An experienced and competent Engineering Manager and Electronics Engineer with a solid background of achievement in the design of both electronic equipment and real-time software programs to realise the business objectives of reduced cost, shortened timescales and improved quality. Good interpersonal skills necessary for successful team building and task management. Displays an analytical approach to problem solving making best use of available tools and resources. Has operated in solitary and team environments performing at all levels within the team including the team leader.

Active listener and a team member with experience of liaising with the customer in order to resolve technical and commercial problems and to define requirements.

Full U.K. security clearance.

Happy to travel or relocate for the right opportunity.

Engineering Management

Experience of managing design teams of around ten people who are, typically, systems engineers, electronic designers and software programmers. Well-developed task, personnel and time management skills.

• Task management
• Personnel management
• Life-Cycle management
• Trained design reviewer
• Earned-value management
• Trained performance reviewer
• Finance control
• Health and Safety
• Knowledge of PRINCE but no practical experience

Analogue Electronics Design

General circuit design: Transistors, op-amps, filters, Designing for E.M.C.
Analogue simulation: Saber, Spice.
Safety critical systems including DEF-STAN-00-56 and IEC 1508.
Reliability and hazard analysis.

Digital Electronics Design

Basic logic functions: TTL, HC functions, A to D and D to A converters.
Programmable logic: PALs, State Machines, VHDL.
MIL-STD-1553 communications.
Microprocessor based Designs: Intel 8051/52/31/32 & 8086, Motorola 68000 & 68020, Inmos T400, Siemens C166/7.
High level languages: Pascal, C, C++, PLM-51, Occam, BASIC, Fortran, Microsoft FoxPro, Python.
Low level assembler code: ASM51, 680X0.
Relational database design and programming including SQL.
Formal techniques and validation technologies.

System Design

CoRE (COntrolled Requirements Expression), CoRE Animator, StateMate, Cradle, Format (a formal validation toolset I have involved in developing in collaboration with the University of Oldenburg, Germany).

IT literate

MS Windows 95/98, Xp & NT, UNIX (including Linux), VAX/VMS, Networking technologies, CGI programming using PHP and Python, (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, Cascading Style Sheets.

Office Applications

MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Lotus Notes, Open Office.

BAE SYSTEMS, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, PR4

Support Delivery Manager, Eurofighter Typhoon, General Systems IPT, Exec. Grade 4
Responsible for the management of two teams: System Support and Equipment Support and until recently a third team, Aircraft Ground Equipment, which has now moved into another discipline.

Responsibilities involve the day-to-day management of these teams and the overall strategic management of the support function within the General Systems IPT. This includes extensive contact with both customers and suppliers; driving equipment development programmes and equipment modification programmes with an aim for improving quality, time and cost. In addition I am also responsible for the Reliability function within the General Systems IPT. Other responsibilities are:

• Technical signatory on equipment specifications and qualification evidence
• Ensuring that technical queries are answered according to the applicable Quality standards and against the Service Level Agreement. Queries originate from the various Typhoon customers (UK and overseas) and locally from the Typhoon build line
• Earned Value Management - monitoring of team costs and programmes and taking appropriate actions to reduce costs
• Risk and Opportunity management
• Performance management of both the programmes and individuals

BAE SYSTEMS, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, PR4 1AX

Group Leader, Eurofighter UCS, General Systems IPT, Grade F
Working as the Group Leader for the Utilities Control System team within the Eurofighter General Systems Integrated Product Team. Managing a team of Systems Engineers and Programmers responsible for the delivery of safety critical software for the control and monitoring of the Fuel and Life Support systems. Also responsible for the design and development of the UCS Fuel Computer.

BAE SYSTEMS, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, PR4 1AX

Systems Engineer, Systems Process Method Team, Grade F
Working with the Eurofighter Process Improvement Team in identifying the changes necessary within the avionics design process in order to reduce the time taken to respond to Change Requests. This also includes changes to the cockpit design process. Investigation of how a re-expression of the avionic functions maybe performed from the current tool, CoRE, into another tool such as StateMate.

British Aerospace, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, PR4 1AX

Lead Electronics Engineer, Grade F
Leading the design of a new first line armament test set for the Tornado Mid Life Update. This task includes the full life-cycle of design starting with customer liaison in order to define a specification all the way through to design maintenance. Actively contributing the technical aspects of a bid to design a new generic test system for MIL-STD-1760 compliant aircraft. A team member of the ESPRIT project SACRES, project number 20897. This project is researching the technologies and producing the tools that will allow designers to develop embedded safety critical systems with the aid of a formal toolset.

Co-author of Formal Verification of an Avionics Application using Abstraction and Symbolic Model Checking.

Acting as a design consultant for Safety Critical Systems, Stores Management Systems and related Test Equipment.

British Aerospace, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, PR4 1AX

Section Leader, Aircraft Ground Equipment, Grade T5
Management of a section of circuit designers, software designers and engineering designers for the design and production of first line aircraft ground equipment to specification, to time and to cost.

British Aerospace, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, PR4 1AX

Professional Engineer, Grade T4
The design of software, digital, analogue and micro-processor based circuits for aircraft ground equipment.

The design and production, to specification, of real time embedded software of a high integrity for armament test equipment.

British Aerospace, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, PR4 1AX

Professional Engineer, Grade T3
Design of digital, analogue and microprocessor based circuits for various military aircraft applications.

RACAL Defence Electronics, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

Engineer, Grade 1
Design of electronic circuits for sub-surface electronic surveillance equipment.

RACAL Defence Electronics, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

Engineer, Grade 2
Design of digital circuits for airborne electronic surveillance equipment. Design of test equipment for above.

BAE SYSTEMS

• Chartered Engineer
• Chartered Electrical Engineer
• M.I.E.E.

University of Sussex

• B.Sc. Electronic Engineering

Skelmersdale Sixth Form College

• Chemistry
• Mathematics (Pure & Applied)
• Physics

• Mathematics (Pure & Applied)

Glenburn High School, Skelmersdale

1977 GCE 'O' Levels

• Biology
• Chemistry
• English Language
• Geography
• Mathematics
• Physics

Reading: I am keen to improve my overall knowledge and have read extensively about Evolution Theory, natural selection, cosmology, quantum theory and artificial intelligence. I generally alternate my reading between fiction and non-fiction. Currently reading "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.

PC enthusiast: building and programming. Recently built an Athlon based PC running Linux and learning the rudiments of computer networking. I have set up my own server which provides network file sharing at home and also provides a web-server.

Amateur dramatics: I have been a member of the Warton Amateur Dramatics Group (which, sadly, now has closed) and have produced and appeared in many plays.