I am an engineer with over 22 years' experience working in the Aerospace and Defense industry. Over the last couple of years, I have worked across several projects; working through Novel Engineering Consultants on the Vertical Aerospace VX4 eVTOL project as a Systems Engineer in the Tilt Actuation IPT and I am currently supporting the development of the fuel system for the VX4 hybrid demonstrator aircraft. Alongside this work I am involved in the GT Wings Ltd Wind Assisted Propulsion project (through BadgerWorks Ltd) where I have developed the system control logic using the Matlab/Simulink toolset. This has been code-generated and installed onto the current prototype system. I have also worked with KDC Projects supporting the development of a hydrogen fueled propulsion system for the Dronamics Black Swan project. Prior to the above I spent many years contracting at Cobham Mission Systems (CMS) where I worked in R&D as a lead engineer on a next generation air-to-air refueling (AAR) program. In addition, I worked in the Fuel Systems and Simulation & Modelling teams focused on the development, qualification, and certification of AAR systems for A400M and KC-46. My technical specialism is in the analysis of fluid and thermal dynamic problems, either through the revision of test data or modelling, using software toolsets such as CFD (Fluent & Gambit), Flowmaster or Excel VBA macros. I also have experience with Matlab and Simulink modelling control systems. I have many years’ experience in systems roles and I have a good understanding of requirements management and systems engineering processes.