1. Curriculum Vitae
Name: Bjarni Ellert Ísleifsson
Address: Brekkubrún 9
700 Fljótsdalshérað
Iceland
E-mail: bjarniis@gmail.com
Telephone: + 354 474 1529
Mobile: + 354 864 9101
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Date of birth: April 17 , 1972
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Family: Engaged, 2 children from 1 wife
Education:
2006 M.Sc. in Maintenance Engineering & Asset Management from Manchester University.
MSc Dissertation titled: „Data collection and its use to advance maintenance
management and maintenance practices to support business objectives“. Available
upon request.
1998 Mechanical Engineering, Engineering College of Iceland.
Languages: Icelandic excellent (speak, read, write)
English excellent (speak, read, write)
Danish fair (speak, read, write)
Key qualifications: Strong background in mechanical engineering, with focus on maintenance
management, systems and operation, consulting, mechanical and software design,
operation coordination and project management, good knowledge in various condition
monitoring techniques; Vibration monitoring and analysis, Thermal Imaging, Acoustic
Emission, Motor Current Analysis as well as good knowledge of many methodologies
in maintenance like: TPM, RCM, BCM, VDM and more.
Present position: Maintenance Specialist at Alcoa Fjarðaál Iceland
Professional experiences:
2010 to present Alcoa Fjarðaál Iceland.
Maintenance Specialist in the casthouse of an Aluminium plant. Responsible for the
PM/PdM maintenance of the casthouse.
2009 to present Icelandic Maintenance Association.
Current Chairman and founding partner of the Icelandic Maintenance Association.
www.fvsi.is
2009 to 2010 Innovation Center of Iceland.
Project Manager at Innovation Center Iceland, http://nmi.is/english/
2003 to present Maintenance Management ltd.
General Manager maintenance management consulting services and sales of related
products.
This is a company that I founded and am currently working for. This company offers a
wide variety of consultancy, services and maintenance management products. For
further information about the company, visit the website
www.maintenancemanagement.is.
I have gained considerable experience in consulting companies about selecting,
implementing and getting good results from applying good maintenance management
strategies, methods, systems, etc.
I have held maintenance management seminars, lectures, etc. focusing on good
maintenance management strategies, practices, inspection techniques (condition
monitoring), etc.

2. 2001 to present TALUS
General Manager product development and other relevant work.
This is a company that I founded around an invention that I have been developing for
a prosthetic ancle. This company has already received acknowledgements regarding
the invention.
1999 to 2003 DMM Solutions Iceland
Service Manager at DMM Solutions Iceland
As a service manager at DMM, I have been involved extensively in the development
of the maintenance management software that DMM has created. I have gained very
good knowledge of databases like MSSQL and ORACLE as well as their functions
and possibilities. I have also gained strengh regarding connections between various
systems like accounting systems, inventory systems and other ERP/EAM systems to
maintenance management systems. I have been a project leader in several
implementations of CMMS systems and served as a consultant for the effective use of
CMMS systems for the companies that use maintenance management software. My
function also involved listenening to the requirements of the user and refering them
back to the development of the maintenance management software. I have extensive
experience in communicating with floor level maintenance professionals and
managers of companies as well as getting project ownership and support from all
levels of software implementation and usage.
1998 - 1999 Sudurnes Regional Heating Corporation in Iceland
Maintenance Department at Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant.
Software implementation for maintenance management system, DMM 1.0 Involved
extensively in the implementation of the maintenance management software in the
power plant and quickly after that I was invited to work for DMM Solutions to do
similare work for other companies.
Participation in planning and coordinating maintenance management.
Was involved in the planning, coordination and execution of maintenance work beeing
done at the power plant.
Project management as well as analysing work procedures and training staff in the
execution of maintenance tasks.
1990 - 1998 Various Fishing Vessels, food production company and school.
I was a great deal at sea as a Mechanical Engineer in this period on various sizes of
ships from small boats to large fishing trawlers, also studying Mechanical Engineering
and being a maintenance manager at a food production company.
In this period I gained great knowledge of many types of equipments, systems and its
characteristics. I was a second engineer at sea only for the first year that I was on a
ship. Otherwise I have been the Chief Enginner each and every year I spent on any
ship, which means that I had high responsability towards the crew and the company
that owned the ships.
Further Education:
1998 - present Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP),
http://www.smrp.org/certs_standards/cmrplocator.asp
Various Conferences and Short Courses regarding issues related to maintenance
management and some specialized software courses.
Acknowledgements:
1998 - present Award for the best business plan of the year for prosthetic ankle. Further information:
http://www.nsa.is.
Award for the best design for a life saving device for people sailing alone at sea.
Contest held in celebration of the 75 year anniversary of the Icelandic Lifesavers
association.
References: References can be obtained on demand online at :
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8579177&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro