AM Council is excited to announced two more exciting key notes speakers for AMPEAK.
Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz
Melinda is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She was appointed the BHP Billiton Research Fellow in Engineering for Remote Operations in 2015.
Her key note address at AMPEAK will explore how to use evidence-based approaches to prove if your asset management practices are delivering improved organisational performance including looking at:
- measuring the cost of asset management
- demonstrating that asset management practices are delivering organisational outcomes
- determining if ISO 55001certification is delivering improved organisational performance
Her address will also look at the 30 year journey of the Quality Management community and how asset managers can learn from this.
More about Melinda
After graduating from Oxford, Melinda worked in operations and maintenance roles in the US and Australia. She completed her PhD at UWA. In addition to her academic role she was the Chair of the Standards Australia Committee for ISO 55000-2 and represented Australia on the ISO (International Standards Organisation) committee for Asset Management Standards until 2015.
In 2011 she was a finalist in the CME (Chamber of Minerals and Energy) Outstanding Women in Resources award, in 2012 won the UWA Safety Leadership Award and in 2014 the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Individual Teaching Award.
She led the UWA Masters of Business and Engineering Asset Management program 2007-2013 and delivers a number of Open and In-company programs in Asset Management for Government and Industry. She is currently teaching Risk Reliability and Safety to engineering students at UWA and leads research projects in Engineering System Health, Maintenance and Safety.
Rear Admiral Grunsell
Rear Admiral Grunsell joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1984. He has had an impressive naval career, including serving on exchange with the United States Navy in Jacksonville, Florida; on the submarine base HMAS Platypus; on the Anzac class frigate HMAS Arunta; and on the HMAS Cerberus.
He was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2015 and he was recently promoted to Admiral serving as the Head of Maritime Systems in Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group responsible for the in-service sustainment of all units of the Royal Australian Navy surface fleet.
The Admiral’s address at AMPEAK will share the lessons learnt from implementing an interdependence management pilot framework required to deliver complex maritime asset capability. This framework integrates risk management with performance and business
management into a shared understanding, underpinned by a purpose built IT system.
He will explain the learning around how an agile, hands-on and evolutionary approach was used to address complex systems of change.
More about the Admiral
He was appointed as the Director General Navy Communications and Coordination in Navy Headquarters where he was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) in 2007.
He graduated with a Masters in Management (Defence Studies), and he was also a Distinguished Graduate of the Masters in Science in National Resource Strategy program from the United States National Defence University in Washington DC.
He has held a range of other positions including Director of the Amphibious and Afloat System Program Office and Director General Reform in Maritime Systems Division of the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group.