William Geoffrey Colin Roney MEng (Hons), MSc (Hons)

Address: 18 Abbot Road, Bury St Edmunds, SUFFOLK, IP33 3UB Email Address: willroney@hotmail.com LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/willroney Twitter: @willroney Telephone (Mobile): +44 7950 659448 Personal Profile: An enthusiastic, self motivated team player with over 15 years of experience across a broad range of design disciplines. A well rounded engineer with good interpersonal skills, combined with a balanced understanding of manufacturing, commercial and programme requirements. Excellent CATIA V4 capabilities coupled with a sound detail, assembly and installation drafting background. With a keen interest in the developing world of unmanned and manned aerial systems, I am available to consult on all aspects of defence, aerospace and automotive and all other types of Design & Project Engineering. Qualifications:

MSc in Aircraft Engineering (Cranfield University) MEng (Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering (City University, London) 3 A-Levels (Maths, Physics, Chemistry), 8 GCSEs between Grades A&C

Employers British Aerospace Plc / BAE SYSTEMS Plc Saltgrounds Road, Brough, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU15 1EQ March 1997 August 2006 Design Engineer Hawk/A380 (various Grades) Change Control Engineer F35 Marshall Specialist Vehicles / Marshall Vehicle Engineering North Works, Airport Road, Cambridge, CB5 8RX / Hampstead Avenue, Mildenhall, SUFFOLK, IP28 7RE August 2006 October 2008 Project Verification Engineer General Support Vehicle UK MOD

AMOT (Roper Industries) Ltd Western Way, Bury St Edmunds, SUFFOLK, IP33 3SZ November 2008 Date Applications Engineer / Project Applications Engineer / Quality Engineer

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Roles, Skills and Core Competencies

Applications Engineer / Project Applications Engineer / Quality Engineer (AMOT)

Overview of role: Project managing thermostatic valves for nuclear applications. Principal point of contact for all nuclear application enquiries, as well as progressing existing supply contracts to powerplants across the world. Additional responsibilities is management of the AMOT Change Control process for Engineering tasks - ensuring that all submitted tasks are integrated into IFS and prioritised according to importance. Following transfer into the Quality Department, and with full stakeholder input I have been responsible for reviewing, rationalising and rewriting the internal manufacturing procedures . In addition I have been creating Product-Specific Inspection Guides for Chalwyn Products to ensure enhanced final inspection. Further activities include internal auditing to ensure that the procedures are correctly followed by manufacturing updates occur when appropriate development opportunities are spotted. Skills and Core Competencies: Understanding customer requirements; matching products to customer specifications; building and maintaining customer relationships; project management of time-critical products; organising and expediting customer inspection and testing of nuclear products; use of inspection reporting for concessed & rejected components; assessment of AMOT and Chalwyn products with respect to ATEX and PED certification; maintenance of product certification when required by customer order; internal auditing for all products manufactured on site. Project Verification Engineer (Marshall Specialist Vehicles - Marshall Vehicle Engineering) Overview of role: Project managing verification of loadbed product for General Support Vehicle contract for UK MoD (6500 vehicles over 7 years), ensuring that the performance of the product met the customer requirements. This involved arranging and being present at customer inspections to prove that the product worked as advertised. Also, Project Manager for integration of HIAB loader crane onto all variants of Support Vehicle (11 major types of vehicle, 30+ all variants). Also, day to day management of Riotous Armour Protection Kit for GSV (approx 200 kits). Kit is designed to withstand rocks and non-explosive damage whilst keeping crew safe and vehicle moveable. Was responsible for seeing project from initial tender, through design reviews and verification, to delivery to the customer. Skills and Core Competencies: Understanding customer requirements; building and maintaining customer relationships; project management of time-critical products from tender to delivery; organising and expediting customer inspection and testing of loadbed and crane products; maintaining a pro-active project management style to facilitate positive customer relations; representing the Company in inter-project meetings and customer inspections; proving the performance of the loadbed and
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crane product to the satisfaction of all stakeholders; planning and management of external vehicle trials to meet programme milestones; Change Control Champion for baseline+ changes to the loadbed product

Design Engineer / Change Control Engineer (British Aerospace BAE SYSTEMS)

Overview of role: working as a Design Engineer in the New Business and R&D Departments on the Hawk aircraft. This involved creation and modification of drawings, schemes and concepts using CATIA 3D CAD systems (up to V4.2) Working as a Design Engineer on various Hawk aircraft contracts (Australia LIF, Canada NFTC, South Africa Mk120, Bahrain AJT, RAF Mk128 AJT and India Mk132). My role was to produce detail and assembly drawings, schemes and hydraulic drawings to enable new-design manufacture to take place on the forward end of the aircraft. This involved liaising with all departments to ensure that the designs did not breach major surface constraints (e.g. aerodynamic considerations), stress limits or physical size limitations. Working on secondment with Airbus Filton, producing 3D models & 2D drawings of double-sided machined components. All design work was produced in conjunction with Technical Support Design Engineer working in Bangalore, India on licence build technical support for the Mk132 Hawk Aircraft. My role was to consult and advise on the technical design aspects of the Mk132 Hawk Aircraft (Design Information), to support its licence build by Hindustan Aircraft Limited (Bangalore). This involved interpreting the drawing set for the Indian customer, and suggesting possible manufacturing solutions, in conjunction with the parallel supplied engineering processes. Working as a Change Control Engineer on the Horizontal Tail for F35 Joint Strike Fighter. My role was to control the baseline configuration of the horizontal tail design activities, to ensure that integration was maintained with other parts of the Global Engineering Team, in the US (Texas and California). This involved liaising with all departments to ensure that the designs did not breach major surface constraints (e.g. aerodynamic considerations), stress limits or physical size limitations, as well as mainatining a robust configuration control system for the work package. Starting and completing a second Masters Degree (MSc in Aerospace Engineering) as part of a BAE-sponsored scheme. Course consisted of nine week-long modules and an individual & group thesis. My Individual Thesis was entitled Cost Optimisation of Lean Assembled Structures. The principle techniques discussed were the integration of FEA software, design constraints and advanced machining capabilities. This report drew on the work I undertook on secondment with Airbus (from BAE SYSTEMS)
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on the Inner-Outer Fixed Leading Edge work package on the A380 airliner project. The MSc Group report was called Total Eclipse Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The scope was to demonstrate the suitability of the Eclipse UAV to allow removal of the main vertical flight control surfaces. My contribution was to analyse the original air vehicle structure and to propose a Change Control method to qualify the new design. This project has subsequently become the Demon UAV, which recently successfully demonstrated flapless flight (i.e. flight without the use of moveable aerodynamic surfaces). Skills and Core Competencies: - Conceptual and Detail Design; Basic Design Stressing; CATIA V4 CAD experience (8000+ hrs); BAe ANVIL2000 2D CAD experience; Report Writing; MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint proficient; MSC NASTRAN / PATRAN Basic Understanding; Understanding customer requirements; building and maintaining customer relationships; project management of time-critical products;; maintenance of product certification when required by customer order; maintaining a pro-active project management style to facilitate positive customer relations; representing the Company in inter-project meetings and customer inspections; Control Champion for baseline+ changes to the F35 Horizontal Tail configurations; Understand and usage of typical and specific Production Management Systems to confirm and maintain configuration control of all work. Aircraft Projects worked on

Hawk Mk127 (Australia), Hawk Mk115 (Canada, NFTC), Hawk Mk120 (South Africa), Hawk Mk128 (RAF AJT), Hawk Mk129 (Bahrain), Hawk Mk132 (India) Eurofighter Typhoon Airbus A380 (Inner-Outer Fixed Leading Edge package) F35 Joint Strike Fighter (Horizontal Tail)

Engineering & IT Skills:

8000 hrs CATIA DESIGN - detail mechanical structure, piping, assys & schemes. 2500 hrs ANVIL2000 DESIGN - detail mechanical structure, assys & schemes. BAE SYSTEMS In-house DPDS & PEGS proficiency. Understanding in Metaphase Product Data Manager. Proficiency in many commercial standard PC packages e.g MSWord, MSExcel, MSPowerpoint, MSAccess, MSProject. Proficiency in IFS Document and Component Management System Currently learning to code in Java via an online training course

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