Sam Sharples Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

‒ Responsibility for the tuning of all braking attributes, ensuring brake hardware meets the vehicle level targets whilst achieving expected high customer satisfaction for areas such as brake squeal, creep groan, brake pedal feel, thermal judder, brake cooling, one pedal drive & regen blending‒ Close collaboration with key stakeholders such as internal.

Gaydon, England, United Kingdom

• Working as Lead Engineer and responsible for delivery of the braking refinement attribute performance to an all new electric vehicle platform from PS to Job1:
• Leading a team to achieve the timely delivery of attribute requirement targets by their relevant gateways, ensuring all technical issues are identified and resolved utilising CAE, dyno and vehicle testing as appropriate
• Implementation of new technologies into JLR brake systems such as fully decoupled brake by wire actuation, zero copper pad materials and zero drag calipers with active pad retraction
• In depth understanding of the factors affecting the brakes refinement attributes and how to develop and deliver the system
• Owner & author of test procedures and standards relating to brakes refinement testing
• Planning and supporting test and development activities as required or specified in the Design Verification Plan (DVP) in time and to budget

Gaydon, England, United Kingdom

• Working as Brakes Refinement Engineer within Brakes Design my experiences and accomplishments in this role included:
• Highly experienced with regards to vehicle level testing, instrumentation installation and set-up, along with in-depth data analysis and reporting
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of the department standards and processes
• Highly proficient in whole vehicle evaluation and the potential impact to customer satisfaction caused by attribute gaps to targets
• Liaising with third party test facilities to organise vehicle scheduling, shipping, driver support and workshop plans
• Parts procurement to satisfy rig and test kits

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Working within the Component Test Laboratory my experiences and achievements included:
• Design and fabrication of custom test rigs allowing validation of individual parts or major component packages to any manufacturer requirements
• Conducting test and development activities, including inspections of parts during test and data collection to identify any issues arising
• Supervising technicians and organising shift cover as and when required
• Reviewing and analysing the data collected during the test procedures and identifying causal factors
• Reporting to the customer regarding test status and agreeing any changes to test procedures or parameters