EMPLOYMENT

• ForestMind – Project Lead on two year £4M ESA funded project, focused on establishing a new neutral and trusted entity, delivering actionable insight and support to validate and change sourcing decisions, and guide supplier development to reduce deforestation

• BRAIL (Backhaul and Radio Access Integrating LEO) – Project Manager on 5 month £600k UKSA – NSIP funded project, developing an end-to-end system for cost-effective delivery of 5G services to remote and rural communities, leveraging both the innovation in wireless technologies and the performance and ubiquitous coverage of satellite mega-constellations

• Part of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Section Overview

Providing a multi-disciplinary expert resource, ensuring the link between Central Engineering and Technology and realising the ‘Strategy to Shop Floor’ requirements for current or new projects. Developing processes, best practices and technology/material maturity for the benefit of UK PLC and fusion while minimising risk and time to the emergence of a fusion power plant. Outlines and undertakes appropriate prototyping and testing activity in order to demonstrate the feasibility of disruptive technology, materials and designs in order to assure appropriate levels of risk.

• Realisation and exploitation of materials, manufacturing methods, components, technologies, processes and facilities that aid UKAEA Mission and Goals

• Realisation of ‘Strategy to Shop Floor deployment’ from new builds to future designs for UKAEA

• Provision of Subject Matter Experts to provide manufacturability expertise and to de-risk the delivery of complex components, systems or faculties through out its lifecycle

• Deployed on Programmes where innovative or novel engineering solutions are required from initial concept/analysis to implementation

• Engage with industry, academia, institutes and other governmental bodies, relevant to the sections capabilities, to provide value both to the realisation of a fusion power plant and to UK PLC

• Produce bids and proposals, relevant to the sections capabilities, to provide value both to the realisation of a fusion power plant and to UK PLC

• Provide the practical conscious and deliver disruptive input to Integrated Nuclear Design Centre (INDC)

• Facilitating strong internal and external networks

• Liaison with other Groups, Departments and Programmes to ensure effective co-ordination and collaboration across interfaces and competing demands, resolving development programmes and acquiring approvals for the execution of trials as necessary.

Personal Responsibilities

• Named Head of Discipline for Control and Instrumentation for the UKAEA responsible for ensuring the effective design and optimisation of C&I systems.

• Lead C&I Expert Hub providing expertise to Responsible Officers on all C&I matters on standardisation, best practice, methodologies and project advice fro control and instrumentation on projects

• Part of CCFE team who successfully gained ACTS (Accreditation of Company Training Schemes) for the organisation from the Institute of Physics, IET and IMechE (Nov 2017)

• Prepared Reviews, Commissioning Procedures and management for the Personnel Access Safety System for MAST-U

• Created CHEFDAQ the software to control the CHEF (Coating and Humidity Experiments on Fasteners) experiment

Activities:

• Mentor 2 physics graduates, 1 engineering graduate and 2 ex-apprentices as part of CCFE Mentor Program

Line management responsibility for operations and upgrades of MAST (one of the world’s largest spherical magnetically confined fusion reactors) Neutral Beam (NB) Section. Engineer in Charge (EiC) for JET (currently world’s largest experimental magnetically confined fusion reactor) operations. Installation Manager for the delivery of MAST Neutral Beam upgrade and rebuild for the £30 Million MAST-U project.

• Led as Silver Commander - Emergency Exercise Lisbon which involved a simulation of tritium release and the organisation of the internal team, external emergency services and PR

• EiC managing JET operations during experimental campaigns. The operation of the whole of the JET tokamak is the responsibility of the EiC representing the chief responsible safety officer of the JET plant. The EiC has the responsibility for ensuring that all operations comply with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority safety, environmental and machine integrity requirements.The experiment is loaded by the EiC, confirmed by the EiC to be compatible with operating limits and safe to run, and executed by the EiC. In the event of an emergency incident the EiC assumes total strategic control of the incident as “Silver Commander”. Training takes several years in order to take on this pivotal operational role. (Appointed 21 March 2012)

• Responsible Officer for the design and implementation of the entire control and instrumentation on the Neutral Beam Upgrade as part of the MAST Upgrade.

• Appointed Heating and Fuelling Work Stream Installation Manager and Deputy Workstream Leader for MAST-U

  • Provide a fully resourced Work Stream Installation and Commissioning project schedule with clear interfaces, delivery expectations and milestones.

  • Update, adapt and modify the project schedule, milestones and resource requirements as the project evolves.

  • Identify and try and secure the resources in order to achieve the above plan.

  • Liaise with stream leaders as required and co-ordinate stream RO’s

  • Ensure that sufficient systems are in place to conduct the project in a safe and successful manner. That the work control system is appropriate

  • Approve method statements, procedures and risk assessments produced by the ROs.

  • Report progress against plan, and report on any exceptions relating to delay, cost or change of scope or likely impending exceptions or changes.

  • Co-ordinate the use of shared resources, service providers, tools, plant and equipment across the whole of the Shutdown project on behalf of Heating and Fueling

• Acting Group Leader when line manager is on leave or mission

• Part of CCFE team who successfully gained ACTS (Accreditation of Company Training Schemes) for the organisation from the Institute of Physics

• Re-designing and implementing MNBI fast timer, FPGA, Fast and Slow DAQ software

• Part of Brainstorm Session : Power Handling Capability of the DEMO Divertor

• Delivered CCFE milestone 2013 - Neutral Beam Inhibitor

• Mentor 3 physics graduates as part of CCFE Mentor Program

• Part of Cable Definition and Documentation Team for MAST-U

• Leading the commissioning and restart of MAST-U neutral beam including commissioning and operational procedures

• Responsible for developing Shinethrough Interlock Infrastructure to allow long pulse duration Neutral Beam on MAST-U

• Responsible for Chairing interviews for staff positions

• Part of Modelling Based System Engineering group looking at the benefits for deployment of projects by CCFE

• Part of review group of the CCFE Culham Site Emergency protocol

• Developed Langmuir Probe code for Small Negative Ion Facility

• Designing and implementing C&I hardware and software for Culham AMAZE facility High Heat Flux Test RigRigRigRig

Managed the MAST Neutral Beam (NB) operations team, provide NB based physics and design, develop and project manage new systems and upgrades. The role represents the interface between NB Operations and other departments and groups which is essential to achieve the major goals and milestones of the MAST Facility. I am a JET NB Shift Leader, in charge of commissioning, validating and operating NB for use by the JET physics.

• • Produced and taught 3 day LabVIEW training course to work experience students using own course structure

  • Produced MAST NB C&I Plan for MAST-U Plan Integration

  • Authored Commissioning Procedure and commissioned diagnostics on frozen deuterium pellet injector on JET as part of the 2011 restart

  • Training to be Incident Response Officer at Culham

  • Implemented software management control off all MAST NB Software using SubVersion

  • Designed, planned, implemented and managed the total upgrade of all C&I on MAST NB as part of the 2010 shutdown

  • Successfully managed the recommissioning of both injectors after the 2010 shutdown which led to one of their most productive MAST campaigns to date with the most reliable beams. The 2010 C&I upgrade that I personally designed and managed, has reduced the total MAST operational down time due to MAST NB from 22% to less than 1%. The design and implementation of getter pump control improvements have created a more stable operating regime and has saved around £30k. I managed the SS and SW PINI conditioning phase at the end of the campaign and designed and installed fast (1MHz) data acquisition which enabled us to finally get to 75kV on SW and have increased the highest power from 3.75 to 4.35MW.

  • Solely responsible for the design, procurement, software programming and commissioning of two 144 Channel thermocouple recorders based on National Instrument CompactRIO devices using LabVIEW Realtime

  • Providing support, design and implementation of NB control to High Voltage Power Supplies as part of the MAST Upgrade.

  • Designed and produced experiment to vary NB power in real time via controlling arc current (world first) - Paper

  • Presented Real Time Power Control results at the Coordinating Committee on Neutral Beams (CCNB) in Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2010

  • Designed and built as part of three man team, MAST Neutral Beam Injectors Fast Interlock Boards for the protection of 'In Vessel' components due to excessive power loading from Neutral Beams. This involved designing the Microcontroller (PIC18F452) Controller Board, specifying component requirements, procurement and solely writing the controller software (Bending Magnet Interlock and Bending Magnet Controller Beam Interlock etc.)

  • Supporting MAST NB Senior Safety Officer in safety related management including providing risk assessments and analysis

  • Managing and providing quality assurance as owner of all measuring and diagnostic equipment for MAST NB

  • Led the re-design and programming of the entire SCADA/HMI system used to operate the MAST Neutral Beam Injectors

  • Led the re-design and programming of all PLC's which operate all MAST Neutral Beam Injectors plant.

  • Responsible Officer for Diagnostics on the JET High Frequency Pellet Upgrade including producing the Microwave Cavity operational commissioning procedure.

  • Providing physics support for the experimental community on the JET Pellet Injector as part of my role as Pellet Physicist

  • Design, built and implemented fast timer and data acquisition software/hardware for control of MAST NB plant

  • Delivered initial processes and philosophies as part of two man design team to provide the initial effort on Neutral Beam Health Management system in conjunction with SEIC BAE Systems predicting failure rates in critical plant.

  • MAST NB portable equipment owner, responsible for calibration QA

  • Part of ITER FPGA framework proposal

  • Manage summer and three month work placement students

  • Teach and support students in the engineering outreach scheme, apprentices and A-level student good programming practices.

  • Developed and integrated intershot PPF (Processed Pulse File) analysis code for the pellet injector on JET

  • Part of Inaugural Fox Box on "SXD for DEMO" – brainstorming solutions to see how we might create the magnetic configuration of a Super-Expanded Divertor in a conventional aspect ratio DEMO-style tokamak fusion reactor.

Neutral Beam Shift Leader, directing a team responsible for correct implementation of beam characteristics to satisfy the requirements of the Session Leader in charge of the experiment. Also provided NB based physics

• • Experienced in D/T operations as a Shift Leader responsible for the management and accountancy of tritium neutral beams in to JET Tokamak in the Trace Tritium Experiment

  • Providing engineering and scientific consultancy for the proposed IFMIF project

  • Collaborated with CEA Cadarache to produce software and a hardware interface to test plasma parameters of their ITER relevant MANTIS Test Facilities source, using a Langmuir probe

  • Collaborated with IPP Garching to test plasma parameters of their ITER relevant BATMAN Negative Ion Source source, using a Langmuir probe

  • Designed, tested and programmed micro-controller (PIC18F8621) based electronic board which connects in the form of a daughter board to the various power supply control cards that provide the power to the MAST Neutral Beam Upgrade. The board has a 10us resolution and is used to monitor, record and output alarms and controls signals for diagnostic purposes

  • Modified and improved Verilog script for a Mach 5 Complex Programmable Logic Device for the new Neutral Beam power supply fast turn on/off system

  • Programmed Magnetic Field Compensation Coil data recorder with specific integration to JET data store

  • Investigated, designed and implemented MAST calorimeter gate movement control using Parker stepper motor indexer programmed using their X-Code command language

  • Designed and built stepper motor driver electronics and software for switch destruction test

  • Responsible Officer for Bremsstrahlung Beam Interlock (BBI) on JET

  • Evaluated, documented and produced experimental re-calibration techniques for Bremsstrahlung detector sensitivity issues used in neutral beam shine-through interlock on JET

  • Planned, prepared, modified and refurbished BBI Diagnostic During 2004 Shutdown

  • Designed mobile data acquisition software and hardware interface for thermocouple data in order to determine the properties and specifications of hypervapotron elements (beam dump elements)

  • Produced software to acquire heat profile data for the MAST Neutral Beam Injector calorimeter, full energy ion dump and neutraliser with online analysis functionality

  • Responsible Officer for Pellet Diagnostics on JET

  • Responsible Officer for Pellet Data Software Code on JET

  • Part of Enhanced Program 2 (EP2) High Frequency Pellet Injector Project Team

  • Produce Commissioning Procedures and other controlled documents for Both JET and MAST

  • Deputy Responsible Officer for Neutral Beam Data Software Code on JET

  • Deputy Responsible Officer for Operations Analysis Code on JET

  • Deputy Responsible Officer for Operations Validation and Status Code on JET

The Technology and Media Development Group was formed to provide technical support for the Centre. The TMD group is involved with every section in the Centre and provides NMR console electronic modifications and quality assurance for the Physics Group, media manipulation for the Analysis Group and produces mechanical components, electronic systems, data acquisition systems, stimulus delivery devices, software packages, media manipulation (video, audio and graphic design) and consultancy/support for the Applications Group.

• • Designed and Constructed peripherals for use in functional MRI using mechanical engineering, analogue, digital, RF and microelectronics

  • Maintained, Built and Repaired all PC's in the Centre including setting up a site wide virus protection

  • Media design and manipulation including images, audio and video for the use in functional stimulation experiments

  • Designed FSL Logo for the Analysis Teams software suite

  • Held Oxford University Paradigm Clinic for the design/implementation of hardware used in functional experiments

  • Safety Officer for the FMRIB Centre

My major role was to commission, develop and provide quality assurance on a 3-Tesla human MRI system. I was also part of the development team who designed and built the stimulus generation tools/data acquisition systems for functional imaging including hardware configuration, software implementation and user interface systems.

• • Designed and built Eddy Current Calibration kit prototype for use in calibrating and modifying fast changing high voltage gradients

  • Supported staff/collaborators on in-house software FEST (FMRIB Enhanced Stimulation Tool) including building interactive website

  • Produced detailed Preventative Maintenance Instructions, reports, trouble-shooters and procedures for the FMRIB Centre and all its relevant equipment

  • Technical Liaison Officer for specialised building and plant equipment for MRI system

  • Responsible Officer for specialised SMI/AVOTECH Visual System used for accurate visual stimulation in FMRI

  • Deputy Safety Officer for FMRIB Centre and Display Screen Assessor

Hardware and Software Solutions for Industry

• • Hardware and Software Solutions, Internet Tools, Web and Media Design, Digital Administration and Management for both business and research including designing a communication tool for Hill & Knowlton (including submitting a design for the 'H&K Financial' logo)

  • Designed and Built Patient Positioning System (PPS) for Japanese Medical Research Centre

  • Designed medical electrodes for mass production for UK's leading cellulite specialist

  • Produced legal report and constructed experimental test system for the spectral classification of surgical lights for the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

  • Developed working prototype of 'through glass' touchscreen as a retail sales tool including building appropriate hardware/software for Blue Touch Technologies (www.bluetouch-online.co.uk)

  • Designed and developed tactile communicator (Buzband) as a coaching aid to deaf sports players in partnership with Glideball Ltd. (www.glideball.com)

  • Computer/Server solutions built for individual applications

Technical Support Group in nuclear fuel recycling plant (THORP) - Student Research Scientist

• • Investigated and produced document showing mechanical and electrical safety features of a 150 tonne crane for governmental body (NII Nuclear Installations Inspectorate)

  • Liaised with management and process team to produce waste briefing notes explaining waste movement and disposal

  • Provided solutions to a process related problem in a series of heat exchangers by researching, analysing and determining the data obtained over a six month period