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Bristol, GB

Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Managing Hydro Mechanical, EMC, Communications and Electrical Test laboratories. Developing the financial case for a now Power & Communications Validation Lab. Mentoring Technical Regulations and Standards Engineer and Product Safety Engineer. Providing Export Control tagging judgements, Functional Safety for Machinery. Managememnt of Change EHS Leader..

Nailsea, Bristol, UK

Oil & Gas Production ControlsFull lifecycle safety assessments: Preliminary Hazard Assessments, Hazops, Accident Scenario Reviews. Creating product safety probability models to predict failure rates Ensuring and Educating on product regulatory (legislative) requirements.Machinery Functional SafetySafety Incident Investigation, Containment, RCA, Resolution.

-Introduced a new Development process & Data driven culture-Resolved and implemented the recovery plan for a major production spill-Formalized and re-structured the Product support activities to not interfere with NPD-Qualified as a TUV Functional Safety Engineer-Created the Custom Product team & process-Re-wrote the site ISO9001 quality system with.

Developing new products in the electrical safety equipment field., running the test and validation lab for these products and the rest of the group (Durability, Shake & Bake, IP ratings). Based in Wigan, UK.

-Steering the technical development of a new automotive brake technology (Maximum Torque Brake) using Shainin “RedX” and “Rolling Top 5” techniques -Moved team and re-structured to integrate into the Paris Technical Centre -Managed Anglo-French test department-Presented the MTB technology at technical shows for customers and trade journalists-Customer.

-Responsible for Vehicle, Dynamometer and Bench test teams, staff of 20 engineers and technicians working on two UK sites and internationally-Relocated test team and facilities from Federal Mogul to Delphi site within the UK-Developed customer contacts through demonstration drives and joint testing activities-Team re-structuring to integrate previously.

-Implemented a NAMAS (UKAS) quality system (first in the UK for this kind of facility)-Managed 2 shift dynamometer test facility with 6 brake dynamometers -Supported several instrumentation systems in use world wide (scanning dual wavelength pyrometer, squeal measurement, DTV low pressure system) -Delivered new brake “creep groan” test rig to customer 6.

-Supervised four full scale brake inertia dynamometers-Designed and built high performance (racing) brake dynamometer

-20 durability test rigs with 2 technicians -Set-up a PC based data logging system and a test results relational database -Built a test rig to simulate the conditions of an industrial scale gas compressor

-6 Wind data stations: concept to delivery and support at remote sites in Cumbria-Designed/built the control system for an automated Tritium enrichment rig-Synthesised benzene from archaeological specimens for C14 measurements -Designed hardware, wrote software for MAFF funded automated benzene synthesis rig

Bsc (Hons) 2.1, Materials Engineering & Design

Activities and Societies: Rifle Club Chairman, Captain, Secretary Chairman of the Rifle and Pistol Club

A Levels : Maths, Physics , Chemistry, Sciences

Activities and Societies: Captain of the Rifle Club, British Schoolboys' Champion Captain of the Rifle Club and British Schools Champion

Education record

Captain of Greens and the worst school goalie for years