PRESS RELEASE - GKCL - Gregg Kervill is back in business - once again providing affordable product safety services.
This time through a new startup company - PHOENIX ENGINEERING SERVICES.
www.PhoenixEngineeringServices.com
Why PHOENIX? - well - the resession has hurt a lot of people and Gregg - with a group of other unemployed (and underemployed) product safety and other regulatory engineers are determined to rise from the ashes and to do what they do best.
Each Principle Engineer in our engineering team has more than 25 years experience in regulatory compliance as well as many years experience in design and project management. This mix of skill is essential to identify regulatory problems - to recommend practical solutions - and maintain sensitivity to project timelines.
We offer training on customer sites using prototype equipment - this provides essential engineer training AND a Product Review within the same budget.
Our engineers have experience in all markets and have developed an engineering philosophy that achieves a strong synergy between technical rigour and commercial focus. Our approach to engineering projects is based on the following key principles:
- A Regulatory HelpDesk service
- Hourly and fixed cost project support
- Reducing Customer risk
- Engineering knowledge and culture
- Practical solutions
- Timeliness
CONTACT:
Gregg Kervill
Gregg@PhoenixEngineeringServices.com
+1 (919) 270-8368
History of GK Consultants Ltd - GKCL
Founded in the UK during 1993, (and on the web since March 1993) GKCL has provided cost effective product safety consultancy and training on three continents to small and medium sized companies and for several fortune 50 companies.
Kervill has maintained that original Quality Statement of "Offering the best in Class" product safety services by reducing waste and improving product design and Return on Investment.
Support and consultancy includes RoSH and WEEE Directives - our clients include those needing compliance and those for whom an exemption is appropriate.
Kervill begain his career in electronics R&D. He has been a Product Safety professional for more than 20 years.
Clients include:
Imation Kavaener
AEG LEDU (Local Employment Development Unit) Of the Northern Ireland Government
Bio-Rad (Microscopy Division) MicroTouch
CEN Brussels OK Industries (UK) Ltd.
Comdisco Pico Estel - Auto Industry
Compaq Computers Rainford Group Plc
Conrad Johnson Rolls Royce Associates Ltd.
Control Technologies Thales (formerly CSF Thomson)
Fisher Rosemount The Consumer Electronics Association
Hong Kong Productivity Council The National Association of Radio and Telecommunication Engineers Inc. (NARTE)
IBM The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Key Industrial Thorn Transit Secure Systems
Formscan Thorn Transit Systems International
GEC Marconi Virginia Economic Development Partnership
He has lectured and taught internationally, is the author of three engineering text books and
designed the first Computer Based product safety Training product for electrical/electronics engineers in 1993.
His has a degree with majors in physics and electronics, and an MBA with thesis in design
control, JIT and KAN BAN.
He
is a member of the (UK) Institute of Management - the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc; the IEEE EMC Society Education Committee; and is a founding
member and a
former board member of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society .
He has written
Operators Manuals for highly complex military systems and commercial equipment;
these include part of the Stingray Torpedo System:
His largest defense project was
to create, document and implement the quality, reliability and
maintainability programs for the Rapier 200 Radar Tracker and to reconcile
QRM & safety
performance to the Ministry of Defence Procurement Specification.
His recent work has been in Product
Safety and Regulatory Compliance. This work
requires great attention to detail, plus a thorough appreciation of how
products might fail, be
misused or their instructions misinterpreted. Seen here lecturing in Hong
Kong:
He
has written more than 40 articles in the technical press - his work has
been translated into
Japanese - and has more than 1,000,000 entries on GOOGLE
.
He created
the first multimedia training CDROM covering electrical safety (1995)
- this was sold
in more than 17 countries to blue-chip companies such as Rolls Royce;
HP; and Microsoft.
Further examples of his work can be obtained from the following links.
Kervill
has written two international selling books and has been contracted to
write a third for
Butterworth-Heinemann. For
details of the second book please click here .
In 1999
he presented papers, entitled "Overcoming our local 'Design Culture'
and Getting it
Right" at the IEEE Symposium in Seattle 1999, and "Preparing
for the Economic Recovery" in
Boston, IEEE 2003.
During
2001 he wrote the training and documentation suite of software for The
Integrated Test Set - a package
of test equipment; two self-pace training CDROM's and book - test processes
templates and everything for
basic safety testing. The test equipment was developed in conjunction
with his US partner Ergonomics Inc.
He
was adviser to the Northern
Ireland Local Employment Development Unit for three years ; has advised
the UK Department of Trade and Industry, (DTI); the Brussels Directorate
General Office (EC-DG3) and
has been a consultant to a Virginia Economic Development Partnership export
program for several years.
Gregg
has provided pro-bono support to NARTE (www.NARTE.org)
, since the mid 90's, to help develop the NARTE
Certificate in Product Safety Engineering. He also provides pro-bono support
to the non-profit eGlobal
Education Partnership (http://www.eGlobalEd.Org) to create the NARTE Product
Safety Study Guide and
on-line compliance training
material to support the NARTE Certification.
The NARTE Product Safety Exam Study-Guide <===Click here to order your copy.
Gregg
is a member of the Institute of Management (MIMgt)- the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics
Engineers (MIEEE). He is a member of the IEEE EMC Society Education Committee
and is a founding member
and a former board member of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society.
He is also a NARTE Certified
Product Safety Engineer. (NCE)
.