Lance Turner

Background

About Lance Turner

13 years experience in highly critical IT and OT Operations Systems environment. Management of support teams in MES opperations through careful resource management, incident and change management actions. Operations Systems Management experience of an entire plant location - Secunda including different plant/manufacturing business units, petroleum, oil, gas, polypropylene, mining with- Over 200 MES and OT services - 3 onsite teams focussing on MES(manufacturing execution systems) and OT(Operations Technology)- Transitioning services into the MES and OT environment - Securing MES/IIT and OT environments, secure data points on both Business network and Industrial networks ensuring communications and data transfer between the different domains- ITIL Principle - led MES and OT environment in Change, Incident, Problem, Transition, App management etc- I write too! SA Instrumentation and Control magazine monthly contributing editor for the IT in Manufacturing section. I also write digital content for IoT clients, from use cases, website blogs, product descriptions to IoT product proposals and Tender Bids to name a few. I have designed a ITIL based Service Take On process for Manufacturing Systems in Sasol, this process allows for large or small, existing or new, quick or project lifecycle type MES and OT services to be transitioned into the Operations space ensuring proper support, propper Take On, propper understanding and proper change management is achieved. Experience in Enterprise Architecture and Solutions Architecture from Sasol, Metropolitan and Western Cape Centre for Enterprise Architecture. Experience in Infrastructure Solution Design for MES and OT environments, from Level 2-4 according to ISA 95 standard. Experience in Business Analysis for MES and OT environments from Level 2-4 according to ISA 95 standard. Experience in Project Management of small to large projects, PPO systems experience, PMBOK and PM essentials. Experience in Manufacturing Execution Systems defintion(define requirement, establish MES need), execution(Build MES portfolio of applications, Build according to design, agile build vs implimentation) and opperation(ITIL-led MES and OT operations, incidents, problems, risks, transitions, SLA's) Experience in SLA management for over 200 MES and OT services across 5 operations sites. Smart, Agile, leadership, management, team work, motivational, governance, standards, inclusive, adaptive.