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Machynlleth, GB

SY20 8AX, Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom

• Electrical, mechanical, and software troubleshooting and repair of turbine control systems.
• Planned and unplanned maintenance of hydropower installations.
• Design and build of control and power systems.
• Interfacing with SCADA and other telemetry systems.
• 3D CAD and DFM for traditional and additive manufacturing.

Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom

• Developed and maintained control hardware and software for solar vaccine fridges and associated equipment.
• Refined existing product test procedures and equipment.
• Troubleshooting of systems deployed in field.
• Prepared documentation for users and installers.

Aberystwyth

• Designed and built sensor systems for use in arctic fieldwork.
• Maintained range of capital scientific instruments.
• Departmental Electronics safety officer.
• 3D design and manufacture via FFF 3D printing.
• PCB design and assembly.

• Developed control algorithm for propane panel heater.
• Developed safety monitoring and failsafe system.
• Designed and built several iterations of prototype.
• Designed, outsourced, populated, and tested PCBs.

Machynlleth

Responsible for quality and traceability of all meteorological data collected by onshore and offshore met masts and remote sensing systems under IEC 61400-12 and other relevant standards.Specification and design of datalogger and control systems, power supplies and navigational warning systems.Fault elimination.Internal and external technical.

Machynlleth

Specification, design, programming and testing of instrumentation, data loggers, power, comms and navigational warning systems for met masts (both onshore and offshore) in accordance with relevant standards, for resource assessment and power curve testing.Project and technical management for installation, maintenance and decommissioning of met.

Aberystwyth

Responsible for managing lifeboat, crew and casualties on SAR operations.

Built websites for small businesses.

Initially Flash programming, moved on to develop web mapping solutions, using open source software both client- and server-side.Used a spatially-extended database to provide storage for GIS solutions, and combined with Perl to perform custom spatial manipulations and analysis.Developed client side of web-based GIS including a custom extended web mapping.

Aberystwyth

Undertook research into development of data processing for a multi channel electron counting system used for real-time XPS.Performed experiments at synchrotron radiation source.

Mphil, Physics

Activities and Societies: Sailing, Surfing, Canoeing, Physoc Research on electron detector array, focussing on development of data.

Mphys, Physics

Activities and Societies: Sailing, Surfing, Kayaking Four year undergraduate course in physics, with greater scope than traditional BSc..