I’m a professional product design engineer with over 30 years experience in industries such as consumer products, telephony and IT, industrial computing, defence, vending and parking. Much of my work has found its way into mass production including a range of parking kiosk which have been sold into many of the leading parking companies and can be found across the UK.
Key Capabilities
Expert PCB design
- Altium Designer AD13 – AD23 & Circuit Studio
- Mentor Expedition
- Mentor PADS
- High Density, High speed, Mixed signal & analogue
- Impedance control
- Multi-layer, micro-via, blind & buried.
- Library Management
- Assembly drawings
- BOM management
3D modelling and mechanical design
- Solidworks 2009 – 2023 Sheetmetal & plastic molding
- Enclosure design
- Basic mechanism design (locks)
- Design for 3D printing and injection molding
- Motor driven systems design (belt & pulleys)
- Aluminium extrusion design.
Electronic design
- STM23 & PIC micro controllers
- Analog, mixed signal
- ADCs, OpAmps
- sensors (strain gauges, thermocouples etc.)
- Low power, solar & battery
- RS232, RS485 SPI, I2C, MDB etc.
- GPRS/GSM/3g <Em modem interfacing
- GLCD
- Capacitive Touch
- Wire harness design
Electronic circuit assembly
- Assembly and rework to 0402 & 0.5mm QFP
- Circuit Mods
- Automated assembly machine set-up and profiling experience
- BGA rework experience
Business support & sales
- Website development and maintenance
- Marketing material
- Face to face sales at exhibitions and on request
- Supplier negotiation and management
Software Development
- Firmware development in ‘C’ (Keil STMCube IDE, mikroC & MPLAB)
- PHP & codeigniter experience
- Machine telemetry web application development
Technical Support and Training
- Telephone and face to face support both internal and external to the company
- Assembly and user manuals
- Contractor management
Compliance & testing
- Approvals testing for regulatory compliance
- CE compliance / self assessment (MD, LVD) self declaration
- EMC testing
- Approvals management
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