Experience

Arqit

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Satellite Systems Engineer

  • Sep 2020 - Present



Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)

• United Kingdom
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Consultant Technical Specialist

  • Nov 2018 - Aug 2020

  - Senior technical consultant on a knowledge transfer project, as part of a flagship propulsion research and development for a national space agency (ASAL, Algeria). - Participation in and chairing of project and technical reviews, between Phase B (SRR) and the current Phase D (CDR), establishing design and working practises in line international industry standards. - Technical support for integration and testing of the preliminary propulsion system, including the identification and resolution of critical system issues. Show less



University of Southampton

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineering Consultant

  • Apr 2017 - Aug 2020

  - Requirements management at system and subsystem levels, supporting multiple industrial research projects across the development lifecycle from Phase 0 to Phase D. - Technical communication and documentation preparation including design reviews, requirements specification, AIT test plans and ICD, and journal publications. - Providing multi-disciplinary technical consultancy and for a range of industrial projects, including propulsion and payload systems, and numerical modelling.

• Space Subsystem Research Engineer

  • May 2016 - Aug 2020

  - Leading the development of several multi-disciplinary satellite propulsion research programmes, including testing and verification of components, manufacturing techniques, and materials design, in line with ECSS and international standards. Chemical systems ranging from 0.1 N to 7 kN green liquid and hybrid mono and bipropellant engines, including cryogenic propellants. Electrical systems focussing on small ionic liquid electrospray and hall-effect thrusters. - Qualification testing of industrial satellite payloads including optical sensing and quantum cryptography subsystems for CubeSats. - System-level design and optimisation, including market and mission feasibility/trade-off studies, employing concurrent engineering best practises. - Numerical modelling and validation for hardware and mission concepts (Python, ANSYS, COMSOL, MATLAB/Simulink). Show less

• Laboratory Facilities and Research Coordinator

  • Nov 2017 - Jul 2020

  - Manager of university research and teaching laboratories for astronautics AIT, providing support for research and student projects. - Definition of current and future research activities within the astronautics research group at the University of Southampton, including overseeing the state-of-the-art refit of propulsion laboratories and assisting the development of thermal vacuum facilities. - Coordinating undergraduate teaching activities, including managing postgraduate teaching staff, for propulsion and concurrent spacecraft engineering courses. Show less



pi-top

• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Internship

  • Jun 2015 - Oct 2015

  - Mechanical product design engineer (SolidWorks), using FDM for rapid prototyping. - Liaising with international suppliers to optimise design-for-manufacturability (injection moulding). - Electrical hardware testing. - Mechanical product design engineer (SolidWorks), using FDM for rapid prototyping. - Liaising with international suppliers to optimise design-for-manufacturability (injection moulding). - Electrical hardware testing.