Richard Devine Email & Phone Number

Crawley, GB

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

• Key 'Air to Ground' team member from concept phase to in-service delivery, developing system architecture / HW and RF system design / Technical Subcontract on-site Interface / compliance auditor within software house.
• Designing to DO-160/178/254 / RTCA / 3GPP/ ETSI; Systems design using FPGA’s / LTE supplier chipset
• Technical on-site ACGC support with Nokia Networks (Germany)
• Project Scheduling and Risk management / mitigation
• Technical management of supply chain
• Generation of system / technical requirements in DOORS

Basildon, Essex, UK

• Engineering Team Leader / Senior RF Systems Engineer
• Systems design of ECM military hardware (high power RF amplifiers & digital systems)
• Development of MoD vehicular vibration hardware against MIL-STD-810
• Generation of System specifications / test procedures
• Liaising with operational stake holders / resolution of field failures

Ryde, Isle Of Wight, UK

Technical governance; highlighting technical and manufacturing issues / risks; and facilitating solutions; reporting to Managing Director.

Crawley, West Sussex, UK

• Engineering project delivery manager for strategic delivery of products from Operations to MoD for Mastiff vehicle (ECM) installation, whilst ensuring fiscal targets were set and successfully achieved. (Received award.
• Liaison between ECM engineering design team and operational stakeholders’ (MoD)
• Management Information reporting to senior management team; technical governance, schedule and sales forecast analysis

Wells, Somerset, UK

• Engineering Management of 60 design engineers with multi-discipline teams including systems, hardware, software, DSP/ FPGA design and mechanical engineers working for THALES National Security and Resilience division.
• Responsible for technical governance of projects; resource loading; project gate reviewer; Health and Safety (H&S) assessment; risk management; supplier management; bid & prospects team member and bid presenter.

Portsmouth / Poynton, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the delivery and design for Reacher land mobile SATCOM TX systems; qualification (VV&T) to MoD (in service) delivery
• Management of multi-discipline teams: Systems, RF, Software, Digital, Mechanical, Thermal, Optical, Safety, Reliability (FMEA) & various supplier design teams.
• Engineering management of research & production projects including risk management,
• Skynet 5 Reacher (vehicle) safety team member; FMEA analysis, MI to senior management team, phase design reviewer, project scheduling & activity based planning (MS Project & Primavera P3),
• Resource management, requirement capture and generation of technical training documentation
• System development of SATCOM antennas; X band SSPA / X band LNB; L–X band Block up-converter, Antenna control systems – power systems; VHF / UHF Design; TX/RX control systems; optical systems; development of power.

Bristol, UK

• 3G Technical Manager – Responsible for development of base-station software amplifiers for the European and American markets (3G, GSM, and CDMA2000 network architectures)
• Engineering Manager – Responsible for implementation of design and production best practices at Bristol design house and Manufacturing facility in Wales
• Member of Senior Operation Management team for development of Strategic Business plans
• Member of Sales & Marketing team for development of strategic Market Requirements

Camberley, UK / Oulu, Finland

• Development of GSM Edge Base Station TX & RX architectures for ETSI approval
• Responsible for product ‘ramp up’ to mass production Finland / UK
• Member of Nokia design group to review new designs across Nokia sites worldwide
• UK Elected representative for Nokia Design Engineers reporting to Senior Site Management Team

Aylesbury, UK

Product Development - Responsible to Technical Director for product development & testing of GSM amplifier products; Customer interface for product acceptance

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Project Management - of the Inmarsat Telecommunication amplifiers including aspects of product and activity based planning, resource management (test, production and QC teams), scheduling, risk and mitigation management, change management, quality, procurement to ensure successful delivery to satellite payload. Design - Responsible RF Design Engineer to.

Basingstoke, UK

Responsible to Systems lead for development of microwave line of site systems, system documentation and technical test methodologies including training of operations personnel.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Responsible to Test manager for development, testing and fault finding of Digital, UHF, RF, microwave satellite ground station equipment.