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Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za

Innovating, developing, and maturing vibrant products to many diverse global markets. Helping great ideas reach customers have meaningful impact on their operations and systems.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za

Innovating new value propositions with the Synthesis Labs team

Amsterdam, Nl

Building and testing new technologies

Toronto , On, Ca

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

Passionately drive value delivery to customers through consulting and product deployments. Invented core products which have delivered process improvements >40% to clients globally. Motivate company wide innovation and lead investigations into new and emerging machine learning techniques.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za

Managed innovation team through which we managed to have impact on multiple aspects of the business:• Dynamic and robust train scheduling to minimise impact of the rolling load shedding that compromised rail capacity;• Energy system design, assembly, and testing;• Adaptive control supported by complex physics model (also part of the development); and• Optimised several systems using many machine learning algorithms.

Elandsfontein, Gauteng, Za

Managed HVAC and DC-energy systems business units and developed the external consulting interface. Launched energy-efficiency arm of the business (at product, and consulting levels); and strategic guidance of the internal engineering activities.Formed and ran the innovation group for new product development.Compiled business development strategy; and compiled engineering specifications.

Elandsfontein, Gauteng, Za

Replaced standards manager to represent manufacturers association at local standards committee (SABS) and South Africa at IEC.Managed two engineers in training.Designed and installed the first grid-tied photovoltaic plant in South Africa (50 kW). Plant was constructed to the design and is still operational.Developed compliance requirements between European standards (photovoltaic inverters) and local wiring code (grid).Developed sales forecasting system using advanced statistical methods.Lectured to Wits University in honorary capacity, and obtained my PhD.

Elandsfontein, Gauteng, Za

Research into the magnetodynamic operation of low voltage circuit breakers, including leakage flux coupling.Derived novel method for direct measurement of short-circuit power factor, a quantity that was previously only estimated.Alternate to the standards manager to several IEC mirror and technical committees and member of the wiring code working group.Developed comprehensive test to evaluate circuit breaker in a single test (previously requiring more than 10 separate tests).Built and tested prototype machine to exploit the new test, and then developed a production machine.Devised novel heuristic method to identify failure modes at the component level.Managed engineers in training in addition to technicians.

Elandsfontein, Gauteng, Za

Design and operation of test equipment to evaluate development and mass produced products.Preventative maintenance programme to minimise downtime and improve testing through put. Programme resulted in an order of magnitude improvement.Design of advanced equipment to measure component performance within various development devices.Software reviews of automated production machinery.Evaluation and design reviews of test algorithms.Compiled software specification for test machinery, including unit tests and interface specifications.Alternate representative to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) meeting.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering

Master Of Science In Engineering (Msc(Eng)), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering (Bsc(Eng)), Electrical Engineering

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