Lead engineer of the Power Plant Unit Model Development Project. The project is in fulfillment of the South African Grid Code which requires every power generating unit to have a representative Laplace transfer function model for the purpose of simulation and dynamic studies. Models were developed for the entire Eskom Generation Fleet including Coal Fired Power Stations, Gas Turbine Power Stations and Hydro Power Stations.Responsibilities / Experience:• Meetings, interviews, interaction with various Maintenance Engineering personnel. • Power generating unit field testing.• Power generating unit simulator testing.• Test plan development.• Plant testing risk assessment. • Extracting test data from plant information system.• Analyzing test data.• Modelling and model parameter estimation using Matlab & Simulink.• Reporting and presentation of final developed models.• Managing project schedule.• Managing project resources.• Managing project budget.

Part of a team of several engineering disciplines, including Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical and Control & Instrumentation engineers, working on various projects related to Plant Control System Modification on all Eskom existing plants and a Gas Turbine new build project.Responsibilities / Experience: • Plant failure investigation.• Developing solutions. • Analyzing control system logic (experience with Siemens and Honeywell control systems for coal fired power stations).• Systems Engineering: developing of requirements, concept design and technical specification for contracts. • Managing project resources. • Driving project activities.

On job training, assisting with Matla PS C&I refurbishment and exposure to the Duvha C&I refurbishment tender evaluation process. Generation skills development training course.

Design and installation of a 3 kW Solar PV system for household power supply. Experience with the design, sizing and selection of the correct PV panels, battery bank, battery charger and inverter that is adequate for the application.

Automating the starting and stopping process of an old Lister diesel generator with a crank action. This was accomplished using solenoids, relays, sensors and a microcontroller. Experience in electronic circuit design, PCB layout design and manufacturing, embedded C firmware programming.

Dissertation: “Development of a robot for RoboCup Small Size League, utilizing a distributed control architecture for a multi-robot system development platform” SUNScholar Research Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17785. Responsibilities / Experience: • Mechanical design and manufacturing of an omni-directional mobile robot platform. (CAD experience: Inventor & Solidworks).• Electronic circuit design of robot electronic components, modules and controllers. (CAD experience: Eagle PCB & Altium Designer).• PCB layout design and manufacturing of robot components. (CAD experience: Eagle PCB & Altium Designer).• Embedded C firmware development for robot motor controllers. (Target Hardware experience: Microchip PIC microcontrollers).• C/C++ Software development for robot high level controller. (Target hardware: Single Board Computer running Linux as the operating system).

Global Engineering Teams Project in conjunction with Technical University Berlin, Germany.International collaboration project, Developing Green Building Solutions for an office building.Responsibilities / Experience:• Research in green buildings and green building solutions.• Research and modelling in Solar PV solutions for office buildings.