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Auckland, New Zealand

Safely accelerating the flow of work from idea to delivery, identifying and capturing metrics that will be used to continuously improve the value stream. Close interaction in particular with engineering and operations department managers to develop an ever-greater understanding of all the activities and processes within the Rakon global value stream in order to identify opportunities for improvement.Reviewing and analysing the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and… Show more Safely accelerating the flow of work from idea to delivery, identifying and capturing metrics that will be used to continuously improve the value stream. Close interaction in particular with engineering and operations department managers to develop an ever-greater understanding of all the activities and processes within the Rakon global value stream in order to identify opportunities for improvement.Reviewing and analysing the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and processes across all sites, and developing strategies for improving and further leveraging these systems. Identifying and navigating potential issues in order to meet deadlines and schedules.Working directly with teams to help raise the level of lean agile values and principles and play a key role in engaging with stakeholders at all levels and business units of the organisation to help facilitate value-added transformation across the enterprise. Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

Managed a suite of new product development (NPD) and introduction to mass production (NPI) projects for Rakon's TCXO and OCXO product families. General project management activities largely to a PRINCE2 type overall approach to meet Rakon's superset of APQP type product development guidelines. Part of a small team of project managers and project engineers supporting the Product R&D, Process Development and NPI, Process Engineering, Equipment Development, and Manufacturing… Show more Managed a suite of new product development (NPD) and introduction to mass production (NPI) projects for Rakon's TCXO and OCXO product families. General project management activities largely to a PRINCE2 type overall approach to meet Rakon's superset of APQP type product development guidelines. Part of a small team of project managers and project engineers supporting the Product R&D, Process Development and NPI, Process Engineering, Equipment Development, and Manufacturing departments.Rolled out a Kanban approach to organisational change and task management (ongoing). Implemented, maintained, and administered an Atlassian Jira Server (and then Data Center) installation. Created supporting websites (Python, Javascript, HTML) to assist in reporting and integration with other systems. Investigated, trialled, and selected Jira Plugins (Apps) to extend capability for Project Management, scripting and automation, Git and Azure DevOps integration. Enabled and configured SSO for Jira with Azure Active Directory.Wrote and maintained various scripts and automations to ease day-to-day data transfer between systems and assist with alternate user interfaces to otherwise convoluted workflows (Python, C#, Powershell). Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

Defining the technology roadmap for the Vigil platform including hardware, firmware, software, and cloud infrastructure. Architecting the company’s technology to help Vigil avoid realisation issues and readily permit unanticipated extensions/modifications in future stages. Intellectual property strategy, innovation strategy, hardware system design, software architecture, security, and server hosting infrastructure.Interfacing between the executive suite, technical teams, intellectual… Show more Defining the technology roadmap for the Vigil platform including hardware, firmware, software, and cloud infrastructure. Architecting the company’s technology to help Vigil avoid realisation issues and readily permit unanticipated extensions/modifications in future stages. Intellectual property strategy, innovation strategy, hardware system design, software architecture, security, and server hosting infrastructure.Interfacing between the executive suite, technical teams, intellectual property consultants and channel partners. Directing the development of new technology to further the business’ revenues. Creating systems and processes that make optimum use of current technological resources to meet business needs.Ensuring company technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner. Establishing the IT department’s operative goals and objectives. Supervising recruitment, training, retention, and organization of permanent and contract development staff. Show less

Auckland

Managing a team of electronics, software, test, and mechanical engineers and technicians to support and develop personal emergency response and health monitoring systems.Directing projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities. Analysing technology and resource needs to plan and assess the feasibility of projects. Directing, reviewing, and approving product design and changes. Recruiting employees; assigning, directing, and… Show more Managing a team of electronics, software, test, and mechanical engineers and technicians to support and develop personal emergency response and health monitoring systems.Directing projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities. Analysing technology and resource needs to plan and assess the feasibility of projects. Directing, reviewing, and approving product design and changes. Recruiting employees; assigning, directing, and evaluating their work; and overseeing the development and maintenance of staff competence. Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

Defining the technology roadmap for the Jupl (Vigil Monitoring Ltd) platform including hardware, firmware, software, and cloud infrastructure. Architecting the company’s technology to avoid realisation issues and readily permit unanticipated extensions/modifications in future stages. Intellectual property strategy, innovation strategy, hardware system design, high level software architecture, API definition, security, and server hosting infrastructure.Interfacing between the executive… Show more Defining the technology roadmap for the Jupl (Vigil Monitoring Ltd) platform including hardware, firmware, software, and cloud infrastructure. Architecting the company’s technology to avoid realisation issues and readily permit unanticipated extensions/modifications in future stages. Intellectual property strategy, innovation strategy, hardware system design, high level software architecture, API definition, security, and server hosting infrastructure.Interfacing between the executive suite, technical teams, intellectual property consultants and channel partners. Directing the development of new technology to further the business’ revenues. Creating systems and processes that make optimum use of current technological resources to meet business needs.Ensuring company technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner. Establishing the IT department’s operative goals and objectives, effectively operating as the CIO as well. Supervising recruitment, training, retention, and organization of permanent and contract research and development team staff.Developing AWS infrastructure using CI/CD best practices. Much of the past year has been CI/CD DevOps and implementing a new Amazon Web Services deployment to replace our Revera based infrastructure and combine the Australian deployment into one system. Within the vast AWS ecosystem I have been using using CloudFormation, Route53, EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, CloudFront, RDS, DMS, VPC, and of course IAM features. I have also used to a lesser degree API Gateway, CloudWatch, CLI, Glacier, Cong, CloudTrail, and SNS. Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

Managing a team of electronics, software, production, and mechanical engineers and technicians to support and develop noise cancellation products, and in-flight entertainment avionics sub-systems.Directing projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities. Analysing technology and resource needs to plan and assess the feasibility of projects. Directing, reviewing, and approving product design and changes. Recruiting employees;… Show more Managing a team of electronics, software, production, and mechanical engineers and technicians to support and develop noise cancellation products, and in-flight entertainment avionics sub-systems.Directing projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities. Analysing technology and resource needs to plan and assess the feasibility of projects. Directing, reviewing, and approving product design and changes. Recruiting employees; assigning, directing, and evaluating their work; and overseeing the development and maintenance of staff competence. Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

Managing of a team of five, an embedded software engineer and two hardware engineers, an embedded systems engineer and a CAD specialist to support and develop in-flight entertainment avionics sub systems. In particular those systems that utilise active noise cancellation technology and/or virtual surround sound.

Auckland, New Zealand

Supervising daily activities of three small teams. A electronics hardware team comprising of one senior RF engineer, a hardware engineer, two junior engineers and a senior PCB designer; a test engineering team comprised of two test engineers, one specialising in software, the other in hardware; an acoustics team comprising three acoustics engineers and an acoustics/hardware technician.

Auckland, New Zealand

General electronics design of active noise cancelling headphones. This includes concept definition and prototyping, liasing with other departments, design for manufacture and assisting with commissiong of the product through to mass production. An good understanding of control systems and acoustics was developed in the course of product development. Design for testability.

Auckland, New Zealand

Part time employment while at the University of Auckland, Embedded system design, printed circuit board layout, circuit testing and assembly.

Lockheed P3K Orion aircraft operation and intermediate level maintenance on electrical, instrument, flight attitude, automatic flight control, communications, radar, infra-red detection, sonar and video systems, refueling and defueling, oxygen replenishment, and general flight-line duties. Bay service of P3K Orion data handling system components. Calibration, maintenance and operation of automatic test equipment for McDonnell Douglas A4K Skyhawk and Lockheed P3K Orion aircraft.

Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand

Layout and headings for three pages each day, the weekly motoring page, occasional photography and reporting.

Me (Hons), Be (Hons), Electrical And Electronic Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Advanced Certificate In Electrotechnology (With Distinction), Electronics And Computer Systems

Nzce, Electronics And Computer Technology

Trade Training Certificate, Avionics Systems