David Main Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Cumbria

MIT Solutions is a technical management consultancy business working with startups and SMEs to advise on product strategy, product development and business infrastructure, helping deliver better products, increased profitability and business growth.Project Management & Strategy - Cambrian Robotics, London (2022-)www.caint.io Cambrian are at the leading edge of AI Vision for Robotics in Manufacturing. Working with the founders to grow the organisation, introduce tools and processes and manage the delivery of new features in the product portfolio.Change Management, Product Owner & Agile Coach - Advanced Design Technology, London (2018-2023)www.adtechnology.co.ukADT provide specialist simulation software in the turbo-machinery sector. Reporting to the Managing Director,overseeing the product creation process and advising on product design, product strategy and development processes to help enhance software product and to make it more accessible to a wider market.Chief Technology Officer - Barrnon, Cumbria (2019-2020) www. barrnon.comBarrnon are a rapidly growing SME providing engineering solutions in the Nuclear Decommissioning market. Working alongside the MD and COO to introduce systems, processes and organizational change to help the business grow. During this time I authored 2 successful Innovate UK grant applications (~£7.5m), led multi-million pound projects in both the UK and the US and provided strategic direction and guidance to the management team.Product Strategy & Product Design - SimScale Gmbh, Munich (2017-2018)www.simscale.comWorking with the CEO and COO to review and advise on product strategy and product design, making the product more competitive in a challenging market sector.

London, England, United Kingdom

Led a global team of 30+ developers & testers to design, plan and deliver a new computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software product to the global market. Responsible for the requirement specification, overall design and delivery of a large and complex software system, from initial release and then on a frequent release basis. Actively rolled out Agile development practices, tools and processes within an organisation that was historically using a waterfall approach. Provided software architecture oversight, planning and coordination of team activities for a multi-disciplinary, global, team and high level cross team coordination. Agile coach and SCRUM master for a number of feature delivery teams. Experience with agile delivery tools (CA / Rally) and continuous development environments/infrastructure. Daily interactions with team members across the globe, ranging from senior software architects to junior team members, including line management of team members both locally and remotely. Regular direct interactions with VP development and Chief Product Officer.Responsibilities:- Staff management- Requirements management- Product design- Project planning & management- Budgeting- Work package and defect tracking & analysis- Infrastructure & architectural oversight- Continuous process improvement- Recruitment

Responsible for leading a global team of 5-6 developers to design and deliver a new ‘front end’ application for defining fluid flow simulations. Included UI design, architectural design, programming and testing. Part of the product management team overseeing release management and quality assurance.Responsibilities:- Line management- Software design- Software architecture- Test planning- Programming (C, C++, Perl)- Code reviews

Harwell, Oxfordshire

Programmer on a number of CFD solver and User Interface products. Developed programming and software engineering skills and delivered high quality software products to the global market.Gained experience in C, C++, OOD, software development tools & processes (source code repository, code assembly & defect tracking systems).

Manchester, United Kingdom

Research into hydrodynamics and wave propagation using computational and experimental methods, working for government agencies. Developed numerical methods for modelling turbulent wakes and experimental methods for observing wave propagation in density stratified fluids.Taught undergraduates in computational techniques and engineering workshop skills.

Derby, United Kingdom

Completed the graduate training program at Rolls-Royce Aerospace. Involved a number of 2-3 month secondments to various areas of the organisation as well as in depth training on drawing and workshop skills.Trained in the following departments:- Combustion- Aircraft performance- Compressors- Turbines- Future projects

Derby, United Kingdom

Undergraduate training scheme (part of a thick sandwich course), prior to University and during summer vacation.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng) Hons, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 2:1

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