Jonathan Heath Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

https://www.brompton.com/t-lineI was the lead engineer of a small, talented team with the aim to reduce the weight of a Brompton folding bicycle by 3.5Kg. The design is based on a titanium frame and maintains the base geometry and unique folding mechanism. From the tyres up, every component was carefully considered for weight reduction. The frame was.

London

London, United Kingdom

• The Sports BU designed and developed exciting and easy to use running, multisport watches and fitness bands.
• Over 4 years I proactively built, grew and led a small team of senior mechanical design engineers - developing and owning each products mechanical architecture from concept, through NPD and into mass production.
• Sole mechanical design responsibility for the Bandit sports camera and accessories, working closely with an Asian EMS to take the product into production.
• Extensive Asian manufacturing part supplier visits to support builds and help resolve part production issues.
• Working with challenging timescales and collaboratively with multi-discipline (ID/UX/EE/PE) design teams I own the mechanical delivery of products that align with the expectations of the Tom Tom brand value.

Malmesbury

• A world leader in the design and innovation of vacuum cleaners, hand dryers and domestic fans.
• Led a team of four design and development engineers taking the V6 Fluffy large debris cleaner head from concept through NPD and into mass production handover.
• Owned and managed the design requirements and daily product development activities - overseeing DFMEAs, TA drawings, DFA and mould tool DFM documents.
• Oversaw the assembly BoM and guided engineers technically, as well as resource planning to meet the required milestones.
• Orchestrated demonstrations to product management and James Dyson to help evolve the design and specification.

Church Crookham, UK

• Improved the early stage product robustness and maturity of complete handsets through iterations, using dynamic, explicit non-linear FEA to simulate drop testing.
• Communicating raw FEA quantitative results into readable reports for design engineers to assess structural robustness risks, then offering feasible design solutions.
• Using FEA to aid the design engineers in completing root cause analysis.

Church Crookham, UK

• As a Nokia business unit, Vertu was the leading company in the design and manufacture of luxury mobile phones for the global market.
• Mechanical design responsibility on two handset programs, focusing on forged titanium chassis development from initial conception through to mass production.
• Blue sky concept design - patenting and developing a unique top lit keymat design on the Ascent product range.
• Part manufacturing and process experience gained through hands on design reviews at suppliers based in Asia and Europe – working with our SQE for part & tool development and approval.

Farnborough, UK

Mechanical design responsible from concept through to mass production of a 500W high power/high voltage 'E' core design DC to DC transformer used in telecoms base stations.US patent application 485,890.

Basingstoke, UK

Responsible for keymat and EMC shielding design for a mobile handset project. Injection moulding experience gained through an onsite training program.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Engineering Management

Technical Dissertation: The Importance of Aerodynamics in Competition Cycling. Final Year Project: Rotational chair of a product.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Manufacturing Systems Engineering, 1St Class Honors