Professional Experience
- Operations and FDIR engineer on Mars Sample Fetch Rover at Airbus Space and Defence
- Functional Validation Engineer on ExoMars Rover at Airbus Space and Defence,
- Flight Control Team member ESA’s 3 Astronomy Spacecraft
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- Technical Sales HP, Agilent, Sematron UK
- Over 7 years as a qualified teacher in the UK and internationally
education background
- Physics with Astrophysics BSc. (Hons) University of Kent at Canterbury.
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) Canterbury Christ Church University
- Astronomy PgDip University of York
- MLTA Summer Mountain Leader Award
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- Certificate: Gravity. From the Big Bang to Black holes online course
Notable Achievements
- Lead ExoMars Deployment and Egress testing on flight hardware in Toulouse
- Tracked down and identified a fault in the ExoMars Rover’s gyroscopes rooted in a single flipped bit in a config memory bank.
- Certified to deliver 7 Habits of Highly Effective People from Franklin Covey Inc.
- Volunteer Big Cat Keeper responsible for the wellbeing of over 30 Lions, Tigers, Leopards and other cats.
Role at Finxone
As Head Of Systems Engineering, a key member of the Commercial team I am responsible for high-level product strategy with respect to customer needs. I participate in sales and partnership calls, qualifying customer needs, synergies between potential partners and Finxone. I also take on an unofficial role of morale officer keeping abreast of our team and contractors personal wellbeing.