We are committed to providing a professional service to our customers and teamwork is key to bonding our many years of individual industry experience. At Jesmond Engineering we are keen to share our views and we often perform internal independent validations to help ensure a high quality product.
Simon Walker
CEng FIMechE MRAeS
Simon has been working in the Aeronautical industry since 1987. He has an honours degree in Mathematics from Liverpool University, a Masters by Research in Fatigue Design from the University of Hull and a Certificate in Management Studies from Lancaster University. He is a Chartered Engineer and he holds EASA Fatigue and Damage Tolerance signature.
Simon Goodall
Simon Goodall has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield and has been working as a stress and structural Engineer in the aerospace industry since 1981. He has worked on Civil aircraft, Military aircraft and European Space Agency programmes both in the United Kingdom and overseas.
Allan Eccles
CEng MIMechE
Allan Eccles has a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Glasgow University and a Masters by research in Expert Systems for Fatigue Design from the University of Hull. He is a Chartered Engineer and he has worked in the Aerospace Industry for 23 years where he has gained a wide experience in Static, and Fatigue and Damage Tolerance analysis.
Alec Malt
CEng MIMechE
Alec Malt is a Chartered Engineer with an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sheffield Polytechnic. He has worked as a Structures Engineer in the Aerospace Industry since 1988 on both Civil and Military projects in the UK and abroad.
Paul Griffiths
Paul has an honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of London. He has 28 years of experience working within the aerospace and general engineering industries. He worked both in the UK and abroad on various projects gaining extensive experience in all aspects of finite element analysis. Since 2007, however, Paul’s main focus has been the Fatigue and Damage Tolerance analysis of Helicopter rotating parts.
Nadia Kosseim
Nadia has 18 years of experience in the helicopter industry both in the Fatigue and Flight Test departments. She has worked in Canada, the US and Italy. She has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering (Aeronautical option) and a Masters with research in Fracture and Fatigue from McGill University, Canada.
Graham Cook
Graham has 23 years of experience in the aerospace industry. He has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Liverpool University. Graham has a wide range of experience across the industry covering military and civil aircraft in both metallic and composite structure. His skills and knowledge have been developed working on a wide range of aircraft structure. He is experienced in static and dynamic analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue and damage tolerance, birdstrike analysis and testing of both structure and avionic equipment.
Ben Unwin
Ben graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with an honours degree in Aerospace Technology. He Joined Jesmond Engineering in 2011, and is rapidly gaining experience in fatigue, damage tolerance and structural analysis methodologies. He has been involved in a range of aerospace projects which have included detailed structural analysis of civil airliner wing components. Ben has also helped in the design of a renewable energy turbine and he is currently picking up skills in Finite Element analysis.
Catalina Iordache
Catalina graduated from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 2002 with a degree in Mechatronics before completing a further degree at the Politecnico di Milano. She is working on Fatigue and Damage Tolerance analysis of helicopter components.
Phil Williams
Phil graduated in 1990 from Cardiff University with an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and he started work in the Aerospace and Defence sector as a structural engineer. After four years he returned to University for a period of 2 years to undertake research for NASA and Airbus in carbon fibre composite wing and fuselage structures. Subsequently Phil has worked in industry on Miltary Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft and Submarine Structures.
Richard Skelton
Richard graduated with a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Liverpool University in 2013. He is currently performing Fatigue and Damage Tolerance analyses of commercial airliner wing structures.
John Sherburn
John has been working in the Aeronautical Industry for almost 40 years and has gained a wide range of experience in Aircraft design and manufacturing areas. As a Structural Test Engineer he has been involved with several Military and Civil major Static and Fatigue test programmes. He has an HND in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering and whilst at Jesmond he has been involved with the Stress Analysis of Commercial Airliner Engine Thrust reverser units and Military Aircraft structures.
Darryl Dixon
Darryl graduated from the University of Hull with a Masters degree in Computer Science.
He is a software developer with experience on several projects including fatigue monitoring, frequency-based fatigue analysis, PSD calculation, local strain fatigue analysis, a web-based business management suite and other engineering software. He has experience in the Microsoft .NET languages, FORTRAN, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, and MySQL.
Richard Perkins
Richard joined Jesmond Engineering in 2014 after graduating with a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hull. He has gained experience with Fatigue, Damage Tolerance and Static analyses of Civil Airliner wing structures, whilst he is now engaged in Fatigue Analysis of Military Aircraft components.
Dan Humphreys
CEng MIMechE
Dan has a Masters Degree (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Manchester University and a Masters Degree from Cranfield University in Aircraft Engineering. Dan is a Chartered Engineer with 15 years experience gained principally in aircraft stress analysis (static and fatigue), structural modelling and simulation, and software development.
Sam Adcock
Sam graduated in 2008 with a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Newcastle University. He has a wide range of experience in analysis of metallic and composite structures, principally applied in the automotive and motorsport industry. He also has experience of the aerospace sector, working on projects for both civil and military clients.
Esther Bruce
Esther has an Honours degree in Mechanical and Automotive Engineering and a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bradford, whilst her PhD thesis at the University of Hull focusses on CFD modelling of a helically-bladed hydrokinetic turbine. Her project experience includes vehicle aerodynamics, cyclone separator analysis and renewable energy turbine design (horizontal and vertical axis, wind and water). She is currently working on several further CFD projects at Jesmond Engineering.
Dave Robson
Dave joined Jesmond Engineering in 2016 following his graduation from the University of Hull with a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has experience in medical and structural stress analysis utilising finite element methodology (FEM), and is currently specialising in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
Amos Curlante
Amos has a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Pisa University and has been working in the rotorcraft industry both in Italy and Germany since 2007. He has experience in Fatigue and Damage Tolerance of Helicopter rotating parts, in Health and Usage Monitoring Systems and in Ground Tools for Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring.
Kevin Moore
Kevin has experience in heavy engineering and aerospace industries. He has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University. For the last 17 years he has been working as a Static and F&DT stress engineer on fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
Mandana Asilzadeh
Mandana gained a BEng in Civil Engineering from Sunderland University and she worked on building site projects as well as her own property development. For the last 12 years she has been working as a Fatigue and Damage Tolerance stress engineer on fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. She has also organised fundraising for various children’s charities.
