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COMPANY PROFILE
Brillig Systems is a privately held company with headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina. Brillig Systems was founded with the underlying principle of providing high quality professional services to manufacturing and industrial clients. Our world-class professionals are recognized throughout North America and Europe as among the finest available.

Project Management: We provide professionally registered project managers who can not only successfully manage projects but also understand what they are managing. Many of our project managers are engineers and technical experts in their fields. Our particular strength is managing process automation projects involving design, construction, installation, and commissioning of computer systems that control manufacturing operations. Recent project have included: a multi-million dollar upgrade to a pharmaceutical plant producing insulin; a new biotech facility for producing a cancer fighting drug; and a new chemical plant for making poly-silicone. In addition to managing new green-field projects we provide rescue and recovery for projects that have become over-budget or behind schedule.

We also provide project management services in the IT arena – a recent example being the management of a maintenance system upgrade for a Fortune 100 client.

Project control services are an adjunct to our project management services and we have a highly-trained and professionally qualified staff that can track costs, update schedules and produce program metrics that ensure project success.

Technical Consulting Services: Brillig Systems provides specialized technical services to help implement process control systems. Particular areas of expertise include: defining user requirements, writing functional specifications, code development, testing, validation, and commissioning.

Consulting and Training: Our consultants provide specialized project management training targeted at the process automation field. Our specialized knowledge has also meant that are frequently called upon to help our clients increase and institutionalize their internal expertise by providing guidelines and standards. Recent examples being a staffing plan guideline and an analysis of the workflow for instrumentation and controls in a large corporate engineering environment.

Industries Served


• Pharmaceutical & Biotech
• Semiconductor
• Oil & Gas
• Food
• Chemical
• Textiles
• Plastics
• Automotive
• Power Generation
• Metals
• Industrial
• Paint







Clients

Brillig’s clients include many Fortune 50 clients including many pharmaceutical and biotech companies along with a major engineering, procurement, and construction company.

Principals

Graham Smith, PMP
graham.smith@brilligsys.com
Graham Smith is a world-class professional who has helped companies in Europe, America, and Asia execute complex technical projects. He has over 25 years experience in successfully managing IT and automation projects. His experience covers many industries including pharmaceutical, telecommunications, semiconductor, automotive, chemicals, plastics, distribution, and textiles. He is proud to be an American. He is a registered Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI), a Chartered Engineer in his homeland of England, and a member of the IEE and the IEEE. Graham is a graduate of the University of Manchester and the University of London.

Raymond Teaster, PE
raymond.teaster@brilligsys.com
A Professional Engineer with over 25 year's experience, Raymond Teaster has successfully managed and executed automation projects of all sizes and in a variety of industries. Raymond joined Brillig Systems in 2004 and became a partner in 2006. Raymond currently is focused on managing Brillig’s collaborative relationship with one of the world’s largest engineering firms. This relationship involves supporting the firm’s efforts by providing automation project management and specialized engineering services. Raymond has successfully delivered pharmaceutical and biotech automation projects for some of the industry’s leaders. In addition to pharmaceutical and biotech, Raymond has assisted clients in the chemicals, semiconductor, foods, plastics and textile industries worldwide. Raymond has a Chemical Engineering degree from Clemson University and is a member of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and the Project Management Institute (PMI).

David Adler, PE, CAP
dave.adler@brilligsys.com
With over thirty years of experience as a process control engineer, Dave has been a leader of site automation teams and a corporate automation consultant at a major pharmaceutical firm. Dave has instructed and coordinated numerous internal training classes including automation project management and process control theory. Having managed numerous complex engineering projects and led diverse technical groups, he has been the corporate go-to guy when projects were behind schedule or over budget. Dave is a Professional Engineer and Certified Automation Professional. He is a published author in his field and chairman of the Pharmaceutical Automation Roundtable. Dave has a Bachelors and Masters in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University where he is also an engineering recruiting captain.

Greg Elliott
greg.elliott@brilligsys.com
Greg has over 17 years of professional experience, most recently managing a multi-million dollar engineering business providing professional services to Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. He has served as project manager for numerous projects covering a wide range of industrial applications, including life sciences and pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices, automotive, and power generation. Greg has managed technology teams comprised of certified engineers, technologists, software programmers, and designers and ensured projects followed scheduled milestones, maintained tracking and forecasting of project budgets and resources, and provided earned value reporting. Greg has received awards recognition from a global leader in automation controls engineering for demonstrated excellence in project delivery. He is a graduate of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has a Masters of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. Greg is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Project Management Institute (PMI), and the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE).