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| Colin Anbu
General Manager
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Management
Colin Anbu (B.Eng Hons)
Managing Director
Colin joined Vulcanite as our Engineering Manager and after accepting an exciting promotion opportunity is now our General Manager . With over 15 years of professional engineering experience, in his role as General Manager Colin ensures that the day to day operations of Vulcanite are technically driven and customer focussed.
Colin's professional experience is in both the plastics & rubber moulding industries, but most of his experience has been in the rubber manufacturing industry.
Colin started his career as a Mechanical Engineer for a gear manufacturer. He then worked at a leading international simulation software provider for the polymer injection moulding industry. He worked as a Research Engineer for the Intelligent Process Control Group of this provider before moving to their International Consulting Group as a Plastics Design Consultant.
Immediately before joining Vulcanite, Colin spent many years working at another major rubber manufacturer as a Senior Mechanical Engineer where his responsibilities included designing customised rubber products for the railway, automotive, defence & mining industries.
Colin completed his Bachelor Mechanical Engineering with honours from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 1994. Colin has also completed the General Managers program from AGSM, Sydney, Australia.
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| Boon Tan
Sales Manager (Asia Pacific) |
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Sales
Boon Tan
Sales Manager (Asia Pacific)
Boon joined Vulcanite as our Sales Manager for the Asia Pacific regions. With over 30 years of professional experience in mechanical/rollingstock engineering, sales and project management, Boon is our key contact for all Asia Pacific regions.
Before joining Vulcanite, Boon worked as Principal Consultant Rollingstock Engineering and as Passenger Rollingstock Project Engineer in a leading National rail operator. Boon also had 12 years of professional experience in engineered rubber sales as a sales engineer. During that time, He also completed a Certificate of Rubber Technology at RMIT, Melbourne. Boon began his Rollingstock Engineering experience as a Professional Engineer with the Victorian Railways. He left as a Senior Executive Service after 15 years of design, investigation and maintenance including being Manager, Fleet Availability and Technical Support.
Boon completed his Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from University of Melbourne in 1973 and obtained his Executive MBA from David Syme Business School, Monash University. Boon was a member of the Australian Institute of Project Management (MAIPM) and a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng), a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) and elected a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Engineers (FIEAust).
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| Faried Behardien
Engineering Manager |
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Engineering
Faried Behardien BE(Mech)
Engineering Manager
Faried joined Vulcanite as our Engineering Manager with 12 years of professional engineering experience gained from local as well as multinational companies.
Faried started his career as an apprentice draftsman, completing the necessary Tafe qualifications as well as the usual practical training on the shop floor. He completed his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology , Sydney in 1996.
Some of his professional experience includes:
- Project / Design Engineer for a large multinational company manufacturing Power Transformers. Projects included "Design for Manufacture" and "Six Sigma" Quality Improvement projects
- Project / Design Engineer for a large multinational company manufacturing and installing Elevators.
- Mechanical Design Manager for a large multinational company managing a team of 12 engineers and draftsmen.
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| Garrett Oliveira
Business Manager
North America & Europe
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Management
Garrett Oliveira
North American Manager
Garrett joined Vulcanite as our Manager for North American Business. With over 17 years of professional experience in mechanical engineering and program managment, Garrett is our key contact for all North American Business.
Before joining Vulcanite, Garrett worked as a senior project engineer for Kinkisharyo International, LLC and as project engineer for Booz Allen Hamilton for a combined 15 years of rail transportation experience. Garretts rail vehicle engineering background will benefit all our North American clients.
Some of Garretts professional experiences include:
- Project Manager - MBTA Green Line & Red Line overhaul.
- Project Manager - services support of MBTA Commuter Rail CRASP program.
- Project Engineer - MBTA Green Line vehicle procurement program.
- Project Engineer - Design, development of Santa Clara VTA project.
- Project Engineer - Design, development of Hudson Bergen project.
- Project Engineer - Design, development of 3700 series MBTA project.
- Project Engineer - Interior design & component intergration for DART, Dallas project.
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Andrew Chalmers
Financial Controller |
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Finance
Andrew Chalmers
Financial Controller
Andrew
joined Vulcanite as Financial Controller with over 21 years
of financial experience in FMCG, clinical research, manufacturing, public
service and primary production industries.
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last position was Manager Finance and Systems where he was responsible
for both Financial and Information Technology. Andrew has completed a
Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from the University of Western Sydney
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| Hien Nguyen
Manufacturing Manager
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Manufacturing
Hien Nguyen
Manufacturing Manager
Hien joined Vulcanite as our IT manager after gaining a Diploma in IT network engineering. His position at Vulcanite involves the day to day management of our IT systems and server as well as overseeing the data entry of information into our inventory system.
Recently Hien has taken on the role of Manufacturing & Warehouse Manager, which includes overseeing all aspects of our production process and the preparation of completed components for shipping etc..Hien is also involved in the management of the quality control system for this area. | |
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Philip Mathews
Country Manager
Malaysia
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Management
Philip Mathews
Country Manager (Malaysia)
Philip has 30 over years of working experience within the rubber industry. His experience include the processing and production of different grades of block natural rubber such as SMR L , CV, 10, 20, etc, deproteinised natural rubber (DPNR), latex concentrate and also include other latex grades such as cream latex , and other specialized latex production such as pre vulcanised(PV) latex.
Philip had been involved in the setting up and managing of the world's first Epoxidised Natural Rubber (ENR) plant and also in the setting up and managing of a modern latex examination glove manufacturing plant in Malaysia.
Philip has worked closely with various rubber product manufacturers and carried out R&D trials, rubber compounding, processing and compound and product testing.
Philip holds a BSc in Chemistry, MSc in Polymer Science & Technology, from Queens University, UK and an MBA from the Southern Cross University, Australia. Philip is also a Green Belt for the Six Sigma programme from Motorola University. | |
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Ajit Patel
Purchasing Manager
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Manufacturing
Ajit Patel M.E. (Manuf) M.E.(Eng Man) (B.Eng - Mech)
Purchasing Manager
Ajit joined Vulcanite in June 2008 as a
Production Engineer and has 4 years professional experience as a Production
Engineer gained in India.
Ajit started his career as an apprentice engineer, completing a Diploma in
Mechanical Engineering and the associated practical training.
After working at
an engineering company for several years, Ajit then enrolled and completed his
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at
Shivaji University ,
India . After
being accepted as a student at the
University of
Technology ,
Sydney , Ajit studied for and completed both
the Masters in Manufacturing as well as the Masters in Engineering Management
in 2006.
Ajit was promoted to the position of Purchasing Manager in August
2009. | |
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