| Alistair Cameron McLaren BEng(hons), MIEE | Single Non-smoker |
| Date of Birth: 22/10/78 | Driving licence |
| acmclaren[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk | Address & telephone no. removed for web |
| Babtie Group Ltd | Jan 2002 - present | Assistant Professional Engineer |
| Barrow Shipyard: | Currently working on Failure Mode & Effects Analysis of overhead travelling cranes. | |
| Naval work: | Designed & implemented a computerised version of an existing submarine maintenance documentation scheme. Currently investigating larger, more advanced, networked version. | |
| Naval work: | Involved with the updating of records relating to Nuclear Safety Implicated electrical distribution (overside services for berthed vessels) at a naval installation. | |
| BNFL Wylfa: | Assisted in analysis of CO2 blowdown line modifications, checked resulting cable schedules for inconsistencies. | |
| Hunterston A Intermediate Level Waste Store: | Services design (layout of intercoms, IT points, etc), designed room access interlocks for hot cells. | |
| Dounreay D1251 engineering substantiation: | Assisted with substantiation of control panels (waste drum handling, ventilation plant, etc.) and instrumentation (mechanical and ?????). Work included electromechanical, pneumatic & computerised (PLC) equipment. | |
| Pulsed Power Group, University of Strathclyde | Jun-Aug 2000 | Assistant Research Engineer |
| Construction of ~500,000V Tesla coil, Summarising of government documents (primarily waste regulations), Project brainstorming, Internet research & P.C. support. | ||
| R. Frazier Ltd | Jul-Sep 1999 | Engineer & Process worker |
| Investigation & analysis of product sample from prospective supplier. Functional testing and refurbishment of telephones, warehousing. | ||
| 2000 - present | University of Strathclyde |
| Master`s Degree in Electrical Power Engineering (with Business) | |
| 1996 - 2000 | University of Strathclyde |
| Batchelor`s Degree (with Honours) in Electronic & Electrical Engineering | |
| 1990 - 1996 | Dumfries Academy |
| CSYS Maths(B), Physics(B) HIGHER Maths(A), Physics(A), Chemistry(A), Technological Studies(A), English(C), Computing(B) S-GRADE German(1), History (2) |
| General | Computer fundamentals (semiconductor physics to OOP). |
| Environments | MS Windows, MS-DOS, Unix/Linux, Xwindows. |
| Applications | Word processors, DTP, Autocad, Workview. |
| Servers | MySQL. |
| High level languages | C++, C, Perl, PHP, bash script, SQL, ladder logic. |
| Low level languages | 68000 assembler, 6502 machine code. |
| Internet | HTML, Apache, Samba. |
| Treasurer of Basil Brush Society (University of Strathclyde) 1998 - 2000 |
| Member of Democratic Society (University of Strathclyde) 1997 - 1999 |
| Member of Hangliding & Paragliding Club (University of Strathclyde) 1997 - 1998 |
| Soldering, Brazing |
| First aid |
| Navigation, Climbing, Abseiling |
| Hillwalking, Keeping fit |
| Reading (Tolkein - Calvin & Hobbes), Music |
| Rocketry, Astronomy, etc. |
| Computer security, Engineering history |
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