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Greater Detroit Area

Co-owner of Fidelis Engineering Associates. Duties range from business development to finite element project engineering:- Develop sound business strategies and plans and ensure their alignment with Fidelis objectives.- Oversee operations and business activities and ensure they are consistent with the overall strategy.- Generate leads for new business and cultivate existing customer relationships.- Carry out high-end engineering simulation consulting work in a timely and professional manner.At Fidelis, our objective is to provide fully integrated, simulation based engineering solutions by utilizing state-of-the-art tools.

Greater Detroit Area

Contracted to work as part of a ten person expert Virtualization team tasked with developing advanced simulation methodologies. The multi-million dollar project was aimed at significant reduction of 'first-time-quality' (FTQ) failures of axle components and assemblies. Responsible for axle shaft ultimate torsion and fatigue, as well as aluminum tubes and housings, personal success was achieved by way of highly correlated predictions and almost complete eradication of FTQ issues.

Ann Arbor

Providing advanced FEA solutions for leading innovators in the aerospace, automotive, consumer product, high-tech, energy, and life science sectors.Personally tasked with leading large aerospace tooling projects, as well as working on a diverse array of engineering challenges.

Greater Detroit Area

Carried out a number of consulting projects for the University of Manchester. These include development of nuclear outreach tools, guiding the direction of new PhD projects and generating technical reports for various industrial partners of the University.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Undertook a project aimed at collating and evaluating upper-shelf fracture toughness data for medium-high strength nuclear grade steels, with the view to guiding future research efforts in the field. The project was run in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Nuclear (UK).

Manchester, United Kingdom

This knowledge transfer project was aimed at translating the output of selected government funded research projects into recommended structural integrity guidance. Research outputs, specifically relating to weld residual stress effects on fracture and weld property evaluation by advanced techniques, have been identified and implemented into current UK nuclear structural integrity procedures. Work was carried out in close collaboration with Amec and with a panel of nuclear industry experts via workshops, regular meetings and presentations.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Position as Research Engineer (EngD) was undertaken wholly at Serco Energy. The project undertaken was successful in improving the understanding of residual stress effects on fracture in PWR pressure vessel steel, important in the continuing advancement of structural integrity guidance procedures. Specific skills developed during this program include detailed experience in computational analysis (Finite Element), project management and experimental methodologies, whilst being situated in industry allowed part to be taken in commercial activities, as well as concentrating on the doctoral project.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Industrial internship, which involved working on various industrial, engineering based projects, and included the preparation of a Masters level dissertation. This provided important experience of working in an industrial setting as well as experience in both analytical and experimental structural integrity activities.

Doctor Of Engineering, Nuclear Materials Structural Integrity

Post Graduate Diploma, Enterprise Management

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Materials Science And Engineering, Wie, 1St Class, Hons