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Banbury, Oxfordshire

FacilitiesFully-Equipped 3-bay Porsche specialist workshop for engineering, servicing and maintenance work.Celette body alignment bench, with jigs and fixtures for all 911’s and other models.Spray booth for single-stage 2K or two-stage base-plus-clearcoat paint finishes to the original manufacturer's specification.Media Blasting - individual components to complete body shellsFabrication workshopEngine build facilityServicesRestoration: body panels, rust repairs, welding and fabricating, preparation and paint, colour-matching and detailingEngine strip, inspection and rebuildsChassis and suspension rebuilds, updates, re-bushing and alignment.Interior trimming: headlining refits, vinyl, leather and carpet trimming, dyeing and re-colouring, door card and panel rebuilds, body and glass seals.Servicing and maintenance.Pre-purchase inspections, Borescoping and Engineer’s reports

Gaydon, Warwickshire

Senior Consultant responsible for managing the Durability & Reliability (D&R) Programme Attribute Team for JLR's D8 vehicle programmes, managing the overall test workload into both D&R and supporting test functions and facilities such as Structural Rig Test and Road Load Data for all D&R testing in the UK and Worldwide. Assessing future programme whole vehicle and component structural and fatigue strength against customer usage profiles and in-market drive cycles.

Gaydon, Warwickshire

Senior Automotive Engineering Consultant. Engine Development for Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.Engine Build Manager, Unigraphics NX8.5, Teamcentre Integration (TCE).Key tasks: Introduction of new engine concept into engine production plant in Cologne, Germany. Lead in design and manufacturing feasibility studies, liaison and guidance for component engineers and manufacturing to ensure new technology validated in build, and driving successful supply into vehicle production within time, quality and cost constraints.Developing CO2 reduction technologies, co-operation with technical partners, consultancies and supply base, and creation of Virtual Series design process for validating concepts. Including management of drawing releases, concerns progression and budget control for prototype development and build phases.

Banbury, Oxfordshire

Automotive Engineering Consultancy Services.Engineering, packaging and integration lead, and resolution of cross-functional technical issues driven by the introduction of new powertrains and revised electrical architecture for 2015-17 Range Rover Evoque platform. Representing Vehicle Engineering, providing leadership to interfacing attribute teams and component areas and managing the programmes through the product development process. Leading the project team to meet Engineering Sign-Off through the JLR Product Creation System (PCS) and CAD Virtual Build.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Technical project ownership of premium automotive, aerospace and military engine development programmes, developing technical proposals and initiatives. Supervisory lead for a team of project managers and technical staff within a matrix organisation. Successfully delivered programmes from concept to production included:- Aston Martin V12 Upgrade Programme. Project manager for introduction of performance and CO2 improvements such as variable valve timing, revised combustion chamber and intake system into AML Vantage, DB9, Vanquish and Rapide model ranges.-Military Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Improvement on Supacat Jackal high-mobility 4x4. Engine Management and Transmissions Control System modifications for improved fuel economy.- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Engine Development. Military-funded 2-stroke diesel compression-ignition cycle research engine for use in reconnaissance applications.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Performance, Fuel Economy and Driveability Attribute Manager.Responsible for leading the delivery of all powertrain Performance, Fuel Economy/CO2 and Driveability related attributes into Jaguar Land Rover products. Managing a team of nineteen staff supporting the integration of petrol, diesel and hybrid powertrains. Leadership of target setting, simulation, competitive positioning, futuring, vehicle benchmarking, testing and validation. Technical challenges included the development of new fuel economy technologies and predictive tools to exploit their benefit in new and existing platforms.

Jaguar Land Rover, Gaydon, Warks

An opportunity to apply degree-project vehicle dynamics analysis to the engineering of the steering system for the new Jaguar XK sports car. Rack, gear, pump flow and column tuning, drawing and component release, supplier management and attribute trade-off control.

Land Rover, Gaydon, Warks.

Design, development and release of all exhaust components across new Ford CD-segment (Mondeo/Galaxy/Freelander/Volvo S60) vehicle platform. Leadership of Land Rover, Ford and Volvo module teams with $500m lifetime budget management. As a multi-national team, the role required sensitivity to the cultural and procedural differences with each of the organisations involved in the program.

Leafield, Oxon.

Development of mid-engined installation of Renault V6 engine into Renault-Sport Clio, including intake system, exhaust system and engine ancillaries, from concept to Job 1. Creation and application of vehicle performance models and objective ride and handling assessments. Data analysis using transfer function algorithms and Fourier transforms in Matlab, Simulink, and ‘Diadem’ macrocode.Vehicle HET and CET validation, including diagnosis of test vehicle issues, instrumentation, test reporting and status updates.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Automotive Engineering, 1St Class Honours

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