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194435550
TALENT PREVIEW
Engineering Manager / Head of Hardware / Head of HW & SW
Seeking new opportunities
LOCATION
Birmingham
EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Permanent
Career Timeline
I
Automotive Tier 1 supplier - delivering Customer Applications
Full lifecycle Electronics Design, developing customer-specific applications based on the core product, then testing, and taking them to production.
II
Automotive Tier 1 supplier - Core Product / Platform development
Proving out ideas and theories for the product roadmap, developing new architectures, defining the software requirements and how it should cooperate with the hardware, defining system & safety requirements, collaborating with component suppliers to influence future component specifications. Produced custom microcontroller driver set for a BMW specific platform.
III​
Medical device startup
A role encompassing Electronics Design, Project Planning/Management and Supplier & Component Sourcing too. Designed a new power electronics module with all the electronics & the software to control it.
IV
Industrial Systems (HV) business
Joined as the Engineering Manager, inheriting a department in crisis and an out-of-date product line with no design documentation, and turned it around to be fully operational and self-sufficient in under 18 months. Conducted a detailed design audit, designed a new architecture to take the business from having 5 platforms to a single platform with the capabilities of all 5 offering reduced design maintenance burdens, improved customer satisfaction & increased profits. Introduced IP governance, brought testing function in-house.
Technical Expertise
Electronics Architecture and Design (General & Power Electronics)
Embedded Software and Control Algorithm
Microcontroller & Firmware Architectures
Test Development
Functional Safety compliance
Product Roadmap Definition
Holds 3 Patents relating to Power Electronics & Motor Drive Circuits.
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194435550