Experience

Emblation

• United Kingdom
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Nov 2022 - Present

• Engineering Manager

  • Oct 2014 - Nov 2022

  Engineering department manager responsible for the development of a range of state-of-the-art medical microwave systems (energy sources and medical applicators).



CommScope

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal RF Engineer & Team Lead

  • Jan 2012 - Sep 2014

  Commscope is a global leader in physical layer infrastructure solutions for communications networks, including cellular antennas, coaxial and optical cable, and active RF subsystems. This role related to the design and development of Point-to-Point microwave antennas for cellular backhaul. • Reporting to the Engineering Director, held a dual role as projects team lead and technical expert. • Successfully delivered 1ft antenna product platform (nine variants 13-80GHz) against critical customer targets, resulting in high CGS savings and business protection of prime OEM customer revenue. • On-time, on-cost introduction of next generation 3ft antenna product platform, contributing multi-million dollar revenue and reinforcing market leader positioning. • Led diverse project engineering teams including electrical, mechanical, process, buyers, planners, technicians and designers. Resources spread throughout Europe, China and North America. • Fully upgraded antenna design software base resulting in dramatic improvements in simulation speed (60x improvement) and 3D capabilities (GPU processing) permitting novel antenna designs not previously possible. • Provided Marketing technical support for developed customers and new RFQs, including as technical representative at industry-leading Telecoms backhaul seminars. • Engineering interviewer and peer reviewer for direct project team and wider RF engineering team. Show less



MESL Microwave Limited

• Principal Engineer

  • Aug 2008 - Dec 2011

  MESL Microwave (now Honeywell) was a leader in the design and manufacture of specialist microwave and electronic components and sub-systems, selling into markets including Defence, Wireless Telecoms and Space. • Technical lead responsible for microwave design, test, transfer to manufacture and engineering project management for volume build microwave components and subsystems. • Led the complete product development process on over 30 commercial and military microwave products (6-38GHz) including waveguide couplers, complex filters, diplexers and microstrip power combiner systems (2kw peak, 200W ave). • Successful introduction of low cost casting designs for microwave components, resulting in the first die-cast device (diplexer) which provided a four-fold increase in product margins. • Project management involved worktask definition and activity management of cross-disciplinary teams comprising electrical and mechanical engineers, technicians, drawing office, supply chain and quality personnel. • Provided regular Sales Marketing support on bid proposals, costings and customer presentations. • Expert user of 3D electromagnetics CAD simulation and wide range of microwave test equipment. Show less



ASC Signal Corporation

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Project Engineer (Antennas)

  • Feb 2008 - Jul 2008

  Role continued following ASC Signal company formation from a private equity buy-out of Andrew's Satellite communications group. I was responsible as Key Project Lead for the project management, design and development of an ambitious product line of next generation satellite antennas (synthesised-surface reflectors plus feed systems), with projected Sales value >$4m pa. My role also included substantial Sales and Product support for existing VSAT and DBS legacy product lines with multi-million dollar value, and functional management of a team of RF Test technicians. Notable achievements include: Development of shaped reflector capability including a dual Ku/Ka-band antenna with >80% efficiency; Design of a wideband feed horn for Ka-band, Patented design of a specialist corrugated feed horn compensating for cross-polarisation induced by offset reflector geometry; Product Type Approval recognition by the major European satellite operator; Cost reduction redesign exercises delivering >$750k pa savings, Launch and control of project and documentation management systems; Introduction of Antenna noise temperature Test capability; Vendor qualification and test in Asia. Show less



Andrew Corporation

• Telecommunications
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Project Engineer (Antennas)

  • Feb 2003 - Jan 2008

  * Key Project Lead responsible for the design and development of high volume low-cost next-generation satellite antennas for consumer and enterprise broadband applications. * Close coordination with market leading customers to provide high specification products at industry-leading costs. * Lead project engineer responsible for management of timing, resources and costs, whilst leading cross-disciplinary teams across multiple time zones and business units. * Responsible for technical undertakings and preparation for Bid proposals. * Key adviser and coordinator for support of Sales and Production activities on existing product lines. * Training and workload management of a team of Test technicians. * As an early member in the development of this entrepreneurial business unit, I contributed exemplary advances to company capability through technology innovation, continuous improvement and infrastructure development. * Successful Quality Management System demonstration in two ISO 9001 external audits. * Experienced in a range of high-volume manufacturing technologies including die-casting, metal-forming and plastic injection moulding. Show less



NEC

• Malaysia
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Yield Analysis Engineer

  • 2000 - 2001

  For this role, I was selected from my university peer group for a paid sponsorship of my Masters degree, which involved the completion of a substantial thesis in addition to typical Engineering responsibilities; This involved a detailed analysis of the existing Failure Analysis implementation and management, suggestion of improvements, and implementation of appropriate countermeasures. * Worked within a team responsible for yield management and new product introduction of the state-of-the-art (0.18micron) in semiconductor memory technology from NECs Japanese design centre. * Yield maintenance and improvement was conducted within a highly complex and high-tech manufacturing environment, where duties included daily failure mode effect analysis, monitoring of on-wafer test data and management control of production lots through over 400 processing stages. * Close coordination with engineers from other functions was essential in root-cause analysis, processing of statistical control data and countermeasure implementation. * Regular and frequent presentation of key technical and control management information to site executives and engineering managers. * Held responsibility for the experimental introduction of improved efficiency processes and their eventual release to mass-production, a role which included parallel process setup and benchmarking against global sister facilities. * My team was successful in introducing a new high-density memory product, which reduced chip size and increased profitability by 80% compared to the existing model. Show less