• Responsible for the development and maintenance of bespoke instrumentation and automation systems• Leading a small team of engineers to deliver industrial projects at high standards in timely manner. • Proposal writting, project management and budgeting of goverment co-funded RnD projects.• Business development with customers in Europe, North America and Asia• Technical proposal writing, planning and budgeting of industrial measurement campaigns • Presenting and reporting industrial project results to customers• Designing, building and troubleshooting company’s latest optical measurement system for thermographic phosphor materials• Maintaining and operating customised automated measurement systems for high resolution measurements of complex components, including linear gantry systems and robotic arms• Delivering fully digitised calibrated temperature measurements on power generation, aerospace and automotive engine components.• Managing Innovate UK government funded technology development projects. • Liaising with customers and promoting the technology to potential end users at conferences and exhibitions

Design and testing of tunable diode laser gas analysers.Testing procedures and documentation for prototype instruments.Schematic, layout and testing/troubleshooting of analogue PCBs.Designed laser driver, switch mode power supply, temperature controllers, 4-20mA transmitter, transimpedance amplifier and noise filtering circuits.General instrumentation, temperature and pressure measurements.Identify suitable materials for optimal functionality and minimum cost. Fibre-optic and free-space Laser collimation and alignment.Field installations and troubleshooting in harsh industrial environment.

Designed and developed a novel opto-electronic scheme for water vapour measurements based on Diode Lasers and Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers. Fibre-optic systems instrumentation, analogue/digital PCB design and trouble-shooting, development of data acquisition systems, laboratory spectroscopic measurements, tomographic measurements on optical IC engines, MATLAB simulation & data analysis, and producing technical reports and presentations. Preparation of Journal and conference papers.

Research and development of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) for WDM Passive Optical Networks. Conducted high bit rate (up to 40Gbps) optical transmission measurements. Systems characterisation, BER tests, noise and polarisation dependency, RF/optical bandwidth measurements and power budget evaluation. Produced analytical technical reports and presentations. Actively involved in customer interaction and dealt with operation issues.