Experience

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  Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

  • South Africa
  • Research
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Research Group Leader

    • Aug 2023 - Present

    My responsibilities include driving the strategic impact within the Defence and Security Industry and the South African Special Operations service areas by means of:• Research• Developmental engineering• Transferring of technologies• Manufacturing and integration of complete solutions• Through-life maintenance, technical and logistic support as well as disposalThis is to achieve the outcomes as appropriate to the CSIR Defence and Security Cluster and Impact Area mandate and Strategy. I am responsible for provision of strategic and technical leadership to the Research Group (Researchers, engineers and technicians with specialised domain expertise in specific areas of competence), including human capital development, facilities upkeep and improvement as well as financial management and business development in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

  • Design/Project Engineer

    • Apr 2008 - Dec 2023

    • Design of specialised diving and submarine related equipment and systems.This comprises the complete development and production cycle: User requirement statement, concept generation, prototype manufacturing and evaluation, detail design, manufacturing for production, delivery, installation, testing, integration and documentation.• Engineering consultation to clients for specialised naval systems.• Financial and contract management of a complex multi-year project.This includes integrating and steering the client consortium, as well as sub-contractors on all matters regarding technical, financial and contractual.• Project management and team leader of a multi-disciplined group of engineers that does pioneering development work for the maritime defence industry.The disciplines involved include electronic, mechanical, mechatronic, logistic and systems engineering.• Conduct and co-ordinate test and acceptance trials for naval systems. This includes the generation of all acceptance test procedures and technical reports.• Perform integration and quality assurance on work completed for naval systems.• Provide design guidance for peers and juniors.

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  South African Navy

  • Simon's Town, South Africa

  • Mechanical Engineer

    • Dec 2002 - Mar 2008
    • Simon's Town, South Africa

    • Preliminary investigations for defects recorded for seagoing vessels• Feasibility studies for proposed engineering solutions• Concept and detail design• Practical training in naval mechanical workshop• Quality assurance and acceptance testing• Specialised military and commercial diving skills (surveys & inspections, underwater cutting, welding & dredging, hydraulic & pneumatic power tools, operate decompression chambers).