This document is a curriculum vitae for John Pearson, providing details of his qualifications, experience, and employment history. It outlines his education, including ONC and HNC qualifications in Mechanical Engineering. It then lists his work experience from 2015 to 1977 in mechanical drafting and design roles for various companies, including his current role as a Mechanical Draughtsman at Amey producing track layouts.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: John Pearson
Address: Flat 7 Abbey Lodge
14-16 Abbey Grove
Monton
Manchester
M30 9QN
Tel: 07742 677889
Email: john.pearson1961@gmail.com
Date of Birth: 21st August 1961
Nationality: British
Qualifications: ONC Mechanical Engineering
HNC Mechanical Engineering – 5 units
Open University – S196
Open University – S194
Experience: March 15 - Present Amey
Position: Mech. Draughtsman
Producing Track Cross Sections & Layouts on MicroStation
For the Liverpool Lime St. Upgrade and Old Dalby Test Track
Nov 12 – Sept 14 Cavendish Nuclear
Position: Checking Engineer
Full Level 3 Checking on Various Projects including
B38, B41, SMF and Minor Others
Mar 11 – Nov 12 Nuvia Ltd
Position: Mechanical Design Draughtsman
Working on Area 500 on the SDP Project.
Producing DPD’s for Space Management Requirements within Area
500.
Nov 09 – Mar 11 Sellafield Ltd
Position: Mechanical Design Draughtsman
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2. Working up DPD’s and Detail Drawings for Liquor Level Management
on the B38 Project.
June 09 – Nov 09 Nuvia
Position: Mechanical Design Draughtsman
Working up DPD’s for the Solids & Liquids Waste Line Conveyor
on 3900 at Dounreay.
April 08 – June 09 Alstec Ltd.
Position: Mechanical Design Draughtsman
Projects:
Sellafield – Impact Limiter Frame
Oldbury – Gas Integrity Monitoring System
Dounreay – Nak Removal Proposal
Responsible for producing Assembly drawings, Detail drawings &
Schemes on AutoCad & AutoCad Inventor. Duties also included
producing other documentation like parts lists, ECN’s etc on
Document Manager.
June 04 – Feb. 08 RTS Innovation
Position: Mechanical Design Draughtsman
Responsible for creating detail drawings, GA’s and parts lists for
Various projects and equipment on S.P.R.S. (Sellafield Product
Residue Store). Other duties include design work and producing
D.P.D.’s (Design Proposal Drawings) for many of the pieces of
Kit and equipment within S.P.R.S. I was also involved with the
Liaison between the company and suppliers (and potential new
Suppliers) on the project.
April 03 – April 04 Balfour Beatty
Position: Mechanical Design Draughtsman
Responsible for production of cross sections and layouts on
microstation. Responsibilities include updating all cross sections and
layouts to survey data for modernisation of West Coast Railway line
which includes updated track positions, CANT positions, new track
levels and updated stagger and registration positions.
Other software included in my responsibilities was Project Wise, Excel
and Word.
April 00 - Sept 02 BNFL – Handford Project – USA
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3. Position: Mechanical Design Draughtsman
Front end design and option studies for the vitrification canister
transport bogies on Microstation J. Option studies include:
- Mechanical drive chain bogie option
- Updated junction box design
- Updated drive module design
- Updated axle module design
Production & continual modification of DPD`s, P&E`s, Holes-in-Walls,
MHD`s and MFD`s.
Extensive work on Microstation Triforma producing section cuts from
the Model for the above mentioned documentation.
Nov 1998 – April 2000 RTS Thurnall
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
Concept front end design of supercompactor suite for
supercompaction of 55 gallon drums for an Alpha waste treatment
plant in the USA. Front end concepts for gloveboxes, drum handling,
supercompaction, puck handling machine and special purpose
grippers, bagless transfer and macro encapsulation and drum cure
storage. The front end work included lid and delidding units and drum
crimping cell. Structural steelwork access platforms for operator
interface and maintenance personnel.
The supercompactor suite was designed as a self-contained unit
including all the material handling devices for integration into the
finished plant.
May 1998 – Oct 1998 Senior Hargreaves
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
Designing and detailing of components for an air filtration unit for
Fords, Southampton. Other duties included producing assembly
drawings and parts lists. All drawings and documentation produced
on AutoCAD.
Oct 1997 – May 1998 Thurnall PLC
Position: Designer
Mechanical design and detailing an in cell stainless steel bogie
transfer systems for drum transfer and waste management. The
bogie systems incorporated ILW standard axle and drive modules and
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4. were designed for remote maintenance by manipulators and overhead
cranes of both the mechanical and electrical equipment and devices.
The bogie systems were modular in design and included the bogie rail
and cable management systems again, all maintained remotely.
July 1987 – Oct 1998 BNFL
Position: Mechanical draughtsman
Working on AutoCAD, I was drawing various floor plans and other
drawing documentation relating to a proposed project based at
Portsmouth Docks, which would be responsible for loading and
unloading nuclear fuel on nuclear submarines.
Feb 1997 – July 1997 NIS Limited
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
Detailing of fabricated ad machined components on various projects
and compiling assemblies and parts lists.
Sept 1994 – Dec 1996 Morson projects Limited
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
Morson Projects is an Engineering Design Consultants Agency,
employing draughtsmen of varied disciplines and backgrounds for in-
house and on-site contracts. I was employed as a mechanical
Draughtsman working exclusively on CAD (AutoCAD 12 and 13,
Microstation) working mostly in-house on many varied contracts and
occasionally on short term on-site contracts working for companies
such as BNFL, Thurnall, Beliot Warmsleys, Davys and Cannon
Shelley.
Duties included designing and detailing various fabricated and
machined components and the compilation of assemblies and parts
lists.
Responsibilities included:
All drawings produced to customer’s exact specs and requirements.
Close customer liaison, maintaining a strict in-house QA policy on
drawings and documents on every contract.
Other duties included, teaching AutoCAD 12 for Morsons which ran
beginners courses both in-house and on-site, and troubleshooting
problems with the in-house AutoCAD system.
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5. Feb 1993 – Sept 1994 AMS Neve
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
The company design and manufacture studio mixing desks and
consoles for the music industry. Responsible for all aspects of the
mechanical design of desks and consoles, this includes sheet metal
enclosures, bases, chassis a wide variety of fixings, both PCB and
metal, extrusions, mounting and positioning within the various
enclosures of other items such as power supplies, fans, PCB`s, filters,
cable routes and lengths.
Responsible for updating existing products, through a change note
system which conforms to BS 5750. Also responsible for updating
existing products and implementing new products, to comply with
EMC mechanical requirements. All drawings to BS 308 and drawn on
CAD (AutoCAD12).
Liasing with local sub-contractors regarding tools and components.
Aug 1990 – Nov 1992 Dedicated Micros
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
The company design and manufacture microprocessor based
multiplexes for the security / surveillance industry.
I was responsible for design of mechanical aspects associated with
the products; mainly sheet metal enclosures and PCB mountings as
well as injection mouldings.
All work was done on the CAD system using AutoCAD (Release11).
I was also responsible for seeing work through from initial design to
final assembly. This involved dealing with suppliers and sub-
contractors including tooling designers, fabricators, screen printers /
membrane manufacturers.
I also worked very closely with other internal departments including
production, R & D (mainly software) and quality.
1989 – Aug 1990 BICC
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
Based in a special R & D department for fibre optic splicing research.
Responsible for draughting up designs from spec. Again all work was
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6. done on CAD using AutoCAD. Also conversion of existing manual
drawings onto CAD. As this was a very small department, I was also
responsible for building of prototypes, including any jigs and fixtures
required.
Jan 1987 – March 1989 Pilkington Communications Systems Ltd
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
Two years experience using AutoCAD designing and drawing of a
wide scope of mechanical components. Drawing of intricate floor
plans showing fibre optic cable layouts in connections with the electro-
optical industry. Other duties included the drawing of schematic and
isometric drawings used in documents put forward for tender. All
drawings office procedures are within BS 308 and BS 5750.
1981 – 1987 Pilkington PE Limited
Six years shop floor experience, working to close tolerances on
various machine tools, mostly including the programme and operation
of CNC machine tools.
1977 – 1981 Pilkington Brothers
Four years apprenticeship in tool making. Experience on various
machine tools working to EITB standards.
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7. done on CAD using AutoCAD. Also conversion of existing manual
drawings onto CAD. As this was a very small department, I was also
responsible for building of prototypes, including any jigs and fixtures
required.
Jan 1987 – March 1989 Pilkington Communications Systems Ltd
Position: Mechanical Draughtsman
Two years experience using AutoCAD designing and drawing of a
wide scope of mechanical components. Drawing of intricate floor
plans showing fibre optic cable layouts in connections with the electro-
optical industry. Other duties included the drawing of schematic and
isometric drawings used in documents put forward for tender. All
drawings office procedures are within BS 308 and BS 5750.
1981 – 1987 Pilkington PE Limited
Six years shop floor experience, working to close tolerances on
various machine tools, mostly including the programme and operation
of CNC machine tools.
1977 – 1981 Pilkington Brothers
Four years apprenticeship in tool making. Experience on various
machine tools working to EITB standards.
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