Postgraduate Researcher - University of Strathclyde - Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering | Glasgow 2023-Current

My PhD work is in exploiting mobile manipulators for non-destructive testing of large-scale high-value aerospace components using eddy current and ultrasound arrays you can find a single page summary over on my PhD project page

Conference Talks

• ROSCon UK 2025: ROS Enabled Non-Destructive Testing for Aerospace Manufacturing - Primary
• NDT 2025: Process-to-Part Phased Array Inspection of a Large Scale Composite Aerospace Specimen - Primary
• NDT 2024: Recent advances in robotic non-destructive testing - Contributor
• NDT 2023: Considerations for process-to-part inspection for flexible manufacturing NDT - Contributor
• BINDT Aerospace Event 2023: A study of the accuracy and repeatability of mobile collaborative robots for nondestructive evaluations - Contributor

Publications

• Measurement Science and Technology: A quantitative investigation of accuracy and repeatability for deployment of mobile collaborative robots in high-value manufacturing - Contributor

Systems Integration Engineer - National Manufacturing Institute Scotland - Lightweight Manufacturing Centre | Glasgow 2024-2025

Development of software for the reconfigurable pilot line work as part of the Stratellite project

• Design and implementation of a flexible, skill based robot behaviour system
• Integration of computer vision algorithms for part localisation
• Coordinated the work of other developers to ensure successful delivery of the project to budget, on time

Research Assistant - University of Strathclyde - Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering | Glasgow 2024-2025

This was as part of a paid project through the Research Centre for Non-Destructive Evaluation which is tied to my PhD project work

Acting Chief Technology Officer - Kingdom Technologies Ltd. | Glasgow 2020-2022

Leadership

• Delivery of a mobile robotic platform from an early stage concept to having multiple robots deployed internationally with customers
• Aligning early stage development with the needs for product certification
• Developing an interviewing and hiring pipeline
• Hiring across multiple disciplinary technical roles (electronics, mechanical and software)
• Creating a collaborative and open work environment with platforms for technical reflection and discussion
• Developing robot deployment risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies
• Investigation and selection of manufacturing and assembly partners

Technical

• Human in the loop operational work flow design and robot behaviour control
• Creation of a serverless, event based system to monitor and track KPIs for a fleet of robots
• Design and implementation of a robot fleet management solution with low latency video streaming and remote control system for remote supervision of robots anywhere in the world

Senior Positioning and Sensor Fusion Engineer - Kingdom Technologies Ltd. | Glasgow 2020-2020

• GNSS and inertial hardware evaluation and driver implementation
• Localisation, sensor fusion and state estimation
• Perception hardware selection and software development
  • LiDAR calibration software
  • Object classification using 2D LiDAR
  • Object classification using computer vision and machine learning deployed on edge devices
• Mobile robot kinematic design and weight distribution optimisation for off-road outdoor environments
• Robot prototyping and manufacture of developmental prototypes
• RaaS infrastructure network setup and systems administration

Application Engineer - Oxford Technical Solutions Ltd. | Heyford / International 2016-2020

Some projects from my time here include:

• Delivering accurate attitude estimation of the Mars Perseverance “scarecrow” rover through remote assistance, as well as on site at NASA JPL
• Custom INS for slip angle estimation with a prominent Formula 1 team
• Localisation system integration for the premier all electric autonomous racing series
• Implementation of the hardware and software systems for scoring the first SAE Autodrive Competition
• Contributed as a subject matter expert on active safety test and validation systems as part of the working group for ISO 22133 “Road vehicles — Test object monitoring and control for active safety and automated/autonomous vehicle testing”
• Instance segmentation and localisation of road markings using LiDAR and an INS
• LiDAR SLAM and INS sensor fusion for localisation

Engine Design Validation Engineer - Alten UK Ltd. | London / Whitley 2015-2016

Automotive Technician - DSG Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness 2006-2010

🐧 Linux / Unix and Utilities 🐧

• tmux
• Git and GitHub
• Docker and Docker Compose
• WireGuard and OpenVPN
• Latex
• AWS: DynamoDB, Lambda, IoT Core, EC2, Kinesis, etc.

🦾 Robotics 🦾

• ROS 1 & 2
• BehaviorTreeCPP, OpenCV, PCL, etc.
• Gazebo, Isaac Sim

💻 Programming Languages 💻

• C++ and CMake
• Python: Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Pandas, etc.
• R: tidyverse, RMarkdown, Shiny, etc.

🛰 GNSS, Survey and Mapping 🛰

• RTKlib and LAStools
• Cloud Compare and NeRF Studio

🚗 Mechanical Design, Simulation and Modelling 🚗

• CAD: OnShape, Solidworks and CATIA v4-5
• Modelling: GT-Suite, ANSYS and LS-DYNA