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Basingstoke, Gb

Underwater Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV) Leader of a multi-discipline team (14 direct, 8 indirect) of electronic / electrical /mechanical engineers.Mentor team members technically and professionally, including career progression.Liaise with production, sales, servicing, support and technical publication departments.Surface and subsea vehicle, control and power infrastructure equipment design.Interface to clients and suppliers.Component obsolescence management. Legacy designs support and replacement.EMC and standards compliance.Championed JIRA (issue tracking) and Confluence (team workspace).Additive manufacture innovative toroidal choke mounting instead of potting.Technology includes analogue and digital systems including CPLD/FPGA, MicroChip / Atmelmicrocontrollers.Power systems from [low voltage dc 1W] to [4.5kVdc 250kW / 3kVac 3-phase 50kW].Electronics operating at greater than atmospheric pressure immersed in oil.BLDC motor control for thrusters.Subsea Camera evaluation and selection.Serial communications interfaces SPI, I2C, RS-485, RS-232, Ethernet, fibre optic.Software: CadStar and Pulsonix PCB design, Octave, Lattice ispLEVER Classic, LTspicesimulation, TortoiseSVN, Git.

Theatrical technical effects and stage lighting control.Troubleshooting new and legacy products. Research and source system and component level solutions.Customer technical support.Design of electronic hardware, PCBs and embedded software. System and board test specification and testing to component level.Company IT systems centred on SBS 2008.Technologies include PIC embedded processors, LED, Digi ZigBee, RDM, DMX, C, PLC, battery, radio control, ESD/EMC compliance, dimmers and power control.Advisor in technical strategies, standards compliance, procedures and specifications.

Managed the design and build of extensive new automated test laboratories and managed the relocation of their existing laboratories.

Contracted to manage the establishment of a comprehensive CD player test facility, requiring the specification and implementation of test procedures, methodologies and standards.

Digital rights management and copy protection.Managed multi-discipline software and hardware team, technical strategy, quantifying and qualifying the product performance, project planning, research and development. Generated the technical evaluation for the acquisition of one company and the intellectual property of another.Converged and successfully managed fifteen very intelligent and strong-minded engineers, both in house and overseas. Delivered monthly board presentations.Responsible for the research and development of the audio CD copy protection product (which went on to sell in excess of 100 million units worldwide).Specified a test laboratory of over 800 PC drives and players and managed the migration from manual to automated test. The lab was a flagship for the company and was considered to be one of the best in the world.Responsible for the test grading criteria and standards. Managed the research and development of a bespoke Windows forensic application to control custom DVD drives, decode the analogue EFM+ in software and generate disc fingerprints.

Taken over by Macrovision

Microprocessor and microcontroller in-circuit emulators.Team leader and mentor for the seven members of the engineering team. Produced product specification, partitioning through to detail design; for hardware, software and mechanical. Engineering standards and procedures in line with the company quality plan.Lead design and product reviews.Supervised PCB designs and compliance to standards (including CE).Designed products, systems, hardware (digital and analogue), embedded software (Assembler, Pascal, C), surface mount PCBs and mechanical assemblies.Reverse engineered Altera FPGA fuse information, allowing the dynamic change of the hardware in an embedded application.Introduced surface mount technology into design and manufacture.Selected the external manufacturer.Liaised with external parties on product and manufacturing specifications.Supported the IT, production and test departments on technical issues. Provided internal staff training on products, design techniques and manufacturing.

Theatrical lighting control systems.Managed laboratory technicians, contract staff and students.Designed, developed and project managed microprocessor based control equipment.Responsible for project design standards and procedures.Investigated and resolved electromagnetic compatibility issues to EMC standards.Provided post development support.Defined and sourced tools, including selection of schematic capture and PCB software.PC system management.

Broadcast and lighting control systems.Managed and designed audio/video routing control systems.Customised products (hardware, software and costing budgets). Technical customer liaison.Advisor to sales staff.Supervised equipment production.Commissioned installations including:• An outside broadcast van for London Weekend Television• Production monitoring system for South Africa Broadcast Corporation.

Theatrical lighting control systems.Electronic hardware design engineer.6809 processor.