Glenn Patton

Electronic system design specialist in real time processing and embedded systems

Weston-super-Mare, North SomersetMember since May 9, 2024

Design of medium and high frequency antennasInstallation of Passive and Active tagsKnowledge of the use of varying pieces of lab equipment for RF workNetwork AnalysersSpectrum AnalysersC#6502 Assembler8086 AssemblerPIC AssemblerVHDLPascalVisual BasicVisual Basic .NETBasicSerial Communication between PC & other devicesMS OfficeStar OfficeLinuxPC repair and maintenance

About

To work in the field of Electronic system design, specialising in real time processing and embedded systems using C / Assembler or other applicable programming languages.

Experience

CEA Trainer - Babcock Lyneham

(2026-06 - 2026-09)

Specialising in Digital and Microelectronics systems

Use of Boolean Algebra & Combinational Logic
Use of Matrix Processor Trainers
Use of Flow Code

Test Engineer - Stirling Dynamics

(2024-07 - 2024-12)

Working on Flight Simulator products

Electronics Production Engineer - Limbs and Things

(2022-12 - 2024-06)

Developing new Electronic Test Methods

Contractor - New Product Introduction for Rail systems - Siemens Mobility - Europe

(2021-01 - 2022-12)

Working on Rail systems in Europe

Testing of new style of Antenna for Rail communication
Design of testing of Antenna to meet standards
Testing Antenna operation
Corrections to Antenna assembly to meet standards

Contractor - Subsea electronics - Baker Hughes

(2020-01 - 2021-12)

Working on Subsea electronics for Oil & Gas production

Design of interface using RS422 communication standards
Use of High Pressure simulation systems
Design of Tests to simulate sea floor operation
Payload operation & simulation for subsea networks

Contractor - Motor Controllers company - Bridgwater

(2020-01 - 2020-01)

3 Days - Developing Motor Controllers

Use of Flowcode
Fault finding a prototype Controller

Test Engineer - Costain Digital

(2017-01 - 2020-12)

Testing and trouble shooting various electronic road signs and associated pieces of equipment, such as Controllers & a new style of Message sign to be installed on the A26

Use of Jira bug tracing software
Use of Multiple pieces of networking software to allow some faults to be found
Writing custom pieces of C# software to allow serial communications to allow features of hardware to be explored while not having the full software suite available

Contractor - Passive Acoustic Monitoring firm

(2016-01 - 2016-12)

3 Months - Solving issues with Hardware and Firmware of prototypes

Use of Texas instruments AVR platform
Use of ARM controllers

Contractor - ATE equipment development - Asquared Technologies

(2016-01 - 2016-01)

1 Month - Developing ATE equipment for egg incubation

Use of Visual Studio to allow boards to be tested remotely

Contractor - Crane Merchandising Systems

(2015-01 - 2015-12)

5 Months - Regarding moving PCB Production to China

Writing test documentation
Verifying component life

Designer - Automated test equipment - Xed Ltd.

(2008-01 - 2014-12)

Design of Automated test equipment for water industry

Interfacing Windows to instrumentation & custom hardware using Visual Studio .NET (C#)
Testing of various items for the automated billing equipment
Use of various Embedded platforms including Microchip PIC & Texas Instruments MSP430 using C
Testing of RF metering equipment using various Radio Modules & Pieces of Lab equipment
Testing of Video systems components, including image capture boards & video routing boards which are part of Air Traffic control systems

Test and Debug Engineer - Vutrix Ltd.

(2005-01 - 2008-12)

Testing and Debugging of Hi-Definition Video Screens

Designer and Test Engineer - RF Products Ltd.

(2004-01 - 2005-12)

Design and testing of commercial RF identification Equipment

Using both Alien & Samsys readers as well as Texas Instruments 13.56 MHz families
Creation of user interfaces on PC platform as well as PC104 based systems using a mix of Visual Studio 6 (VB6) and Visual Studio .NET (VB.NET & C#)

Equipment tester - Bioquell Medical - Weston-super-Mare

(2002-06 - 2002-06)

Summer work - Four weeks