An Analogue/Digital Electronics Engineer working as an Equipment Specialist: Writing higher level specifications for communications protocols.

* An Electronic Engineer working on various contract projects: * Investigation work into DC-DC convertor issues on customer product. * Design of lithium (Li-Ion and LiFePO4) multi-chemistry battery charger. * Reverse engineering of a customer supplied product. * Initial electronic designs for a motion control system. * Research into test options for diode actuated micro-valve assemblies. * Writing a user manual for car intruder alarm test system.

* An R&D Electronics Engineer working on: * Design of pipeline dosing system control electronics. * Replacement of bootloader firmware on updated microcontroller. * Design of temperature monitoring and control interface PCBs. * Updating firmware to add features on existing products.

* Working as part of the FPGA design team including: *  Designing modules for Xilinx FPGAs using Active-HDL and Synplify Pro. *  Pipelined architectures for efficient data manipulation. *  DSP blocks for efficient tone detection. *  Attendance of a Doulos Comprehensive VHDL training course.

* Electronic Hardware Engineer designing development audio products: * Low jitter, low phase noise wireless audio platform. * Apple Lightning and USB connected headphone amplifier. * Custom XMOS and Cypress PSoC development boards. * Proof of concept assemblies for various projects. * Impedance controlled RF (Bluetooth) and USB based PCB layouts. * Lithium Ion battery powered products. * Use of Altium designer and Audio Precision test equipment (APx582). * Assisting OEM with EMC compliance.

* An assistant electronic hardware development engineer involved with: *  Designing new and supporting existing boiler house products. *  Analogue and digital circuit design with TI MSP430 microcontrollers. *  4-20mA current loop powered products with HART Protocol support. *  Cost reduction using part stress analysis techniques. *  Traceable circuit verification and test using calibrated equipment. *  Design for EMC compliance, ESD and surge protection. *  EMC/EMI testing using a TEM cell and G-Strip. *  ESD and surge testing using Schaffner test equipment. *  Accelerated life product testing. *  Mechanical user interface reliability. *  Construction and testing of PCBs including 0402 sized components. *  Mathcad for design calculations and documentation. *  Pulsonix EDA for circuit design.

* Electronics Engineer working on Inmarsat GPS tracking products. * Redesign of a rugged GPS and Inmarsat satellite personal tracker. * Use of Agilent VEE Pro for test automation. * Product testing including GPS and Inmarsat RF verification. * Reviewing and writing user manuals. * Limited use of Mentor Graphics EE and AutoCAD LT.

* An Electronics Engineer working on 4kW to 25kW drone power supplies: * Specification and design of circa 15kW resistive test load. * Research into power modules for a smaller footprint power supply. * Research into power efficiency improvements. * Research into options to reduce heat output. * Working with Vicor for improved design of a scalable power supply. * Design of a 280A ideal-diode battery switch PCB.

* A Senior Design Engineer assisting with development on thyristor DC drives: * Re-design and modernisation efforts of existing product line. * Cortex M3 microcontroller development for IoT connectivity with USB support. * Embedded Ethernet development with lwIP stack. * EMC re-testing and investigation on existing product range. * Potential cost and feature improvements of existing products. * Specification and testing of custom pulse transformers. * Working with CEM for manufacture of production PCB assemblies.

* An Electronic Design Engineer involved with the development and testing of electronic hardware for the Panoramic Camera (PanCam) as part of the ExoMars 2020 rover mission. Including: * Design of test interface circuit and PCB to simulate camera modules. * Design of test interface VHDL code and support software in Visual C#. * Analysis and review of existing electronic design work. * Use of Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition PCB, HDL designer and ModelSim.