Simon Schofield
Staff Electronics Engineer - Group Lead at CMR Surgical- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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CMR Surgical
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United Kingdom
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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500 - 600 Employee
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Staff Electronics Engineer - Group Lead
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Oct 2023 - Present
Leading a team of Electronics engineers and technicians to develop and improve the hardware in the Versius Surgical system
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Staff Product Engineer
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Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
Working as part of a small team to deliver Product Reliability and Performance Insights, collated from technical, business and customer data sources to influence Product development and drive continuous improvement. This involves:- Drawing insights from multiple complex interconnected datasets to allow trustworthy and informed decisions to be made around which product improvements will drive the fastest and most valuable gains in customer experience, business cost saving and sales increases- Working cross-functionally to understand the needs of business stakeholders and translating these into requirements for data and insight dashboards. Then developing and delivering these (PowerBI) dashboards to allow self-serve KPI tracking and data trending.- Tracking the impact and effectiveness of product improvements and new product releases Show less
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Root Cause Analysis Manager
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Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Built a new team to recognise common issues experienced by customers, investigate the root cause, develop containments to fix customer experience and drive long term improvements to the product. This involved:- Deep technical knowledge of the Surgical robot, telemetry and connected services to understand, investigate and resolve complex multidisciplinary customer issues and trending product performance issues- Providing the Voice of Customer to many technical and non-technical teams across the business to support product & process development and continuous improvement activities- Fast problem solving, prototyping and development skills to develop and deploy effective and compliant short-term containments to customer-critical issues- Strong collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines and functions throughout the business to initiate and drive long term product improvements- Tracking and trending longer term product quality and reliability issues, and reporting these to stakeholders at all levels of the business to support company-level prioritisation Show less
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Tier 3 & Rapid Response Lead
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Dec 2019 - Jan 2022
Team Lead of the Tier 3 & Rapid Response team involving:- Developed, CE-marked & released hardware tools to support Field Service Engineers- Designed and implementing rapid containments for issues that affect customer experience- Supported field teams in diagnosis of complex and challenging product issues that required deeper technical product expertise- Designed a strategy for fast system repair using subassembly replacement to reduce investigation times- Implemented a company-wide issue categorisation and trending system to enable faster and more effective product improvement initiatives- Line management of 5 team members Show less
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Service & Support Technical Lead
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Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Technical lead of the Service and Support Team at CMR Surgical, which involved- recruited, trained and mentored a team of Technical Support & Field Service Engineers to resolve customer-critical issues- designed processes to allow efficient and effective issue triage, categorisation and resolution- built a knowledge base of information about issue investigation, diagnosis and maintenance- provided live technical support at international clinical trials, customer training & company demonstrations Show less
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Electronics Engineer
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Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
Heavily involved in the electronic design of the Versius Surgical System, bringing the early prototypes through to production-ready designs. This included:- Design and review of Schematics, PCB layout and Cable designs for the Surgical Robot and manufacturing test rigs- Board level testing and fault finding on complex analogue and high-speed digital circuits and sensors- System-level integration testing, fault finding and root-cause analysis of multi-disciplinary problems- Led pre-compliance EMC testing of the Surgical Robot, analysing results and driving changes into the design to improve EMC performance• Provided live technical support at Cadaveric trials and Product demonstrations including direct interaction with medical staff, investors and stakeholders• Led FMEAs to assess the potential risks in our system and worked with engineers in other disciplines to mitigate these risks Show less
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Cambridge University Eco Racing
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United Kingdom
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Renewables & Environment
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Manager
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Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
Overseeing the design, manufacture and testing of a solar-powered car which was developed to race in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2015 Leading a team of other engineering students to ensure that the race vehicle was delivered on time and to specification The role also involved technical and financial negotiations with manufacturers, suppliers and sponsors in the engineering industry Overseeing the design, manufacture and testing of a solar-powered car which was developed to race in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2015 Leading a team of other engineering students to ensure that the race vehicle was delivered on time and to specification The role also involved technical and financial negotiations with manufacturers, suppliers and sponsors in the engineering industry
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Teledyne e2v
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United Kingdom
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Engineering Intern
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Jul 2012 - Sep 2012
3 month Undergraduate Internship working with Project Engineers in the High Performance Imaging sector, where e2v produces CCD sensors for space, scientific and medical applications worldwide. Performed quality control testing and performance analysis of CCDs prior to customer shipment. Carried out control testing of quality control equipment prior to and after equipment relocation. Gained substantial experience working in a clean-room environment. 3 month Undergraduate Internship working with Project Engineers in the High Performance Imaging sector, where e2v produces CCD sensors for space, scientific and medical applications worldwide. Performed quality control testing and performance analysis of CCDs prior to customer shipment. Carried out control testing of quality control equipment prior to and after equipment relocation. Gained substantial experience working in a clean-room environment.
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Education
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University of Cambridge
Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
King Edward VI Grammar School