Gavin Embry

Experience Highlights

Naval

• Communications Officer and Navigator of USS Kankakee (AO-39), Fleet Oiler, operating in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean and Arabian Seas.

• Communications Officer of USNS General Black (Assault Troopship) in the Pacific
• Communications Officer & Chief of Military Police of USNS General Pope (Troopship) in the Pacific (This former ocean liner carried up to 4500 troops, with equipment.)
• Commanding Officer of USNS Cedar Creek (Fleet Oiler), in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Arabian Sea.
• Naval Intelligence & Shipping Security Officer for the 15th Naval District (Panama Canal Zone and Caribbean Sea, especially the security of the the Panama Canal)

Engineering

• Geodetic Engineer in the Inter-American Geodetic Survey, in Central and South America

Management

• Manager of Contracts & Subcontracts at Kaiser Engineers (KE), the engineering arm of Kaiser Industries (founded by Henry J. Kaiser) which also owned Kaiser Aluminium, Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Electronics, Kaiser Magnesium, Kaiser-Frazer Automotive and Permanente Cement,  (KE throughput was over $13.5 billion/year -- adjusted for inflation to 2000ad) Its projects which involved Gavin Embry included:

1.  the Hanford Atomic Energy Works, (Washington State)
2. Chalmette Louisiana Aluminium Reduction Plant, 
3. Jamaican Alumina Mines, 
4. Tata Iron and Steel Facilities Expansion (added 50% to the iron and steel making capacity of the Indian Sub-Continent),
5. Arrow Lakes Hydroelectric Dam (Canada), 
6. Snowy River Hydroelectric Development (Australia), 
7. several Kaiser Iron Mines and Steel Mills Expansions, and various iron and steel, aluminium, magnesium, cement, and atomic energy facilities. 
8. He proposed the name, "Industrias Kaiser de Argentina", the acronym "IKA", and 
9. helped found the Kaiser  Automobile Factories in Argentina (IKA).

• Manager of Systems and Procedures at Kaiser Engineers (ditto)
• Manager of Organization Planning at Kaiser Engineers (ditto)
• Assistant to the President and Manager of Industrial Engineering, Pacific Coast Engineering Company. Products included:
  1. ocean going barges and dredges, 
  2. atomic reactor  vessels,
  3. hydroelectric valves and gates, 
  4. dockside and shipboard cranes and 
  5. other heavy steel fabricated products.

• Assistant Chief Engineer at Rheem Semiconductors in Sunnyvale CA. This was as a part of the start-up team of a semiconductor manufacturer.
• Supervisor of Special Projects at Varian Associates.  He joined Varian Associates, an early and enduring leader in electronics product design, development and manufacturing, as part of a consulting team (including Booz-Allen and Hamilton) working on the design and implementation of a new Material Control System for the Analytical Instrument Division .  He stayed on to lead the design, development and implementation of (the world's first) Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP, and later MRP-II) Systems, adopted by  all the 21 additional Varian Divisions and Subsidiaries
• Manager of Management Information Systems for Varian Associates

Executive

• Vice President -- International of Executive Technology Corporation (ETC), in charge of design, development and implementation of MRP and MRP-II Systems for clients in the USA, France and the UK.
• Founder, Managing Director & Executive Consultant of SISSA, successor SISSA extended the MRP-II concept to Enterprise Resource Management Systems (ERP) and Supply Chain Management.  These systems included product design, development, manufacturing engineering, sales forecasting, sales order entry, master scheduling, procurement, production control and shop floor control and were further extended to include Supply Chain Management.  In many projects SISSA worked in close collaboration with Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
• Founder, Managing Director of Boutique Estates Division of EGL
• Founder, Executive Chairman and eCEO of Embry General Ltd
• Executive Chairman  and eCEO of Stone Tiger Entertainment  Ltd
• Executive Chairman  and eCEO of Michelson, Morley & Maxwell Ltd
• Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of Evelyn Enterprises Ltd
• Founder, General Secretary of Freehold Now!!
• Secretary of Ice candy Entertainment Ltd