Steve W
Mechanical Design Specialist at Open Bionics
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve W is a Mechanical Design Specialist with 13 years’ experience and over three decades of hands-on expertise across automotive, aerospace, nuclear fusion and prosthetics design. He is a seasoned CAD/CAM engineer fluent in CATIA V5/V4 and CADDS5, with deep NC programming and machining know-how and a track record designing composite aircraft structures and fusion reactor remote-handling components. As a creative inventor and leader he developed parametric CAD for the medically certified 3D-printed Hero Arm and bridges digital workflows to production at Open Bionics, while running his own R&D consultancy Gyrobot. He operates multiple 3D-printing facilities and is experienced across FDM, SLS and MJF processes, and has self-taught proficiency in modern CAD tools like Onshape and Fusion 360. Known for turning complex, safety-critical requirements into manufacturable designs, he also brings practical factory-side skills as a 3D-printer maintenance engineer and trainer.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
'O' Levels, English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, Woodwork, Engineering Drawing, 'O' Levels, English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, Woodwork, Engineering Drawing at Plant Hill High School, Manchester, UKHNC, Mechanical Engineering, HNC, Mechanical Engineering at North Star College, Swindon, UK
Github Skills (20)
robotics9
hackspace9
ros9
arduino8
plane8
autopilot7
mavlink7
rover7
tailwindcss6
px44
robot3
shield2
arduino-uno2
dronekit2
uno2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Gyrobot/Gcode-Filament-Mixer
May 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 3 years
swindonmakers/Logo
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Repo for all things logo related, graphic files, CAD printing models, blueprints etc.
Contributions:5 pushes in 7 months
printingcadlogosvggraphic-files
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