Tom Deakin
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Rodney Stewart
I've worked with Tom for a number of years and he has always to been a highly dependable and extremely diligent engineer and leader. One of our company's main go-to senior engineers with very strong technical and interpersonal toolkits.
Mujtaba Mohiyuddin
I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Tom for over four years and it has been an absolute honor working with Tom. Tom is a catalyst for exceptionally high quality engineering output, not just his own work, but his aura motivates others he works with to bring their best to the table. At Seeing Machines, I was part of Tom's team that developed a Telematics device that is a Computer Vision powered Driver Monitoring System, capable of detecting Driver Fatigue/Distraction and alerting drivers in Real Time - the complexity in this system is ubiquitous and Tom has been the Lead Systems Architect and one of the most important people in ensuring this product’s continued success, engaging Engineering, Product Management, Operations and Program Management organizations. Engineering design workshops Tom conducted would always result in excellent dialogue and clear design decisions. Documents or artifacts that Tom generated would always be top notch, his extraordinary engineering mindset helps design functionally safe systems that push the capability to its limit while continuing to be technically sound. Tom is a Systems Engineering expert and has a remarkable ability to help others understand the big picture, and revives engineering system design principles that are usually forgotten or overlooked, working with Tom has been one of the most rewarding professional experiences I have had so far in my career. I very strongly recommend Tom as a leader, as a teammate and truly believe that any organization would be lucky to have Tom work for them and care for their product/service. Please feel free to reach out to me should there be any questions about Tom or this recommendation.
Rodney Stewart
I've worked with Tom for a number of years and he has always to been a highly dependable and extremely diligent engineer and leader. One of our company's main go-to senior engineers with very strong technical and interpersonal toolkits.
Mujtaba Mohiyuddin
I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Tom for over four years and it has been an absolute honor working with Tom. Tom is a catalyst for exceptionally high quality engineering output, not just his own work, but his aura motivates others he works with to bring their best to the table. At Seeing Machines, I was part of Tom's team that developed a Telematics device that is a Computer Vision powered Driver Monitoring System, capable of detecting Driver Fatigue/Distraction and alerting drivers in Real Time - the complexity in this system is ubiquitous and Tom has been the Lead Systems Architect and one of the most important people in ensuring this product’s continued success, engaging Engineering, Product Management, Operations and Program Management organizations. Engineering design workshops Tom conducted would always result in excellent dialogue and clear design decisions. Documents or artifacts that Tom generated would always be top notch, his extraordinary engineering mindset helps design functionally safe systems that push the capability to its limit while continuing to be technically sound. Tom is a Systems Engineering expert and has a remarkable ability to help others understand the big picture, and revives engineering system design principles that are usually forgotten or overlooked, working with Tom has been one of the most rewarding professional experiences I have had so far in my career. I very strongly recommend Tom as a leader, as a teammate and truly believe that any organization would be lucky to have Tom work for them and care for their product/service. Please feel free to reach out to me should there be any questions about Tom or this recommendation.
Rodney Stewart
I've worked with Tom for a number of years and he has always to been a highly dependable and extremely diligent engineer and leader. One of our company's main go-to senior engineers with very strong technical and interpersonal toolkits.
Mujtaba Mohiyuddin
I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Tom for over four years and it has been an absolute honor working with Tom. Tom is a catalyst for exceptionally high quality engineering output, not just his own work, but his aura motivates others he works with to bring their best to the table. At Seeing Machines, I was part of Tom's team that developed a Telematics device that is a Computer Vision powered Driver Monitoring System, capable of detecting Driver Fatigue/Distraction and alerting drivers in Real Time - the complexity in this system is ubiquitous and Tom has been the Lead Systems Architect and one of the most important people in ensuring this product’s continued success, engaging Engineering, Product Management, Operations and Program Management organizations. Engineering design workshops Tom conducted would always result in excellent dialogue and clear design decisions. Documents or artifacts that Tom generated would always be top notch, his extraordinary engineering mindset helps design functionally safe systems that push the capability to its limit while continuing to be technically sound. Tom is a Systems Engineering expert and has a remarkable ability to help others understand the big picture, and revives engineering system design principles that are usually forgotten or overlooked, working with Tom has been one of the most rewarding professional experiences I have had so far in my career. I very strongly recommend Tom as a leader, as a teammate and truly believe that any organization would be lucky to have Tom work for them and care for their product/service. Please feel free to reach out to me should there be any questions about Tom or this recommendation.
Rodney Stewart
I've worked with Tom for a number of years and he has always to been a highly dependable and extremely diligent engineer and leader. One of our company's main go-to senior engineers with very strong technical and interpersonal toolkits.
Mujtaba Mohiyuddin
I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Tom for over four years and it has been an absolute honor working with Tom. Tom is a catalyst for exceptionally high quality engineering output, not just his own work, but his aura motivates others he works with to bring their best to the table. At Seeing Machines, I was part of Tom's team that developed a Telematics device that is a Computer Vision powered Driver Monitoring System, capable of detecting Driver Fatigue/Distraction and alerting drivers in Real Time - the complexity in this system is ubiquitous and Tom has been the Lead Systems Architect and one of the most important people in ensuring this product’s continued success, engaging Engineering, Product Management, Operations and Program Management organizations. Engineering design workshops Tom conducted would always result in excellent dialogue and clear design decisions. Documents or artifacts that Tom generated would always be top notch, his extraordinary engineering mindset helps design functionally safe systems that push the capability to its limit while continuing to be technically sound. Tom is a Systems Engineering expert and has a remarkable ability to help others understand the big picture, and revives engineering system design principles that are usually forgotten or overlooked, working with Tom has been one of the most rewarding professional experiences I have had so far in my career. I very strongly recommend Tom as a leader, as a teammate and truly believe that any organization would be lucky to have Tom work for them and care for their product/service. Please feel free to reach out to me should there be any questions about Tom or this recommendation.
Experience
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Inventives Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Systems Architect
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Sep 2022 - Present
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Product System Archtiect
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Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
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Seeing Machines
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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Product Architect
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Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Oversaw all technical engineering teams and activities for three product lines. Worked with customers and product management teams to craft initial product requirements and release plans. Led interdisciplinary engineering teams through requirements elicitation, review, decomposition, approval, management, maintenance and cost-reduction activities. Developed and distributed reference architectures to team leads to drive the product vision to market. Conducted architecture workshops to establish effort and feasibility estimates of integration of cutting edge technologies and products. Integral in establishing Systems Engineering department and process at Seeing Machines.
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Technical Team Lead
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Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Led and managed Agile development activities across interdisciplinary engineering teams. Managed, normalized and reported on development to company leadership. Aligned distinct product baselines into shared and common requirements and features (~80%) and product specific features, integrations and requirements (~20%) to reduce operational costs. Managed a staggered delivery schedule with alternating releases approximately 3 months apart. Established and oversaw inclusion of engineering resources into a tiered field support and triage process. Led technical evaluations for incorporating GDPR requirements in areas of security, privacy and continuous integration.
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Lead Test Engineer
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Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
Led and managed test resources for two separate products. Led migration from document based to web based test case management. Expanded test coverage from ~20% to ~85%. Reduced reported critical field issues from an average of eight per release to two per release. Established initial deployment of Software In the Loop (SIL) Test systems. Led company initiative to pilot standardized Test Engineering practices. Advised and worked with company leadership to establish and advance Process Maturity Initiative for ISO9001 certifications for Test Engineering.. Oversaw expansion of approximately 2000 unit install base to approximately 40,000 unit install base.
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Test Engineer
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Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
Worked on an aftermarket Driver Fatigue and Distraction management system that compiled video and metadata records of dangerous driving and sent data to a real-time analysis system in the cloud. Established a pilot program for test engineering as a dedicated discipline. Selected as initial Process Owner for Test Engineering. Led a Product Maturity Initiative to improve Product Quality which saw a reduction of Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) rate from ~250% to ~7%.
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Pima County Sheriff's Department
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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IT System Engineer
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Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributed to management of Pima County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD) network and servers. Provided LAN, WAN and WiFi access to all PCSD Departments, maintained Spillman Databases for storage of Pima County Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) data. Worked toward architecting web-based, SOA solutions for PCSD to provide web based access for the public, external agencies, and internal applications. Solely responsible for seven Red Hat systems (virtual and physical) providing OS updates, security updates and internal application logging upgrades. Provided Bash scripting for secure network data transfers for internal and external applications.
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Grupo
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Tucson, AZ
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Business Analyst
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Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Worked with Pima County Financiers to elicit, document and develop financial reporting requirements. Translated requirements to formulas to be encoded in software and integrated into the Crystal Reports platform. Conducted tests to verify requirements. Worked with Pima County Financiers to elicit, document and develop financial reporting requirements. Translated requirements to formulas to be encoded in software and integrated into the Crystal Reports platform. Conducted tests to verify requirements.
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BAE Systems
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United Kingdom
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Systems Engineer
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Jun 2011 - Oct 2013
Worked on a family of web based imagery, text, and signal intelligence analysis applications deployed on eight to sixty Red Hat Linux Virtual Machines that integrated various external databases, automated motion imagery movement detection algorithms, and interfaced with highly specialized analysis applications. Systems featured reachback from San Diego to field deployments in Afghanistan and Bahrain. Worked on requirements capture, refinement and management and performed product testing and install, and conducted user training and SOP development. Deployed as embedded engineer for Government testing and deployment phases.
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Systems Engineering Trainer
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Dec 2010 - Jun 2011
Assisted Vice President of Capability and Competency to identify competency deficiencies in the existing company processes, planned out white papers and authored process documents for the company.. I focused primarily on identifying how to run development activities under an Agile Methodology while executing on a project structured in a Traditional DoD Waterfall Infrastructure. We built training materials to assist engineers in understanding what gates and activities are required over the project to deliver to the Government Customers. We also spent time reviewing, updating and building out new business capture packages (e.g., Draft Enterprise Architecture artifacts) and white papers that described Joint Enterprise Cyber-Kinetic Warfare planning systems and presented them to US Cyber Command, receiving promising responses and continued collaboration in defining these future capabilities
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System Engineer
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Jul 2008 - Dec 2010
Worked on a stand-alone Windows application used to graphically plot, plan, evaluate and validate the flight plan for the Global Hawk Unmanned Air Vehicle. Responsible for authoring and maintaining requirements during design phase and moved to test case authoring and management in the test phase. Supported customer representatives in advising on workarounds to field issues.
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Education
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University of Arizona
Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering