Stephen Forbes-Wilson Email & Phone Number

Mildura, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Drive Quality Engineer within the Propulsion Systems Embedded Controls team
• Reporting responsibility and ownership of vehicle Drive Quality status at project milestones and in program quality / readiness reviews as part of the vehicle development process for Cadillac vehicles
• Member of the global DQ Centre of Expertise, contributing changes to global processes developed from local projects and studies
• Tracking of Drive Quality deliverables during program execution and forward planning of internal milestones for the local team
• Technical leader and chair of the local Drive Quality work group within the propulsion system execution team, focused on solving powertrain system level problems
• Decision making on Drive Quality / Emissions / Fuel Economy trade-offs

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Test planning and execution of vehicle test plans
• Use of test automation tools to collect large repeatable data sets
• Use of statistical data analysis techniques for calibration of automatic transmission controls
• Shift pattern and driveability calibration for 10 speed automatic transmissions in Cadillac vehicles for North American and China markets

• Control systems engineering activities including Matlab modelling of pump and valve curves for the development of control algorithms and writing of logic flow charts
• PCB design and embedded software development using C and Python for proprietary 900MHz wireless mesh sensor network devices.
• Maintenance of Datacall 3G RTU firmware and packaging tools in the Linux environment using the OpenEmbedded build framework.
• Development of Functional Descriptions, programming of PLC’s and HMI’s, completion of quality assurance documentation and commissioning for projects such as the Mildura Waste-Water Treatment Plant and the Sunraysia.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Emissions test co-ordination
• Emissions results analysis
• Vehicle instrumentation setup and fault finding
• Powertrain calibration testing
• On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) testing
• ECU and control module CAN-Bus communication

Mildura, Victoria, Australia

• Use of CAD software for drawing of electrical wiring diagrams for automation projects.
• Development of pumping station operator’s manuals and touch panel application manuals.
• Factory Acceptance Testing and writing of Factory Acceptance Testing procedures.
• Ladder Logic and Function Block programming of PLC’s and Touch Panels.
• Leading of commissioning and Site Acceptance Testing for pumping station projects.

Mildura, Victoria, Australia

• Use of GIS software to analyse rainfall maps, bushfire path maps, topography and geological data to predict 2011 Banksia bloom in the Big Desert for apiary operations.
• Use of CAD software for structural drawings of river pump stations and as built drawings.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechatronics And Robotics

Final Year Project – “An integrated closed loop irrigation system for the agricultural industry using a cloud linked wireless sensor.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechatronics