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 attribute teams, function group teams and external suppliers, whilst also dealing with the simultaneous and detailed day-to-day technical running of multiple development programmes ‒ Excellent understanding of automotive engineering principals through constant liaison with teams such as the electrical propulsion system, vehicle motion, electrical integration, vehicle dynamics, NVH, plus how these areas interact with and impact the attributes I oversee‒ Highly proficient and experienced in whole vehicle subjective evaluation and the potential impact to customer satisfaction from attribute gaps to targets‒ Robust definition, planning, & delivery of the braking attributes DVP for various vehicle programmes 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‒ Managing several different vehicle programmes at the same time whilst collaborating with teams in different countries to ensure all targets are met without compromising the quality of the attributes‒ Competitor attribute benchmarking, combining both physical and virtual testing with objective and subjective assessments to help define the vehicle target setting process‒ Highly experienced in vehicle testing on prototype vehicles, including objective measurement and logging on multiple data acquisition systems, followed by processing and presentation of results‒ Organised, analytical and methodical approach to work with a high attention to detail

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• Liaising with component engineers and suppliers as necessary to drive resolution and execution of all engineering solutions• Support and maintenance of the Automated Issues Management System (AIMS), tracking any issues to successful resolution• Driver of department process improvements such as vehicle to dyno projects, instrumentation capability development and creating or updating of procedures to increase testing within the UK, thus resulting in significant cost savings• Futuring the department for BEV & PHEV test vehicles by implementing rapid DC and fast AC charging capability at our HET assessment location for up to eight vehicles• Competitor attribute benchmarking combining physical and virtual testing with objective & subjective assessments

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• Negotiation of vehicle allocation for testing activities• Representing my programme at all relevant Vehicle Integration, Vehicle Engineering and Technical Issues meetings as required• Co-ordination of vehicle preparation and logistics to strict deadlines• Presentation of results to senior management• Fault finding & issue rectification on senior management and launch vehicles• Driver training to high standard

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• Preparing detailed data packs, documenting the test results and establishing conclusions for submission to the customer in the form of a comprehensive report