My objective is to use my technical skills and management experience to help companies in the hi-tech industry fix, change, or improve their engineering process and development. I like to be challenged and continuously learning. I specialise in building, leading and motivating high performing technical teams through my personal management style and ability to identify and develop talent.
Key Skills
- Professional management style and engaging leadership attributes
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills with high emotional intelligence
- Exceptional organisational and planning skills, including strategic planning, SWOT analysis, risk management, environmental scanning and project management
- Excellent understanding of Agile Project Management, including successfully introducing or refining Agile based development processes in several roles in a variety of industries
- Excellent team creation, building and development skills
- Exceptional ability to identify, develop and motivate talented people
- Extensive experience across a wide variety of industries from embedded development and silicon to WebAPI and high power industrial control
- Extensive experience in designing, documenting and introducing quality firmware development and test procedures and methodologies, including Agile software development, test driven development, code branching strategies and defect management
- Extensive computer programming experience using C and assembly languages, PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL and Python scripting language, also some experience with PERL, and VBScript
- Experience with embedded systems design and development
- Impeccable document and diagram design skills
- Experience with prototype fabrication for various projects, including soldering, PCB fabrication, plastic and metal casing construction
- Instrumentation design and construction for a range of environments
Education
(MEng) – Master of Electronic Engineering, University of Hull, 2000
(DipEng) – Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental and Ecological Electronic Engineering,
(BEng, Hons) – Bachelor of Electronic Engineering, University of Hull 1994
Interests
Psychology, painting, reading, playing the guitar, playing soccer, designing logos/websites, table-tennis, golf, tramping, running, cycling, card tricks and gadgets. Built home automation projects for RFID Cat-flap, remote controlled Home Alarm, Remote Garage Door operation, Beer Fermenter controller, PID controlled Coffee Roaster, Large Screen Cricket Score Board, all using ARDUINO and RASPBERRY PI and peripherals.
Work History – Summary
Principal Continual Services Improvement Manager – Computer Concepts Ltd
Strategy (Nov 2018 – ongoing)
Business Development Manager – Virscient Ltd
Sales Department (May 2018 – ongoing)
Director of Engineering – ARANZ Medical
Engineering Department (May 2017 – Mar 2018)
Controls Team Leader – Cavotec MoorMaster
Controls Department (Sep 2014 – Apr 2017)
Senior Manager – Samsung (Cambridge UK)
Radio Firmware Group (Jun 2011 – Apr 2014)
Principle Engineer – WhisperTech Ltd
Electronics and Software Department (Jan 2009 – Apr 2011)
Software Department Manager – Allied Telesis
Software Department (Mar 2006 – Dec 2008)
Software Team Manager – Allied Telesis
Software Department (Dec 2004 – Mar 2006)
Senior Software Engineer/Software Group Leader – Allied Telesis
Software Department (Jul 2001 – Dec 2004)
Research & Development Engineer – Lincoln Ventures
Lincoln Technology Group (Feb 1996 – Apr 2001)