Mark Broughton

Ski Instructor

I’ve spent the last 4 ski seasons as a volunteer ski instructor for MASR. As a ski instructor you need to relate well to different people, extract information and make them feel at ease, you have 5 mins to analyze a person's skiing, come up with a plan, and backup plans as people learn differently! also complicated by accounting for disabilities. I worked with the equipment techs to modify equipment to a students need - my engineering and problem solving skills came in very useful doing this

I was initially employed to help with checking data prior to it being imported into the company's new HRIS (Workday) however with several years software engineering experience and the ability to pick up new things very quickly I was asked to take on the additional responsibility of configuring the absence management portion of the Workday implementation. I was able to make significant progress on this after just a couple of hours training.

Acted as head of controls and software development for various hybrid and electric vehicle projects developed in MATLAB/Simulink and C, developed a PC a based CAN simulator written in C#. Assisted with the development and implementation of a Quality Management System including writing key software development and release procedures, to assist the company with its progress towards achieving ISO:9001.

I was responsible for managing one of the company's key production customers this involved managing day to day production issues with 3rd party suppliers, managing ongoing software updates. In addition, I was responsible for a variety of projects, projects varied in size and scope up to three years with twelve engineers. In partnership with the customer developed the Start/Stop strategy for a gasoline/electric hybrid engine using Matlab/Simulink and coded in C and assembler.

I worked on a project to develop a new chassis and gearbox control systems intended to run on the 2003 car. The role was to develop the DSP data logging software, with additional responsibility for developing the API and porting the existing control system applications.

I was responsible for the software in the Data Acquisition Module, resolving problems in the existing software; designed and implemented new functionality. In conjunction with the support role I took a lead role in the development of a new data acquisition system

At TAG developed software for Formula One electronic control units in C and Assembler for multi-processor systems. Developed a new switch interface unit and display control system, developing the complete system from initial concept to production within three months.

I was the Project Technical Authority for a Siemens 167-based real-time embedded engine control system and verification team leader for Rolls-Royce Trent program.