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

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

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.