Allan Vaughan Jones                           

35 Braehead               07964 778568

Bo’ness                       allan@vallumtech.com

EH51 9DW               www.linkedin.com/in/allanvaughanjones

A track record of 30 year delivering excellent software for world-class products.  Highly experienced in both in deep technical work and in leadership / management roles.

Core skills

• •Agile processes including Scrum and Kanban 

• •Requirements gathering 

• •Project planning 

• •Commercial awareness  

• •Experience managing subcontract developers 

• •Supporting customer trials  

• •Supporting sales team and providing technical presentations 

• •Working with commercial, military and academic customers 

• •Working with globally-distributed teams 

• •Working with large legacy code bases 

Technical skills

• •Architecture and high-level design 

• •Autonomous systems AUV / ROV / ASV 

• •Bare-metal microcontrollers 

• •Buildroot 

• •C++ 17 

• •CMake (including cross-compilation toolchains) 

• •Control systems (PID etc.) 

• •Distributed systems 

• •Basic hardware design / debugging 

• •Hardware integration (I2C, CAN, SPI, NMEA, etc) 

• •Linux (desktop and embedded) 

• •Marine systems (electronic charting, RADAR for commercial shipping) 

• •MQTT (and other middleware technologies) 

• •Navigation - electronic mapping, route planning 

• •Networking protocols 

• •Open-CV 

• •Other languages Java, C#, Python 

• •Qt framework 

• •REST services 

• •Robot Operating System (ROS) 

• •RTOS (FreeRTOS, ChibiOS) 

• •Sensor interfacing 

• •Scripting (eg. bash) 

• •UML 

• •Version control (git, SVN, Mercurial) 

• •YAML, JSON, XML 

• •Yocto 

Education

PhD    University of Wales          1995

An Approach to the Design of Expert Systems for Hard Real-time Applications

BEng University of Wales          1992

Electronics with Computer Science  (1st Class Honours)

 EXPERIENCE

February 2023 – October 2024       Invent Design Build, East Kilbride

• •Responsible for designing software architecture and leading the implementation of an IoT hub for assisted living. 

• •Created a Linux-based system to allow various sensors (via Z-wave, BLE) to report to AWS. 

• •Ported the system to a custom Linux system (buildroot) for a dedicated hardware platform. 

May 2022 – November 2022       Typhon Treatment Systems, Penrith

• •Responsible for design and development of software systems for water treatment process. 

• •Developed software (interface, GUI, logging, calibration etc) for a water turbidity sensor. 

• •Working with a cross-discipline team including optics, mechanical and hardware. 

   

Software Lead           Picsea Ltd, Edinburgh

November 2020 – April 2022

• •Fully responsibility for the architecture, design and implementation of software for a novel autonomous subsea robotic system. 

• •Design of hardware and electronic systems.  

• •Technologies 

  • ◦bare-metal microcontroller  

  • ◦embedded Linux, 

  • ◦communication (i2c, serial, TCP/IP, REST) 

  • ◦robotic operating system (ROS) 

  • ◦navigation / localisation 

  • ◦web interface 

  • ◦cross-platform desktop control applications. 

June 2020 – November 2020       SAAB Seaeye, Fareham

• •Developing control software for a work-class manipulator for ROV / AUV use. 

• •Working with Gazebo / ROS simulations. 

• •Implementing embedded Linux controller communicating via CAN and Ethernet. 

March 2019 – June 2020         EndPoint Embedded Computing, Rosyth

• •Worked with customers, sales, server-side and hardware engineers at a small start-up. 

• •Designed a robust, extensible embedded IoT client for the payments industry. 

• •Implemented communications with AWS servers using MQTT and REST APIs. 

• •Core technologies: C++ 17 / Qt / REST / Yocto embedded Linux. 

July 2018 – March 2019         L3 ASV, Portchester

• •Developed remotely-operated surface vehicles. 

• •Led daily Scrum stand-ups, retrospectives and sprint-planning for a team of 6 engineers. 

• •Worked with internal and customers' systems engineers to agree delivery schedule. 

• •Hands-on development of software for managing engines and electrical power systems over CAN bus. 

Software Supervisor         SAAB Seaeye, Fareham, UK

September 2013 – May 2018

• •Led UK development of software for remotely-operated sub-sea vehicles. 

• •Software supervisor; line-management of a 6-strong development team. 

• •Responsible for recruitment, mentoring and appraisals for team members with diverse skill sets. 

• •Managed resources over multiple projects with rapidly-changing demands and hard deadlines. 

• •Introduced an agile way of working. 

• •Customer-facing from sales / proposal through to troubleshooting at sea-trials. 

• •Co-ordinated UK development roadmap within overall Saab development plans. 

• •Hands-on development of distributed, micro-service architecture. 

   

Unmanned Systems Developer       ASV Global Ltd, Portchester, UK

January 2013 – September 2013

• •Responsible for the design, implementation and testing of software for a long-endurance surface vehicle.  

• •Project managed ASV's involvement in a radar-related research project. 

Senior Software Engineer       Euronav Ltd, Port Solent, UK

September 2005 – December 2012

• •Responsible for a major re-write of the company's core product. 

• •Software regularly achieved ‘Best Product’ in yachting press. 

• •Developed PC-based RADAR display and tracking system. 

• •Developed 3D seabed display using OpenGL. 

June 2005 - August 2005 Sailing in the Baltic

Senior Software Engineer       Ultra SML Technologies, Burridge, UK

June 2002 - May 2005

• •Led a team of three engineers developing networked radar display system for the RNLI's 'Tamar' class lifeboat.  

Senior Software Engineer       Euronav Ltd, Port Solent, UK

June 1999 - June 2002

• •Led a small team developing Windows-based marine navigation products. 

• •Designed a vessel tracking system for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency  

Development Engineer         Xyratex, Havant, UK

January 1995- June 1999

• •Wrote C++ for an embedded system controlling a hard disk during servo-writing stage of manufacture. 

• •Led a team of 5 engineers testing IBM SSA storage products on a UNIX platform. 

PhD Research           University of Wales

1992-1995

• •Devised an architecture to enable expert systems to be used in real-time applications.  

• •Applied to an aircraft automatic-landing system using neural networks combined with an expert system.  

• •Primary author of three research journal papers and two conference papers. 

B.Eng. Electronics with Computing Science   University of Wales

1989-1992

Year out. Travelling.

1988-1989

Technician-Engineer         Negretti Aviation, Southampton, UK

1980-1987