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Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsible for software development and application of in-house wind turbine design tool.Software development:
• Overhauled core software architecture with a modular alternative, vastly improving ease of use and development.
• Implemented new input/output functionality, with the ability to interface with the WindIO standard, this being an internationally recognised yaml format to describe the vast number of components in a wind turbine. This.
• Coordinated GitHub contributions from other users and developers, and wrote unit tests and documentation. Benefits included more robust development and easier use for new users.
• Delivered training workshops on how to use the software to new users from academia and industry.Wind turbine design applications:
• Performed structural and aero-structural optimisation studies of 15 MW and 20 MW wind turbines. These designs provided state-of-the-art baselines for a number of multi-stakeholder projects, with project goals including.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• The aim of the PhD was to apply multi-disciplinary optimisation to the aero-structural design of 100 m + composite wind turbine blades. Specifically, the objective was to minimise the levelised cost of energy, and the.
• Validated many of the analysis modules against industry-standard software, and months of measurement data from an existing 7 MW turbine.
• Programmed a variety of analysis modules and numerical solvers, including gradient-based optimisation, solvers for systems of non-linear equations, and finite-element mesh generation.
• Developed a parametric representation for wind blade structures, comprising regions of fibre-reinforced laminates and sandwich panels. Applied structural optimisation to design lay-ups, including composite failure.
• Designed, built, and tested a carbon-fibre wing box with specific loading and geometric requirements.
• Trained on metal mill/lathe, built a bicycle frame-building fixture.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Supported undergraduate engineering students during computer labs.
• Courses included: Programming (MATLAB, C/C++), Computer Aided Design (AutoDesk Inventor), Wind turbine analysis (DNV GL Bladed).

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Collaborated with PhD industrial partners (Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult & National Composites Centre) to deliver a feasibility study for a next-generation wind turbine platform (20MW).
• Took an active role in defining the team's project goals, and personally led the blade design. This required coordinating with other team members to convey design philosophy and exchange model data.
• Continuously integrated new features within the wind turbine design software (ATOM) as the project goals evolved. This required effective management of implementation time and software run time to stay ahead of the.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Acquired funding to extend my Master's Degree research project, in order to write up and disseminate the work.
• Published an article in Renewable Energy: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.06.048

Woking, England, United Kingdom

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Advanced Composites

Meng Aeronautical Engineering, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Snowboard captain (2012-2013), Snowboarding team (2011-2015)

Maths (A*), Physics (A*), Further Maths (A), Chemistry (A)