Teo Chin Inn, our Technical Manager, is a graduate of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. Damage Control is a service industry, and Teo’s background before joining us provided a splendid basis for a career in restoration. Well travelled, Teo has spent the past 12 years dealing with customers’ problem in countries throughout S. E. Asia. This has required extensive training in the country-of-origin of various sophisticated equipment, and Teo has been trained by Siemens in Germany, and Beckman and GE in the USA.

Restorers must be versatile, and Teo’s fitness for the job can be illustrated if we report that before joining us he had serviced industrial machine tools, computer numerical control ( CNC ) machines, co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM), precision grinding machines; laboratory measuring instruments including gas chromatographs, atomic absorption element analysers, thermal analysers, micro-balances and systems; medical radiotherapy x-ray systems, ultracentrifugation machines, photocopy and facsimile machines.

An unusual event in Teo’s career was being assigned as technical instructor to a group of Mandarin speaking engineers from China for a one month course in France in 1989. Like most Malaysians, Teo is linguistically strong, and can speak and write in English, Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia, and can converse in the Cantonese and Teochew dialects.

To prepare for a career in restoration, Teo trained in Germany before setting up our restoration facility in Kuala Lumpur. He admits that the potential for travel was one of the attractions of the position, and since joining us has supervised restorations or acted as a consultant in Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei and at many locations throughout Malaysia. Teo has had 11 years experience in the loss recovery industry.

Tony Jarratt

From New Zealand, Tony Jarratt holds a New Zealand certificiate in Electrical Engineering, is a Registered Engineering Associate and has had extensive experience in large scale project management. Two of his New Zealand projects he managed were the electrical installations at a Hydrogen Peroxide plant involving explosion proof equipment and wiring techniques and the electrical installations involved in reticulating a new shipping container port complete with high mast lighting, Leibherr container cranes, reefer stations and high voltage switchgear and transformer substations.

Since Tony has been in S. E. Asia, he has managed recovery projects involving a fire damaged, combined cycle generation control gear cabin; a fire damaged aluminium rolling mill and the rebuild of a tissue paper machine razed by fire.

Tony came to us with 2 1/2 years experience in the recovery industry as a Technical Adviser and Project Manager, and has managed projects or acted as a consultant in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

A restoration company needs people with a wide variety of skills, but perhaps the main attribute is a commitment to quality. The aircraft industry has this in abundance, and it is not by chance that our Workshop Manager has a background in the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

En Murtadza joined the RMAF in 1976 and after initial training worked for two years on helicopters. He was then sent to the No. 1 Training School, RAF Halton, UK, for a year, and for the next nine years worked as an electrical and instrumentation technician on various aircraft types at bases throughout Malaysia. After resettlement, En Murtadza joined Airod in Kuala Lumpur. This company carries out major overhauls of military, private and commercial aircraft.

He joined Damage Control when it was formed in 1992, and was sent to Germany for training in restoration techniques. Since then he has supervised our technicians at most of our major restorations, the work taking him to Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore and throughout Malaysia.