William Geoffrey Colin Roney MEng (Hons), MSc (Hons)

Address: 18 Abbot Road, Bury St Edmunds, SUFFOLK, IP33 3UB

Email Address: willroney@hotmail.com
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/willroney
Twitter: @willroney
Telephone (Mobile): +44 7950 659448
Personal Profile:
An enthusiastic, self motivated team player with over 15 years of
experience across a broad range of design disciplines. A well rounded
engineer with good interpersonal skills, combined with a balanced
understanding of manufacturing, commercial and programme
requirements. Excellent CATIA V4 capabilities coupled with a sound detail,
assembly and installation drafting background.
With a keen interest in the developing world of unmanned and manned
aerial systems, I am available to consult on all aspects of defence,
aerospace and automotive and all other types of Design & Project
Engineering.
Qualifications:

MSc in Aircraft Engineering (Cranfield University)

MEng (Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering (City University, London)
3 A-Levels (Maths, Physics, Chemistry), 8 GCSEs between Grades A&C

Employers
British Aerospace
Plc /
BAE SYSTEMS Plc
Saltgrounds Road,
Brough,
EAST YORKSHIRE,
HU15 1EQ
March 1997 August
2006
Design Engineer
Hawk/A380
(various Grades)
Change Control
Engineer F35

Marshall Specialist
Vehicles / Marshall
Vehicle Engineering
North Works, Airport Road,
Cambridge, CB5 8RX /
Hampstead Avenue,
Mildenhall, SUFFOLK, IP28
7RE
August 2006 October
2008
Project Verification
Engineer General Support
Vehicle UK MOD

References:
Supplied on request

AMOT (Roper
Industries) Ltd
Western Way,
Bury St
Edmunds,
SUFFOLK,
IP33 3SZ
November 2008 Date
Applications
Engineer /
Project
Applications
Engineer /
Quality Engineer

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Roles, Skills and Core Competencies

Applications Engineer / Project Applications Engineer / Quality

Engineer (AMOT)
Overview of role: Project managing thermostatic valves for nuclear
applications. Principal point of contact for all nuclear application enquiries,
as well as progressing existing supply contracts to powerplants across the
world. Additional responsibilities is management of the AMOT Change
Control process for Engineering tasks - ensuring that all submitted tasks
are integrated into IFS and prioritised according to importance.
Following transfer into the Quality Department, and with full stakeholder
input I have been responsible for reviewing, rationalising and rewriting the
internal manufacturing procedures . In addition I have been creating
Product-Specific Inspection Guides for Chalwyn Products to ensure
enhanced final inspection. Further activities include internal auditing to
ensure that the procedures are correctly followed by manufacturing
updates occur when appropriate development opportunities are spotted.
Skills and Core Competencies: Understanding customer requirements;
matching products to customer specifications; building and maintaining
customer relationships; project management of time-critical products;
organising and expediting customer inspection and testing of nuclear
products; use of inspection reporting for concessed & rejected
components; assessment of AMOT and Chalwyn products with respect to
ATEX and PED certification; maintenance of product certification when
required by customer order; internal auditing for all products
manufactured on site.
Project Verification Engineer (Marshall Specialist Vehicles - Marshall
Vehicle Engineering)
Overview of role: Project managing verification of loadbed product for
General Support Vehicle contract for UK MoD (6500 vehicles over 7 years),
ensuring that the performance of the product met the customer
requirements. This involved arranging and being present at customer
inspections to prove that the product worked as advertised. Also, Project
Manager for integration of HIAB loader crane onto all variants of Support
Vehicle (11 major types of vehicle, 30+ all variants). Also, day to day
management of Riotous Armour Protection Kit for GSV (approx 200 kits).
Kit is designed to withstand rocks and non-explosive damage whilst
keeping crew safe and vehicle moveable. Was responsible for seeing
project from initial tender, through design reviews and verification, to
delivery to the customer.
Skills and Core Competencies: Understanding customer requirements;
building and maintaining customer relationships; project management of
time-critical products from tender to delivery; organising and expediting
customer inspection and testing of loadbed and crane products;
maintaining a pro-active project management style to facilitate positive
customer relations; representing the Company in inter-project meetings
and customer inspections; proving the performance of the loadbed and
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crane product to the satisfaction of all stakeholders; planning and

management of external vehicle trials to meet programme milestones;
Change Control Champion for baseline+ changes to the loadbed product

Design Engineer / Change Control Engineer (British Aerospace BAE

SYSTEMS)
Overview of role: working as a Design Engineer in the New Business and
R&D Departments on the Hawk aircraft. This involved creation and
modification of drawings, schemes and concepts using CATIA 3D CAD
systems (up to V4.2)
Working as a Design Engineer on various Hawk aircraft contracts
(Australia LIF, Canada NFTC, South Africa Mk120, Bahrain AJT, RAF Mk128
AJT and India Mk132). My role was to produce detail and assembly
drawings, schemes and hydraulic drawings to enable new-design
manufacture to take place on the forward end of the aircraft. This involved
liaising with all departments to ensure that the designs did not breach
major surface constraints (e.g. aerodynamic considerations), stress limits
or physical size limitations.
Working on secondment with Airbus Filton, producing 3D models & 2D
drawings of double-sided machined components. All design work was
produced in conjunction with
Technical Support Design Engineer working in Bangalore, India on licence
build technical support for the Mk132 Hawk Aircraft. My role was to
consult and advise on the technical design aspects of the Mk132 Hawk
Aircraft (Design Information), to support its licence build by Hindustan
Aircraft Limited (Bangalore). This involved interpreting the drawing set for
the Indian customer, and suggesting possible manufacturing solutions, in
conjunction with the parallel supplied engineering processes.
Working as a Change Control Engineer on the Horizontal Tail for F35 Joint
Strike Fighter. My role was to control the baseline configuration of the
horizontal tail design activities, to ensure that integration was maintained
with other parts of the Global Engineering Team, in the US (Texas and
California). This involved liaising with all departments to ensure that the
designs did not breach major surface constraints (e.g. aerodynamic
considerations), stress limits or physical size limitations, as well as
mainatining a robust configuration control system for the work package.
Starting and completing a second Masters Degree (MSc in Aerospace
Engineering) as part of a BAE-sponsored scheme. Course consisted of
nine week-long modules and an individual & group thesis. My Individual
Thesis was entitled Cost Optimisation of Lean Assembled Structures. The
principle techniques discussed were the integration of FEA software,
design constraints and advanced machining capabilities. This report drew
on the work I undertook on secondment with Airbus (from BAE SYSTEMS)
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on the Inner-Outer Fixed Leading Edge work package on the A380 airliner
project.
The MSc Group report was called Total Eclipse Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
The scope was to demonstrate the suitability of the Eclipse UAV to allow
removal of the main vertical flight control surfaces. My contribution was to
analyse the original air vehicle structure and to propose a Change Control
method to qualify the new design. This project has subsequently become
the Demon UAV, which recently successfully demonstrated flapless flight
(i.e. flight without the use of moveable aerodynamic surfaces).
Skills and Core Competencies: - Conceptual and Detail Design; Basic
Design Stressing; CATIA V4 CAD experience (8000+ hrs); BAe ANVIL2000
2D CAD experience; Report Writing; MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint
proficient; MSC NASTRAN / PATRAN Basic Understanding; Understanding
customer requirements; building and maintaining customer relationships;
project management of time-critical products;; maintenance of product
certification when required by customer order; maintaining a pro-active
project management style to facilitate positive customer relations;
representing the Company in inter-project meetings and customer
inspections; Control Champion for baseline+ changes to the F35
Horizontal Tail configurations; Understand and usage of typical and
specific Production Management Systems to confirm and maintain
configuration control of all work.
Aircraft Projects worked on

Hawk Mk127 (Australia), Hawk Mk115 (Canada, NFTC), Hawk Mk120

(South Africa), Hawk Mk128 (RAF AJT), Hawk Mk129 (Bahrain), Hawk
Mk132 (India)
Eurofighter Typhoon
Airbus A380 (Inner-Outer Fixed Leading Edge package)
F35 Joint Strike Fighter (Horizontal Tail)

Engineering & IT Skills:

8000 hrs CATIA DESIGN - detail mechanical structure, piping,

assys & schemes.
2500 hrs ANVIL2000 DESIGN - detail mechanical structure, assys &
schemes.
BAE SYSTEMS In-house DPDS & PEGS proficiency.
Understanding in Metaphase Product Data Manager.
Proficiency in many commercial standard PC packages e.g MSWord,
MSExcel,
MSPowerpoint, MSAccess, MSProject.
Proficiency in IFS Document and Component Management System
Currently learning to code in Java via an online training course

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