Sean Cull

Current

MD and Lead Consultant at FoCul

Past

Work Manager at Lucite International
Area Engineer - Monmer 8 and SAR at Ineos
Mechanical Commissioning Engineer - Melinar 5 at ICI

Reliability Engineer and Rotating Machiery Specialist at ICI
Plant Engineer, Timag at ICI

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Education

The University of Manchester
Abbey CBS Newry

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Information Technology and Services

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Sean Cull’s Summary

FoCul delivers Knowledge Management and Workflow solutions.

I started the company after ten years as a Professional manufacturing Engineer trying to manage information and workflow in an industrail settings and finding that there were no appropriate IT solutions that I could use.

FoCul is now an advanced IBM Business Partner and our ability to utilise our manufacturing experience and proven IT skills has allowed us to deliver some best in class solutions. You can see more about our approach and philosophy at www.focul.net

I am always on the lookout for good talent ( Straight IT or Engineers with an IT bent ) so contact me via www.focul.net if you are interested. Lotus Notes / Domino and possibly Share Point would be particularly useful

Sean Cull’s Specialties:

The pragmatic application of IT to improve productivity, knowledge and control within manufacturing and Engineering organisations ( although the principles are equally applicable to other sectors )

Sean Cull’s Experience

MD and Lead Consultant

FoCul

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — Present (9 years)

Following my frustrations with manging information and processes through my Engineering career I launced FoCul Ltd in 2000.

FoCul delivers robust pragmatic IT solutions that help Manufacturing and Engineering organisations to manage knowledge and process effectively while reducing costs and improving control

I was very concious from the start that FoCul needed to be very competent in IT as well as having a deep understanding of our customers needs. We are an Advanced IBM Business Partner and an excellent and continuing track record with several major manufacturing organisations in the UK

you can see more about FoCul at http://www.focul.net
Work Manager

Lucite International

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Chemicals industry)

August 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Following a restructuring exercise a new role was created to improve Work Execution ( where we were hemorrhaging cash ).

I was given the role of Work ( Execution ) Manager. It was a fantastic challenge in an environment where significant reductions in costs and improvements in control were required.

I managed the introduction of initiatives that reduced maintenance spend by over 20%. These included contractor rationalisation, improved work management and incentivised contracts

My work execution team consisted of 12 major suppliers ( reduced to 6 ) with 150 + people

I managed the implementation of the SAP R3 PM CMMS module and developed a work management system to support the management of work within incentivised contracts

Yet again I ended up developing IT systems to enable the delivery of this work and decided that as much as I enjoyed being an Engineer there was an opportunity to specialise in the delivery of IT systems to other people such as myself
Area Engineer - Monmer 8 and SAR

Ineos

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Chemicals industry)

August 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 1 month)

I was the Area Engineer on the Monomer 8 and SAR ( Sulphuric Acid Recovery ) complex at Ineos Acrylics ( previously ICI ) . I was responsible for the Asset Management and Work Execution of this COMAH plant manufacturing Acrylic Monomer ( and large volumes of Cyanide as an intermediate )

In addition to the usual Engineering activities associated with this type of role I also developed an Asset Life Planning application in Lotus Notes to capture the knowledge and known vulnerabilities associated with the operation of the plants. This is still heavily in use today some 10 years on.

This system complimented the SAP PM system and collected much richer information in the form of technical logs, reports, photographs and improvement actions
Mechanical Commissioning Engineer - Melinar 5

ICI

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ICI; Chemicals industry)

January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)

Mechanical Commissioning Engineer for the Melinar 5 plant at ICI Wilton ( subsequently Dupont, DupontSA and AdvanSA )

In this role I was responsible for developing the maintenance policies for the new plant as well as commissioning the mechanical equipment. Again this role demonstrated how the application of IT to Engineering could have made a significant impact to the project - as it was we ended up with a paper based Maintenance Information System, this was probalby the point where I realised that there was a need for better systerms to manage information
Reliability Engineer and Rotating Machiery Specialist

ICI

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ICI; Chemicals industry)

June 1994 — January 1996 (1 year 8 months)

This role involved the specification and troubleshooting of pumps, compressors etc.. and the development of statistical Reliability and Maintainability ( RAMP ) models to improve the reliability of mechanical plant systems

The RAMP models were used to determine the optimum layout of plant equipment in terms of parallel streams and redundancy

I wrote my first Lotus Notes database ( version 4.5 ) to convert the ICI "Black Book" machinery failure system into a much more accessible and useful Notes application - this was when I began to realise that this type of collaborative tool added real value to Engineering
Plant Engineer, Timag

ICI

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ICI; Chemicals industry)

January 1993 — June 1994 (1 year 6 months)

Plant Engineer for the Timag catalyst plant at ICI Wilton

Sean Cull’s Education

The University of Manchester

MEng , Engineering, Management , 1989 — 1992

Engineering Manufacture and Management, EMM

Activities and Societies:

Manchester University Hiking Club
Sponsored by ICI
Sponsored by Shorts, Belfast
Abbey CBS Newry

1980 — 1987