John Westlake
Reliability Engineer at L.Q.E Ltd
Chester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Westlake is an equipment reliability and asset-care consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience optimising maintenance strategies across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, energy and manufacturing. He specialises in FMECA-driven maintenance programs, CMMS/EAM implementations (Maximo, Dynaway/Microsoft D365, SAP) and translating regulatory requirements (cGMP/FDA) into practical, auditable maintenance regimes. John has led multimillion-dollar improvement projects and realised roughly $2.5M in savings for global clients while delivering training and change across complex, cross-functional teams. Equally comfortable on the factory floor or in ERP integrations, he combines Kaizen/TPM/RCM methodologies with validation, CAPA and inventory optimisation to reduce downtime and boost OEE. He also contributes to open-source UI work—improving a core WrapPanel control in the widely used Windows Community Toolkit—revealing a rare blend of maintenance engineering and hands-on software/UI experience. Based in Chester, UK, he is known for pragmatic project delivery, safety-first leadership and making technology adoption stick in highly regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Carlett Park college
Github Skills (14)
uwp10
windows-app-sdk10
winui10
toolkits10
csharp10
tool-kit10
xaml10
gui-toolkit10
dotnet-core10
ui-design9
animation9
dotnet-new9
dotnet9
mvvm8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
ARCHIVE - New Repo: https://aka.ms/toolkit/windows
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 8 PRs, 153 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the `WrapPanel` control, a core UI element within the Windows Community Toolkit. Their work involved implementing spacing properties, adjusting layout logic, and refining documentation and samples for this control. The commits demonstrate the addition of features related to the display and organization of UI elements. Furthermore, the user updated and exposed animation properties to the UI.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
JohnnyWestlake/Emilie
Jun 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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