Tim Burnham

Experience

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  Racal Acoustics Ltd

  Oct 1996 - Jun 2000

  - IMechE 'Responsible Experience' period of Initial Professional Development.- Significant bid preparation experience on defence programmes, including Bowman.- Mechanical design of avionic components, field telephones, battery chargers.- Key member of the team responsible for the multi-million pound 'Multitel' contract. - IMechE 'General Training' period of Initial Professional Development.- Graduate training placements within all company departments, including finance, S&M.- Mechanical design within the R&D department - military, avionic and commercial.- 7-week off-site 'Engineering Applications' training course. Produced the winning product. Featured in the 'Electronic Times' and 'Electronics Weekly'.

  • Intermediate Design Engineer

    Dec 1998 - Jun 2000

  • Graduate Design Engineer

    Oct 1996 - Nov 1998
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  Thales

  Jul 2000 - Jan 2006

  - Technical Lead and subsequently Project Manager on a £2m Private Venture programme.- 'Introduction to Management' programme. Place secured competitively across Thales.- WBS, project plans, action registers, risk registers, FCAC, budgeting.- Work Package Leader on Bowman programmes; teams of 16 multi-disciplined Engineers.- Member of the 'Acoustics Improvement Management' (AIM) 'Policy and Strategy' Team.- Named inventor on international patents and design registrations (granted and pending). Show less

  • Project Engineer

    Nov 2001 - Jan 2006

  • Senior Design Engineer

    Jul 2000 - Oct 2001
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  Esterline Racal Acoustics Limited

  Feb 2006 - Feb 2010

  - Technical Lead and Mechanical Design Authority on an 'Urgent Operational Requirement'.- 3 weeks from brief to prototypes on field trial. Product featured on BBC documentary.- Managed all Engineering aspects of the Far East supply chain, both remotely and on-site.- Significant exposure to the end customer, in identifying market opportunities, defining requirements, front end design, prototype trials, product life cycle management. - Managed design consultancies in the U.K., U.S. and Singapore.- Project managed military comms products, with the authority to sub-contract design.- Significant amount of time overseas, providing technical and managerial support (particularly in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Mexico and the U.S.), as Engineering Design Authority, liaising with design partners and manufacturing partners.

  • Principal Engineer

    Jul 2008 - Feb 2010

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Feb 2006 - Jun 2008
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  Esterline Communication Systems

  Mar 2010 - Feb 2012

  Principal Engineer - Offshore Product Introduction

  - Deputy to the Head of Engineering Solutions.- Responsible for the Engineering transition of new products to the offshore supply chain.

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  Leonardo

  Feb 2012 - Aug 2015

  - Head of Mechanical Engineering at the Electronic Warfare Centre of Excellence, in Luton; a Finmeccanica company. Leadership of a team of 30+ Mechanical Engineers, including proximity management of specialists in structural, pressure and thermal analysis. Reporting to the Selex ES Mechanical Engineering Director.- Mechanical Responsibility for Electronic Counter Measures, Pods and Decoys across Selex ES; self-protection systems that are in operation on rotary and fixed wing platforms around the world (most notably the Apache, Chinook and Eurofighter Typhoon). Show less

  • Head of Mechanical Engineering

    Jun 2013 - Aug 2015

  • Lead Mechanical Engineer

    Feb 2012 - Jun 2013
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  CostaX

  Aug 2015 - now

  - Led an in-house team of multi-disciplinary SME's (Subject Matter Experts) in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Software Configuration, Test Engineering, PLCM (Product Lifecycle Management).- Partnered with external industry leaders to develop world-class self-serve B2C (bean-to-cup) intelligent coffee concessions.- Marlow 1.2 (with ice) awarded the 'Product of the Year 2022' in Belgium (in the vended coffee machine category).- Deputised to the Product Development Director. Show less - Supported the due diligence phase of an acquisition of a US-based business (Briggo).- Supported the due diligence phase of Costa's acquisition by The Coca Cola Company from Whitbread in January 2019, with a purchase price of £3.9bn.- Led a team of multi-disciplinary engineers (and a significant team of third parties such as manufacturing partners and design consultancies) to design, develop and manufacture world-class self-serve B2C (bean-to-cup) intelligent coffee concessions.- Responsibility for design and development of hardware, machine software, compliance and certification, Product Management.- Defined and led the strategic direction of Product Development, in line with ambitious international growth plans.- Responsible for driving innovation and management of the intellectual property portfolio- Owned a £4.8M Capital Expenditure budget for 2019 R&D (for example).- Achieved Certification in 'Introduction to Coffee' from the 'Specialty Coffee Association' (May 2018).- Led a highly effective team. In the 2018 internal survey my team collectively voted a score of 97% Engagement and 96% Enablement, with 100% of the team being "Most Effective" in their roles. i.e., having the skills, facilities and direction needed to be effective in the delivery of their respective responsibilities.- Awarded "Team of the Year" in 2019 on behalf of the Technical Development team (the first time the team have been awarded this accolade, against some fierce competition). Show less

  • Head of New Product Introduction (NPI)

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Head of Engineering & PLCM

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Head of Technical Development

    Aug 2015 - Dec 2020