Experience

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  AOS Group

  • Australia
  • Software Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Robotics and Aeronautical Engineer

    • Jan 2020 - Present

    • Project manager and full lifecycle design to validation of an intelligent live-fire range training system.• Lead hardware architect and test lead of AOS autonomous ground vehicle (Kelpie) for off-road autonomous operations in complex environments.• Hardware integration of control, sensing, communications and power systems.• Performed validation of complex AI systems.• Chief test pilot of autonomous vehicles.

  • Aerospace Engineer

    • Sep 2016 - Jan 2020

    Key developer of hardware products for use with AOS's C-BDI and JACK AI engines. - Capturing key requirements for product development - Design, manufacture, testing and deployment of AI interfacing devices- Experience in trials management- Work with safety critical systems- Develop technical documentations for trials and products- Understanding of Agents in AI development- Support development of AI behavior - Communication with defense customers- Experience with project proposal estimations- Competent UAS pilot

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  Rolls-Royce

  • Dahlewitz, Germany

  • Intern

    • Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
    • Dahlewitz, Germany

    Service engineering (safety team) - Write technical report for safety investigation (RT & SAR)- Data acquisition and processing- Technical manual Systems Engineer (Interface management)- Administrator and manager of product interface toolkit- Organised and provide toolkits training- Support creation of requirements document- Extensive use of VBA and DOORS (DXL) to develop engineering tools

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  RMIT UAS Research Team

  • Research Engineer

    • Jan 2014 - Jun 2015

    A key member in a DSTG and RMIT collaborative effort to develop a UAS for naval surveillance application for the US Navy, which completed flight trials successfully. - Perform project trade study - Design and manufacture air-frame for internal components- Manufacturing of bespoke carbon fibre composite molds and parts- Support development of payload management software on Python- Lead a team to integrate electronic hardware and software to air-frame

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  RAAF Museum

  • Point Cook

  • Technical Staff Volunteer

    • Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
    • Point Cook

    Assisting in the restoration of the de Havilland Mosquito.

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  RMIT University

  • RMIT Bundoora East

  • Research Assistant

    • Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
    • RMIT Bundoora East

    DSTG/DSI/RMIT collaborative research on wind sensing using a multi-rotor. Analysis of the performance of Small UAV multi-rotor propellers- Design, manufacture and flight tested a multi-rotor platform for energy harvesting research- Perform experiments using a large scale and small scale wind tunnels- Assist in using a LiDAR to map wind flow over a building to verify with existing work - Use Cobra probes to measure wind characteristics