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Work Bio 📖

I’m the Chief Engineer for the Major Infrastructure Projects business unit of Babcock International Group in Devonport. I’m currently applying independent governance on technical outputs in support of infrastructure design projects. My background is in finite element analysis, but more generally I am a problem solver, critical thinker and thought leader.

Interests 🔎

  • Systems Engineering and Configuration Management
  • Finite Element Analysis and Simulation
  • Seismic Analysis and Design
  • Python and Machine Learning
  • Productivity, Knowledge Management and Personal Development
  • Trail and Fell Running

Education 🎓

  • 1st Class MEng(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, 2006, University of Nottingham 🥇

Experience

Chartered Engineer with the IMechE since 2010.

Current Position: Chief Engineer, Major Infrastructure Projects, Babcock

Apr 2021 – Present, Devonport

Responsibilities include:

  • Leading the Office of the Chief Engineer
  • Leading technical governance process improvement initiatives
  • Contributing to the Transient Design Authority function

Assistant Chief Engineer (Facility Design), Babcock

Sep 2018 – Mar 2021, Devonport

Responsibilities include:

  • Providing technical governance to design projects
  • Delivering process improvement initiatives
  • Knowledge management and learning from experience dissemination

Director and Senior Consultant, Tor Engineering

Jan 2016 – Sep 2018, Torpoint

  • Consulting in seismic analysis and design and finite element analysis.

Consultant, Frazer-Nash Consultancy

Mar 2010 – Dec 2015, Plymouth

  • Seismic and non-linear dynamic analysis consulting.

Mechanical Engineer, Atkins

Oct 2006 – Mar 2010, Derby

  • Finite element analysis of gas turbine engine components.

Curriculum Vitae

Here's an online version of my CV.

Profile

A highly skilled, motivated and creative Chartered Mechanical Engineer, able to rapidly assimilate new skills and with a diverse background, including modelling, simulation and analysis of gas turbines, nuclear pipework, compressors, steel and concrete nuclear facilities, submarines and aircraft structures. With excellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven technical engineering capabilities in analysis and design. Career focus in the last 4 years has been seismic design, analysis and assessment of nuclear-related structures and equipment, including leading and developing a small team of engineers providing a wide variety of seismic-related technical support.

Areas of Expertise

  • Configuration management and systems engineering, particularly for nuclear safety-related systems, structures and components.
  • Seismic analysis and structural engineering, particularly using ANSYS (APDL and Workbench). Advanced APDL user and capable of writing scripts to save time or to provide innovative analysis requirements. Workbench experience in using design of experiments, submodelling and non-linear plastic collapse.
  • Assessment of nuclear safety-related structures and equipment and the additional requirements that this necessitates.
  • Expert in using Excel for large volumes of data and summarising key results. Use pivot tables, data connections and advanced VBA macros to achieve challenging goals and to enable the easy interrogation of data sets.
  • Artificial time history generation to match target seismic response spectra.
  • Soil-structure interaction and dynamic analysis. Able to validate any novel approach using alternative software and hand calculations.

Employment History

Assistant Chief Engineer, Babcock

Sep 2018 – Present, Devonport

Responsibilities include:

  • Providing technical governance to design projects
  • Delivering process improvement initiatives
  • Knowledge management and learning from experience dissemination

Director and Senior Consultant, Tor Engineering

Jan 2016 – Sep 2018, Torpoint

  • Consulting in seismic analysis and design and finite element analysis.

Consultant, Frazer-Nash Consultancy

Mar 2010 – Dec 2015, Plymouth

  • Seismic and non-linear dynamic analysis consulting.

Mechanical Engineer, Atkins

Oct 2006 – Mar 2010, Derby

  • Finite element analysis of gas turbine engine components.

Qualifications and Institutions

MEng Hons (1st Class, University of Nottingham). CEng MIMechE (since 2010).

Software Summary

  • ANSYS
  • Abaqus
  • Excel VBA
  • Mathcad
  • SHAKE
  • SC03
  • STAAD.Pro
  • SVN and Git
  • Python

Contact Details

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