Current Position Co Director and Technical/Scientific advisor of Futureclean Assured Systems and Cleaning Masterclass.

Futureclean Assured Systems – www.futurecleansystems.com

Cleaning Masterclass – www.cleaningmasterclass.com

Experience

2010 – Present – Independent cleaning consultant

• Acting as an Expert Witness to provide evidence in court in a £1M+ litigation case. The case centered around an individual who suffered severe injuries as a result of a slip on a wet floor. With no witnesses to the event, I was called upon to investigate the cleaning equipment, products and methods of a large cleaning company, in a large establishment, including measuring the slip rating of the floor, and to give my expert opinion.

• Advised on possible litigation action (case preparation) on a number of occasions

• Advised a very large hand care manufacturer on reducing the environmental burden and volume of waste water production

• Advised a brewery on their cleaning and hygiene requirements, including waste management (site situated in a environmentally sensitive area)

• Designed and built a brand new online cleaner training system, available and accessible world-wide (Cleaning Masterclass). The online systems are based on web client-server technologies used by Universities world-wide, and was adapted to incorporate online payments.

• Advising on the cleaning and restoration of a large country estate, including delicate and antique surfaces

• Designed new detergents and cleaning products to meet specific needs, for example: A self-breaking detergent to clean oil-holding and oil-water separating tanks in compliance with international marine regulations

• Advised BaE Systems on all aspects of cleaning and maintenance with the view of ‘designing out’ problems currently found in the fleet.

• Developed new ‘Cleanability testing protocols’ for quality testing and benchmarking new cleaning products

2005 – Present - Independent cleaning consultant to the Royal Navy. This work involves the following:

• Complete revision and redesign of the Royal Navy’s ship husbandry (cleaning and sanitation) operations manual (BR2203)

• Designing faster and much more efficient cleaning and sanitising regimes throughout all platforms including waste management in the marine environment (for example: new and better methods of bilge and machine space cleaning)

• Designing a training course (incorporated within the BR cleaning manual)

• Designing new and more efficient detergent products for all platforms (including submarines)

• Designing new quality standards and benchmarks for achievement and also introducing a unique quality management (continuous improvement) system within the cleaning system

• Establishing new colour-coding cleaning and hygiene regimes

• Solving long-standing problems with cleaning, coatings, surface materials and environmental issues

• Providing advice on an ad-hoc basis primarily in urgent and disaster situations (off-shore and on-shore)

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• Co-Authored (now an administrator) with MoD DES ship husbandry group an online database covering all aspects of BR2203, designed to be utilized by Fleet, naval personnel and relevant private sector companies including for use in new ship builds

• Developing a unique corrosion inspection regime for ships staff and contractors (for non-technical staff). Submitted and presented as a paper (see below).

Two papers submitted and presented to IMarEST INEC 2012 (Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology - 11th International Naval Engineering Conference) to present recent work with the MoD: 1. “An integrated approach to reduce the excessive build-up of waste oils in and around machinery spaces,

engine rooms and workshops, by the use of environmentally-friendly surfactants and bioremediation technologies“

2. ”A proactive approach to reduce excessive costs of corrosion control”

1996 – Co-founder and Co-director of Futureclean Assured Systems, working in the following key areas:

• Cleaning and restoration of Food production facilities, typically from a building site to high risk standards

• Commercial kitchen restoration and sanitation

• Builders cleaning on new build and restoration projects:

o Aluminium, steel and stainless steel restoration

o Restoration of industrial machinery and equipment and process plant

o Graffiti removal

o Cleaning/restoration of stone, concrete, resin, marble, limestone and wooden floors and bulkheads

o Glass cleaning, carpet cleaning and restoration of antique glass and surfaces in Grade 1 listed properties

o High level dust downs and enclosed space/void cleaning

• Marine cleaning and detailed consultations on ship hold cleaning

• Fire and flood restoration and biohazard cleaning and management

• Industrial cleaning and surface restoration

• Critical cleaning and clean-room cleaning for telecoms installations after initial installation and refurbishment

Education

A-Levels 1993-1995

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Mathematics (Pure and Applied)

• Business Studies

HNC Applied Chemistry 2008-2010 Distinction

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HND Applied Chemistry 2010-2011 Distinction

Skills I have developed, as part of the business an extensive skill-set and experience in a wide range of technical cleaning problems, developing solutions to those problems - often to tight deadlines. Through many years of working ‘hands-on’ in the business in critical and high risk areas, commonly found in the food industry and the marine environment, I have gained extensive technical and scientific knowledge of the cleaning process, equipment and products. My current work with the Royal Navy has brought to bear those skills learnt and applied them to the shore and offshore marine environment, for example, the use of microbiological products as a replacement for aqueous and non-aqueous solvents, in particular to black water treatment systems. Combining this technology with my existing knowledge allowed me to re-formulate a pipework de-scaling product specific to the requirements of the Royal Navy. In addition my work with the Royal Navy, my academic background and my practical background in many different areas, has enabled me to develop a number of unique protocols for quantitatively testing cleaning products for quality and effectiveness.

I am actively researching in detergent and cleaning product formulations to solve a number of problems as stricter environmental (national and international) regulations come into force. My research looks into detergent recovery and water recycling in large scale washdowns, oil remediation in contaminated soils, solvent replacement, use of biological organisms for remediation processes.

I have been asked on numerous occasions to deliver all the graphic design and photographic materials both for the business and for the Royal Navy in the form of websites, training manuals, cleaning manuals and various other forms of literature.

From 2012 onwards I researched and developed a new method of delivering training for cleaners and cleaning teams completely online. This involved adapting web technologies commonly found in universities and large institutions specifically for the use of people requiring training in the full range of cleaning techniques, deliverable anywhere in the world. The flexibility of the system was designed to meet the needs of an individual or larger groups of people, or exclusively designing a bespoke course to meet the specific requirements of a business for their cleaners.