Warren Edwards

Managing client contracts to ensure the customer’s expectation on programme, to cost and are completed successfully to the quality levels required. Liaison with other line managers to ensure that design, procurement, sub contractor, production, FAT, CAT, commissioning, delivery shipping and acceptance activities are programmed in. Arrange / Attend Project Meetings with the client and as required internally within the company. Ensuring that Health and Safety, Quality and Environmental related documentation prepared for each contract, as applicable. Ensuring that completed documentation package, as specified by the customer, prepared and delivered.

Electro Mechanical Design Engineer

Innovations-tech: electrical, electronic and mechanical design and manufacturing services provider; specialising in Prototype and pre-production design to manufacture. Innovations-tech specialise in high quality, fast turn around production for the increasing numbers of companies looking to outsource all or some of their production. System / Product design. CE testing, CE approval, CE certification. Manufacturing, Electronic and Electrical support. Quotations - Customer liaison. Warranty & contract support. Attendance of meetings. On-time customer delivery.

Department duties included: the creation and support of the production plan, technical advice and support. Achieving targets set out by business needs, whilst attending to personnel everyday needs. Other area's within the company I devised processes and procedures allowing all environmental occurrences to be considered, and managed in an effective efficient manner, minimizing delays to other departments programs. Setup department for the Production of the Seenite systems, this included the Manufacture, Test, Commissioning and Installations of the product range. High level system design and analysis of the business for proprietary applications namely management system, Business plans strategy and Cashflow projections. Using a "hands on" approach with a strong practical involvement in the production. Problem solving of long standing technical issues. Managed external and internal teams, grew business realationships with external parties resulting in an overall cost saving for the development of the systems. Created and updated drawings using Inventor, AutoCad and Viso, also produced change notes and bills of materials etc. Proactive and adaptable approach to projects. Focused the installation teams efforts in a timely efficient manner, analyzed the requirement for and designed internal system to ISO9001 standard resulting in reduction and cost savings in the overall number of visit errors to customers on-site installations. On-the bench; Use of circuit design tools and interfacing to PCB design houses. Designing Parts and test fixtures using CAD, producing detailed engineering drawings. Re-engineering old electronic and mechanical products using modern design methods, tools and techniques. PCB stage testing against circuit diagrams and producing test equipment to emulate various data sources. FAT, HAT and SAT trials in various locations around the world. Fault finding to components level on all of the Seenite ranges in house and out on-site.

I brought on a well needed new direction to the business, using good interpersonal and communication skills, interfacing effectively in multi-discipline teams to develop innovative electronic designs, meeting customer's requirements. Daily project planning for work to be progressed. Resulting in on-time completion to projects. Analyzed the requirement for and designed an internal system to ISO9001 standards, implemented and maintained. In-house role of the day-to-day running, using a hands on approach with a strong practical involvement in production methods. Established a sustainable relationship with customers and suppliers resulting in a more effective long term working relationship. Created and updated drawings using AutoCad, Orcad, Viso, produced change notes and bills of materials. On the bench; a wide range of engineering skills used from commercial to military wiring / assembly and commercial to military prototype design through to assembly / production. Ability to work from engineering drawings through to; creating and designing of drawings for Production / Manufacture. Contracted to Thales on various occasions from Installations, Ship fits, Fault finding, Testing and Commissioning. Attendance of meetings with customers through to identifying the requirements of work to be carried out, to quoting, manufacturing and testing. Contracted as the Test and fault finding Engineer for the Aquaculture department at TMSL Weymouth for the Seal Scrammer and Cage Guard systems. Fault Reports had to be raised and filed, also the generation, update and maintenance of the TMSL Aqua. data base, on site service / repairs of the product range. Design and build of test gear for various companies e.g. Serco, QinetiQ (DERA), Thales (TMSL), Ultra, Siemens and Alenia Marconi, generating documentation using Word and Mechanical / Electrical drawings using AutoCAD, Orcad and Viso.

As a corporate strategy, U.S.I expanded her product lines towards the underwater-integrated sensor systems. I assisted in the start up of the new company SPG, which catered with the special design needs of both military and commercial marine engineering. The position comprised of Design/Development, Test/inspection, customer liaison, arranging sales, commercial work, and demonstrations. I organized and represented the company at several world wide trade shows e.g. Oceans 95, 96, Annual Long Beach Boat Show 95, 96, Oceanology International 95, 96. I managed and built the prototype / production of several products ranging from forward and side scanning sonar systems, underwater welding machines designed for Broco, USA, Saber radio water proofing modification kits designed for the US Navel forces, various sensor systems for the Turkish Navy, fiber optic cable assemblies designed and built for Wilson House USA. Underwater power distribution junction box's - various product developments such as; two man submarine driver controls / power safety units in a flooded commercial submarine designed for SeAmagine Claremont USA. I acquired a unique and in-depth knowledge of the technologies involved, which includes water proof connector design/manufacture, various Epoxy resin mixtures for different water proofing applications, transducer manufacture, polyurethane potting of arrays and hydrophones, thermal printer technology, high voltage capacitor discharge analog systems, analog amplifiers, analog processing, digital signal processing, including computer interfaces, data logging and global positioning by satellite interfacing, design and build of test gear, generating documentation using Word, Circuit layout using Orcad, Mechanical drawings using AutoCAD, Sales literature using Coral Draw/ Photoshop.

For two years I gained a wide range of knowledge and skills in mechanical design, assembly and electronics, ranging from commercial to defence chassis wiring, printed circuit board design, assembly and testing, computer aided design of wiring and circuit diagrams. I ended up managing the production of a side scan sonar system, including the handling of orders, the procurement of components and maintenance of stock levels, manufacture, test and inspection. The role also included customer liaison, arranging demonstrations and on-site maintenance visits.

A two-year training apprenticeship was given to me on the maintenance and repair of IBM, Amstrad, Atari, Acorn and Citizen computer products, which included both component and modular level repairs. I attended customer service courses; I also attended maintenance and software courses for the IBM PC, Atari, Acorn and Citizen Product ranges.