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I would like to take up a post in the area of IT probably at Trainee level.

I am currently employed in the automotive industry. However I have recently come to the conclusion that my skills are too narrowly focused in an area that I believe has limited scope for personal development.

Most of my skills are within IT, including networking, programming and hardware. I believe my skills are much better suited within the IT industry and feel that now would be a good time for me to gain more experience in this area.

You will see from my CV that I have a good breadth of experience in my particular area and have completed several technical coursed as well as obtaining an HND in Computer Systems Engineering. I am a fast learner with a good attention to detail. I enjoy a challenge and particularly like problem solving.

I very much hope you will have an opportunity to read my CV and look forward to hearing from you.


Based in:

United Kingdom

Work experience

9 years in employment in full time jobs

Previous jobs

2002 - 2003   Landrover
Gaydon Research and development site, consisting of it's own test track and approximately 2000 employees.
September 2002 ? present, Powertrain Engineer reporting to the head of powertrain integration.
Responsibilities
  • Collecting design data and proposals and building into a simulation model.
  • Performing CVSP (Ford's corporate vehicle simulation program run within Unix) analysis.
  • Producing reports in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Mathworks Matlab.
  • Testing and collecting data from current vehicles.
  • Planning the 2005 Landrover Freelander simulation program and ensuring all data was available for project landmarks.
    Achievements
  • Building the 2005 Freelander model from scratch and taking it to the finalised design stage.
  • Conversion of all data into a standard Excel format and automated simulation file generation.
  • Adding all specifications to an Access database and introducing a version control system for all projects.
  • Increasing the efficiency of the simulation request system and reducing the time between engineer's simulation requests and delivery of reports.
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    2000 - 2002   Jaguar Racing
    Factory base in Milton Keynes, approximately 300 employees, January 2001- September 2002, Software and IT Engineer.
    Responsibilities
  • Design and develop applications for the Electronics and Engineering groups.
  • Testing of New hardware and software.
  • Oversee the practical use of Pi's data analysis software at the track and report or solve bugs.
    Achievements
  • Implementation of Blue tooth networking for PDA's and an intranet site for data viewing.
  • Producing server side Java applications to convert raw data into graphics and post these on the intranet site as GIF images for PDA's and Laptops to view.
  • Secure Intranet chat room between the pit wall and garage using the IRC protocol and Visual basic to allow silent communications regarding race strategy and automatic notifications of data downloads and other events to specific personnel.
  • Matlab automated data analysis on downloaded car data with the output converted to XML and stored in an Access database, this was later changed to an SQL data base due to size.
  • SQL scripting for extracting car setup data from the car setup database.

    January 2000 ? January 2001, Race Team Control systems and Junior Race Engineer reporting to Head of Electronics and Chief Race Engineer.
    Responsibilities
  • Ensure the car was set up and electronics calibrated and instruct mechanics to make any mechanical changes required.
  • Track Fuel during races and tests and advise on pit stop strategy.
  • Data analysis to optimise the car for the track and conditions.
    Achievements
  • Completed all 17 Grand prix's of the 2000 season as Eddie Irvine's junior race engineer.
  • Regularly exceeded realistic race and especially qualifying expectations of the car.
  • Improving the pitstop strategy and fuelling software used to run the race.
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    1998 - 2000   Jordan Grand Prix
    Jordan Grand Prix Limited
    Factory based in Silverstone, Approximately 200 employees, June 1998 ? January 2000 Test team control systems and electronics engineer.
    Responsibilities
  • Ensuring the car is setup and calibrated with the latest software, all required sensors are fitted, logging tables set accordingly and up to date system maps.
  • Analysing telemetry while the car is running and spotting potential problems.
  • Designing, writing software and building all test boxes and one off electronic equipment.
  • Maintaining the Computer racks, network systems and all IT at the track.
    Achievements
  • Culminations of a year of hard teamwork being Jordan's first ever grand prix win.
  • Completing my final year HND project for Jordan.
  • Wireless three sector timing system using radio modems to monitor other cars at tests and build a data base of an entire years racing and testing times, weather conditions and car set ups in one database.
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    Education

       HND Computer Systems Engineering
       OND Engineering

    Certifications / Courses

    Mathworks Matlab ()
    Mathworks simuling ()
    Visual basic.net ()

    Skills

    Skill Experience Arrow down Level Last used
    Word (Microsoft)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
    Windows NT (Microsoft)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
    Windows 95/98/ME/XP (Microsoft)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
    Excel (Microsoft)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
    Assembler  5 years professional  5 of 5 2007
    Windows 2000 / XP Pro (Microsoft)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
    Visual Basic (VB/VBA)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
    VBscript  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
    VB.Net  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
    Powerpoint (Microsoft)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
    MatLab  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
    HTML  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
    XML  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
    Visual Studio  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
    Visual Source Safe  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
    JavaScript  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
    Java  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
    DHTML  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
    1 = Lowest level, 5 = Highest level

    Language Skills

    Language Oral Written
    English  5 of 5 5 of 5

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