Nigel James of Triad Controls Systems

This presentation will discuss the Business Needs for OSHA compliance of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) or Safety Lifecycle Management (SLM).  The presentation will review the related regulations, standards and guidelines along with requirements and challenges.

Biography:

Nigel James is a well-versed entrepreneur in the Industrial Controls System (ICS) space.  He sits on the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Digital Transformation task force and hosts his own Digital Future committee that meets once a month with vendors and end users.  He has a Professional Certificate from the New York Institute of Finance Mergers and Acquisition Course in 2017 and is very active in the M&A space. 

He has sat on several boards (BG, Mangan, OLQP, CSO-Galv/Houston) and is an advisor for several software development companies.

He received his degree Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin in 1986.  Nigel worked in the refinery industry for 8 years with Fina – three years overseas in Grimsby England.

He went into the Automation Consulting business in 1995. He founded his own firm James Consulting Co. in 1999 that was bought and merged into Mangan Inc. in 2002.  He served as President of Mangan from 2005 – 2006.  He continued as President of the Gulf Coast division from 2007-2012.  Mangan was named Control Engineering Magazine System Integrator of the Year in 2012.  He retired from Mangan the end of 2012.  He became the President of Burrow Global Automation in 2013 and grew that business from less than $2MM per year to over $20MM per year in 4 years.   With a 55% YoY growth, BGA also recently received the System Integrator of the Year in 2017 from CFE media. Nigel then became the Chief Strategic Officer and Director of Business Development Burrow Global. Burrow Global was a $140MM, 800 employee EPC company with divisions in buildings, engineering, water/municipal, government, construction.  Nigel was responsible for setting the strategic plan, branding, advertising, and business development aspects of the company and integrating all the divisions into a one stop solution for our clients.

Nigel was the inventor/creator of the Safety Lifecycle software  (www.mangansoftware.com)  and has been very involved in developing best practices on Safety Lifecycle management for the industry for several Fortune 500 companies. 

He has numerous papers with CSIA, ISA and associated Vendor User Groups.

Currently, Nigel is the program manager for Triad Controls Systems, a $38MM automation company within the Newtron Group.  The Newtron Group is a $950MM national electrical contractor celebrating its 50 years in the business.  He is responsible for implementing business and project management systems to improve the efficiency of the business operations.  He supports multiple divisions in developing strategic plans to market within the Newtron family.  They have offices in New Orleans, LA, Baton Rouge, LA, Lake Charles, LA, Beaumont, TX, Deer Park, TX, Reno NV, Martinez, CA.

Nigel has been married 30 years to Molly, has five children, SIX grandchildren and when he is not working is very active in the duck hunting, kayaking, camping, Boy Scouts, and Catholic youth ministry.  He is a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.  He is an Eagle Scout, and a recipient of the Herman Swift award. 

He was a school board President of OLQP for 4 years and served as Finance Chair for the Catholic Schools Office for the Diocese of Galveston/Houston.

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