Experience

Global Space Consulting Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO and owner

  • Mar 2009 - Present

  Independent consulting company providing engineering and procurement monitoring services to customers and clients operating in the following business sectors: Space – Satellite and Launch Vehicle procurement, Launch & in-orbit insurance. Satellite ground stations – Full life cycle procurement and acquisition monitoring Aviation – Cabin In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) and Connectivity Commodity Management Commercial Management – Full commercial and contract management (all business sectors) Maintenance Engineering – Logistical analysis and support solutions (all business sectors) consulting www.globalspaceconsulting.com Show less



Telesat Canada

• Senior consultant satellite platform & launch vehicle integration

  • Mar 2006 - Mar 2009

  Consulting services to the international space industry including space insurance sector. Worked on the following satellite consulting & monitoring contracts:- Bus platform engineer - Vinasat-1 (Lockheed A2100 S/C) Launch Vehicle Manager - Terrestar1 (Loral LS1300 S/C on Ariane 5 ECA) Platform/antenna engineering - Telstar11N (Loral FS1300 S/C) Bus platform engineer - Nimiq5 (Loral FS1300 S/C) Platform contract negotiations - Nilesat201 (Nilesat) Platform engineer - Nimiq4 (Astrium E3000 S/C) Antenna engineering - ETRI (Koreasat) System testing - THOR2 (Orbital Star-2 S/C) System testing - PalapaD (ThalesAleniaSpace 4000B2 S/C) Supporting space insurance underwriting - BRIT insurance Show less



Inmarsat

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Inmarsat4 Mechanical Systems Engineering Manager

  • Feb 2000 - Mar 2006

  Customer on-site resident & manager in Toulouse to monitor the procurement of three Inmarsat4 E3000 Astrium satellites. Specifically manager of team of sub system engineers responsible for Mechanical, Structure, Thermal, Mechanisms & Launch Vehicle sub-systems. Managed the qualification and procurement of the following equipments for use on Inmarsat4:- (i) Large 9m L-band unfurlable mesh reflector from TRW (ii) Russian loop heat pipes from Swales (iii) Plasma propulsion Thruster Module Assembly (TMA) unit using Russian SPT-100 Hall effect plasma thruster (iv) Heavy version of the E3000 structure. Other non Inmarsat4 procurement work experience included RFP generation and evaluation of next generation satellite bid proposals and supporting LEOP operations. Show less



University College London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Mechanical Engineering/Senior Research Fellow

  • Sep 1997 - Feb 2000

  Line Manager within UCL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Responsible for a large team of multi-disciplined staff involved with design, CAD, manufacture, environmental test, clean-room assembly and development of flight space telescopes & space science instruments, detectors and sub-systems for various ESA/NASA spacecraft missions in a variety of orbits including low earth orbit (LEO), Sun-synchronous and highly oliptical orbits. Reporting to me were four line managers responsible for Design offfice, Manufacturing, Cleanroom & Environmental Test and R&D Laboratory. Space science satellite programs included Solar-B (Hinode) - EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), XMM-Newton optical Monitor (ESA space telescope), ESA Cluster-2 PEACE, ESA Herschel SPIRE & Stereo Camera System for Beagle-2 Mars Lander. Part time freelance space engineering consultant – providing consultancy services to space industry. Clients included ESA, Inmarsat & Oxford Instruments Show less



Airbus Defence and Space

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Interface Manager / Project Management Team

  • Apr 1997 - Sep 1997

  Intelsat KTV Interface Manager for multi-site satellite engineering activities across Europe. Part of the systems project management team reporting to the Intelsat KTV (Eurostar 2000+) program Manager. Responsible for coordinating technical interface exchange and resolving project management issues Astrium E2000+ satellite. Intelsat KTV Interface Manager for multi-site satellite engineering activities across Europe. Part of the systems project management team reporting to the Intelsat KTV (Eurostar 2000+) program Manager. Responsible for coordinating technical interface exchange and resolving project management issues Astrium E2000+ satellite.

• Principal Spacecraft Engineer

  • Sep 1989 - Apr 1997

  Inmarsat customer on-site resident in UK & USA monitoring four Inmarsat2 satellites (E1000 built by British Aerospace/ Hughes Aircraft company) & five Inmarsat3 satellites (built by Lockheed/Marconi Space Systems). Responsible for mechanical, structure, thermal and mechanism sub-systems plus satellite AIT activity. Launch vehicel interfacing engineering, Launch campaign and LEOP support. Supporting generation of technical proposals and bid evaluations for next generation satellites. Member of Inmarsat space segment conceptual development team for the ICO constellation of Low earth orbit communication satellites. Show less



Electrowatt Engineering Services (UK) Ltd

• Senior Consulting Engineer

  • Apr 1988 - Sep 1989

  Consultancy engineer to the defence and international nuclear power industries. Probabilistic risk assessment and fault tree analysis with emphasis on structural analysis, detail stressing, linear & non linear finite element modeling/analysis and fracture mechanics. Consultancy engineer to the defence and international nuclear power industries. Probabilistic risk assessment and fault tree analysis with emphasis on structural analysis, detail stressing, linear & non linear finite element modeling/analysis and fracture mechanics.



British Aerospace Space & Communications Ltd (later Astrium later Airbus Defence and Space)

• Design Office Manager, launch vehicles & antennas

  • Apr 1982 - Apr 1988

  Manager of launch vehicle & antenna design & stress engineering team reporting to Chief Stress Engineer. Responsibilities for structural design, manufacturing support & test of satellite antennas & launch vehicle structures, mechanisms and electronic boxes with sigining authority for the integrity of flight hardware. Contributed to the in-house development and expertise in the design, analysis, manufacture & non destructive test (NDT) of composite materials technology. Work package manager for a composite technology development and qualification program. design Manager for the design & qualification of Ariane4 SPELDA dual launch structure. Other programmes include SPELDA production contract, Ariane4 release gear, Ariane5 proposal studies and Olympus (ESA Ka/Ku band GEO comms spacecraft). Show less



Transport for London

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager of structural design & test group

  • Feb 1978 - Apr 1982

  Reporting to the head of Dynamics department my responsibilities were for structural design, stress analysis and test of road and rail vehicles. Developed in-house expertise for vehicle fatigue analysis and test. Following the Moorgate train disaster worked on the design and test of new energy absorbing train buffers for use in underground terminal stations. Reporting to the head of Dynamics department my responsibilities were for structural design, stress analysis and test of road and rail vehicles. Developed in-house expertise for vehicle fatigue analysis and test. Following the Moorgate train disaster worked on the design and test of new energy absorbing train buffers for use in underground terminal stations.



Hawker Siddley Dynamics Ltd (later British Aerospace, later Astrium, later Airbus Defene and Space)

• Dynamics Engineer

  • Jul 1976 - Feb 1978

  Mathematical modelling & computer simulation of various air and sea launched MOD and Admiralty defence missile contracts, including Sea Eagle and Mark 24 torpedo / submarine studies. Mathematical modelling & computer simulation of various air and sea launched MOD and Admiralty defence missile contracts, including Sea Eagle and Mark 24 torpedo / submarine studies.



APV Ltd

• China
• Construction

• Engineering Apprentice

  • Aug 1970 - Jul 1976

  6 year general engineering apprenticeship including machine shop, tool room, fitting, fabrication & welding, drawing office, foundry, metallurgical & mechanical test laboratories 6 year general engineering apprenticeship including machine shop, tool room, fitting, fabrication & welding, drawing office, foundry, metallurgical & mechanical test laboratories