Design Engineer & Project Manager

Ken Gibbs : Experience & Skill Set Summary

Professional Consulting Engineer & Projects Manager

Education :

~ Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree plus the Chartered/Professional Engineering qualification ; 12 yrs.

~ Electronic controls design & development course (train to design, program & operate) ; 1 yr.

~ Organizational, PR, marketing, sales, financial management, administration courses ; 1 yr.

~ CNC/PLC automation & robotic systems (training to design, install, program & operate) ; 1 yr.

~ Minor training courses (2 day) : Earthquake mitigation, pneumatic controls (design, install, operate), “Cobot” robotic applications (program & operate).

Experience List :

Shows durations with the following types of industry, company, organization, group, team or department :

~ Industrial & production ; 4 yrs,

~ Technology & product development (design, prototype, test, standards & approvals, production) ; 5 yrs,

~ Governmental regulations, approvals and standards ; 1 yr,

~ Motorsport / Autosport (including Formula 1 & motorcycle racing as engineer, motocross competitor) ; 5 yrs,

~ Automotive technology (design, prototype, fabricate, develop and produce) ; 4 yrs,

~ Marketing, sales, PR, executive, financial, administration, management, planning, patenting & legal ; 2 yrs,

~ Inventions & developments ; 5 yrs,

~ Controls, electronics, simulation, software/firmware/middleware/hardware, robotics & automation ; 6 yrs. Managerial Skillset :

Skilled & trained in the management of these areas :

~ projects and their organizations & ventures,

~ product/application/technology design, build, test, development & production,

~ organizational establishment, expansion, viability plus efficiency analysis,

~ project specifications, tests, surveys, standards & approvals,

~ PR, personnel, marketing, sales, financial / administrative systems, planning, patenting,

~ reliability, repeatability, robustness & user experience analysis plus improvements & issue mitigation,

~ QA, change control/review, administrative & quality systems. Technical Skillset :

Skilled at the design, prototype, build, test, operation and production in these technical fields, including :

~ Mechanical (thermodynamics/energy, structures, fluidics/lubrication, bearings, linear/rotating mechanisms),

~ Electro-mechanical (wiring/cabling, connectors, switches, fuses, enclosures, mounting, protections, safety),

~ Mechatronic (sensors, servos, calibration, data logging, communication protocols, EMI/EMC),

~ Electrical (power electronics, filtering, batteries, solar, HVAC, transformers, motors, EMI/EMC),

~ Embedded control systems (analog/digital/mixed electronics, instrumentation, IOT, PCBA, EMI/EMC),

~ Real-time control systems (hard/firm/middle/soft ware, signals, simulators, DSP, MCU/MPU),

~ Audio/visual/radio (amplifiers, speakers, microphones, cameras, machine vision, radio links),

~ Magnetics (motors, generators, transformers, switching power supplies & filtering, electromagnet/magnets),

~ Automotive (powertrain, chassis, suspension, aero, handling, controls, alt. fueling, electric vehicles, safety),

~ Industrial (design, operations, maintenance, controls, CNC/PLC, robotics, automation, processes, safety),

~ & various other areas (for eg., optics, lighting, LED/LCD, fabrication/manufacturing/production, materials). Contact email : *********@**********.***

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