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Graduate Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer - INEOS Grangemouth

September 2024 - Present

September 2024 - March 2025

Instrument, Control and Electrical Assurance Engineer

March 2025 - August 2025

Hydrocarbons Infrastructure Asset E&I Engineer

August 2025 - Present

KG Ethylene Cracker Asset E&I Engineer

IC Design Engineer - STMicroelectronics

June 2022 - September 2024

Working with the Special Projects Team for Technology for Optical Sensors within the Imaging division. Primarily designing schematics and IC layouts for simulation and implementation within Cadence Virtuoso, currently engaged in ultra-low power energy harvesting applications with a particular focus on analogue electronics and IC layout design. Tape-out planned.

MEng Dissertation - "Design of a 3D-Stacked Energy Harvesting Ambient Light Sensor with 8-bit Digital Output" Project HELIOS

MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Heriot-Watt University)

Graduated June 2024

First Class (76%) - UKESF Scholarship

HWRACING Formula Student - Powertrain Division

September 2022 -May 2024

• Group Masters Project - "Design of a Distributed Accumulator Temperature Monitoring (DATM) system for a Formula Student tractive system accumulator"

• UKESF STEM Ambassador

• Self Directed Project - "Investigation of Hyperspectral Imaging and Processing"

• Co-authored “Self-Powered Ambient Light Sensor Using Energy Harvesting Pixels and Zero Power Communication”, IISW 2023, Crieff, Scotland

• Cadence Virtuoso Suite - Layout Design, Schematic Design, PVT, Eldo/Spectre

• Altium Designer - PCB Design

• Keysight ADS - RF System Design

• UNIX and LINUX familiarity

• C, Python and MATLAB Familiarity

• STM32 MCU development and STM32CubeIDE

• CAD/3D Printing