Glenn Patton

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.

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

• Testing and constructing medical filters

Passenger enumerator - Oscar Faber Engineering - Bristol

(2001-01 - 2001-01)

Summer work - One week

• Collating data from incoming Wales & West trains

Technician - MURO - Weston-super-Mare

(2001-01 - 2001-01)

Summer work - Two weeks

• Adjusting imported laminating equipment

BSc (Hons) - Engineering - University of the West of England, Bristol (1997-01 - 2002-12)

BTEC National Diploma - Engineering - Bridgwater College, Bridgwater (1994-01 - 1997-12)

A levels - Kings of Wessex, Sixth Form (1991-01 - 1994-12)

GCSEs - Kings of Wessex, Lower School (1988-01 - 1991-12)