Andy Cranfield Email & Phone Number

Bracknell, Gb

Bracknell

Formerly BlueArc UK Ltd, and more recently HDS. Manufacturer of high performance, scalable, enterprise class NAS solutions.• Working within a small multi-national team, split between UK and US, providing worldwide technical engineering support• Focusing on customer issues that fall outside of the quick fix from support engineers• Having a broad knowledge across the many specialist software and firmware teams, allowing for specific problems to be directed appropriately• Driving timely responses from specialist engineers in order to satisfy customer expectations, whilst at the same time managing those expectations• Provide a hands-on approach to, where appropriate, identify and fix bugs and to track down other issues that can reflect poorly on customer experience• Ability to recreate customer environments within sustaining lab to better recreate and observe issues seen in the field

Bracknell, Uk

Formerly Octec, then Radstone Technologies. Manufacturer of ruggedized, embedded computing platforms primarily for video target tracking and associated image processing.• Technical lead to multi-disciplined engineering teams developing embedded hardware, firmware and software for rugged video processing products.• Planning and managing cost sensitive miniature SWaP (size, weight and power) products from conception through to product launch, whilst navigating the company processes• Generating product specifications and architectural designs• Ensuring robust test and verification strategies across the product line• Managing project budgets, product costs, timescales, resource negotiation, and product compliance and driving efficiency improvements• Generating customer documentation, and ensuring consistent and accessible documentation across the entire product range• Producing and running customer demonstrations and training courses, and working alongside customers to ensure successful product deployment• The first product is successfully deployed in multiple customer systems, and the second is out for trials with early adopting customers.

Bracknell, Uk

Formerly Octec, then Radstone Technologies. Manufacturer of ruggedized, embedded computing platforms primarily for video target tracking and associated image processing.• Project team lead. Designing, implementing and maintaining embedded C code• Technical lead and architect for a very rapid six week development, based heavily on an existing hardware product• Technical lead and architect for a multi-processor, high performance product, as well as contributing as part of the software team• Technical authority on new products, providing customer training courses and technical support visits• Solely responsible for driver level and bootstrap software on a constantly growing family of products, ranging between VME 6U, PC/104+, PCIe, and a few custom form-factors, each one requiring different hardware interfacing• System control software running under Linux for custom, multi-processor, rugged hardware giving 360° vision in a tactical environment

Bracknell Uk

Formerly Racal BCC, then Racal Communications. A world leader in designing and producing communications and strategic equipment for military, paramilitary and commercial markets.• Designing, implementing and maintaining embedded C++ code for a multi-threaded, multi-processor radio communications product• Active involvement in a product that formed a major part of a multi-billion pound project to bring digital battlefield technology to the military, from the design stage, to developing Use Cases, Object Model Diagrams, Message Sequence Charts, and State Diagrams, to a finished product• Experience includes core software, inter-process and inter-processor communications, and hardware interfaces. Extensive use of the Rhapsody design tool• Leading a team using LabView to drive a more integrated development and test strategy into the company

Wembley Uk, Then Bracknell Uk

Formerly Racal BCC, then Racal Communications. A world leader in designing and producing communications and strategic equipment for military, paramilitary and commercial markets.• Designing and testing hardware and firmware modules within radio communications products.• Taking each project through the entire life cycle, from specification, to design, A and B Model, test, customer acceptance, initial production, and full production. Responsible for technical specifications and manuals, technical training seminars, and acting on customer feedback.• Mentoring a graduate by guiding them through the company’s training scheme, on to a responsible position, and culminating in them gaining Chartered Engineer status.