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Geoff is a driven and ambitious student that is highly dedicated and passionate in the fields of electronic and electrical engineering.

Contact Info

11 McCracken St

Mansfield Q.L.D

0431166419

g.v.attard@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-attard-047160b8

Education

2014 – 2017 Bachelor of Electronic and Energy Systems ENG

Griffith University, Nathan, Q.L.D

“Geoff applies himself well to tasks within and outside of his university curriculum” – Jessica So SSA

Geoff continues to grow and look for opportunities within the field of engineering through programs such as my CPD, Professional seminars, webinars and competitions. He enjoys working on many personal electronics projects outside of university.

Professional Work Experience

2016 - Current Intern Engineer

RF Design, 7/1 Stockwell Pl. Archerfield

Geoff continues to grow his knowledge base in the embedded systems industry. Working on projects involving PCB design, Firmware generation, Software coding, PCB fabrication and testing Geoff is keenly interested in electronics. Here at RF design, Geoff has had exposure to embedded systems, RF and drone technologies.

2016 - 2017 Campus Coordinator

Engineers Australia, Nathan Campus

Geoff is responsible for planning, organizing, advertising, marketing and hosting the EA Roadmap Webinar series on campus. Reporting to the regional and area managers.

2015 – 2017 Student Leader

Griffith School of Engineering, Nathan Campus

Geoff is part of the student leader team that helps new students in their transition to University life at Griffith. This service includes course related workshops, introduction to student services and amenities and teaching time management skills.

2015 Tutor

Private Tutor at Griffith University, Nathan

Geoff provided one on one tutoring for students studying Programming with C and Unix.

Professional Skills

Highly Passionate about Acquiring Knowledge and Understanding

Geoff is continually increasing his knowledge base, attending many professional seminars, workshops and lectures outside of the university. Geoff is Passionate about engineering.

Strong Oral and Written Communication

Demonstrates high-level capabilities in writing technical reports and communicating effectively within his leadership roles at Griffith. Geoff has succeeded in face-to-face sales roles previously. He has experience in managing a small brigade of staff through verbal and non-verbal communication.

High Level of Teamwork and Networking Skills

Proves to be a real team asset, as Geoff is a hard working and effective communicator that works to get the job done. Geoff engages in many professional networking events through his club and society networks.

Excellent and Flexible Personal Workload Management

Geoff has always managed his time effectively, focusing on a structured and systematic approach to everything he works on. Geoff successfully manages to balance part time work, University roles, tutoring and full time studies.

Exceptional Presentation and Management skills

Constantly receiving positive feedback on professional presentations and marketing. Geoff has excelled at product placement in many sales roles. Geoff has proven experience in management roles, with strong focus on managing people from varied backgrounds and cultures.

Technical Skills

Geoff has demonstrated a range of technical and problem solving skills throughout his time at Griffith University and RF Design.

CAD design (Solid Works, AutoCAD, OnShape) Demonstrated in 6603ENG product design
3D printing (PLA, ABS) Demonstrated in 3301ENG AWG enclosure
Welding (Gasless MIG)
CNC Routing (3D)
Laser Cutting
Hand Soldering (PTH, SMT down to 0402)
Circuit and PCB design (Altium)
Programming (C, Mat-lab, Assembly, Verilog, Python, C++)
Experience with different MCU’s and FPGA’s
Technical Writing (Professional Reports & Datasheet generation)
Data collection and analysis

Geoff has a particular liking to technical circuit design. He spends a great deal of his free time working on projects such as; RAPIDFIRE (combat robot), 3D printouts, RC vehicles, PCB design, Dev-kits and code based projects. Geoff is a fast learner, with a vey good attitude towards his work. Being at the beginning of his career, Geoff acknowledges that he has a lot to learn and is eager to do so.

Engagement

2017 - Current Robowars Competitor

Rapid Fire is a featherweight (13.6Kg) battle bot in progress for upcoming events (2018) in this national forum. Designed in CAD with OnShape, this bot features 4.6mm composite armour, a pneumatic piercing weapon and custom 3d Printed parts.

2017 – Current

Remote Pilot License (Repl)

Geoff is currently undertaking a remote pilot license course with a CASA approved training provider.

2014 – Current Small Projects

Continually working with small projects that involve the use of electronics, CAD, programing and PCB design. Geoff has worked on a number of small projects such as:

FPGA Sketcher program with VGA driver

Python Packet Test Scripts

Purely analog AWG

UAVCAN node

UAV operations

CAD design, CAM toolpathing and 3D printing

Industry Project – Design of a Real-Time Airspeed Transducer

In partnership with RF design, Geoff designed, built and programmed an airspeed transducer as part of a university assessment item.

Over a 12-week period, Geoff was able to design and build the required hardware, enclosure and test system. He also wrote the software used to drive the system. The unit functions as a pitot-static system. The system features 4 LPS22HD MEMS to sense angle of attack, pitot pressure, static pressure, altitude air density and temperature.

The PCB was designed in Altium Designer 2017 and is 4-layers deep. It features EFM32WG and STM32F302k8 processors with UART, SWD, SPI and CAN interfaces.

The system software is now being further developed for the new UAVCAN specification.

Clubs and Societies

2014 – Present Engineers Australia

Geoff keeps up with current engineering trends and technologies by attending a number of technical seminars and workshops.

2016 – Present Electrical Engineering Society Australia (EESA)

Geoff follows news and events in the power engineering industry.

2014 – 2017 GRUE

The Griffith University Electronics maker space was a great place to meet other university students and share what they were working on.

2016 – Present HSBNE

An engineer’s playground, the hacker space provides materials and tools to their members to help them with their hobby projects.

References

Dr. Andrew Busch