Experience

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  Blackfish Engineering Design Ltd

  • Bristol

  • Director & Mechanical Engineer

    • May 2016 - Present
    • Bristol

    Blackfish Engineering Design offers engineering design and product development design services for offshore renewables and sustainable solutions. We have significant experience of engineering product development in wave, tidal and wind devices, as well as bespoke solutions for O&M, test rigs and support equipment. We offer services covering:- Mechancial and structural design and engineering - FE analysis, numerical modelling- Naval Architecture- Detailed design and manufacturing drawings- Commissioning, testing, validation and verification

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  Tidal Generation Limited

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Lead Engineer

    • 2007 - Present
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Lead mechanical design engineer for tidal stream turbines. I have been closely involved in the successful design and deployment of 2 tidal stream turbines, generating over 1.5 GWhrs to the grid. I have been the Lead Engineer for a number of subsystems on these turbines, responsible for the technical design and compliance to requirements, as well as budget planning, resource management, programme planning and work package integration with other subsystems. I have build excellent working relationships with many suppliers, Universities, Academic Institutions and certification bodies in order to be able to deliver compliant Areas of expertise include: composites blades, main and planetary gearboxes, rolling element and plain bearings, electric motor control, corrosion, lubrication, instrumentation, metal fabrication, steel structures, hydraulics, actuators, manufacturing, build and test.

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  Rolls-Royce

  • United Kingdom
  • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manufacturing Engineer

    • 2003 - 2007

    I was the manufactiring engineer responsible for the technical and quality aspects of the machining process for 2 nozzle guide vanes. My day to day activities included dealing with arising quality issues and non-conformance, whilst implementing longer term process improvement.I gained a deep understaninding of all the machining processes involved, including brazing, grinding, milling, EDM, thermal barrier coatings, laser drilling, inspection, NDT, as well as a good working knowledge of investment casting.I gained Six Sigma Green Belt Accreditation through 2 process improvement projects:- EJ200 NGV EDM film cooling hole scrap reduction - massive scrap reduction through EDM process improvement, tooling redesign and shop floor staff involvement, - TP400 mount rail deflection due to grinding processes. Elimination of deflection through the re-design of tooling, grinding process parameters and heat treatment

  • Aerothermal Engineer

    • 1999 - 2003

    Aerothermal design of gas turbine nozzle guide vanes and rotor blade liner segments:- Internal cooling analysis using proprietary codes- 3-DThermal Finite Element modelling- 3-D CFD modelling (FLUENT)- Scale model flow testing- Supervision of wind tunnel testing for blade film cooling (Berlin)- Development of FE capability of thermal modelling of liner segments (Berlin)