Lead Systems Engineer - Active Aerodynamics at Jaguar Land Rover Ltd (2021-01 – Present)
Technical authority for active-aerodynamics systems across multiple vehicle programmes, directing the systems team, mentoring developing engineers and leading system integration across mechatronic hardware, embedded software and controls teams.
- Led system design through significant design evolution, resolving technical challenges and incorporating multidisciplinary feedback while maintaining overall design coherence.
- Led system verification from strategy and planning through execution, defect resolution and final demonstration of performance against requirements.
- Led hands-on diagnosis of complex mechatronic issues using CANalyzer to interrogate smart actuators, analysing system data and applying structured root-cause methods to isolate previously uncharacterised faults.
- Arbitrated competing stakeholder requirements, making system-level technical decisions balancing durability, positional accuracy and perceived quality.
- Rebuilt the system's SE operating model following in-service issues, establishing clear ownership and working practices across system, controls and component layers to improve communication and traceability.
- Led resolution of urgent in-market customer issues, coordinating stakeholders and implementing permanent corrective actions.
- Established the systems-engineering baseline for an inherited legacy design, authoring the ConOps, SRD, system architecture and sub-system ICDs.
- Translated multidisciplinary stakeholder needs into system requirements and allocated requirements across controls, hardware and embedded software.
- Lead weekly system-integration reviews across controls, hardware and embedded software teams, driving resolution of cross-functional technical issues.
- Owned system fault architecture and behaviour, defining fault detection, response and recovery strategies and working with software and firmware teams to implement and verify them.
- Originated the Multi-Device Active Aerodynamics concept and secured senior approval to develop multiple interacting active devices as an integrated system; subsequently appointed technical lead.
- Leading the introduction of OPM-based functional modelling within JLR, using value analysis to define functions, interactions and integrated behaviour for future vehicle programmes.
Front-End Cooling Functional Lead at Jaguar Land Rover Ltd (2019-01 – 2021-12)
Led a CAE team of five engineers while providing cross-car-line technical leadership for brake-cooling performance across approximately 13 vehicle lines.
- Led development of brake-cooling solutions across multiple programmes, meeting cooling requirements while minimising package, mass and aerodynamic penalties.
Thermal Attribute / Architecture Lead at Jaguar Land Rover Ltd (2017-01 – 2019-12)
Led CAE and vehicle-test teams delivering thermal performance across two high-volume vehicle lines, with architectural and technical responsibility for vehicle-level solutions and sign-off recommendations.
- Led resolution of a safety-critical thermal issue immediately prior to production launch, coordinating component and vehicle-system teams while balancing thermal, NVH and electrical-power constraints.
- Directed CAE and vehicle-test activity, specifying vehicle-level thermal instrumentation and measurement plans to support analysis, issue diagnosis and technical sign-off.
Thermal / Brake Cooling CAE Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover Ltd (2011-01 – 2016-12)
- Developed and validated brake-cooling and thermal-management solutions across SUV and sports-car programmes, with several design concepts remaining in use on later production vehicles.
- Developed coupled aerodynamic / thermal simulation methods and combined CAE and physical-test evidence to support engineering decisions and sign-off.
CAE Engineer - Virgin Formula One Project at Wirth Research (2010-01 – 2011-12)
- Supported CFD and aerodynamic development for the 2011 Formula One car, including geometry preparation and virtual / physical build processes.
Student Aerodynamicist - Industrial Placement at Honda F1 Team (2007-01 – 2008-12)
- Designed aerodynamic parts for wind-tunnel and race-car development, prepared and ran wind-tunnel sessions and supported prototype manufacture.
Design & Benchmarking - Industrial Placement at Tata Motors European Technical Centre (2007-01 – 2007-12)
- Developed equipment and methodology for accelerator-pedal feel assessment and competitor benchmarking.
