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Project Manager Consultant
Bosch Rexroth
Apr 2013 - Present (11 years 8 months)
Due to my previous product development and project management success with Bosch I was asked back to take over the project management of the main product platform development for the plant.
The project had been facing several delays and the complexity was such that they needed a safe pair of hands to see the project through stage gates to SOP.
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Innovation Enabler
Keith Faskin Associates
Jun 2010 - Present (14 years 6 months)
My aim is through the projects I do and the way I manage them, to improve peoples lives by enabling companies to make a leap in product innovation
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Product Sourcing
Making the World Simpler
May 2010 - Present (14 years 7 months)
A new start up company which is developing and sourcing products which make complex systems and life simpler
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Senior Design Engineer
SKF Livingston
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013 (4 months)
Livingston is the SKF Condition Monitoring Center, giving feedback of live bearing running conditions. I was initially engaged to review and engineer the application of the technology in different bearing environments.
A drive to launch new technology at a Hannover exhibition, meant Livingston had to develop an exhibit for the show.
The exhibit was to be the centre piece to the SKF stand which displayed 2 bearings under different conditions and presented the results on remote screens, so the quality of both engineering mechanical elements and the aesthetic quality had to be to a very high standard. Within extremely short timescales challenging my engineering experience and relying on my own supplier base for some of the components.
The exhibit was successfully unveiled at the Hannover exhibition by the CEO of SKF.
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Consultant
VAX
Jan 2012 - Nov 2012 (10 months)
A fantastic opportunity like this seldom comes along where you have to create the redefinition of a brand. Embedding fresh ideas in the complete product range of consumer product.
As the senior member of a small team to redefine the subsidiary Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner brand. I brought my depth of experience to the product development process and in particular the top of the range product I designed. A multi-cyclone unit which, was described as "a sea change in vacuum aesthetics", also outperformed all expectations and was by far the quietest of its power range.
A further success was to have my development sketches used as the backdrop for the launch exhibition at IFA Berlin 2012
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Project Manager
Bosch Rexroth
Jun 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 6 months)
I was engaged to spearhead a project between Scotland and the Netherlands. Full financial control of the project; reporting profitability and timescales to an international team. Developed 2 innovative designs for a new market area, and represented the company to the client.
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Lead Design Engineer
ITT Defence
Jun 2009 - Jul 2010 (1 year 1 month)
As the Lead Design Engineer at ITT Defence. I set up the industrial design and mechanical engineering department and was responsibility for recruiting and building the department as a resource in the organisation. As part of my brief I had to bring the PDM system up to date for all the legacy products. I led work on 4 new products both creatively and technically consolidate our product range through better brand communication and across range ergonomics and interface transposition. I produced a design that greatly advanced the usability of and simplified the form factor of the combat soldiers Bowman radio. This redesign will reduce the soldier payload and extent its function in the combat day.
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Consultant engineer
Mahle
2008 - 2009 (1 year)
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Consultant Design Engineer
Antonov Plc
Mar 2007 - Jan 2008 (10 months)
Part of a small team we designed a new gear box, taking responsibility for the packaging of the components, two main covers as well as the shafts, laid out the installation into a VW golf engine bay.
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Consultant
Modis Europe Limited
2006 - 2008 (2 years)
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Designer
Seymour Powell
2006 - 2007 (1 year)
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Designer
Seymour Powell
2006 - 2007 (1 year)
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Consultant Designer
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Nov 2004 - Apr 2005 (5 months)
I worked in the styling house in a small team worked on several concept interiors; and with one other designer an exterior for the Berlingo II.
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Industrial Designer/ Design Engineer
Flextronics, Sony Erricson.
May 2004 - Oct 2004 (5 months)
Mobile phones.
Flextronics were engaged by Sony Ericsson to develop a new mobile phone. Keith Faskin was responsible for the development of the ID surfaces from the designer within Sony Erricson as well as the mechanical build of the main chassis and the detail design of plastic components. Worked with a team of 40 people of which he was one of the 4 mechanical designers to deliver a finished product. The project was under very tight deadlines, with the concurrent electronic engineering and software being integrate, rapid changes in both ID and mechanical layout was required to improve performance. The effect and rapidity of these changes went to several iterations. A secondary role was to do low level analysis using mould flow, and teaching Pro Engineer Wildfire.
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Designer
Exact Designs Ltd
1994 - 2003 (9 years)
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Consultant
Curve ID
Jun 2001 - Aug 2001 (2 months)
Worked in New York, on a new John Deere Gator vehicle. And a couple of Stanley products.
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Senior Design Engineer
Pifco
1995 - 1996 (1 year)