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Nov
2004 - to July 2005: [snip]
Senior Technical Product Development Manager:
I had overall responsibility for the technical
development & management of the company’s range of next
generation AMP NetConnect products, including Gigabit
Switch, Power over Ethernet (PoE), Network Port Analyzer
technology and delivering multiple technical projects on
time and budget to a world-wide market. This role also
required: -
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Day-to-day management of three independent project
teams, consisting of hardware (PIC, ARM, 186, AVR) and
software (Greenhills C, VB6, SourceSafe, HTML, SNMP,
TCP/IP etc) development engineers, team leaders and
project managers, throughout the entire product
lifecycle. Each project had a typical development budget
of between c£500k - c£1.2m, over 12/24 month periods.
Also, ongoing supervision of VB6 project migration to
VB.Net platform.
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Formal technical, peer and staff reviews, appraisals and
recruitment, together with maintaining Quality, EMC,
Safety and Reliability standards (CE, UL, CSA, CTick &
FCC etc) compliance and ITIL fundamentals, together with
the creation of detailed planning strategies, new
product suggestions and (FMEA) risk assessment for
senior management presentations.
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I successfully implemented a number of formal measures
and procedures to deal with frequent enquiries from
external corporate divisions regarding product delivery
schedules, technical specification agreements, technical
& sales documentation, unforeseen problems and
occasional complaints etc. This resulted in a much more
professional and structured approach, to the benefit of
all parties.
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I was responsible for detailed planning and
implementation of more efficient working layout for 26
development engineers and specialists, including
improved seating/lighting arrangements and the complete
operational restructuring of the main development
laboratory. This lead to a significant improvement in
working environment and overall efficiency.
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I identified a major prototype EMC/Safety compliance
testing bottleneck and successfully negotiated the
purchase, installation and subsequent commissioning of
large (snip) EMC chamber and associated
test equipment. This directly improved product
throughput by c30%.
2000 – Nov 2004: [snip]
Principal Engineer:
Overall responsibility for all aspects of technical
product development regarding the company’s unique and
successful electronic tunnel lighting monitoring &
control systems including:-
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Day-to-day budget and project control (MS-Project,
MS-Office) and all technical documentation.
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Business development, client liaison and training of the
company’s technical and sales personnel.
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Ensuring that new product development or upgrades met
with client requirements and expected quality standards,
throughout the prototype and pre/post production stages,
at or below cost and schedule targets.
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Hands-on development & management of HPS (High Pressure
Sodium) electronic lighting ballast project for volume
highway and tunnel lighting applications worldwide. This
development included both ‘dumb’ (no communication
capability) and ‘Smart’ (capable of remote control and
monitoring communication, via mains-borne, RS485 or
radio) electronic ballasts units. The technical
objective was to engineer an inexpensive, robust product
capable of handling lamp loads >400watt. This proved
very difficult to achieve due to the rogue physics and
harsh operating environment etc of a typical 400w HPS
lamp. Also responsible for investigating market
opportunities, competitor products and latest technical
developments.
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Hosted numerous presentations and Q&A sessions to
government client in Singapore, which resulted in the
company being offered its largest ever tunnel lighting
control contract (c£2.8m+) to provide intelligent
lighting control systems for the new 9Km KPE tunnel on
behalf of the Land Transport Agency (LTA - in
Singapore). This was against fierce competition from
established market leaders in that region over a
two-year period.
This bespoke system design included technical
interfacing to main client SCADA system and third party
equipment and ancillary systems e.g. true dynamic
photometer lighting stage control, Optical Fibre WAN,
Ethernet, Modbus, OPC and multi-site satellite telemetry
etc.
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Able to overcome objections from potential clients to
use new technology lighting control systems in an
established road tunnel environment.
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Successfully motivated entire project team to meet
exceedingly tight timescales and deliver finished
product on time and to cost expectation.
1997 – 2000: [snip]
Senior Design Engineer:
Responsible for day-to-day product development decisions
and implementation for company’s successful lighting
control system product range including:-
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Budget & project milestone performance.
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EMC/Safety compliance and documentation etc.
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Exploring business development opportunities in Far East
e.g. South Korea, Hong Kong & Singapore.
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Managed development team which was awarded a Distinction
in National Lighting Design Awards 2000 for Caernarfon
tunnel project, North Wales.
1991 – 1997: [snip]
Systems Engineer:
Responsible for design of electronic adaptations to the
company’s established range of electrical safety ‘fuse
disconnect’ products for the street lighting industry
and evolved day-to-day development team management
structures, which included multi-skilled engineers and
specialists.
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Development team was outright winner of prestigious
Health & Safety Awards Exhibition and Institute of
Occupational Safety 1995 – General Safety category.
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Later responsible for original concept and hands-on
development of highway and tunnel lighting control
systems for both Power Line Carrier (PLC) & RS-485
data-bus communication methodologies.
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This system comprised of an intelligent lighting control
unit (PIC, embedded C) fitted within each and every
luminaire and a comprehensive PC front-end (VB6, SQL,
MS-Access database etc).
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Technical development and testing using Microsoft Visual
Studio and embedded C, in conjunction with proprietary
Compilers and Emulators. Comprehensive use of CAD (Protel)
& MS-Office tools for component inventory, circuit & PCB
schematics, technical documentation, EMC/Safety
compliance reporting etc.
1987 – 1991: [snip]
Sole Proprietor:
Proprietor of Industrial Process Control firm offering
SCADA system design & programming services. Also design
and build of automated production line test equipment,
factory automation and vending telemetry systems.
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Strong experience with industrial precision motor
control techniques, SMPS and building management system
(IBMS) design principles.
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Numerous mainstream proprietary SCADA / PLC training
courses attended e.g. Siemens, Allen Bradley, Omron,
Mitsubishi, Genesis, Step5, CSF and C etc.
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Developed strong SCADA technology and HMI/MMI psychology
application and implementation skills.
Firm grew rapidly to ultimately 11 staff. Main clients
included: - Hotpoint, Creda, Electrolux, Kuhn (GMBH),
Stoves, Prestige Ltd, Sharp UK and TSS Ltd etc.
Accidental deaths of both parents lead to decision to
close business gracefully and accept offer of employment
from TSS Ltd.
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