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Key Skills & Services: |
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Product planning, resource management and
implementation of product plans.
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Project management covering Prototyping to First
Off production product. Intellectual Property
advice.
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Extensive use and application of Computer Aided
Design, solid modeling, detail design and Finite
Element Analysis utilising Solidworks09 or
AutoCad 09.
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Design for plastics, tool design and polymer
selection.
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Specification, identification, ownership, cost
projection and logistics management for
out-sourced components from European and Far
East manufacturers.
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Problem solving in design of mechanisms.
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Career Background: |
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28 years experience of product design of which
13 years running own engineering design
consultancy, POSS Limited.
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Senior Engineer in fuel systems at BL Cars
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Senior Engineer in vacuum pump design at Edwards
High Vacuum
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Chief Engineer at Anotec a start up business
within Alcan Aluminium in Anodised Aluminium
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Design Manager at Calor Gas
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Industry sectors: |
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All SMEs that have a product engineering design
requirement.
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specifically I have experience in running project
for new product in hand tools, workshop tools,
lighting hardware, home fittings, fibre-optics
housings, vacuum pumps and systems, filtration, gas
separation, compressors, pneumatics, flow meters and
so on
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Qualifications: |
BSC Mechanical Engineering 2.1, prize for best
final year design project.
Post Graduation Courses: Positive Displacement
Pumps, Pumps in Process Industries, Total Design
project management, Contamination Control,
Transition from Engineer to Manager, Keeping
Technical Projects on Target, Principles of
Marketing, FMEA workshop, 6 Sigma workshop. |
Comments: |
Presently
I am Chairman of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers – Yorkshire Region.
(Nov 2009) |
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