Professional
A multidisciplinary engineer, I pride myself on my ability to build positive professional relationships with end clients and their staff, which in high volume manufacturing and production environments, can be an invaluable skill, if, and when, critical issues arise. Customers know they can trust my can-do attitude, to find and implement a solution.
I completed an apprenticeship as a fitter & turner between 2003 – 2008 at a specialist hydraulic company in Dublin, Ireland, before moving to Australia, and working as a maintenance fitter in various different industries such as mining, manufacturing and heavy sheet metal processing.
It was at Locker Group in Melbourne, Australia, between 2009 – 2012, and while carrying out day to day maintenance on several large SOENEN hydraulic punching presses, that I had my first real exposure to CNC machinery, and I then decided that I wanted to learn more about this technology.
In 2012 I sought out a Service Technician role with the Australian company GWB Machine Tools, where I had the opportunity to work with LVD sheet metal industry machines such as CNC laser cutters, press brakes, turret punching machines and metal shears.
It was this experience which took me to Germany in 2015, where I began to work for the German office of LVD, also as a Service Technician, while also completing a Bachelors Degree in Mechatronics with the ATU in Sligo, Ireland, for which I received a distinction for my efforts.
It was 2017 when I first began my journey as a freelancing project engineer at the company WAVELABS Solar Meteorology Systems GmbH in Leipzig, Germany, for whom I also worked as a full time employee between 2018 – 2021, before then returning to freelancing in 2022.