Profile

- An engineering management professional with hardware development, design for manufacturing, quality engineering and CE regulatory expertise within the PC system integration, electronics and communications industries

- Technical experience with EMC and LVD electrical safety for conformance to CE regulatory standards for IT products, and managing entire systems to complete CE testing.

- Managing a R&D team in testing, qualification and approvals of new products and technology, and new product introduction for manufacturing

- Microsoft MDA WHQL

- Quality and manufacturing, trouble-shooting and working with external suppliers

- Pre- and post Sales support of customer and field problems

- Trouble-shooting expertise in PC problems (PSU's, motherboards, cases and mechanics, acoustics, thermal management, software, etc.) associated with major field problems.

- Attention to detail from early design to final production and customer expectations.

Employment history

Research and Development Manager Centerprise International Ltd., Hampshire International Sept 1997 - present Business Park, Chineham, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

PC and systems integrator. Annual turnover £90m.

Staff of 1 - 4 engineers.

Microsoft MDA WHQL, new product qualification, approvals and introduction, sales technical support of major customer problems, trouble-shooting with supplier technical problems.

EMC-Project Manager As above. Testing and re-define components and material for

Nov 1995 - Sept 1997 PC product conformance to CE regulatory approvals.

Production Manager NTL Ltd., Advance Products Division,, Eastleigh,,

April 1995 - Aug 1995 Hampshire. Manufacturer video compression products. Annual turnover £40m. Staff of 33.

New factory re-location and set-up.

Quality/Manufacturing Manager Wessex Technology Opto-Electronic Products Ltd.,

Sept 1993 - Mar 1995 Portsmouth, Hampshire. Design and manufacture of CCD products. Annual turnover £1m.

Managing sub-contracted manufacturers for conformance to design specifications.

Manufacturing Manager Multiflex Celerity Ltd., Basingstoke, Hampshire.

April 1993 - Jun 1993 Manufacturer of printed circuit boards. Annual turnover £1.5m. Staff of 30.

April 1991 - Oct 1992 Fellowship in Manufacturing Management

Management training at Cranfield University

Management placement Digital Ltd., Wokingham, Berkshire

Repair, services and logistics of DEC equipment

Nov 1990 - Jan 1991 Motorola Ltd., Dublin, Ireland.

Start-up new manufacturing facility

Nov 1982 - Nov 1990 Motorola-Storno Ltd., Viables Industrial Estate,

Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Design and manufacture of mobile communications equipment.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer Manufacturing/quality trouble-shooting, Sales support.

Six-sigma, design for manufacturing, new product introduction

Manufacturing Engineer Technical operations supporting Manufacturing.

Applied diagnostic tools, FMEA, trend analysis, Product Champion in Quality circles.

RF Development Engineer Design/development of mobile communications products.

"reverse engineering" to resolve production batch problems.

Electronic Design Engineer AFA-Minerva (Thorn-EMI) Ltd., Richmond, Surrey

Jan 1981 - Jul 1982 Design and development of fire detectors and intruder alarms

Professional membership

Fellow, Association of Manufacturing Managers, Cranfield, 1992

Chartered Electrical Engineer, MIEE, Member Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1991

Education

Fellowship in Manufacturing Management, Cranfield University 1991 -1992

B.Sc. (II, 2 Hons) Electrical Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea 1976 - 1980

Awarded R.G. Isaacs Thesis Prize in Electrical Engineering.

O & A levels, Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh, West Malaysia 1963 - 1975

School head boy 1975