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Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

AMS endeavours to provide low cost, high functionality equipment to utilities for residential electricity metering and pre-payment.As Engineering Manager:• Developed fully encrypted secure embedded Linux based platform for metering• Pattern approval and compliance of meters for the Australian market• Internal and customer facing technical role

Brisbane, Australia

Ormazabal Velatia is a global company supplying specialised equipment for primary and secondary distribution including protection, intelligent monitoring and automation.Short term contract to add new functionality and finish firmware for a new low cost standalone monitoring device. Development included adding new functionality to a web based UI incorporating HTML, Javascript, C and *nix shell programming for an embedded uClinux target environment.Achievements:• Brought unfinished and non-working project environment to a functional state.• Developed web based pages for easier installation in the field - improving significantly on the existing command line functionality.• Added swell functionality to complement existing sag only functions.

Brisbane, Australia

Short term contract to complete a specialised GPRS based power outage detection product interfacing between a standard commercial smart meter and modem. Also provided technical expertise on other existing projects and products.Responsibilites:• Took unfinished project taking it to a tested release state• Hardware and firmware bug fixing and fault finding• Over The Air (OTA) failsafe firmware upgrade implementation• Rewrote much of the firmware to overcome design and implementation issues within limited time constraints

Brisbane, Australia

As an IEC Meters Technical Leader my responsibilities extended from initial product requirements and specification developed with the customer and product manager, through all stages of the design process including final product validation/certification and release to manufacturing. My role was to provide engineering design guidance during all design stages of GE’s IEC range of electricity meters. I also regularly interacted directly with end customers in face to face meetings and presentations particularly during the early stages of the sales process.Technical Lead Engineer responsibilities:• Oversee IEC meter designs during the NPI process• Ensure NPI design and validation processes are followed• Technical interface to end customers for technical issues and requirements• Presentations of ongoing development internally and externally• Functional specifications and requirements for new designs• Ensure compliance to all regulatory requirements• Develop products to fixed cost targets• Initiate and lead design reviews with chief consulting engineers• Analogue and digital electronic design• Lead mechanical development of enclosures and assemblies• Oversee firmware development including hardware drivers and OS development• Troubleshoot hardware and firmware issues• Development and implementation of Design Practices• Coordinate multiple design sites world wide• Third party design, safety and compliance reviews• Interface with third party designers, contract manufacturers and suppliers• Participate and provide input for Toll Gate Reviews and Business Reviews• Provide technical support for existing designs• Test procedures and test fixture specification

Brisbane Area, Australia

Research & Development Manager responsibilities:• Managed EDMI’s Research and Development department covering the many differing requirements of the world IEC market• Worked with local and remote resources to deliver product to manufacture• Day to day scheduling of tasks to team members• Meet with customers for technical interface to development team• Developing project specifications• Remained involved in technology development• Digital hardware design to specifications and tight budgets• Firmware design, development and testing• PC based test software for complete unit accuracy testing• PC based software for setup and configuration• System administration (IT)

Brisbane, Australia

Design Engineer responsibilities:• Energy meter design and manufacture.• Embedded digital hardware and real-time firmware• Altium schematic and PCB capture• PC based software for configuration and test• Test and calibration.• EMC design, test and troubleshoot.• System admininstration (IT)

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