Jay Porteous

Experience

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  Royal Navy

  Sept 1989 - Sept 1997

  Weapon Engineering Artificer Petty Officer

  Team Leader of 12 maintainers and technical control of 3 advanced weapon systems.Solely responsible for 3 explosive magazines, security, safety and fire prevention systems.Report writing both technically and personnel.Planning of maintenance within specific guidelines.Reactive fault finding under extreme pressure in hostile environment.Event organisation, presentation, teaching and discipline of team and department when under daily officer duties Served mainly on HMS INVINCIBLE as a fully skilled technical senior rate responsible for all aspects of upkeep maintenance, repair and reporting on a state of the art weapon system, namely CIWS3 GOALKEEPER. Leading a team of mechanics the primary role was to maintain the system at an optimum level to ensure operational efficiency, being directly involved in the conflict in former Yugoslavia for its duration, this was consistently under pressure during both operational and maintenance periods. As a senior technical rate other duties included Officer of the Quarter and Duty Weapons Senior Rate. The former involving the accounting, maintenance and provision of munitions and the upkeep, security and safekeeping of compartments dedicated to explosives. The latter required representation of the Captain and Weapon Engineering Commander out of normal working hours. Show less

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  Loadtite

  Sept 1997 - Jun 2003

  Crane Services Manager

  Head of Hoist and Crane, control of engineers and techniciansProject management for large customers. Including - BAE, Rolls Royce, Pilkington GlassInstallation, Design, Testing and Certification of Cranes and associated equipment be it mechanical, electrical or electronic.Wireless and Infrared systems.Documentation reports, drawing adjustments and technical descriptions.

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  TJ Transmission A/S

  Oct 2012 - Sept 2015

  Network Technician

  Control and instigation of Network Projects from lead to installation.Testing and Certification to manufacturers standards.Customer Relations and aftersales.Maintenance of existing network and electrical systems.

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  Trustpilot

  Sept 2015 - Apr 2018

  Network Specialist

  Global Network and Infrastructure, Technical support in all aspects of new office locations, Contractor Liason and negotiations, Project Management

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  Siemens

  Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Senior Design Engineer

    Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Network Engineer

    Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
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  NanoString Technologies, Inc.

  Mar 2020 - Oct 2024

  • Regional Manager, Field Services EMEA

    May 2024 - Oct 2024

  • Regional Supervisor

    Jan 2023 - May 2024

  • Field Service/Support Engineer

    Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
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  Bruker Spatial Biology

  May 2024 - now

  Regional Manager, Field Services EMEA

  Nanostring is now part of Bruker Spatial Biology!