• Chairman, Process Control Society (1996 – present)

• Member, Sydney Division Committee, Marketing and Communications Sub-committee, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1999 – present)

• Member of the National Committee on Automation, Control and Instrumentation (1995 – present)

John is the Control and Modelling Specialist for Orica (formerly ICI Australia), providing specialist consulting services across the Orica Group internationally, in the areas of process control, process modelling, automation safety and manufacturing improvement. He was jointly responsible for developing the CHAZOP approach to reviewing the safety and operability of automation systems and the Orica corporate manufacturing improvement process.

In 1993 John was recognised internationally within the ICI Group with the Functional Excellence ICEE Award for Innovation Creativity and Engineering Excellence for Advanced Distillation Control.

He is currently the chairman of the Events Committee of The Warren Centre. Previous association with the University of Sydney includes, board membership and Presidency of the Sydney University Chemical Engineering Association, and membership of the Executive of the Chemical Engineering Foundation (1999 – 2001).

He has produced over 35 papers and presentations, is an invited contributor to national publications and a referee for international journals. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of New South Wales.

John was instrumental in organising the Australasian MOD300 Users’ Group and the SPEEDUP Users’ Group meeting in Australia. He was also an organiser of Control 97 – the Australian Control Conference.