Innovative Technologies; Hardware, Software and Complete System Turn-Key Solutions.

Bespoke Automation and Safety Critical Systems for Industries including Oil, Gas, Rail, Chemical, Petrochemical, Nuclear, Power and Steel.

Supporting customers in the Industrial/Marine and Nuclear Sectors; Design of Bespoke GUI's targerting Windows Based ABB Compact HMI 800 Human Machine Interfaces, for control and monitoring of remote operative units. Development of bespoke GUI's & animated elements using Visual Studio, C# and WPF XAML Designer. Design of Engineering Support Applications using Microsoft Visual Studio and C#.Assisting with the design, development and build of power electronics based systems. Responsible for the Design Modifications of Digital (IC/FPGA) and Analog IC based Printed Circuit Boards using Zuken CADStar, including Fabrication, Testing and Training of developed PCB's. PCB Fault Diagnostics and Refurbishments. Documentation for System and Sub-Modules, System Factory Acceptance Testing.Drives & Inverter Control Systems, Large Format Mixed Signal PCB's; Schematic Capture, PCB Layout Design. Atmel/Microchip PAL/GAL IC's and Microsemi MX02/MX04 FPGA's. Voltage, Current, Frequency, Amplitude, Phase Angle and Symmetry Detection/Analysis.

Software Development for Dynamometer Automotive Test Systems;Responsible for the development of bespoke plug-inn (form based) GUI's and animated elements using Visual Studio, C# and Third-Party Graphics/Gauge Libraries and API's. Interfacing between UI forms, individual elements and main system software build and DCOM/WCF. High speed data exchange between FPGA based signal acquisition/processing hardware (with C Based processing core code) and lower level multi-threaded (event and time-triggered) software over TCP/UDP interfaces. Software Development for Climatic Wind Tunnel Test Systems;Responsible for the development of bespoke plug-inn (WPF based) GUI's and animated elements using Visual Studio, C# and WPF XAML Designer. Used for monitoring Climatic Wind Tunnel temperature control systems, supporting the design and testing of automotive Air Conditioning units.Hardware and Embedded Development, Automotive Test Systems;Development of Automotive Test Systems Hardware for driving DC Motor Actuators. Motor Drive hardware developed using my own Opto-Isolated PWM based N-Channel FET's and Programmable Dead-Zone Drivers, Hall Effect Current Sensing and High-Precision Quadratic Encoder Interfacing. Working prototypes build using strip board and Microchip Explorer Development boards. Control System Development using Microchip dsPIC MCU with Microchip IDE/ICE and 16-bit C based compilers. Hardware Interrupt Based QEI Peripherals used for digital signal acquisition and system position calculation. PID based calculations and control for PWM drive side electronics. Analog to Digital input value acquisition, Hardware UART Peripheral used for processing serialised data between MCU and Host Computer, Digital to Analog Outputs using 16-bit D/A Conversion IC's, LCD Display and Navigation Button Interfacing with multi-level user interfaces for viewing and changing system parameters.

Development of an advanced dc-motor controller, along with other legacy system improvements, for use with public safety systems, including velocity control for use with planetary-geared motors with inductive brakes. Circuit Schematics/PCB Design, LCD Displays, UI & EEPROM Storage, I2C Serial RF Transceivers, RS232 USARTS, Current Sense/Stall Limiting, MAX4172/4080, Voltage Monitoring, Multi GPIO management and time triggered, interrupt based, event task scheduling on PIC16F877(QFP) & PIC16F1939(QFP) MCU platforms; Proton+, CCS, High-Tech C, SourceBoost C, MPLAB, PicKit2/3. Also responsible for training, ordering and management of the electronics production section; Producing user manuals and wiring diagrams, perform regression-testing, fault finding; Educating sales, production, assembly, fitting teams and providing technical/on-site support to customers.

Development of embedded systems, technology and business opportunities in regard to Energy Control and Carbon Reduction. Design and development of Client/Server software for the control and administration of electronic devices over local or remote network. Product design/fabrication of working prototype system.Custom machined casing to house Linux based PC-104 style x86 processor board. Connectors and interfaces including GPIO Ethernet (TCP/IP), Serial (RS232C), USB-USART (RS485/DMX), USB (2.0) for external equipment connectivity and server administration utilised. Wireless RF {TX/RX} (433.92MHz modules), Zigbee(xBee) Circuits/Networks and 3G Connectivity. Microchip PIC (16F877) CPU including Firmware Design and Compilation, UARTS & Data Streams (capture, processing, transmission and display). Software Compilation, Runtime and Testing: Debian, xLinux Win 9x, Win Vista/7 and Win XPe (Embedded). Java SE: AWT/Swing, TCP/IP Sockets, Multi-Threaded Client/Server Applications & Debugging. Linux: User Accounts, X-Windows, SSH/SFTP, Java SE, ifconfig, dchpd, ftpd, serial consoles etc. Hardware Platforms: VIA Mini-ITX (EPIA-5000) Nano-ITX(EPIA-N800), Pico-ITX (EPIA-P700-10L); PC-104 (ICOP-6150) & Microchip PIC (16F877). Supported by: East Midlands Development Agency, eMin Enterprise Solutions, De-Montfort University & various industrial/embedded suppliers

Responsible for design, development and production of systems used for controlling tubular motors, including the design of a new type of gravity-fail-safe motor and systems to provide basic control functionality. Design of the electronics, creation of circuit schematics/pcb layouts, required to produce a prototype/production of the devised systems, in accordance with the connectivity features and constraints outlined by the company. This included legacy support for other motor types, embedded timer controls & user documentation. Also responsible for setup/creation of in house electrical assembly department, staff training, quality/testing and technical support.Technical aspects included Digital/Analogue/Power Electronics, Lead-Acid circuits; Sensors (Capacitive/Inductive Proximity, Electromagnetic Pickups/Reed Switches & Photoelectric), Asymmetrical/Multifunctional Timers and PIC12 Series Based timer developments.

Development and Testing of Mobile Communications Equipment using Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) standard. Targeting ATMEL ARM7 / ARM9 (AT91RM9200) and TI-DSP (TMS320VC5416/ TMS320VC5510/5510A) platforms along with peripherals such as Intel StrataFlash (JS28F640P), Atmel (AT49BV322A/AT49BV640) and DMA USART devices. RS232 & AutoBaud Techniques including Protocols such as EIA232 and ETSI ‘AT’ standards. Use of Oscilloscopes, Data Analyzers, JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) Interfaces & Emulators, such as Blackhawk & Multi-ICE etc. Software tools such as MS SourceSafe, TortoiseSVN, Visual Studio V/C++. Scripting languages such as Perl & Python plus Compilers such as Atmel AVR and Texas Instruments. Accreditation by IET, IMA, IMech & RAeS.