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Paul Sharp

Paul Sharp

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Technical Specialist at Altair

  • Education

    • Coventry University

      1994 - 1998
      BEng Automotive Engineering Design

      Activities and Societies: Member of University Ten-Pin Bowling Soc and representative of Coventry University at inter-university bowling tournaments, won Aston Doubles tournament in 1997 (I think!)

  • Experience

    • Rover Group

      Sept 1998 - May 2000
      Project Engineer

      New graduate Engineer working in Chassis and Crash FEA interspersed with departmental placements in Sales and Marketing, Chassis Development, Used FEA software Nastran, HyperMesh, PamCrash

    • MSX International

      May 2000 - Apr 2002
      Project Engineer

      Finite Element Analysis, using OASYS, LS-DYNA, RADIOSS, HyperMesh, Animator

    • Altair

      Apr 2002 - now

      Working in Validation team for Altair Structural Solvers, performing software QA, documentation updates and Radioss 2nd line support.OpenRadioss open source solver contributor, website and model database maintainer. Working in Validation team for Altair Structural Solvers, performing software QA, documentation updates and Radioss 2nd line support.Part of the OpenRadioss open source solver project delivery team including responsibility for the website and confluence content. Wrote Gmsh Radioss export template in C and OpenRadioss job submission guis in python/tk. Working as a Technical Specialist within Altair’s UK Support Team, responsible for supporting customers using Altair HyperWorks suite of pre-post tools and solvers, delivering training courses and providing pre-sales support to Sales team. Support desk engineer for Altair HyperWorks products, including OptiStruct, HyperStudy, HyperMesh, HyperView. Key responsibility is for RADIOSS Solvers. Responsibilities include performing software benchmarks for customers/prospects, customer support visits and giving on site training in the use of Altair products Support desk engineer for Altair HyperWorks products Altair Product Design, Project Engineer, using Altair products (including HyperMesh, HyperView, HyperStudy, OptiStruct, RADIOSS) and LS-DYNA to perform engineering projects for Altair engineering services customers in industries including Automotive, Aerospace, Medical and Packaging. Experience with Metallic, Composite and Plastics analysis and optimisation.

      • Senior Technical Specialist

        May 2023 - now

      • Technical Specialist

        May 2021 - May 2023

      • Technical Application Specialist

        Jan 2019 - May 2021

      • HyperWorks Specialist - RADIOSS

        Apr 2011 - Jan 2019

      • Applications Engineer

        Sept 2010 - Apr 2011

      • Senior Project Engineer

        Apr 2002 - Sept 2010

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Chartered Engineer

      Institute of Mechanical Engineers