Manufacturing Engineer providing engineering support for the manufacturing computer hardware refurbishment and test processes for HPEFS in Erskine. Developing test and hardware sanitisation processes for computer hardware from multiple vendors. Supporting the test IT infrastructure. HPEFS Worldwide technical lead for refurbishment process for Hewlett Packard industrial 3D printers. Provided test processes to sanitize all types of computer equipment to guarantee previous customer information… Show more Manufacturing Engineer providing engineering support for the manufacturing computer hardware refurbishment and test processes for HPEFS in Erskine. Developing test and hardware sanitisation processes for computer hardware from multiple vendors. Supporting the test IT infrastructure. HPEFS Worldwide technical lead for refurbishment process for Hewlett Packard industrial 3D printers. Provided test processes to sanitize all types of computer equipment to guarantee previous customer information removed. Show less

Engineering Manager for the Virtualisation, Wintel and Deployed Build Teams, IT Specialist supporting Public Sector IT contracts with staff based in four HPE sites across the UK. The role included day to day team management and planning, technical support, recruitment, training and individual career development

Manager and Technical Team Lead for Deployed Build Engineering team of 20 IT Specialists. Responsible for team management for the Build team which include both contract and permanent staff. This team built and supported Portable Datacenters that used by the MOD. Ownership for all team management which encompassed team goal setting, individual career development plans, arranging training, mentoring, appraisals and recruitment.

Technical Team Lead for Deployed Build Engineering team of 20 IT Specialists. Responsible for all day to day team management, work allocation, mentor, technical problems, planning and coordinating with customers. This team built and supported Deployed Nodes

Senior Infrastructure engineer for Portable Data Centers supplied to the MOD. Transferred the knowledge and skills to support the nodes from Reading into Erskine. Infrastructure Engineering data center support role included routine checks, software patching, staging for integration, software testing, design and FAT. Successfully started up the BAU operation to support the Test, Integration and Design teams from 3 HP sites to access the nodes.

Test Engineer designing and developing system manufacturing automatic test processes to test complex customer specific hardware configurations. Developed automated test processes for a range of HP products from single HP servers to HPC clusters These test processes required the flexibility to deal with a wide range of server build and integration configurations, scalability and network connectivity.

Responsible for module and system test of all the Tandem Unix telecoms fault tolerant platforms produced in Erskine. These computer systems were designed to continue to work despite a single hardware failure in the platform. Worked directly with the customer in Sweden on technical issues with the platform.

Engineering Manager supervising ten engineers. Dealing with all aspects of technical problems with the range of systems from desktop work stations to data center servers. The work involved interfacing with all aspects of the business from design, new product introduction, manufacturing support and also working directly with customers on specific engineering problems. This was challenging role involving planning, coaching and counselling as well as providing the technical leadership function for… Show more Engineering Manager supervising ten engineers. Dealing with all aspects of technical problems with the range of systems from desktop work stations to data center servers. The work involved interfacing with all aspects of the business from design, new product introduction, manufacturing support and also working directly with customers on specific engineering problems. This was challenging role involving planning, coaching and counselling as well as providing the technical leadership function for the group. Represented the site for systems test engineering at the corporate level in USA. Show less

Module Functional Test Engineer introducing the AS8400 CPU modules into Ayr. I was part of team that was introducing the Turbo Laser Mainframe Computer into manufacturing. This involved working directly with the design group in the USA to characterize and the CPU modules and transfer them into Ayr.Systems Test Engineer for server system AS8400 (Turbo Laser) and Storage products. The systems engineering role involves me with all aspects of system technical problems. This covers new product… Show more Module Functional Test Engineer introducing the AS8400 CPU modules into Ayr. I was part of team that was introducing the Turbo Laser Mainframe Computer into manufacturing. This involved working directly with the design group in the USA to characterize and the CPU modules and transfer them into Ayr.Systems Test Engineer for server system AS8400 (Turbo Laser) and Storage products. The systems engineering role involves me with all aspects of system technical problems. This covers new product introduction, test program generation, firmware and OS qualification, module quality issues, and design problems. I also provide technical support to the field. Show less

Introduction of the wafer probe operation into the Ayr plant. Transferring the process from US factory in Massachusetts.Worked directly with System Manufacturing in Galway to drive quality improvements in module manufacturing line by failure analysis of components and implementing improvements to test processes in Ayr.During the initial startup of the South Queensferry Semiconductor plant I worked as part of the team introducing and qualifying the first 3 products that the plant… Show more Introduction of the wafer probe operation into the Ayr plant. Transferring the process from US factory in Massachusetts.Worked directly with System Manufacturing in Galway to drive quality improvements in module manufacturing line by failure analysis of components and implementing improvements to test processes in Ayr.During the initial startup of the South Queensferry Semiconductor plant I worked as part of the team introducing and qualifying the first 3 products that the plant produced which helped to qualify the new factory Show less

IPS was a start-up company producing power semiconductors including power regulators, Pulse Width Modulators and Disk Drive controllers. Product Support Engineer during start-up of manufacturing. Set up the automatic test and burn-in areas from bare factory to full production. Yield analysis of production material and introduction of new products into the testing process.

Test Engineer responsible for testing 4 & 8 bit Microcontrollers and computer memory devices both as semiconductor wafers and package devices. The work included dealing directly with the product and process engineering groups in Greenock, the USA as well as working with the final test groups in the far east. Developed Microcontroller System to automatically monitor the wafer probe production systems.