WhisperTech Ltd (New Zealand)
January 2009 – April 2011
| Whisper Tech Limited’s vision is the Stirling engine-based WhisperGen™ heat and power system – a smarter way to provide home heat and power with the added benefit of reduced environmental impact. This micro combined heat and power (microCHP) system as produced in both on-grid & off-grid. |
This role was responsible for the technical leadership, development and management of a small team of multi-disciplined embedded engineers which designed and developed the control power electronics for the WhisperGen heat and power system.
- Leadership Provided clear technical leadership for the Electronics and Software Department
- Agile Development Brought in Agile Development (despite being downsized to 1 S/W and 1 H/W engineer).
- Project Management Project managed several internal projects
- Team Management Responsible for coaching, mentoring and growing initially 8 Engineers
- Software | Hardware Created a Python based test simulation suite that reduced software testing from 2-4 weeks to just hours.
- QA Management Responsible for creating the processes and procedures to qualify from the Electronics and Software Department