Profile

Senior control and embedded software engineer with 20+ years developing real-time, safety-relevant systems across the full stack - control algorithms and embedded software through to electronics and hardware bring-up. Strong in model-based development and hands-on with hardware (STM32/ARM, power electronics). My domains span control and embedded software for automotive/ADAS and autonomous driving, power electronics and inverters, battery management, and robotics. Alongside the technical work I have also built and led engineering teams and delivered R&D and series-production projects ? though hands-on control and embedded development remains where I work best.

SELECTED TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• Delivered a safety BMS ECU (Battery Management Safety Control Unit) for the marine industry ? control algorithms, software architecture, integration and verification.
• Delivered a multilevel-inverter demonstrator end-to-end (control strategy, embedded software, power-electronics integration) driving a live EV motor.
• Defined a model-based development toolchain and brought a 100+ engineer organisation through the transition from C-based to model-based development.
• Building an autonomous mobile robot end-to-end ? control, electronics, embedded software, RTK-GNSS localisation and real-time telemetry ? solo, from architecture to running hardware.
• Developed lateral/trajectory control for autonomous vehicles, validated on public highway (EU SARTRE project).
• Built a Hardware- and Processor-in-the-Loop platform for real-time testing and validation of control algorithms.

CORE SKILLS

• Control Systems:
  • PID tuning, state-space modelling, system identification, MPC, Kalman filtering, real-time control
• Embedded Systems:
  • Embedded software & electronics design
  • schematic & PCB (Eagle); MCU bring-up and integration across ARM Cortex-M (STM32), Raspberry Pi, ESP32, ARM7TDMI-S (LPC21xx), x51, Arduino, TTC
• Model-Based Development:
  • MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, TargetLink, Embedded Coder
  • MIL/SIL/PIL/HIL simulation and testing
• Power Electronics & BMS:
  • Inverter and motor control
  • battery cell modelling, SOC/SOH/SOP/SOE estimation, balancing strategies
• Robotics & Autonomous:
  • Autonomous mobile robots, trajectory tracking, RTK-GNSS localisation
  • ADAS functions (ACC, AEB), lateral/trajectory control
• Communication & Buses:
  • CAN, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, RS-485, RS-232
• Safety, Standards & Process:
  • ISO 26262, ASPICE (L2), MISRA, MAAB, AUTOSAR
  • V-model, Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
• Verification & Tooling:
  • PIL/HIL bench testing; vehicle testing & calibration (INCA, CANalyzer)
  • GIT, IBM DOORS, PTC Integrity
  • JIRA/Confluence/XRAY, Azure DevOps, CI/CD
• AI-Assisted Engineering:
  • Anthropic Claude and Claude Code - agentic coding, agents and skills
  • neural-network modelling in MATLAB/Simulink