in accordance with ISO 9001/2000 standards.

Chairing daily meetings to ensure customers orders/forecast are met and in sync with material suppliers.

Manage all internal/external quality issues, monitor and oversee quality practices, issuing/controlling all procedures/work instructions, ensuring quality standards are adhered to.

Utilise my technical skills in fault finding to component level on all mechanical/electronic equipment within the manufacturing plant.

Daily upkeep of the building, ensuring maintenance is running daily preventative maintenance.

Responsible for all manpower levels in the manufacturing plant. Reporting directly to the Operations Director located at Head Office

Test Engineer, Soundtracs plc. Nov 1990 – Sept 1995

Writing test programs on the Teradyne Automatic in circuit tester to enable test technicians to carry out in circuit testing of printed circuit boards.

Implementing/Writing of all test work instructions enabling all engineers to carry out full testing of Digico mixing desks

Fault finding to component level on various analogue/digital circuitries, using various pieces of test equipment

Maintenance and fault finding of Universal insertion machinery involving fault finding to component level , ranging from ac/dc motors/ pneumatics/solenoids etc.

Fault finding and maintenance of factory flow lines including programmable logic control systems/pneumatics.

Test Technician, Advance Test Control Systems. May 1989 – Nov 1990

Fault finding to component level on various analogue/digital circuitries, using various pieces of test equipment.

Design/layout of printed circuit boards Fault finding of the amistar component insertion machinery involving all electronic and

mechanical aspects of the machine.

Avionics Technician, RAF Cosford/Leuchars. Aug 1983 – May 1989Rank-Corporal

Apprenticeship in Electronics specialising in Avionics/Radar. Upon completion of training, posted to Raf Leuchars to work as a Junior Technician working in Aircraft Servicing Flight, carrying out the servicing/maintenance/fault finding of the aircraft radar system, on Phantom and Tornado aircraft. This involved all electronic and mechcanical fault finding on the aircraft radar system.

After 3 years at Raf Leuchars, I was promoted from junior technician to Corporal, responsible for junior technicians.

EDUCATION

Open University Postgraduate Diploma in Quality Management 1997 – 1999Adam Smith College HNC in Management Studies 2000-2001College of Dundee HND in Electrical/Electronic Engineering 1987 - 1989Adam Smith College HNC in Computing Servicing 1994Adam Smith College General Certificate in Management 1993Teradyne In circuit test Programming Course 1991RAF Conningsbay Management Training Course 1987 Missile Control Systems Radar 1985RAF Cosford City & Guilds in Electronic Workshops 1984

BTEC in Electronics (specialising in Avionics) 1983 – 1985Balwearie High 5 x ‘O’ Grades inc Maths/Physics/Chemistry 1978-1983Kirkcaldy 4x Highers inc Maths/Physics/Chemistry

Tech Dwg

OUTSIDE INTERESTSIn my spare time I enjoy all types of sport and keeping fit in general. I enjoy DIY, where I have built and renovated several houses.