Andy Digby's Technical Profile

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Career Summary

Existing Academic Qualification

Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours {B.Sc.(Hons)} - The Open University, UK

Higher National Diploma in Engineering (HND) - Southampton Institute of Higher Education, UK

Summary of Tertiary Education / Courses Undertaken

Existing Professional Qualifications and Memberships

Andy Digby is registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the governing body for Professional Engineers in the UK - The Engineering and Technology Board (ETB, previously known as The Engineering Council) - and maintains Corporate Membership of several Professional Institutions subscribing to the precepts of The ETB:

• Registered Member of The ETB - Registration Number 400847

• Member of The Royal Aeronautical Society {M.R.Ae.S}
• Member of the Institute of Engineers and Technologists {M.I.E.T (elec)}

• Member of the US Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers {M.I.E.E.E}

Andy actively encourages young people into the Professional Engineering arena and is perfectly happy to act as mentor to them or, where appropriate, act as sponsor to up-coming Engineers who seek entry into the recognised Professional Bodies.

A Simplified View of The ETB's (Engineering Council's) Registration Structure - with Grades

Career Background and a Brief Career History

A Chartered Engineer holding an Honours Degree who has many years of first-hand experience in designing, installing, commissioning and maintaining Radio Communications, Radar, Navigational Aids, Masts, Aerials and all related peripherals in either a Air, Land or Marine environment, both in the UK and extensively overseas.

Currently, Andy is working as a permanent staff employee for ITT Defence Limited in Basingstoke as a Senior Systems Integration Engineer Lead. Responsibilities include Radio Commuications, Radar, Air Traffic Control, Power Generation and Distribution, with substantial input to project management, supply chain, and programme implementation.

In previous professional roles, Andy was employed briefly on a permanent basis by Selex S.I. as the Systems Design Authority for the transformation of a military aerodrome in Cornwall (RAF St. Mawgan) into Newquay Civil Airport along with all the usual issues and problems normally associated with such a large-scale alteration and evolution.

Andy has also worked as a permanent staff employee for Rockwell Collins as an HF Systems Engineer, part of the global DHFCS programme team. That involved planning at system-level down to component-level, implementation of the planned operations, installing new large scale HF radio communications, IT and telecomms equipment into a variety of sites around the globe and ensuring the integration of the new and existing legacy equipment, carrying out system-level checks and ensuring the end-users requirements were fully met.

Prior to Rockwell Collins, Andy was employed by WS Atkins (Consultants) Limited in a multitude of roles, including working as the Radio Systems Design Authority on several major Road Tunnel Projects about the UK for the HA, and as the Infrastructure Design Authority to a Garrison Redevelopment Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Prior to WS Atkins, Andy was employed as a contractor working at Eurocontrol in Brussels for a couple of years, and worked as an IT / LAN Administrator / Technical Hub extensively within the Manpower Planning Section.

Andy also maintains current in-depth knowledge of ATC systems comprising SSB, AM and FM radio communication systems operating in the HF, VHF or UHF bands; radio-based navigational aids comprising instrument landing systems (ILS), microwave landing systems (MLS), distance measuring equipment (DME), omni-directional radio beacons (VOR & DVOR) and non-directional radio beacons (NDB), automatic direction finder systems (ADF) and global positioning satellite systems (GPSS and DGPSS); primary and secondary airfield and air defence radar systems operating between 1 GHz and 10 GHz, including surface movement & ground control radar and short range precision approach radars (PAR); visual landing aids comprising visual approach slope indicators (VASI) and precision approach path indicators (PAPI); weather and airport information dissemination information systems, comprising (amongst others) automated terminal information services (ATIS).

In addition to ATC, Andy holds a Department of Transport (DoT) ENEM Certificate on Maritime Electronics comprising radio communications, navigational aids and radar (including ARPA). He is a qualified Maritime Radio Officer and also has a good working knowledge of marine engines, their control and affiliated or peripheral systems. He also builds and rebuilds computers for fun.

Andy is also a fully qualified Radio Amateur and regularly operates on the HF SSB & CW amateur bands worldwide, the VHF and UHF bands within Europe, callsign GØJLX. He teaches Amateur Radio (including Morse Code) at all three UK licence levels to would-be amateurs and is a morse code examiner. He holds foreign Amateur Radio licences as well. He is an active member of FISTS, the UK-based International Morse Preservation Society. See his amateur radio website for further inforamtion.

He also enjoys a number of other hobbies, such as road cycling, athletics, rugby and photography.

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This file was last updated : 20th August 2009