Helen Dickinson

Helen Dickinson

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  • About me

    Experienced software developer and quality manager

  • Education

    • The Open University

      2012 - 2013
      Postgraduate Diploma Medical Physics
    • University of Southampton

      1981 - 1984
      PhD Theoretical Physics
    • University of Oxford

      1978 - 1981
      MA Physics
  • Experience

    • Software Sciences Ltd

      Jan 1984 - Jan 1987
      Programmer

      Member of the team performing the requirements analysis, system design, implementation plans and costings for the ESA funded oceanographic remote-sensing satellite, ERS-1 satellite data centre.

    • Science Systems Ltd

      Jan 1987 - Jan 1989
      Analyst

      Various team member and team leader roles on PC and VMS projects using ‘C’ and database packages. Experience of design methodologies and CASE tools as well as adhering to the company’s quality management system

    • Adacel

      Jan 1989 - Jan 1993
      Consultant

      Various Software Project Manager roles for projects for CSIRO and the Australian CAA.One of the team which produced the Adacel Quality Management System leading to the accreditation of the company to AS6563 (equivalent to IS09000).

    • Science System (Space) Limited (now Scisys)

      Jan 1993 - Jan 1994
      Principal Analyst

      Technical Bid Manager and then Project Manager for a fixed price project for NRSC.

    • SCISYS PLC

      Jan 1997 - Jan 2010
      Senior Consultant

      Experience with the full lifecycle of Software Development using Space specific software development standards. Test Manager and Project Manager for many ground segment and onboard software projects for ESA and Eutelsat. Member of QA department acting as Space Quality Manager and SciSys Audit Manager.

    • Siemens PLM Software

      Sept 2015 - Jul 2019
      Software Engineer, Operations & Consulting

      Member of the Operations & Consulting group of Siemens PLM software providing technical support for Siemens Open Tools products including Parasolid (one of the world's leading 3D solid modelling toolkits.)

    • Undo

      Aug 2019 - Sept 2020
      Quality Engineer
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