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Loughborough, Uk

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Technical evaluation and selection of PV and battery storage equipment to meet business and customer needs, including product certification and safety appraisal. A lead role in an Agile project enabling E.ON to successfully launch a major new customer proposition and form a new operational business.• Verification of: product safety; certifications; low risk OEMs to ensure low risk product launch.• Designed of: electrical; metering; control & communication systems.• Installation technical training and problem solving.• On-time delivery of technical work.• Competitively priced PV and battery solution with reassurance of big name brand.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

There was a business need for a simplified building energy management system (BEMS) at low cost, which could be offered to B2B clients with smaller premises where BEMS would not normally be cost effective.• Completed desktop evaluation; short listing of hardware systems to requirements spec; lab/bench testing to validate practical install and overall suitability; supplier meetings and procurement process (RFI/RFQ).• Developed the Slim-BEMS control strategy using custom E.ON control objects programed in Sedona and produced prototype UIs for pilot installations.• Designed and developed a wireless-hybrid control system, enabling the most cost-effective solution for the customer with favourable ROI durations.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

E.ON wanted a sub-metering solution which could be retrofitted to the premises of B2B customers to enable a granular view of energy consumption in a building at the circuit level.Responsible for delivering this technology to the business:• Desktop evaluation of hardware devices available in the market. This was followed by further evaluation of shortlisted systems via supplier meetings and lab/bench testing, including various test rigs to validate practical installation, measurement accuracy and overall suitability of the systems.• In 3 weeks developed a prototype data logging arrangement comprising a Raspberry Pi using Python, with Modbus RTU/TCP communications to sub-metering equipment, logging data and uploading to an internal analysis platform. These prototypes were installed and tested alongside an intelligent lighting installation at a large business customer and provided data used to produce consumption heatmaps in MATLAB.• Presentation of results to senior business stakeholders and a follow on proposal to develop the prototype of preferred hardware solutions into an integrated customer product offering using cloud services and internet of things (IoT) techniques which would offer clients a low cost, easy install system.• Several sub-metering systems were installed at a large packing warehouse to monitor the performance of a large MW scale PV system coupled to a flow battery demonstration.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

The role of the Distributed Energy Division was originally to technically prove products and build the business case for putting them on the market. The role of the division was extended to include all activities around the market launch of new products. This included the need for a customer relationship management (CRM) system for managing technical trials, and commercial trials to support the marketing, sales and support activities of new product launches and tracking products and assets for service and in case of product recalls.• Responsibilities for specifying the system requirements in an IT deployment project which was to use a Scrum delivery process.• Role of product owner in an Agile based deployment of a customised CRM solution, ensuring the £100k+ resulted in a solution which was used in market launches, including a smart thermostat product.• Good experience of planning and implementing an IT system within the business using a scrum delivery process based around a 2 week sprint cycle.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Built a new monitoring capability for Distributed Energy technical field trials providing the business with the ability to deliver end-to-end remote monitoring and analysis of the performance; operational characteristics; user interaction; and environmental conditions of technologies the company wanted to understand.Initially this was for a Stirling engine micro-CHP device. The flexibility of the system allowed it to be used for a wide variety of other field trials of products E.ON had interest in including:• Various air source heat pump systems• ICE/Fuel cell micro-CHPs• Solar thermal• Building fabric• Smart home controls• Intelligent lighting systems.• Led the UK part of a cross-border team during 2012 - 2014 and managed the project portfolio. • Successfully made the case for recruitment and led the process, writing role profiles, filtering applications, interviewing to recruit new team member. This provided the capacity to take on new monitoring projects and to develop the service improving reliability and adding new capabilities.• Required adaptability in order to understand electrical, gas and heat systems, along with different metering & sensing systems, communications systems and methods for data storage, analysis and reporting.• Devising and building monitoring designs based around a radio logging system including metering and sensing arrangements.• Remote data download, verification and storage in MySQL database, with data manipulation, analysis and reporting routines completed in MATLAB. Data analysis and reporting to a wide audience of different stakeholders.• Cost savings by redeploying monitoring hardware from one trial into the next and the business was also better able to manage new IP produced from field trials.• In 2014 led a consortium writing a bid for the analysis of RHI heat pump data for the DECC. The bid was well received resulting in a call to an interview at the DECC offices in London. E.ON's bid came in 2nd place.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

In 2008 E.ON commenced a programme, with annual investment rounds, into various research projects in energy related topics at European academic institutions. The progress and output of the projects needed to be monitored so that E.ON could: • derive the maximum intellectual property value possible; • ensure that the projects were delivering against the initial objectives; • ensure delivery against the agreed project plans.Project technical officer (PTO) responsible for three projects based across Denmark, Sweden, Germany and France. The task of the PTO was challenging because it required good understanding of differing research fields in order to evaluate progress and disseminate useful and interesting findings. Additional challenges ensuring the institutes provided reporting to the time schedules and quality defined in the funding contracts. Two of the projects focussed on aspects of battery research for energy storage systems. The third project was around the fabrication of nanowires for use in light emitting and solar harvesting (PV) devices.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

E.ON was working with a European appliance manufacturer EHE to bring the Whispergen micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP) device to the domestic market. The role was to understand Stirling engine technology and to work on the design of lab trials undertaken by a 3rd party lab on behalf of E.ON. This involved the metering and sensing used to measure the performance and behaviour of the devices, the control strategy for the devices and analysing the failure modes that occurred during testing.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Developed a modular management system to meet clients’ requirements.• Individual role required self management and self motivation to ensure project requirements were met.• Developed fast "search as you type" components using AJAX, Javascript and PHP in order to allow staff to easily search the records.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Processed and compiled applications for postgraduate courses made to the department, notably: Financial Mathematics MSc course; Mathematics PhDs; MSc Mathematics.• Postgraduate courses required more than a simple entry form, in many cases completion of entrance tests, proof of English language capabilities, verification of prior education, funding arrangements and collection of course fee depostis. Thie required clear communication with candidates and academic staff to solve many unique and wide-ranging problems.• Provided general advice for current postgraduate students when they needed specific support.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Responsibility for demonstrating both physics and electronics labs to 1st year undergraduates.• Involved ensuring the students understood the physics involved, were able to perform the experiments required in a safe and structured manner, then later marking the lab write ups and providing informative and constructive feedback.• Required skills to present the physics involved in a variety of ways to aid the learning experience for the students.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Provided a diverse range of expertise and support to the large scale conference operation during vacation periods.• Roles and responsibilities included providing room sets to the customers’ needs, providing a first point of contact and providing quality audio visual setups.• Provided evening reception support for the residences on a university campus with over 5000 student residents. The role involved resolving facility issues, key management and supporting evening conferences and events.

Redruth, Cornwall

• Company which designed and manufactured detectors of UV radiation used mainly in industrial applications such as UV printing; fibre optics manufacture and UV cure ovens.• Role involved the calibration of the manufactured products and further enhancing the calibration process as well as developing calibration software.

Phd By Research, Physics

Thesis title: “Molecular Adsorbate Structure Determination by Photoelectron Diffraction”.

Msc By Research, Physics

Thesis title: “Density Functional Theory (DFT) Investigations of Molecular Adsorption Structures.” • Using a first-principals DFT research.

Bsc (Hons), Physics With Computing

Activities and Societies: Projectionist technical team and IT team of the University of Warwick's film society (Warwick Student Cinema) •.

A Levels, Physics; Maths; Computer Science; Music; General Studies

10 Gcses, Double Science; Mathematics; English Lang. & Lit.; German; It; Geography; Religious Studies; Music