Speakers

David Hiscock has worked at the UK Met Office since 2011. He began as a Field Service Engineer, completing planned maintenance and reactive repairs on observing systems. As an Installation Design Authority, for six years, he designed weather stations for several clients. For the past six years, he has managed an engineering team responsible for building, configuring and deploying observing systems, including complex automatic weather stations (AWS). He is an experienced writer of technical processes, procedures, reports, and design specifications. A capable user of asset and change management systems, and conversant with communicating technical detail to non-technical stakeholders. He has introduced many key processes and templates to support continuous improvement for efficient design, implementation, and post-installation reports for the deployment of AWSs Before joining the Met Office David worked as an electro-mechanical engineer and senior test and repair engineer on a variety of systems including audio and video processing systems, process control systems, and electro-optical tracking systems. He has experience in end-user and factory production environments on analogue and digital electronic, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems, from component level to end-to-end hardware, and software systems including measurement, sampling, control, and processing equipment.