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Kelvin Griffiths

Kelvin Griffiths

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  • About me

    Company Director at Electroacoustic Design Ltd.

  • Education

    • Stockport College/ University College Salford

      1990 - 1992
      HNC Electrical/ Electronic Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Industrial Experience: Prototype and SMT PCB experience – component identification/ tolerance, soldering, panel wiring, adherence to standards etc. Electrical appliance fault rectification and repair. Hands-on experience in studio recording in a 24 track analogue recording suite. Experience using digital audio sequencing software and wave editing.

    • The University of Salford

      1995 - 1999
      BEng (Hons) Electroacoustics

      Activities and Societies: First year – “Unified Engineering” providing a solid foundation with exposure to varied engineering disciplines: Accredited degree course for standard route CEng registration.Final year project: “Investigating the load impedance of loudspeaker cabinets using a standing wave tube”.

  • Experience

    • Goodmans Loudspeakers Limited

      Aug 1999 - Mar 2004

      Responsible for the development and implementation advanced design tools and facilities for the global engineering team. Responsible for the core design, measurement and optimisation of loudspeaker drive units based on a comprehensive competitor benchmark.

      • Research Engineer

        Oct 2000 - Mar 2004

      • Development Engineer

        Aug 1999 - Oct 2000

    • KEF AUDIO (UK) LIMITED

      Apr 2004 - Jul 2004
      Engineering Consultant

      Responsible for the appropriation and installation of a custom built scanning Laser Doppler vibrometer for loudspeaker measurements.Creation, compilation and documentation of a material properties database in support of engineering design activities.

    • Harman Becker Automotive Systems

      Jul 2004 - Jan 2008

      Coordination, planning and team leadership of a number of interrelated R&D projects collectively producing an innovative internal system development tool. Focussed knowledge transfer and expert user support in simulation activites for the transducer design team.

      • Manager (European Advanced R&D Group)

        Oct 2004 - Jan 2008

      • Principal Engineer

        Jul 2004 - Oct 2004

    • HARMAN International

      Jan 2008 - May 2011
      Manager, Instrumentation and Test

      Global responsibility for the delivery of internal instrumentation products supporting expert R&D activities.

    • GP Acoustics

      May 2011 - Feb 2012
      Head of Acoustic Development

      Coordinated a re organisation of the engineering plan to optimise efficiency.Managed the development of the successor to a market leading loudspeaker system in a multi-disciplinary engineering team.Developed a documentation process for efficient retrieval of detailed experimental data describing product performance.Conducted a comprehensive loudspeaker benchmark study to AES-20 (2008)

    • Electroacoustic Design Limited

      Dec 2011 - now
      Company Director

      Expertise on applied aspects of numerical modelling in electroacoustic product development.Established a number of industrial partnerships facilitating the delivery of engineered solutions to meet world class performance targets under aggressive project timelines.Creation of an efficient design workflow for audio product design adding value from concept to volume production

    • Dolby Laboratories

      Apr 2014 - now
      Consultant in Electroacoustics

      Development of audio hardware, test methods and design tools

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Liaison Officer

      Issued by Engineering Council on May 2016
      Engineering CouncilAssociated with Kelvin Griffiths

    • Senior User Representative

      Issued by Engineering Council on Nov 2023
      Engineering CouncilAssociated with Kelvin Griffiths

    • Engineering Committee Liaison Officer, Interviewer and Assessor

      Issued by Institute of Acoustics on Jun 2015
      Institute of AcousticsAssociated with Kelvin Griffiths