Keith is a proven quality professional, trained lead Auditor, Lean practitioner and Six Sigma black belt. He has extensive experience of implementing effective business solutions across many organisations in a wide variety of business sectors.

His career started with a four and half year apprenticeship as a toolmaker for a company producing high precision special purpose machines and progression dies. After gaining experience as an inspector he was promoted to the position of Chief Inspector with responsibility for all quality matters including developing and implementing a BS 5750 management system.

He moved to California 1985 to take up a Quality Assurance role with a major aerospace machining company producing components for the space shuttle, F14, F16, F18 and Rockwell B1B programmes.

Returning to the UK in mid 1987 he attended college to extend his expertise in quality management and business improvement tools including Statistical Process Control, Failure Modes Effects Analysis, Quality Function deployment and Design of Experiments. This led to a post with Nissan Manufacturing UK where he gained further hands on experience in applying and progressing real quality improvement in a Lean high volume environment.

In 1989 he returned to aerospace manufacture joining Aerostructures Hamble Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Aerospace, where he rapidly progressed from Senior Quality Engineer, to Project Manager - Eurofighter programmes, to Quality Systems Manager. During his tenure, successes included the introduction and development of Advanced Quality Techniques, construction and deployment of externally approved management systems, rationalisation of inspection activities through the use of statistics and maintenance of many aerospace customer approvals including the Civil Aviation Authority.

He joined De La Rue Cash Systems Division in 1998 as Quality Manager with responsibility for leading change in a high volume electro-mechanical assembly operation and coordination of all quality and improvement initiatives.

The Engineering Employers Federation approached Keith in 1999 and he joined them to develop new product offerings covering Total Quality Management, Continual and Rapid improvement methodologies, Lean expertise and Six Sigma in a growing consultancy unit.

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