Engineer Mechanical Design

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Dr. Alex A. ALBADRI

BSc(Hons), MPhil, PhD, C. Eng, MMMIM, MASME, C. Env, IOSH in Safety

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Tel : 020********, Mobile:078******** or 079********, E-mail; *************@*****.*** I am a Chief Engineer who has a great enthusiasm and vast knowledge of various scientific/technical areas such as mechanical design engineering, physics, and materials science. I have a strong commercial and financial awareness capability with track record of driving profitable and sustainable growth across a range of scenarios.

Personnel Career

I work as Chief Engineer at LUL/TFL, 15/04/2010-Present.

- Securing over £30m of Consultancies for TFL in the London area, ranging from multi million building projects to small machinery refurbishments.

- Establishing new technical and engineering consultancy within AP JNP, TFL.

- Architect of future strategic direction for the operation of the business, capital projects as well as maintenance. This includes future planning and design of buildings and stations, layout of assets and infrastructure.

- Growth of the business to meet saving and targets in region of 10m. Finding saving and rational new buildings projects without effecting the main delivery codes for the buildings.

- Has delivered targets to Directors of the business by working with other senior managers in the business.

- By successful leadership, has built various department, engineering, inspection, surveying, testing, quality control and condition monitoring. Involved in designing building and services layouts and structures.

- Excellent interpersonal, marketing, communication and networking skills which have been at foundation of activities to nurture internal and external customer relations. Has a network of contacts across many transport and infrastructure clients, consultants, construction products.

- Responsible for biddings and business development activities, for costs in region of 14m-20m. Bidding on building contracts and services, in addition to assets like trains, tracks, lift and escalators.

- Manage and plan maintenance schedules for assets like rolling stocks (Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly Lines) within time lines and budget.

- Deal with technical failure and lost customer hours for different assets including assets like rolling stocks

(Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly Lines).

- Deal with different technical and maintenance issues for different assets, for example the rolling stock for transplant and plant operation services.

- Constructing and reviewing business plans in line with budget, saving and future investments.

- Reviewing/initiating engineering standards and specifications to projects for buildings/stations, and mechanical assets like trains, track, lift and escalators. .

- Projects plan check and approval with monitoring to time scales and budgets.

- Offering consultations and engineering advice for projects with total costs ranging from 10k to 3m.

- Being parts of sensitive and safety critical technical investigations mainly to do with railway infrastructure.

- Dealing with assuring assets to be used for passenger service. The assets can be rails, stations/building/bridges, escalators, lifts, tunnels movements, and signals.

- Lead Engineer at Tube Lines Ltd (AP JNP), 1/8/2005-15/04/2010;

- To manage a team of mechanical engineers and test inspectors as well as managing a drawings office which contains 45000 engineering drawings.

- The work varies from designing new mechanical components to modifying existing components in assets like escalators, lifts, rail way tracks, signals, and various other parts and assemblies used in underground stations. 2

- Projects like stations or lifts or tracks or escalators refurbishments with a minimum tag cost between 1.5-10m each project.

- Projects management by conducting planning, costing, arranging assets inspections, checking designs to standards, writing specifications as well as testing, then reporting to directors.

- Issue many studies, specifications and standards to determine, evaluate and establish the assets conditions in regard to whether they can be safely assured for passengers use.

- I have invented, designed and built products like the smart step, the hydraulic tensioning carriage and the smart test rig.

- Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Hydronix Ltd, 1/1/2002- 1/8/2005.

- To manage projects (costs, plans, schedules, and prototype building, evaluation and tests) to manufacture microwave moisture measurement sensors from prototype to production.

- Have developed many products for applications like; concrete, ceramics, animal’s feeds, and wastes industries. The products required high technical experiences in physics (microwaves), mechanics, and materials science to be built.

- Various designs of microwave resonators were invented/patented and fabricated to suit various products and applications.

- Microwave design (HF Works & Sonnet), FEA and CAD (SOLIDWORKS) softwares were used in designing and developing the products .i

industries.

- Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at KeyMed Ltd (Olympus Group), 1/1/2000-1/1/2002.

- To manage projects to build medical products from concept (prototype) to production.

- Projects management, which incorporated minutes of meetings, projects costs and plans, and tests of products to comply with medical standards.

- Communicating with customers, agencies and test houses were parts of the job.

- The medical products differed from high to low volume products; ranging from flushing/ suction pumps, endoscopes, sterilization trays, trolleys, to endosonic and ultrasonic cleaners.

- FEA, and CAD (Solid Works) softwares were used in the design process to establish the strength and mechanical quality of the products.

- Mechanical Design Engineer at ABB Instruments (ABB Group), 1/1/1999-1/1/2000.

- Developing/maintaining products in the development and manufacturing stages.

- Volume and mass meters were designed and manufactured.

- Assessing costs, handling of materials, projects planning.

- I worked on various softwares, and computer packages (such as; Mathcad Auto-cad 12 or 13 or SolidWorks 98. ANSYS 5.1 or STARDYNE and FEMAP software).

- Materials Scientist and Flux and Paste Process Developer at Alpha Fry Ltd (Cookson Group), 1/12/1997-1/1/1999.

- Solving different microstructural problems. It included joining metal to metal, and metal to ceramic.

- Worked on designing and constructing plants such as fused salt plant, and bismuth oxide plant.

- New composite materials (metal+ceramic) were investigated and fabricated. It involved scaling up the production from the experimental scale to the production scale.

- Development schedules for mixing fluxes and solider pastes.

- Scaling up process for mass production as well as modelling the process schedules mathematically.

- Total costing for each project.

- Post-Doctoral at Oxford University, (A Research on joining Composite Materials such as Tungsten Carbide), 1/10- 1/12/1997.

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- Post-Doctoral and Part time Lecturer at Brunel University, (Research on Fabrication an Oxide Fuel Cell, also I taught the subject Mechanical Design to first year students), 1996-1997.

- Post-Doctoral at Manchester Materials Science Centre, UMIST, (Research on the Mechanisms of Fracture in Duplex Steel), 1995-1996.

- Demonstrator at Manchester Materials Science Centre, (Mechanical Tests Lab.), 1992-1995

- Demonstrator at Sheffield University, (Heat Treatment Lab.), 1990-1992. Education/Qualifications:

Ph.D. in Materials Science, 1992-1996,

Materials Science Centre, UMIST, Manchester, UK.

M.Phil. in Materials Science, 1990-1992,

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

B.Sc. in Physics, 1986-1988,

Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq.

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 1983-1986.

Technology University, Baghdad, Iraq.

Date of Birth : 16/3/1966 Sex : male Martial Status : married Nationality : British Publications, Consultancy work, Membership of Institutes, Training courses : Available on request. Activities and Interests :

Sport : Football, swimming.

Hobbies : Reading Technical books and magazines, Translating books from English to Arabic and vice versus.

Languages : English, Arabic.

Other Skills : Knowledge of variety of computing packages including Solidworks, ProEngineer, TurboCad, Solid Edge, Sonnet, Word Perfect,, Microsoft Project, World Star, Harvardgraphic, Excel, Mathcad. Programming on BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, Visual Basic and C++ languages. Using various finite element software Montecarlo, ANSYS, COSMOS & COSMOS DESIGN STAR, COSMOSWORKS, FEMAP, Sonnet and STARDYNE. The experience of designing various mechanical components from plastics, ceramics and metals. I have the knowledge of different prototypes/production techniques (such as injection moulding, investment casting etc) to satisfy the needs of the design and final product. The ability to work on test machines such as tensile, fatigue, compression, Chary impact, and creep. I worked on SEM, EDX, TEM, XPS. Very familiar in using image analyser systems. Worked on melting and casting varies alloys. Worked on non- destructive test equipment such as X-ray and ultra sonic equipment. I have the experience in coating (tinning) radiators, and tubes by using fluxes. Knowing different fluxes for different applications. Dealt with welding and brazing of aluminium by using different fluxes. Joining aluminium by using an ultrasonic method. Brazed and welded different materials by using laser or electron beam. The experience of using different mixers for mixing powders of metals or ceramics. Worked on the physical generation, interaction, measurement of microwaves, and combining their behaviour with the mechanical and characteristics of materials. Designing microwave resonators for products that are used in various industrial applications. Density independent technique was implemented on a microwave technique to increase the yield of the product. The propagation pattern of microwaves was studied in different applications to come up with new concepts for new products. Now, I manage a design office as well as working on multi millions projects for London Underground Network. I am working on solving multi millions problems, ranging from tracks, trains to lifts and escalators. I work with contractors to deliver the projects.

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