• Serve as strategic and technical partner to the CEO, acting as review gate for all major business, R&D, and investment decisions - with direct accountability for translating company vision into executable plans. 
• Defined the R&D roadmap and project pipeline for the company's space domain, establishing the engineering targets and technical milestones to be delivered. 
• Defined the full business plan for an anti-UAV interceptor drone R&D project - scoping objectives, engineering deliverables, and development phases from concept through execution. 
• Authored from scratch and won the company's first public tender: a ?300K software development contract with extension potential, establishing a repeatable bid process now used across the business. 
• Built two engineering departments from scratch - a bid team specialized in high-quality technical and commercial proposals (consistently delivering around 16 bids/month), and a separate project delivery team - including authoring job descriptions, conducting interviews, and negotiating compensation packages. 
• Directed a cross-functional team to deliver a secure, offline RAG-based AI solution. Drove the full project controls lifecycle across delivery teams: budgeting, scheduling, risk identification and mitigation, and stakeholder reporting. 
• Delivered projects with profit margins exceeding 60%, through disciplined cost control, lean resource allocation, and rigorous scope management. 

• Led control systems architecture for a next-generation EUV mask requalification machine targeting nanometer-level precision - defining and cascading system-level dynamics & control budgets into module-specific requirements across three sub-systems: Stage Control, Active Air Suspension Control (pneumatic isolation of the machine's structural frame), and Opto-mechanical Core Isolation. 
• Derived actuator and sensor specifications from scratch per sub-module, and acted as the central technical interface between system-level design and hardware implementation - coordinating with internal module engineers and external suppliers including vendors in Japan. 
• Audited the existing simulation model, identified critical missing components - unmodelled actuation saturation and virtual CoG sensor/actuator positions - and restructured it to reflect real hardware behavior using local sensors and actuators. 
• Refactored the simulation repository and improved the calculation algorithm, cutting run time from over 20 hours to under 20 minutes - accelerating the full development cycle. 

• Diagnosed and resolved a critical controller oscillation in the core brake deceleration software affecting 5+ OEM customers including Daimler. Leading a cross-functional team of 5 engineers across Germany, USA, and India to deliver a validated fix within 3 months through iterative tuning and real-world test track validation with live trucks, monitoring real-time measurements via CANape/CANalyzer. 
• Built a physics-based vehicle braking model from scratch to reproduce the oscillation, design the control solution, and validate performance prior to hardware testing ? enabling faster iteration and reducing dependency on physical test resources. 
• Designed model-based deceleration control functions with gain scheduling end-to-end - from system architecture through Simulink implementation to customer acceptance testing - in direct collaboration with Daimler engineering teams. 

Institute of System Dynamics and Control:

• Designed and validated an H-infinity flight control law for gust load alleviation on a flexible aircraft - tested on an Airbus-validated flexible aircraft model used in active industry programs. 
• Results published 2024, Bristol, UK. 

• Thrust Vector Controlled model Rocket Project: Designed a robust H-infinity attitude controller, validated iteratively in a high-fidelity 6DOF simulation model built by myself. As Innovations Team Lead, took the TVC rocket from concept to live flight test within 10 months - leading a 12-person cross-functional team through 5 iterative test flights and gathering high-value data to inform the next design round. 
• CubeSat ADCS Project: Led the ADCS sub-team to deliver a high-fidelity orbit propagator as the core navigation output for a CubeSat mission. 

• Analyzed attitude controller stability during ascent, identifying missing actuator saturation limits that informed critical design corrections.  
• Simulated first-stage reentry trajectory (MATLAB/Simulink), with results directly contributing to the conceptual design of a parachute recovery system.  

• Development of an automated Acceptance Test evaluation for the Fluid Control Equipment of the upper stage feed valve, Ariane 6  

• HiL testing of throttle valves (Engine CU)
• Extension of automated evaluation