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Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DETAILS

David Semple CEng MIMechE 11 Iona Path Blantyre Glasgow G72 9RW Scotland

Nationality;- British Marital Status;- Married Home Tel No;- 01698 827050 Mobile Tel No;- 07968 047 467 Email:- david.semple@blueyonder.co.uk

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Present Position;- General Manager, Main Tool Company Ltd part of the AMS Group

Practical Background;- Time served engineer in a sub contract precision engineering environment, manufacturing precision component parts for the Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Marine and Food Industries. I have vast experience in CNC machining, as well as an extensive background in Jig & Fixture, Press Tool and Special Purpose Machine Design. I have also worked as a Project Engineer responsible for Key Customer accounts.

Academic Background;- MSc, Mechanical Engineering (Design). BEng(Hons), Mechanical Engineering with Electronic Systems.

Responsibilities;- As the General Manager of Main Tool I am responsible for the day to day running of the company. In peak times the company has employed over 50 people, with an annual turnover of £5 million. I report directly to Stephen Hoggan Managing Director at AMS in Coatbridge.

Personal Input;- I started running the company in 2011 and had a vision of how we needed to change the service we offered our customers. At that time Main Tool had only single function dedicated machine tools. To offer our increasing Oil & Gas customer’s a more cost effective and quicker, turn around machining service, I restructured the company to have dedicated customer serving project engineers and also setup a department of two manufacturing engineers responsible for programming all the CNC machine tools offline using Mastercam computer aided manufacturing software. These engineers were also responsible for continuous job improvement. I also introduced three large capacity “C- Axis” mill turn Samsung lathes which helped us manufacture parts in less operations, therefore more efficient, which helped us reduce cost and delivery times to our customers. Customer relationship management is a key part of my job, I regularly visit our customers to source new business, and to also make sure they are happy with the service that we are providing them. By working closely with our customer’s we aim to meet and exceed their expectations.

While working with Aker Solutions I managed to setup a frame agreement with them for 8 key component parts, which means that when these components are required at any of their plants in the world, we as the single source supplier, supply to them at an agreed price and delivery. The value of this contract is worth £0.5 to £1 million a year. In 2011, I brought Halliburton on board as a new customer, and got Main Tool onto their approved vendor’s list, and in 2013 Main Tool did £1 million pounds worth of business with Halliburton in Arbroath. My extensive machine shop management and theoretical knowledge have made me highly qualified to take the company into the 21st century.

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Main Tool Co Ltd, Old Edinburgh Road, Bellshill, ML4 3HL

Aug 1992 to Present Day

Dec 2016;- Advanced Manufacturing Solutions (AMS) purchased Main Tool Co Ltd and I was given the role of General Manager responsible for the day to day running of the company, I report directly to Stephen Hoggan Managing Director at AMS in Coatbridge.

Mar 2011;- Promoted to Managing Director where I am responsible for the running of the company.

Jul 2009;- After company restructure, I worked as Project Manager, where I was responsible for looking after Key Customers, dealing with their RFQ’s, buying in raw material and planning jobs on to our production control system (Redthorn, Aventa).

Aug 1998;- Promoted to Design/Technical Manager where I am in charge of a team which works on the design of Jigs/ Fixtures, Press tools, Special purpose machines and automated systems using Autodesk Inventor Professional 3D design software.

Aug 1995;- I moved into the design office where I designed Jigs/ Fixtures and Press tools using AutoCAD.

Aug 1994;- Main Tool Co moved into the Press Tool market. To compete in this market place they required a wire erosion facility. I was selected to implement this new technology within the company. I was responsible for training up two operators to programme & operate both 310 & 510 Charmilles wire erosion machines. Appointed to charge hand status during this period.

Jan 1993;- Promoted to CNC Programmer

Aug 1992;- Initially employed as CNC operator on Kitamura bridge centre 8 VMC.

Jig Borers (Scotland) Ltd, Bothwell Road, Hamilton, ML3 ODY

Aug 1982 to July 1992

In August 1990 I was promoted to CNC shop floor manager, where I was responsible for running the CNC machine shop. I was responsible for programming the CNC machines using Applicon Compact II programming language then latterly implementing the new PEPS CNC programming system.

Started as an apprentice toolmaker in 1982.

EDUCATION

Glasgow Caledonian University MSc, Mechanical Engineering (Design) Sept 2008 to May 2011 BEng(Hons), Mechanical Engineering with Electronic Systems. Sept 2004 to May 2008

Motherwell College HNC in CADD (Computer Aided Drafting & Design). Sept 1996 to May 1997 NEBS Management Introductory Award at Certificate Level. Mar 1996

Bell College HNC Module Computer Aided Manufacture. Sept 1986 to May 1987 HNC in Mechanical & Production Engineering. Sept 1984 to May 1986

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CAD/CAM TRAINING

CAD

Autodesk Inventor

AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop V6, V5, V4

AutoCAD R12, R13, R14, 2000

CAM

Mastercam X2

Peps

Applicon Compact II

TRAINING

Lean Master class at Teknek Ltd. May 2007

Festo Didactic Training Introduction to Mechatronics Aug 2003

SMC Training Basic Pneumatics. Mar 2000 Electro-Pneumatics. Jun 2000

SMC Training Introduction to PLC Programming. Sep 2000

Windows Operating Systems;- 98, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Windows Software;- Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc

INTERESTS / HOBBIES

Golf, member at Bothwell Castle Golf Club Football DIY Enthusiast

REFERENCES

Mr Andrew McMillan BEng (Hons) Lemac Manufacturing Manager Hospital Road Haddington East Lothian Scotland EH4 13PD

Mobile Tel No;- 07557644838 Email:- Andrew.McMillan@lemac.com