James Rayson Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, GB

• Conducted feasibility studies, requirements capture, design, and prototype manufacture of components. I worked independently and with a highly proactive mindset to drive successful business outcomes on projects varying.
• Designed, optimised and manufactured custom canoe seat for Paralympic athlete, reducing weight by 50% while increasing stiffness by 500% to enhance power transfer. This innovation contributed to their gold medal at the.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• As a graduate engineer, I undertook three 6-month rotations in various teams across the business. Providing me with experience working on the cutting edge of composites in multiple industries.
• Project Management – I managed 12 projects with a total portfolio value of £820k. Developing my communication skills while engaging and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders.
• Structural Analysis – Assessed several components of next generation eVTOL aircraft for flight certification using hand calculations and full aircraft FE models. I created standard tools for other team members, and to.
• Experimentation – Planned, executed and analysed data from number of experiments as part of projects.
• STEM – Volunteered to take leadership of STEM team at NCC.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

• Being part of a UK leading formula student race team has greatly improved my team working ability as well as practical skill set. Allowing me to pursue my goal of commitment to learning beyond my degree. As Head of.
• Teamwork – SFR depends heavily on teamwork; as a group of 50 students working independently from staff, we design and build a single seat race car.
• First-hand manufacturing – Through construction of my own and other team member’s car parts gained experience in design for manufacture using processes such as turning, CNC milling, waterjet cutting, layup of carbon.
• Flexibility – Experienced use of a range of software including Solidworks, NX, Materialise Magics, Fusion, Ansys, GENESIS, Abaqus, MATLAB, and AutoCAD.
• Design – Design, construction and optimisation of pedal box and spaceframe chassis. Improving ergonomics and stiffness, while keeping a focus on targets for manufacturability and cost.
• Composites – Leading the team’s first design and structural analysis of carbon fibre wheels, as well as monocoque.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• A mechanical engineering degree has given me a wealth of technical knowledge and moving into my final year my course has become more focused on the application of this.
• Leadership – Delivered projects as part of multi skilled engineering teams on concepts such as emergency recovery vehicles and space debris clean-up. Managed the teams, undertook research and analysis, ensuring the.
• Creativity – Structural analysis and optimisation through Finite Element Analysis (FEA), winning a prize in a design and manufacture competition. Utilising my creativity to devise a novel solution to the problem.
• Teamwork – Played a key role in a group design project with an industrial partner to create a train brake assessment device, developing my problem-solving skills for a unique and challenging situation.

• I worked as a member of the Composite Design Group at Red Bull Racing, gaining a wide range of experience during my time with the company;
• Designing and draughting of vehicle components for the front wing, bodywork, chassis and gearbox casing as well as tooling and jigs required to manufacture my car components
• Working under high pressure ensuring that I effectively managed my time to deliver designs on schedule and to guarantee information was available to the strategy team while working in the operations room during race.
• Developing proficiency in specialist areas of fault diagnosis, problem solving and communication skills through working closely with designers, managers, mechanics and technical specialists from throughout the.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Chassis Design - Improving ergonomics for a taller driver, stiffness optimisation using ANSYS, and implementation of GENESIS software for tube optimisation to create SFR’s most lightweight and stiffest chassis to date

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Maintaining contact and sponsorship deals with current sponsors
• Communicating with external companies when seeking sponsorship for the team
• Writing and developing a partnership pack for potential sponsors

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Design of pedal box assembly (brake pedal, throttle pedal and surrounding structure)
• Refinement of pedal ratio and improving overall arrangement
• Optimisation of design maintaining stiffness but reducing mass by over 4kg from previous year
• Utilisation of 3D printing to iterate design for improved driver comfort
• Introduction of composites parts to minimise mass

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Design and construction of carbon fibre floor plates
• General construction of car including use of lathes and dry layup of carbon fibre
• Use of Solidworks and Materialise Magics to construct 3D print volume
• Quickly learning a range of software; topology optimisation in ParetoWorks, Solidworks, and Illustrator

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• The SELA programme provided me with the opportunity to develop communication skills and leadership ability, allowing me to have a greater impact as an engineer when combined with the technical proficiency provided by.
• Applied through a highly competitive process where only 3% of candidates are selected to take part in the leadership development program.
• Inspiring – Developing and practicing leadership skills through designing and hosting events to engage and inspire younger generations to become engineers.
• Leadership – Attended regular workshops, improving key leadership skills ranging from enterprise capability to communication ability.
• Networking – Building a professional network through industry engagement.
• Organisation – Conception, design and delivery of engineering outreach projects, which reached over 3000 students nationwide.

• MetLase is a mechanical engineering consultancy that uses a unique construction methodology to design and manufacture bespoke solutions for a range of industries, quickly and precisely. Whilst there, I gained.
• Manufacturing - I initially spent time in the workshop: focusing on understanding ease of manufacture and good design practice; eventually being trusted to provide introduction and supervision for new employees.
• Design and Implementation - I used Siemens NX to design both fixtures and mechanisms for customers such as JLR, JSF and Boeing.
• Customer Interaction - I reviewed my designs with the lead engineer from JLR, and visited the Boeing Production Facility, where I installed, set-up and witnessed a fixture being used, giving me a greater appreciation.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Working alongside leading professors from eight other UK universities and members of UK engineering companies I assisted key stage 2 students in designing and developing mechanical fingers to play a piano from 5m to be.
• Communication – I had to quickly become confident making my voice heard. This has given me tenacity in talking to leading academics and non-academics when making my case, whilst further improving my communication.
• Public Speaking – Improving presentation skills through practice in front of key stage 2 children and leading academics.
• National Project – Developing industry experience through a project involving multiple organisations from across the country.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Mechanical Engineering, First

A Levels; Physics A*, Product Design A, Maths A

Activities and Societies: • Silver Duke of Edinburgh Awards • World Challenge: two weeks trekking and assisting at a local school in.

Gcses 8 A*S And 3 As Including Maths And English