Experience

Optimal Audio
• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Engineering Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present

Martin Audio Ltd
• United Kingdom
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Engineering Manager, Commercial Audio

  • Apr 2019 - Present


Escapages, publishers of interactive escape room books.

• Co-Founder

  • May 2019 - Present

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HARMAN International

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• NPI Engineering Manager

  • 2014 - Mar 2019

  As new product engineering manager for offshore development for the Soundcraft brand, I am responsible for ODM development of small to medium analogue live sound consoles. Taking product requirements from product management and working with project managers and international commodity managers, my duties include drawing up the project charter and statement of work, technology selection, specification and reference design material preparation, business case preparation including initial design proposal and costing, RFQ negotiations, reviewing contract manufacturer proposals in detail and recommending contract manufacturing partners to the management team. Through detailed technical project management I have responsibility for the industrial design, all stages of detailed design, gatekeeping the design validation including consulting on the test schedule and meeting cost engineering KPIs to bring products to mass production. Further consultation on marketing materials for the user guide and service guides. Widely travelled to work cross-culturally with European and US engineering teams and in China for engineering and manufacturing. Successfully released to market Soundcraft Signature and MTK series and Notepad series analogue consoles with streaming USB audio to very competitive cost and margin targets, maintaining the high audio standard the brand demands. Wide experience including digital circuit design, schematic capture and circuit board layout in a variety of cad packages, board bring-up testing, bootloader architecture and coding in C++, control surface layouts and production-ready drawings in AI, 3d concept work in Sketchup, compliance testing for EMC. I have successfully registered a number of design and invention patents most of which have been awarded. Show less



Soundcraft

• United Kingdom
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Hardware Engineering Manager

  • 2010 - 2014

  As hardware engineering manager, I was responsible for the multi-disciplined hardware development team in the UK delivering three families of digital mixing consoles and their supporting audio interface products. I worked effectively with product management to define and specify the products, the product review board to establish timescales and cost targets and manufacturing in the UK and offshore to bring the Si Compact, Si Expression and Si Performer digital console products along with their supporting I/O accessories to market.I recruited a graduate engineer and an industrial designer to my team and for each engineering discipline I established a new development pipeline with detailed and accurate specification capture, process control of stage-gate review and signoff documentation to improve timely and accurate product delivery. Through my wide experience of product engineering, I coached each team member to lead and work effectively with offshore remote teams in their engineering area. Show less

• Project Leader

  • 2007 - 2010

  Working with all departments, I was brought in to recover the completion and delivery of the Si series of consoles, the first major development of a medium scale digital console for Soundcraft. I established effective use of Bugzilla to track through software release issues and garnered the team for better quality control, acceptance and regression testing and a production software release.Through regular cross-functional meetings and highly visible communication I was successful in removing all the blocking issues to ship a series of product releases which earned me an internal quarterly award. Show less



BSS Audio

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Hardware Engineering Manager

  • 1996 - 2007

  My grounding in multi-disciplined engineering was established in the years at BSS Audio working my way up from technician through Design Engineer to Engineering Manager. I worked at all stages of product development from concept to manufacturing, developing skills in user interface design, embedded digital electronics, C++ for driver level and communication subsystems. My key strength was cross-departmental communication working with marketing, engineering, purchasing, manufacturing and test. I was instrumental in product definition, styling and embedded design of the Soundweb original and Soundweb London family of networked DSP audio processors and wall-controllers. Show less