Ray Keefe

Managing Director - Successful Endeavours

Graduated in:

1984

Course completed:

Bachelor of Engineering majoring in electrical engineering

Currently working for:

Successful Endeavours

How long have you been working for this organisation?

12 years

Position title and short job description:

Managing Director. Responsible for business direction, marketing and customer relations.

Working highlight so far:

A Power Factor Correction controller we developed for ABB won the Electronics News Future Award for Industrial Electronics in 2011. This is the Electronics Engineering equivalent of winning a gold medal at the Australian National Championships in athletics.

What are the things you enjoy most about your job?

Creating new products that make everyone's life better.

An area in which you have needed assistance:

Marketing and promotion.

What do you intend to do in the future?

Grow the business to increase our capacity and therefore the assistance we can provide to Australian electronics manufacturers.  Manufacturing is still roughly 10% of the Australian economy and it is 50% larger than mining in turnover and provides 10 times the jobs so we really believe in helping this core part of our economy as much as possible.

#1 tip for current students studying your course:

Get a good understanding of all the basics.  You have no idea what you will and won't use in your career but you can be sure that if you don't understand the basics you will be at a big disadvantage if you have to work in that area.