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• Ability to combine software, electrical, mechanical and academic knowledge with leadership skills to build top performing cross-functional teams that dramatically improve the return on R&D and technology investment, greatly enhancing the commercial value of products.

• Applying Value Engineering, DFMA and Brainstorming techniques to maximise the creativity and innovation required to take products from concept, through development and into production, while reducing costs and optimising price/performance, reliability and maintainability of designs.

• Over 25 years experience in real-time multi-tasking embedded software engineering using Object Orientated and structured programming techniques with a significant track record in specialised control system applications, employing a variety of high level languages (C/C++, PLM, Fortran, Basic, PLC ladder logic) and assembler languages (6501/2, 8085, Z8/80, 68000, 6802/09, 8051, HPC64000).

• Hardware engineering of analogue, digital and microprocessor electronic circuits using schematic capture, simulation and PCB layout development packages. Hardware/Software integration, debug and test using tools such as processor emulators and logic analyzers.

Achievements

• Formed Automatic Test & Control Limited in 1985 to provide a range of consultancy and sub-contact services to other high technology companies involved in automatic test equipment and specialised control system development, accumulating a growing wealth of technical and commercial business skills from a broad range of industries and market sectors.

• Appointed Technical Director of an international packaging equipment manufacturer, leading a team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers developing the next generation range of bespoke form, fill and seal wrapping machines and intelligent feeding systems. >>>

• Utilised wide range of academic, analytical and problem solving skills in the development of a highly innovative medical laser system, which was half the size and had a greater power range than its worldwide competition while being manufactured at much lower cost. >>>

• Developed prototype impulse test system for audio speakers that reduced the test time from 5 minutes to 5 seconds while providing a vast increase in resolution, compared to conventional frequency scanning techniques. >>>

• Developed real-time pre-emptive operating system kernel based on MASCOT principles (Modular Approach to Software Construction, Operation and Test) to provide multi-tasking facilities for small to medium sized control systems. >>>

Academic Background

• B.Sc. (Hons) Applied Physics, specialising in process control, kinematics and engineering mathematics.

• Received the Thomas Gibb Wilson award for research and development of a constant acceleration drive system for a Mossbauer spectrometer that used predictive feed-forward control to reduce feedback to a second order correction.