Mark Perkins Email & Phone Number

Heber Ltd

Managing projects from requirements capture at customer meeting, through development to delivery. Project manager for a number of gaming developments tasks included developing project plans and leading small teams of engineers to successfully develop products. Introduced Cypress USB microcontrollers to the company which we then used develop the successful Xline product range of real time I/O controllers. Other gaming developments included COM Express and ETX carrier boards developments, utilising USB or PCI for I/O sections.As the focus of the company has shifted my project involvement has shifted to developing electronics for domestic appliances and vending machines. On the commercial side of the business I have continues to represent the company at trade shows. Whilst developing customer proposals and quotation including product cost estimates and development costs/timescales. During this period I have developed a more rounded view on business and have therefore helped with marketing (statistics/adwords/content/research) and the business strategy.

Gained more experience and started taking responsibility for small projects and more aspects of the design process. Majority of design work during this period was on 68K based gaming controllers. Including the first of the Heber Pluto range. This gave me exposure to a number of serial busses such as I2C, SPI, RS232 and RS485. As well as memory mapped bus peripherals EPROM, FLASH and SRAM. Added new skills including digital design for Actel field programmable gate arrays. Started getting more actively involved in the commercial side of the business representing Heber at trade shows and client meetings.

Assisting experienced senior electronics engineers developing electronics for Motorola 68K based gaming machines and domestic appliances. Tasks included circuit design updates, PCB modifications, bills of materials, documentation, assembling, testing and debugging prototypes. Developed an understanding of C programming on 80C51 microcontroller and then used this knowledge to convert in house BBC basic functional test software to C.

Apprenticeship programme involved working in every department of the company from goods inwards to purchasing. This provided a firm grounding in the company’s functions and process. Whilst developing a good understanding of how engineering design decisions can impact on a company.