William Geoffrey Colin Roney MEng (Hons), MSc

Address: 18 Abbot Road, Bury St Edmunds, SUFFOLK, IP33 3UB Telephone: +44 1284 704694 (home), + 44 7950 659448 (mobile) Email Address: willroney@hotmail.com Personal Profile: Im a conscientious, hard working individual. I have been involved in a variety of different projects, in a series of varied locations both in the UK and overseas. I consider myself a fully flexible team worker who will be an asset to any organisation both large or small. The range of skills that I can bring are an eye for detail, whilst maintaining an outlook on the bigger issues and picture that can affect a project. 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

Employment Details: AMOT, Western Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3SZ (Nov 08 Date) Applications Engineer (Nov 08 - Date)

Applications Engineer formerly reporting to the Customer Service Team in the Sales Department. Currently working within Engineering Department. Management of the internal Change Request Procedure - ensuring appropriateness, as well as priority and duration for proposed Engineering Tasks. Creation of Item Master information, uploading to SYSPRO Production software, ensuring that the customer gets the correct version of the valve that they wanted. Running customer Project for Perkins (new Air Shut Off Valve) - coordinating the design of the valve, and collating costings to ensure that the margins for the product is maintained, and that prototypes will be available for development performance and endurance testing. Running customer Project for ALSTOM - co-ordinating the design and supply of customer-specific thermostatic control valves for five nuclear power plants (Olkiluoto 3, Flamanville 3, Hongyanhe & Ningde, Taishan). Ensuring that the valves are delivered in a timely manner for the end use of the customer. Running customer Project for Cummins India - co-ordinating the design and supply of customer-specific valves for diesel engines in India, via

company distributor. Ensuring that the valves are delivered in a timely manner for the end use of the customer. Providing nuclear safety awareness training as part of on-going contracts with ALSTOM and their customers. Monitoring and providing updates to procedures on internal IFS document management system within the Engineering Department. Creating reports on potential markets for the business to expand into currently looking at expansion into the Nuclear Applications Market.

Marshall Specialist Vehicles Ltd, North Works, The Airport, Cambridge, CB5 8RX (Aug 06 Oct 08) Marshall Vehicle Engineering Ltd, Hampstead Avenue, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7RE (Apr 07 - Oct 08) Project Verification Engineer (Aug 06 - Oct 08)

Project Verification Engineer on MoD Support Vehicle Contract (6500 vehicles) Day to day planning and management of risk reduction (in-house) testing regime ensuring that the product (vehicle loadbed) is built with a degree of confidence and assurance for the customer. Day to day management and planning of wider testing, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements for MoD Support Vehicle contract. Planning and management of external trials programmes to ensure the long-term suitability of the product e.g. function and operational durability Regular liaison with customer and supplier teams in the UK and within Europe (MoD, MAN, HIAB) to ensure an effective and efficient programme schedule is maintained. Representation of MSV across the UK at project review meetings. New Technology champion to ease existing processes and procedures driving cost out of product whilst retaining functional capability of vehicle. Design Liaison between the Project and Production parts of the programme, ensuring that understanding is paramount in the organisation. Lead Engineer for RAP / Armour, Crane & Tail-Lift sub-programmes (total value approx 9m) - ensuring that schedules are maintained and that the programme runs to budget. Change Control Champion for baseline+ changes to the loadbed General Technical Support for non-specific areas of the Vehicle Engineering business.

BAE SYSTEMS Plc, Brough, East Yorkshire (1997 2006) Design Engineer 3 / Change Control Engineer (April 06 Aug 06)

Design Engineer 3 working as a Change Control Engineer on F35 Joint Strike Fighter. Co-ordination with US and UK teams on a regular basis. Ensuring correct progression of changes. Ensuring correct use and utilisation of standards. Managing aircraft package configuration change using Metaphase Product Data Manager tool. Representation of Brough Integrated Product Team at global project meetings To create and manage change on the F35 Horizontal Tail package of work for all variants (CTOL, STOVL & CV). To manage and organise nominations for the BAE SYSTEMS Chairmans Awards scheme for 2006. Lead Assessor for BAE SYSTEMS Chairmans Award Scheme. Technical Design Support Engineer, Bangalore (Sep 04 April 06) o Based in India as the technical point of contact for questions relating to the manufacture and engineering of Mk132 Hawk. o Ensuring a smooth transfer of manufacturing information from the UK to India. o Setting up of IT systems and processes in factory office. o Maintenance of a rigid configuration control system and procedures for supplied o datapack. o Liaison with the UK regularly to ensure client and supplier satisfaction. o Design support for all departments within Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, guiding them o through the information that they had received from the UK. o Ensuring technical compliance.

Design Engineer 2 Hawk New Aircraft Design (Apr 03 Sep 04) Design Engineer 2 A380 Inner Fixed Leading Edge (Nov 01 Apr 03) Creating drawings for new manufacture of components, assemblies, machined components and installations. Integration of systems ranging from pipework to electrical cabling, ensuring a right-first time approach was maintained. Management of tasks ensuring correct configuration of component/assembly/installation was manufactured. Part-time MSc in Aircraft Engineering Cranfield University (Feb 00 Apr 03) o Consisted of three residential weeks per year and nine modules ranging from designing and stressing, to flight dynamics. o Sponsored by BAE.

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Course had a practical approach to learning, involving college aircraft and manufacturing facilities. Individuals had to produce a personal thesis as well as a group thesis. Group work related to novel control of an unmanned aerial vehicle created by a previous group. Individual thesis was derived from work in progress at the time on Airbus A380 utilising a novel design-thro-stress package Course passed 2003

Design Engineer 2 Hawk New Aircraft Design (Mar 99 Nov 01)

Creating drawings for new manufacture of components, assemblies and installations. Integration of systems. Ensuring correct configuration of component/assembly/installation. During this time I also started a three-year part time MSc at Cranfield University (completed April 2003).

Design Engineer 1 Hawk New Aircraft Design (Mar 97 Mar 99)

Creating drawings for new manufacture of components, assemblies and installations. Ensuring integration of systems and correct configurations. Short spell in Flight Test Engineering as part of introductory training scheme compiling reports or future test profiles. Short introductory spell in R&D working within Design.

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