I am a HNC qualified designer with 35+ years of experience and
12+ years of Solidworks experience working in a variety of industries ranging
from:
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Dumper Trucks Manufacture
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Secure Communications Equipment
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Movable Bridges & Lock Gates
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Oil & Gas Downhole Exploration Tools
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Hydro Jet Propulsion Systems
Designing anything from:
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Small Latching Mechanisms
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Oil Exploration Tool Strings worth £250k to work
at 25ksi
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Assembly Fixtures for 17m diameter Tidal Turbine
- Bespoke Modular Training suit designed to
represent an aircraft interior.
In doing so I have used various manufacturing techniques
such as:
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Close tolerance machined parts
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Investment casting and injection moulding.
I started out on a drawing board and this taught me about
drawing presentation, dimension schemes, tolerancing and attention to
detail.
During my time the majority of my work has been initial concept through
to manufacturing drawings and documentation but it has also included
incorporation of existing designs/product in to new development and actioning
engineering changes.