TOM OAKLEY

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Profile

A highly dedicated, intelligent and widely skilled engineering consultant with flair for innovative design and business development.

By leading or working with multidisciplinary project teams, Tom consistently delivers projects that produce high quality safety-critical designs for mass production.

Employment History

Cambridge Design Partnership Cambridge, England

Partner and Head of Drug Delivery April 2010 - Present

Responsible for growing sales of consultancy work across the business
Grew the drug delivery device development business, starting with dry powder inhalers and expanding into infusion pumps and injectors

Cambridge Design Partnership Cambridge, England

Head of Drug Delivery March 2009 - March 2010

Grew the capability within Cambridge Design Partnership to undertake state-of-the-art drug delivery device development projects (including expanded skill sets, new project office, new CAD system, and design quality system tailored to exceed the FDA's 21CFR820.30)
Won several major new clients
Unfortunately, further details remain confidential

Cambridge Design Partnership Cambridge, England

Senior Design Engineer, Medical Devices March 2005 - February 2009

Project Manager and Lead Engineer for the lancing system for a major new glucose measurement device
Created artifical arteries for use in medical device development
Undertook all mechanical engineering of the Satmap Active 10 GPS consumer mapping device for outdoors and sports use
Designed the production system for joining highly sensitive parts in a challenging physical environment
Created new sales leads and won new consultancy projects for CDP

Dyson Ltd. Wiltshire, England

Senior Design Engineer and Test Manager April 2004 - March 2005

Created, managed and motivated a dedicated team of mechanical and electronic technicians and machinists to test assemblies on the company's largest project
Implemented a new test process based on FMEAs to feed the design team
Controlled the company's largest project budget, in excess of £1.5m
Fully trained in Six-Sigma Design of Experiments
Represented and promoted Dyson by conducting external lectures, workshops and interviews

Project Manager January 2004 - March 2004

Organised the marketing trial of a new product in the company's largest future market
Co-ordinated personnel from mechanical and electronic design, marketing and testing to deliver the company's most advanced prototype to date
Improved company-wide design by writing and conducting training on tolerance allocation, process selection and gear design

Design Engineer April 2001 - December 2003

Responsible for concept derivation, detail design, prototyping, validation (testing), tooling, production readiness and production support
Demonstrated close teamwork, application of engineering theory, creative and practical problem solving, and continuous supplier liaison
Fully trained in Design for Six-Sigma (Quality Function Deployment, concept generation and selection, poke yoke, FMEA and process capability)
Communicated and justified ideas through face-to-face contact, sketches and models, and solid computer models and engineering drawings created using 3D Unigraphics. Analyzed designs using DesignSpace

IBM 2000 Olympic Program Sydney, Australia

VIP Guide August 2000 - December 2000 working holiday

Represented IBM on tours and technology demonstrations for international VIPs invited to the Olympic Games
Organised medical support in emergencies

Harvard Occupational Biomechanics Laboratory Boston, USA

Software developer and biomechanics researcher January 2000 - June 2000

Designed, wrote and tested a program for analyzing electromyograph results in support of commercial research on human muscle function. Results were used in US legislation
Assisted post-doctoral researchers and assistant professors with human experiments
Contributed to workshops and seminars on biomechanics within Harvard and without

Ricardo Consulting Engineers Ltd. Shoreham, England

Industrial Trainee, part of ImechE MPDS scheme September 1994 - June 1995 plus summers 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999

Designed and tested a wheelchair access subassembly for the Chrysler Voyager
Wrote commercial contracts and proposals for client projects
Improved client understanding of complex engine vibration using the finite element programs Femgen, PAFEC and NASTRAN
Reduced emissions of diesel engines by redesigning cylinder heads using AutoCAD and ProEngineer

Education

Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA

Choate Fellow and Engineering Special Student 1999 - 2000

Courses in: Systems Analysis, Environmental Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Physiology (Harvard School of Public Health) and Assessing Governments (Kennedy School of Government)

Cambridge University Cambridge, England

Masters Degree in Engineering 1998 - 1999

Courses in: Design Methods, Design Case Studies, Designing with Composites, Applications of Dynamics, Internal Combustion Engines, International Business Economics and Petroleum Engineering. Major Project on the dynamics of snake-like robots.

Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Double First Class Honours 1995 - 1998

Coursework in: Fluid Dynamics, Engineering Materials, Mechanics of Machines, Mechanics of Solids, and work, Technology and Society.

Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College Brighton, England

Placed in the top five of all candidates (UK and other) for Design and Technology A-level.

Design and Technology A, Physics A, Pure Mathematics A, Applied Science A.

Ten GCSEs at grade A.

Computer skills

Minitab statistical analysis for Design of Experiments and Process Capability analysis
Power user of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Complete fluency with Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems
Expert knowledge of HTML, WML, JavaScript and CSS
Non-commercial fluency in Python, Java, C#, C and PHP languages and SQL databases

Other skills

Management of numerous projects at Cambridge Design Partnership of multi-million dollar value
Engineering Drawings to BS 8888
Clean and current driving license

Further information

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