Specialisms and Skills

A lifetime as a professional engineer has given me a broad range of skills and experience, much of it gained in the project based environment. I used to provide specialist engineering advice and consultancy in the following key areas:

Technical

Analogue electronics
Developing an Arduino based control system for a stair climbing wheelchair
Digital low level RF system designs based on the LBNL/Dimtel LLRF4 board
High power RF amplifiers (5 kW to 1.5 MW, 25 MHz to 500 MHz)
RF cavity design (including structural, fabrication and heat flow issues)
Synchrotron, linear accelerator and Tokamak physics
Discrete logic and FPGA design using VHDL
Design for EMC and CE qualification
Large super-conducting magnet power supplies and quench detection
Use of engineering software tools including Mathcad, Maple, Autocad, Orcad and Altium
Interfacing systems to the EPICS distributed control system
Use of CST for electromagnetic finite element analysis and optimisation
Cryogenic instrumentation

Management and Commercial

System specification and preparation of technical specifications for Calls for Tender
Planning and delivering in-house and customer training
Staff selection, motivation, appraisal and development