PERSONAL DETAILS Name: John Melvin Byron Address: Sennheimerstrasse 52 4054 Basel, Switzerland Telephone/fax: +41-61-302-9036 Email: Mel.Byron@balcab.ch Date of Birth: 24th September 1952 Nationality: British Marital Status: Single Swiss Resident Status:‘C’ Permit EDUCATION 1964 - 1969 Ashford County Grammar School, Ashford, Middlesex, UK 5 O-levels 1969 - 1971 Brooklands Technical College, Weybridge, Surrey, UK Ordinary National Diploma in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering 1971 - 1975 University of Bradford, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK Bachelor of Technology Degree in Chemical Engineering LANGUAGES English - mother tongue German - fluent, spoken & written TECHNICAL SKILLS All aspects of real-time process control applications and mnemonic displays: design, implementation, testing, documentation and maintenance. Computer Products TCS Systems: EXTOL sequencing language (related to ‘C’) Real-time graphic displays I/O database configuration I/O devices & interlocks PID control applications Recipes Reservation systems Reuseable code modules Flow charts Digital Equipment VAX Systems: VMS operating system VMS DCL command language applications Kent K90 (PDP-11) Systems: PROSEL sequencing language PID control applications Microsoft Windows: familiar with Windows environment and office applications Unix: some experience with Unix environment EMPLOYMENT Jan 1986 - Apr 1999 Novartis AG (previously Ciba-Geigy AG), Basel, Switzerland Consultant / Systems Designer Responsible for design, implementation and testing of control and display systems for large-scale pharmaceutical production sites. Oct 1983 - Dec 1985 Schelde GmbH, Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Consultant / Systems Designer Responsible for design, implementation and testing of control and display systems for a major dyestuffs intermediates installation. Apr 1983 - Sep 1983 Scicon Ltd., London, UK Systems Analyst Technical and sales support of a Scicon Control & Telemetry system. Mar 1979 - Aug 1982 Digital Applications International Ltd., London, UK Schelde GmbH: as above 1983-85 British Gas: Display graphics for telemetry system, Redcar, UK WORK EXPERIENCE Projects 1997 - 1999: New distillation columns for solvent recovery section of multipurpose plant K-640, Novartis AG, Basel, Switzerland 1995 - 1997: Improvements and standardisation of product line Iminostilbinsäure of plant WSH-2112, Novartis AG, Schweizerhalle, Switzerland 1989 - 1995: Extensions to and maintenance of tank farm and distillation columns of multipurpose plant K-640, Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, Switzerland 1988 - 1989: Commissioning of mixing and conveying line for plastics additives for plant Additiv B, Ciba-Geigy AG, Kaisten, Switzerland 1986 - 1988: Commissioning of tank farm and distillation columns for multipurpose plant K-640, Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, Switzerland 1983 - 1986: Improvements to and maintenance of plant I-Gamma, Schelde GmbH, Brunsbüttel, Germany 1983 - 1983: Technical & sales support for Scicon control system, London UK 1981 - 1982: Commissioning of plant I-Gamma, Schelde GmbH, Brunsbüttel, Germany 1979 - 1981: Off-site programming in Basel for plant I-Gamma, Schelde GmbH, Brunsbüttel, Germany