Experience

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  Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL)

  • Washington, UK

  • Electrical Engineer

    • Jan 2023 - Present
    • Washington, UK

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  Self-employed

  • Sunderland, England, United Kingdom

  • Self Employed

    • Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
    • Sunderland, England, United Kingdom

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  Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

  • Blyth, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior HV Engineer at ORE Catapult

    • Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
    • Blyth, England, United Kingdom

    Providing technical leadership and support on HV testing of offshore cables and accessories to IEC/CIGRE.

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  JDR Cable Systems

  • United Kingdom
  • Oil and Gas
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Service Support Engineer - Offshore windfarms / floating windfarms

    • Sep 2019 - Mar 2021

    • Package and/or draft new guiding Procedures for Service workscopes in the field.• Client focal point for all Field Service Technical requests. • Provide front end Technical support to customer and Technicians. Provide live offshore technical support on OWF installations. • Provide formal 24/7 support as per rota and on-call policy.• Co-ordinate Technician travel & accommodation utilising Service Administration support. • Support Global Services training and competency plans including the provision of internal training needs including RTS, VLF and DAC sets and PD analysis.• Ensure that all paperwork regarding each project is completed in a timely manner including daily site reports, test reports, FIRF, etc.• Support development and delivery of monthly KPI’s aligned to the Global Services business.

  • Development Engineer - Electrical

    • May 2014 - Sep 2019

    Responsible for development of subsea power cables for the renewables energy and offshore markets. Specialising in Partial Discharge measurement methods, project planning, DoE and liaison with suppliers on test programmes to qualify cables for worldwide approval under CIGRE and IEC standards. Hands-on approach to day-to-day project management including actively participating in various qualification tests. Involvement in factory continuous improvement to reduce 'background' PD and EM issues to realise a more stable environment to measure PD accurately.

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  Smith Electric Vehicles

  • Washington, UK

  • Electrical Design Engineer

    • Jun 2011 - May 2014
    • Washington, UK

    Vehicle system design with embedded EMC-proofing. Harness design and modification with VeSys, 3D design and modification, Schematic design and modification, production engineering and service support. Product design and improvement. BOM generation. Specification, use and analysis of in-house EMC equipment for successful vehicle platform EMC passes. Analysis of EMC test-house data, application and iteration of EMC counter-measures for Immunity and Emissions. Data collection, presentation and analysis using on-board diagnostics, CAN, Telemetry and fault-finding techniques for root-cause resolution. Design, training and verification of training programmes for apprentices and service engineers, including Telemetry diagnostics. Design, training and verification of training programmes for trainers. Generation and adaptation of Engineering Design Specification documents for EMC and Protection strategies.Deep analysis of battery data, EMC recordings, CAN data, vehicle data and Telemetry data to generate SPC, root-cause elimination and End-Of-Line pre-controls.

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  South Tyneside College

  • Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  • Lecturer

    • 2007 - 2011
    • Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Lecture in electrical and mechanical engineering to compulsory education, FE and HE.

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  Redcar and Cleveland College

  • Redcar

  • Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

    • 2006 - 2008
    • Redcar

    Electrical lecturing to compulsory education, FE.

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  TTE training Teesside

  • Electrical trainer

    • Sep 2003 - Jul 2004

    Trained AMA's in Engineering practices - electrical, installation, basic mechanical, college studies.

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  LG Philips Displays Washington

  • Design Engineer / Project Engineer

    • Oct 1995 - Aug 2003

    Design, modify Deflection Units for TVs. Support production and customers as lead expert in cross-functional teams. Research on improving picture quality through improvements in DY technology.

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  Onwa Electronics

  • Production Engineer

    • 1993 - Oct 1995

    Process improvements, fault finding on electronics, root cause analysis of defects in all parts of TV manufacture, testing of finished TV's for the quality programme.

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  Crabtree of Gateshead

  • Electrical Draughtsman

    • 1993 - 1993

    Design and modification of Morgan paper printing presses, provided technical assistance and training during testing and for spares and service personnel, rationalized electrical equipment and liaised with suppliers.Specified, developed and modified electrical systems for paper printing presses and generated electrical test procedures.

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  Swan Hunter Engineering

  • Electrical Designer

    • 1989 - 1993

    Designed and modified a wide range of electrical systems, from C&I to ventilation to 32kV, in association with all other ship systems, to N.E.S. and MOD (N) regulations. Electrically checked plant and equipment aboard MOD vessels for safety and correct operation. Used IBM 5080 CAD and drawing boards.

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  Coles Cranes / Grove Cranes

  • Apprentice / R&D Electrician / Electrical Designer

    • 1980 - 1989

    Fully apprenticeship served. In R&D I then prepared vehicles for VTAC and MIRA regulatory bodies. Prepared and installed strain gauge test networks for crane destructive tests. Dealt with new product generation, prototype assembly and development, testing, analysis and evaluation producing aural reports. Then moved to Design to design and modify full crane electrical systems, incorporating: control panels, harnesses, control systems, schematics, wiring diagrams, mounting requirements and interfaces with hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems all to the relevant British Standards.