Tony Ruther

For this role I’ve carried out tasks within the Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace Performance and Future Projects Departments

• Trent 7000 Transient Performance Team
  • Using novel modelling methods to determine the potential effects of signal failures on control system client functions and whole engine performance over the whole operating envelope. This required the delivery of new methods to bulk execute Rolls-Royce in house engine simulation tooling and to analyse the large number results produced in a timely manner to meet cost and timescale requirements.
• Future Projects
  • Produce a novel interface in Matlab between disparate applications (written in python, simulink, simscape and matlab) and creating a integrated model of a rig being developed to study a new aircraft to engine interface (subject to NDA).
  • Focal point for all of Alten’s activies within Rolls-Royces Future Projects Engine Performance group
• Trent 1000 Performance Team
  • Analysis of In-service events to support on going monitoring of Rolls-Royce’s fleet of Trent 1000 engines.

During this employment I undertook a wide variety tasks in a number of different areas within the Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace Performance Department

• Trent XWB Transient Performance team member offering ongoing support of the Trent XWB-84 and supporting the successful certification of the Trent XWB-97
  • Shaft Failure Assessments
  • Rotor Overspeed Assessments
  • Compliance Operability Testing Analysis
  • Transient Data Calibration
  • Ground Wind Envelope Definition
  • General Transient In-service support
  • Investigation in-service Red-Top (safety critical) events and Safety Alert Reports
• System Design Operational Support - Service Contract Support Team Member, carrying out a range of activities supporting in-service Trent products
  • Investigations into seasonal variations occurring within Trent XWB-84 in-service data and calculated engine performance margins, spools speeds, specific fuel consumption and turbine temperature
  • Assessments into the effectiveness of core washing.
• Trent 900 Performance team member supporting the developement of a new design variant
  • Initial assessment of the effects of of various design modifications on turbine terminal speeds following shaft failure
• Trent 1000 Performance team member
  • Supporting of specialist simulated altitude testing
  • Support of the Trent 1000 Pack C compilance to specification program including the analysis of engine data
• System Design Operational Support - Production Pass Off team member
  • Assessments to understand differences between customer and Rolls-Royce in-house results from customer undertaken engine testing for a wide variety of engines types including RB211-524, RB211-535, Trent 500, Trent 700 and Trent 800 as part of a quality failure investigation.

This role was to coordinate an administer a project which aimed to introduce and market novel and propraitory jpeg (still picture) and mpeg (video) compression algorithms. Furthermore I also taught English as a foreign language to the vietnamese developers of the project.

This role was to develop online English lessons as part of an innovative educational website and social network, be the ‘voice of the website’ and to also teach in classroom environment.

For this role I undertook the teaching of English to various groups of around 25 vietnamese nationals at a multitude of levels from beginner/novice, through to advanced.

Volunteer teaching at various establishments in the vacinity of Ha Noi, Vietnam, incuding the Accounting Department, National Tropical Diseases Hospital, Bach Mai Hospital and Phan Huy Chu High School

I took this role to obtain further funds to travel. It involved the offering technical support to users of a bespoke software product for the calculation and tracking of employees’ UK income tax and national insurance contributions (a product that was based upon MS SQL with a .NET front-end) via telephone, remote desktop solutions and email. The role also included general office administration work

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As a senior Engineer, this role required the planning, execution and reporting of Gas Turbine (jet) engine tests, theoretical studies and risk management on a variety of products and projects. This included product improvement/development, investigation and diagnosis of fleet and individual engine problems through interpretation and understanding of engine test data, the calibration of test plant and measurement systems, the creation of computer based models to allow performance predictions, theoretical studies and statistical analysis of engine test data to identify manufacturing trends. The role also required supervision/training of junior engineers and being involved with the planning, development and testing of the next generation Rolls-Royce corporate in-house computing environment for performance engineers.

The main task within this role was to create an electronic Access database/index of reports and other documentation held within the paper filing system of the company’s Turbines and Rotating plant department using Microsoft Access software.

A wide variety of tasks were carried out as part of a project to decommission the nuclear fuel pod cooling ponds at Berkeley Power Station, Gloucestershire, England, including collating data indicating radiation levels within the cooling ponds, Health and Safety walks in a C3 radioactive Area, writing of processes, planning, taking deliveries, letter writing and general administration.

Postal Clark: Sorting and Delivering internal mail

IT Help Desk Assistant: Logging and coordinating the resolution of user IT issues.