Daniel Megson

Experience

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  Royal Navy

  Jun 2010 - now

  Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility, ensuring the delivery of anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare system maintenance and repair. Furthermore assisting in the support of new initiatives to support the strategic direction related to the evaluation framework related to the role of a nuclear-powered attack submarine, assessing strengths, and identifying areas for improvement.Key Achievements:● Personnel management on a daily basis using both direct and matrix line management.● Directed engineering integration for radar, communications, sonar, weapons, hydraulic, pneumatic, and fire suppression systems.● Coordinated cross-functional partnerships across public and private sector organisations to ensure successful delivery of new combat platform capabilities in the form of commissioning and installation of new weapons and communications equipment on board submarines.● Concurrently managed a number of high-value technical projects, assuming responsibility for the entire project life cycle, including initiation, closure, and support, while adhering to policy, safety regulations and time constraints.● Organised and coordinated all stakeholder engagement through the use of MS Teams, SharePoint, email, and in-person meetings, amongst other channels of communication.● Effectively impacted the decisions of internal and external stakeholders ensuring the guaranteed successful completion of projects.● Spearheaded quality and safety audits; achieved 100% pass rate over 4-year period by enforcing rigorous risk management protocols.● Examining test forms, safe systems of work, tag-out procedures, and risk assessments, in addition to ensuring that permits to work are secured and that the relevant criteria are met. Show less Awarded a multiskilled engineering post as a Communications & Electronic Warfare Engineer aboard Trafalgar- class submarines. Key Achievements:• Undertook comprehensive maintenance and repairs of mechanical and electrical systems in accordance with a specialised maintenance management schedule.• Conducted operational readiness reviews and activation of all electronic, electrical, and mechanical systems. Authored maintenance plans aligned to reliability centred standards.• Maintained and monitored equipment in high volatile pressured environments.• Experience working with maritime communications and multimedia systems.• Experience dealing with UHF SATCOM systems Maritime, including knowledge of waveforms and systems used in the Naval Maritime environment. • Have a solid understanding of RF theory and application, as well as the usage of equipment used in RF system problem solving, such as a wide range use of general purpose testing equipment.• Deconflicted work packages to plan and execute preventative and corrective maintenance as needed, thereby ensuring that equipment is operated with minimal interruption. • Managed sophisticated control panels for systems that included ventilation systems, communication antennas, periscopes, fire-fighting systems, and highly pressurised pneumatics and hydraulics. Show less Ensuring the delivery of vital submarine networks and communications systems.• The ability to manage and maintain networks, including performance monitoring, troubleshooting and change implementation. Meeting the requirements of the submarine.• Understanding of virtual networking technologies such virtual LANs, switches, and routers.• A solid understanding of fibre optics serial and IP interface connections, as well as the associated equipment.• Complete conformity with all security procedures & protocols. Show less

  • Project Management Engineer

    Apr 2019 - now

  • Lead System Engineer

    Jan 2014 - Apr 2019

  • Communications Engineer

    Jun 2010 - Jan 2014