Keywords

Project engineering lead, team leader, sales support, client facing, security cleared, software designer, hardware designer, acceptance testing, HMI/MMI/MCI/HCI GUI design, engineering/technical manager, Video editor.

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Senior Product Engineer BOC Edwards High Vacuum Ltd 2006 - present

Provide product support for existing range of turbo-pumps & associated control systems used for major capital installations, principally in the pure science & semiconductor industries. This includes customer & production line support in the form of fault investigations, production interfacing.

Responsibilities:

· Diagnose & resolve problems in complex customer & internal capital equipment installations.

· Conduct in house testing to simulate problems.

· Investigate & report on production defect trends to senior management.

· Collaborate with design departments on New Product Introductions.

· Develop analysis methods for early fault detection & rectification.

· Software & hardware design authority for production test systems.

Senior Project Engineer Aviation Training International Ltd 2003 - 2006

Provide knowledge depth to advise maintenance engineering, particularly in regard to control system design and operation.

Detailed knowledge of mission, computing systems, electronics, electrical systems, hydraulics, mechanics, pneumatics.

Security cleared to work with MoD customer at the client's secure sites. Reporting to the Engineering director.

Security cleared to level SC

Responsibilities:

· All technical issues relating to the electro-mechanical training systems (~£120M) used to train MoD clients.

· Authoring product requirements documents, vetting specifications and formal Bids and proposals. Reviewing, commenting and approving supplier and sub-contractor documentation.

· Preparation of Procedural Instructions, technical bulletins & change notices.

· Reliability & maintainability monitoring & correction studies, with mitigation strategy development.

· Running acceptance testing (FAT & SAT) for above equipments.

Achievements:-

· Product upgrade and COTS obsolescence mitigation strategy development and implementation.

· Creation of internal equipment engineering change process.

· Overseeing upgrades, running acceptance tests and ensuring specification compliance.

· Re-certification strategy development and implementation for training equipment.

Reason For Leaving: Very limited career prospects

Principal Engineer Thales Training and Simulation Ltd 2000-2003

Designer for Instructor workstations for advanced military aircraft training devices. Security cleared to level SC.

Responsibilities:

· Authoring product specification documents and contributing to formal proposals.

· Training and mentoring co-workers in technical issues associated with interfaces and computer language.

· Taking existing prototype interfaces & modifying using standardised computing objects & methods.

· Integration of new sub-systems into the main deliverable system.

· Configuration control using packages such as Clearcase.

Achievements:-

· Developed Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) for Nimrod MRA4 aircrew training devices using HMI best practice.

Reason For Leaving: Limited career prospects

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Principal Engineer Thomson Entertainment 1992-2000

Specialised in smaller electro-mechanical passenger systems for the entertainment industry.

Responsibilities:

· Audio-Visual and Ride Creation department with 4 staff.

· Training our service engineers in the product maintenance, including control system theory. Preparation of Procedural Instructions, technical bulletins & change notices.

· Selected for promotions by many well known companies, e.g. Sony, Nintendo, Nissan, Disney, BP, Shell, and Castrol.

· As project sales manager, dealing directly with the clients, up to and including director level as well as their contractors.

· Design of electrical and electronic assemblies (19 inch & 27 inch racks) as well as PCB design to production standards.

· Integration of equipment with third party/ client equipment at customer's sites.

· Liaison with suppliers and customers to discuss & resolve any technical issues

· Conceptual design of the product

· Reliability & maintainability improvement design using COTS where possible.

· Running Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) face to face with clients & end users.

Achievements:-

· Set up the broadcast standard video edit suite along and team. Departmental sales earnings exceeded £1M pa.

· Design authority for all rides. The company won a number of prestigious awards for its ride products.

· Many New Product Introductions (NPI) including an MPEG playback system using the remote licensing system.

· Product range expansion to include multi- axis motion systems, High Definition video systems and open top systems.

· Reduced AV production times by a factor of 16.

· Redesigned a number of new products for ease of manufacture, reliability & maintainability.

· Developed and introduced an interactive CD sales information system.

· CD based product technical manual system for engineers servicing our equipment.

Reason For Leaving: Company to closure due to world market downturn

Senior Engineer Hughes Rediffusion Ltd 1985-1992

Invited to join a pioneering new product team introducing simulation technologies into the entertainment market. The equipment appeared on UK TV programs such as Tomorrows World, QED and Equinox.

Responsibilities:

· Take new products from conceptual or early prototype & transform into a viable production design using standard parts.

· Created and ran 3 departments; hardware engineering, software development and Installations/After sales and hand picked my staff of 12.

· Department head; prioritising workloads, allocate staff to work packages, meet with clients and senior management. With such a small staff it was necessary for me to remain hands on when it came to designs and installations.

· Dealing with the client from senior management levels down to facilities support.

· Liaison with suppliers and customers to discuss & resolve any technical issues

· Software design and configuration, systems integration and running customer acceptance tests (FAT & SAT).

· Full life cycle of the product, taking the first customer telephone enquiry, through the face to face design negotiation, onto the development phase right up to the equipment installation and even the product after care and upgrade.

· Product development including design for maintainability & spares commonality. Reliability monitoring.

· Preparation of Procedural Instructions, technical bulletins & change notices.

· Design of electrical and electronic assemblies (19 inch & 27 inch racks) as well as PCB design to production standards.

· Integration of equipment with third party/ client equipment at customer's sites.

· Giving customer training courses and the production of supporting documentation, both in house and on site.

Achievements:-

· Design authority for large electro-mechanical passenger systems.

· Commission large 6 axis motion systems, with an understanding of their hydraulic operation.

· Designing pneumatic door control systems and passenger seat restraint control systems.

· Author of simulator diagnostic and control systems using C, Basic, Ladder languages.

Reason For Leaving: Company was purchased by Thomson

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Commissioning Engineer Rediffusion Simulation Ltd 1979-1985

Testing, integration and commissioning aircraft training equipment to international standards in factory and at the client's site.

Responsibilities:

· An understanding of most aircraft systems, such as navigation, auto-flight, controls and a variety of others.

· Knowledge of bespoke software tools and computational systems to assist in the testing of the equipment.

· Working closely with project managers, fitters, wiremen, production staff and junior technicians

· Testing training equipment to CAA/FAA standards both in-house & at client sites (FAT & SAT).

· Take designers prototype subsystem & integrate into main product using standard methods & parts.

· Ran departmental section consisting of approximately 15 technicians and engineers allocating project coverage and shifts to each individual based on the prevailing priorities.

Achievements:-

· Specialisation with aircraft voice communications in addition to other simulator systems.

· Installing and testing the equipment at the clients' site abroad against tight schedules.

· Seconded to American Airlines Training Ltd as an on-site shift service engineer from 1982-1983. This involved dealing with equipment faults throughout the training facility, across a wide range of technologies and manufacturers, usually under pressure. Required good communications skills and a certain degree of diplomacy

Instructor Systems Analyst Redifon Flight Simulation Ltd 1978-1979

Programming state of the art graphics system used to produce map and textual displays using a proprietary computer language.

Responsibilities:

· Training to other engineers to support the adoption of this new technology into the corporate product range.

Achievements:-

· Creation of a product baseline from a prototype generated by the development department.

· Author of both a language reference and a programming guide to support the use of the system.

Systems Design Technician Redifon Flight Simulation Ltd 1976-1978

Analysis of aircraft systems using manufacturer's drawings, schematics and operations manuals.

Responsibilities:

· Production of drawings to define the hardware requirements for the simulator.

Achievements:-

· Writing software flow diagrams and code functional descriptions for US military and civil airline products.

Reason For Leaving: New product development position became available

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Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S

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Professional

Institution of Engineering & Technology - Full Member

Institute of Analysts and Programmers - Full Member

Institute of Advanced Motorists - Associate Member

Education Computer Languages

HNC in Electronic Engineering Assembler

ONC in Technology Basic

7 GCE O Levels C , Some exposure to C++

Forth

Training Fortran

C Programming Introduction Pascal

Advanced C Programming + C Programming standards Visual Basic and VB.Net including ActiveX components

AMX Programming and Hardware Installation PLC Ladder

Sony Projector Installation LabView™

Barco Projector Installation Operating systems

Kaizen - Blue belt standard DOS

FMEA training Windows 3.x - XP