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History of the IFE Southern Branch Committee
PREVIOUS President – Jacob Derrick
Jacob began his career studying electronics and electrical engineering and has a background in electronic fire and security systems. He is passionate about fire safety and engineering and loves to challenge norms and propose new ideas or ways of working. He works as a Fire Engineer on all aspects of active and passive fire engineering design, risk assessment and contract management. He is an Incorporated Engineer and Chartered Member of CABE. He enjoys learning and development and studied the FPA’s European Diploma in Fire Prevention. He has been accepted to the GCU BEng (Hons) programme in Fire Risk Engineering, starting in September 2021. He has been involved with the IFE since 2018 when he restarted the branch activity and attend the International General Assembly meetings on behalf of the Branch. One of his desires is to try and provide better engineering and safety through cooperation with everyone involved in building design, management, and use; breaking down barriers, specifically in construction, caused by ‘siloed’ responsibilities and thinking. He believes in a holistic approach to engineering solutions and that everyone, no matter their role, has a part to play in making the work safer from fire.
PREVIOUS Vice-President – Andrea White
Andrea is a fire engineer, with a background in fire safety enforcement, safety consultancy and fire risk assessment. She's also a chartered health and safety practitioner, having begun her career in premises management. She has a particular interest in historic buildings and in timber construction, having originally studied wood science.
Given half the chance, you'll find her studying and learning - She's an Incorporated Engineer via the IFE and working towards Chartered Engineer status. She's also a lead interviewer and panel member for the IFE's Fire Risk Register of Assessors scheme, Chair of the new Women in Fire Engineering Networking Group and a Fellow of the IFE.
PREVIOUS Membership Contact – Steve McGrill
Steve is a fire safety consultant, with 20 years’ experience working in a diverse range of environments. More recently he has specialised in residential and healthcare fire safety.
Steve is on the IFE's Fire Risk Register of Assessors scheme and a Member of the IFE. He has just completed and submitted his application for EngTech. He's also now working towards becoming an Incorporated Engineer and plan to complete a Degree in fire engineering over the coming years.
Steve is happy to talk about fire safety to anyone who cares to listen and provide help and support to anyone trying to get into fire safety consultancy and carry out fire risk assessments.
Steve is on the IFE's Fire Risk Register of Assessors scheme and a Member of the IFE. He has just completed and submitted his application for EngTech. He's also now working towards becoming an Incorporated Engineer and plan to complete a Degree in fire engineering over the coming years.
Steve is happy to talk about fire safety to anyone who cares to listen and provide help and support to anyone trying to get into fire safety consultancy and carry out fire risk assessments.
PREVIOUS Auditor – Mike Sutton
Mike is a Fire Detection Engineer & Sales Manager with over 30 years’ experience in the fire detection industry.
During his career, he has worked his way up from an Electronics Engineer to a Commissioning engineer at both Shorrock Fire and Siemens Building Technologies. At Siemens he moved into a Design Engineer role, and then into the dark side of sales. From there he moved back to a smaller company in Southampton as an Account Manager before moving into Manufacturing as a Sales Manager for Klaxon Signals and then Apollo Fire Detectors.
As well as the IFE, he is also a member of the IET and NAHFO. He currently leads the Healthcare vertical within Apollo at a strategic level.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” - Douglas Adams
PREVIOUS SECRETARY – DAVID GOVER
Professionally, David have a H&S background and took a keen interest in fire safety from the get-go. He really cut his teeth with fire safety while working with several local authorities on their fire risk assessment programmes.
He's worked as a consultant, an assessor, as well as leading a team of fire risk assessors and most recently have just started working for a principal contractor where his new role sees him splitting his time between ensuring the construction sites are fire safe while the projects themselves are compliant with the ever changing regs.
It really is a fast-changing industry at the moment and like most of us he loves a bit of CPD and training. Currently he's working towards his MIFireE and am looking into sourcing his next training course.
He's worked as a consultant, an assessor, as well as leading a team of fire risk assessors and most recently have just started working for a principal contractor where his new role sees him splitting his time between ensuring the construction sites are fire safe while the projects themselves are compliant with the ever changing regs.
It really is a fast-changing industry at the moment and like most of us he loves a bit of CPD and training. Currently he's working towards his MIFireE and am looking into sourcing his next training course.
Looking to develop yourself?
The Southern Branch covers Dorset, Hampshire & the Isle of Wight. However, IFE members from any part of the country can elect to be a member of our Branch. Join our Branch to talk fire safety with friendly, like-minded individuals and take advantage of some great CPD opportunities