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Technical lead and design authority. Applications: Materials testing for aerospace, nuclear, and medical industries. Structures testing for automotive and aerospace.Delivering usability and performance improvements - managing research, development, release to production, deployment.Design and implementation of real-time and adaptive dynamic control algorithms for servohydraulic and electromechanical machines and systems. Internal consultancy: alternative drives and control methods.Customer support: control methods, numerical analysis of data, multi-axis dynamic simulation.

Technical specialist leading a small team.Design and implementation of real-time dynamic control algorithms for servohydraulic and electromechanical machines and systems. "A core technology"Customer support: control methods, numerical analysis of data, multi-axis dynamic simulation.

Specification, design, and implementation of components of embedded system firmware for new real-time controller product, with vxWorks operating system running on G4 processor.Firmware maintenance programming for existing real-time controller product.

Joint Research Project investigating methods of laboratory dynamic testing of Formula 1 racing cars.One year testing and commissioning of large vehicle testing rig, at Instron High Wycombe and Darmstadt.Two years on secondment to Honda Racing at Tochigi, Japan. Responsible for test design, implementation, data analysis, reporting, and training Honda engineers. Reporting to Chief Engineer at Honda.

Measurement and analysis of dynamic information for customers in automotive, civil engineering, and petrochemical industries. Development of measurement and analysis tools and systems. Measurement and analysis project management and engineering. Consultancy and analysis for single- and multi-axis simulations of service data for automotive and aerospace structures. Included fatigue life testing on railway carriage, for Joint Industry Project at the UK National Engineering Laboratory.Analysis, interpretation, and reporting of data from permanent installed monitoring systems. These monitoring systems formed part of the safety cases for major structures such as offshore oil rigs and suspension bridges.Project Manager, installation and commissioning phase, Lantau Fixed Crossing Structural Instrumentation system. This was a distributed instrumentation system measuring structural dynamics and integrity of suspension and cable stayed road and rail bridges on major traffic routes in Hong Kong. The system collected data continuously from hundreds of sensors; several DEC Alpha computers performed data analysis and interpretation and management.Software project management and engineering for data acquisition and analysis projects.

FUGRO LIMITED (Structural Monitoring Division)Involvement in specification, preparation, and testing of computer systems hardware and software for instrumentation and monitoring systems.Consultancy, and analysis for single- and multi-axis simulations of service data for automotive and aerospace structures.Installation and maintenance of instrumentation and computers onshore and offshore UK, Norway, South China Sea, South Timor Sea.Languages and tools: C, X Window, Xt, Motif, FORTRAN, LabViewHardware: Alpha, VAX, PCOperating Systems: Ultrix, VMS, SCO Unix, DOS

FUGRO-McCLELLAND LIMITED Structural Monitoring Division)Development of software for Fulmar SALM condition monitoring system.Analysis and interpretation of data from Tern Alpha offshore platform.Language: FORTRAN Hardware: PDP / VAX / PRIMEOperating systems: RT-11, VMS, PrimOS

Phd, Ukaea: Plasma Physics

Activities and Societies: Oxford University Orienteering Club Measurement and analysis of electromagnetic fluctuations in fusion plasmas.

B E (Elec), Electrical Engineering - First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Mathematical Society, Orienteering Club, Film Society