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Verification and testing for the electrical power systems on the Gulfstream G650.

Various projects starting with cockpit display software for Lynx helicopter and Eurofighter. Most of my work was testing the nose-wheel steering system for Boeing 787. This included a three month investigation into a CAN bus problem which I eventually proved was a fault in National Instruments software.

The project I have been working on since starting this contact is the JSF (joint strike fighter) for Lockheed Martin. This is an ongoing project supplying units comprising the electrical power management system (EPMS) for the JSF X35. The units I have been working on are the 28V and 270V battery charger and control units which were controlled using CAN Bus and analogue interfaces. Code was written in Siemens assembler. My responsibilities are wide ranging but mostly relate to white box testing. design and development and document review.

Based in Uberlingen, Germany the client supplies staff for various avionics companies. I worked on a project for Airbus to develop the redesign of a slat/flap control box (SFCC) for the A340 to replace the one currently in service which is no longer supported. I was primarily responsible for the design, coding and integration testing of the automatic integrity test (AIT) which is a set of internal test modules run on power-up or on request. Since this is a safety critical environment the tests themselves had to exercise all hardware components and perform complex interactions between all processors in the system (12 in total, 3 per lane, 2 lanes per channel, 2 channels per box, 2 boxes per aircraft). As part of this work I designed my own monitor software to aid integration testing, this was so successful that the client adopted it as part of the flight software to help maintenance.Code was written in C running on Infineon and Motorola PPC processors.From January 03 I worked on the SFCC box for the new A380. I worked on this until December 04.

Development of PC GUI for a demonstration system to control aircraft control panels.The PC interfaced with two micro-controllers via a CAN bus, and produced a graphicalrepresentation of the panel as well as CAN bus ayalysis similar to CANalyser, which was also used. The demonstrator was shown to EADS (Toulouse) who were investigating the use of CAN bus.

Testing ADA embedded software for a Swiss client who manufactures vibration monitoring equipment for aircraft engines. I was responsible for writing and maintaining unit and integration tests for a system for BOEING.

CirencesterWriting design documents and test scripts for a new engine management system. Performing rig testing using in circuit emulation to verify test results.

Unit testing using CANTATA test tool for C. The project was a flight control system for a German company. The work was done on two target processors, INMOS transputer and PowerPC. As well as writing test scripts for individual modules I was involved with integration testing against a FORTRAN model, this was done by writing test harnesses in C and Visual FORTRAN. I also designed and coded some of the control laws from the customer requirement diagrams.

I was part of a team responsible for specifying and developing interfaces between several robotic devices. The project was a large liquid handling system for Glaxo Wellcome using Staubli industrial robots and several liquid handling devices, my work was to define and implement the interfaces between the main supervisory system and various custom built peripherals and TECAN genesis 150 sample processors. The software was written in Visual C++ under Windows 3.1 using the TECAN toolbox library and Microsoft MFC.

Enhancements to software for real time control of a data logging system for the water industry. Written under Windows using Borland 'C', this project used a radio modem (RAM network) to communicate between a host PC and a remote water pressure/flow rate device.

I originally worked for Mateval which is now part of Rolls-Royce in Derby when the the first programmable ultrasonic flaw detector ( Micropulse 1) was developed, I was responsible for design and development of the firmware. which ran on two 8085 processors. Since then I have supported the original systems and developed the firmware for a second and third version of Micropulse, the latter using two IDT RISC processors, most of my firmware has been written in assembler. In addition to writing firmware I have also designed and written real-time graphics software to provide users with systems for ultrasonic imaging, this has been on PCs using MS 'C' and Metawindows and Borland 'C' under Windows 3.1. Much of this work has taken place within the nuclear and aerospace industries.

I had a short contract with CIS where I worked on graphics drivers for various workstations using 'C' on a DEC system.

Programmer.Worked on the development of software for stand alone weather station. Computer Automation LSI 2 assembler.

Developed graphics drivers for refresh displays and storage screens; Worked on a portable FORTRAN compiler and wrote system software for ATLAS 2. BCPL, FORTRAN, assemblers (Elliot 905,ATLAS 2).

Baand Master Of Mathematics, Mathematics

'A' And 'S' Level Gce, Mathematics