EMPLOYMENT

HISTORY

Feb. 2006-

Ongoing

Currently contracted to BAE SYSTEMS on the JSF Project as a design engineer, creating assembly models, component models and drawings on Catia V4 and maintaining product structures on Metaphase.

This contract also involves liasing with the customers manufacturing departments, at BAE SYSTEMS and Lockheed Martin.

Sept.2003-

Feb.2006

Worked in the automotive leisure industry as a NPI project/design and development engineer for Motor Homes and Caravans at the Swift Group in Hull.

This position involved the design and development of new products from 'cradle to grave', achieving best costs with suppliers, creation of 3D models and drawings for manufacture and liasing with the BOM and LRIP departments to ensure correct parts and part numbers have been listed for each product.

My diverse background in design and manufacture engineering helped to establish myself as a key point of contact for design and engineering issues within the Swift Group.

May -2001

Sept 2003 Contracted to BAE SYSTEMS as a Design Consultant/Egineer, this involves being the sole point of contact for assessing and rectifying design and manufacture problems on detail components and assemblies including fabrications and composites being manufactured on the shop floor at various sites and production stages. This can result in the re-design of detail components and structures, to cost and deadlines, using the design media available such as CATIA, CADDS5 and Dvise DMU cad systems, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.

May-2001 Contracted to Midcast Engineering (Wales) designing high precision vacuum chuck base plates for machined components for Boeing and BAE SYSTEMS.

Cad system used - CATIA

April-2001 Worked for KSR AUTOMOTIVE (Scunthorpe) as a Design and Development Engineer, designing automotive components for the research department adhering to cost and deadlines.

Cad system used - CATIA, Pro/Engineer

1992-2001 Senior Tool Design / Manufacturing Engineer, BAE SYSTEMS (Brough).

Responsible for the design of form/press tools, detail jigs, fixtures, sub-assembly jigs, assembly jigs, installation tools and ICY tools for various aircraft components and assemblies.

Liaison between Tool Design department and In- house/sub-contractor tool manufacture departments/companies.

As part of an Integrated Product Team I was involved in implementing tooling features into the design of aircraft components and assemblies.

1986-1992 Turner/Machinist, BAE SYSTEMS (Brough )

Time served as a turner/machinist in the Aerodynamics Laboratory.

Used various skills such as welding, spark erosion, fitting, N.C.-milling and turning to produce high precision, high quality wind tunnel models and aircraft components.

Additional Experience: -

Assisted in the research and development of a LEICA Laser Tracking Device for the use of jig building and inspection.

Mentor for new tool design engineers.

Mentor, trainer and consultant for various cad systems i.e. CATIA, Anvil 4000, Pro/Engineer and Cadds5.

Conversion of CADDS 5 models into CATIA models using STEP

Super User for Product Manager and CDP.

Health and Safety representative.

Design and Manufacturing Cad/Cam skills:-

Pro/Engineer Wildfire (2 years experience)

Solid modelling

Surface modelling

Assembly modelling

Drafting

Intralink

Catia V3+V4 (10 years experience)

Solid Modelling

Drafting

Basic Curves and Surfaces

Advanced Surfaces

NC Mill 2 ½ Axis

NC Mill 3 Axis

NC Mill 5 Axis

4D Navigator

Catia V5 R9

Basic modelling

CADDS5 - basic analysis

Pro/Engineer 2000i

Anvil 4000

ACHEIVEMENTS

Became main point of contact for chassis and body design and engineering issues within my first year at the Swift Group.

BAE SYSTEMS CHAIRMANS AWARD FOR INNOVATION- BRONZE.

For the implementation of a new alloy for form tools

Nominated for 2 BAE SYSTEMS CHAIRMANS AWARD FOR INNOVATION.

Received maximum payment from the BAE SYSTEMS suggestion scheme.

Nominated for apprentice of the year.

QUALIFICATIONS

BTEC National Certificate - Mechanical and Production.

GCE ('O' LEVELS) English Language

Physics

Economics

History

Chemistry

Technology

CSE Mathematics

Craft & Design

History

English

Physics