William Avison

Enthusiastic and motivated System Engineer with an Electronics background. Over 10 years experience in defence, transport and space industries. Managed the development, build and integration of Radiation Monitor Payloads, Satellite Imager Payloads and Orbit-Control Systems. Worked on the full life-cycle of AOCS, Imagers, Scientific Instruments and power systems. Proficient design, development, system-level, test, integration and customer-facing engineer. Competent in VHDL/FPGA, Python, TCL, HTML, Matlab, Unix, Cisco. Experienced test engineer - from board-level fault-finding through to customer training. Company champion of the Radiation Monitor, published in IEEE journal with Surrey Uni. A public speaker and ambassador for both the company and education of students. Guest speaker at an event headlined by astronaut Tim Peake, winner of ‘I’m an Engineer get me out of here’ 2016 and interviewed for an article on engineering in the Telegraph.