Gary Bridgeman

Current

Project Manager at Mclean Hazel
Project Manager at ERTICO
Director at Hodos Consulting

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Past

Design engineer at Jaguar Cars
Project Engineer at Nissan Technical Centre Europe
Consultant at Saab Automoible

Consultant at Motorola
Design Engineer at Jaguar Cars
Avionics Technician at Royal Air Force

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Education

ISTYA
Royal Air Force Cosford

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Information Technology and Services

Gary Bridgeman’s Summary

I am an electronics engineer by education and currently work as a project manager for ERTICO-ITS Europe which is based in Brussels Belgium. I hold the PRINCE2 Practitioner certificate in the PRINCE project management methodology.

I coordinate the European FP7 funded project i-Travel on behalf of the 19 strong consortium as well as being responsible for security aspects related to ITS systems, I chair the European Organisation for Security’s working group on surface traveller security as well as coordinate the ERTICO partner topic group on security.

I’ve a background in Navigation and telematics stretching back 17 years, starting out in the British Royal Air force where I trained as an Avionics Engineer working on autopilot systems, weapon aiming systems, RADAR, radio, and navigation systems.

It was my experience on navigation that enabled me to get a position with Jaguar cars Ltd where I was one of 2 design engineers that developed the first Jaguar S-type navigation system. Since Jaguar I have worked for Motorola on their telematic products for Jaguar, Vauxhall cars developing navigation systems and for Saab developing the 93 navigation and traffic information system.

In my spare time I'm a private pilot and pursue an interest in photography.

Gary Bridgeman’s Specialties:

PRINCE2 Practitioner,Supplier management, in vehicle navigation system design, navigation HMI design, project management, telematic system engineering, European project proposal development, navigation system design, technology consulting, innovation development

Gary Bridgeman’s Experience

Project Manager

Mclean Hazel

(Management Consulting industry)

July 2009 — Present (6 months)
Project Manager

ERTICO

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

At ERTICO I am responsible for the coordination of the FP7 project i-Travel. “i-Travel” is an original concept for “the connected traveller”. The motivation for i-Travel comes from a need to find a common solution for key problems faced by travellers, content suppliers and service providers.

I am also responsible for the coordination of the working on surface traveller security hosted by the European Organisation for Security. The working group aims to investigate methods to improve the security of travellers across the European Union.

I also coordinate forming and writing of European research proposals, organising consortia and managing the development of innovate ideas from conception to proposal.
Director

Hodos Consulting

(Automotive industry)

January 2000 — Present (10 years )

Director of Hodos Consulting providing project managment and research services in intelligent transport services
Design engineer

Jaguar Cars

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

October 2006 — January 2007 (4 months)

Acting as a Consultant to Jaguar cars for the development of the voice activation system on the Jagaur S-type and XK models.
Project Engineer

Nissan Technical Centre Europe

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

March 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 8 months)

Design engineer for Navigation systems. Responsible for the implementation of Nissan’s navigation system on current and future models. Project management of the supplier base, supporting test and verification. Design releasing to an APQP process.
Engineer in the IT& Advance development section at Nissan Technical Centre Europe based at Cranfield in the UK. Roles and responsibilities include: Strategy setting for Navigation, Traffic Information, and Audio and in vehicle displays across Europe, development of next generation navigation systems. Liaison with Nissan Japan engineering and advance development sections as well as Nissan Europe product planning to ensure a single European voice for technology items within Nissan. Research and benchmarking of new and future vehicle technologies.
Consultant

Saab Automoible

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

October 2000 — March 2003 (2 years 6 months)

Function design engineer for Saab automobile based in Sweden. Working on the Saab infotainment system, which was based on a MOST network. Initially component owner for the Navigation DVD reader. Then after 3 months function designer on Navigation and Real time traffic information using RDS TMC as a transmission medium. Responsible for the development of HMI, using UML as a development tool on navigation and RDS TMC traffic information. Duties included writing in-depth requirement specifications for navigation and traffic information. Developing test cases, support of testing and verification. Supplier management and project management within the navigation system. Resolution of technical issues both software and hardware based.
Consultant

Motorola

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

June 2000 — October 2000 (5 months)

Liaison engineer for Motorola Telematics Communications Group. Responsible for the support of in car telecommunications devices for the North American market, CDMA/TDMA portable phones, duties included specification updating, control of design FMEA, testing and validation in market. Customer support at Jaguar cars
Design Engineer

Jaguar Cars

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

June 1998 — May 2000 (2 years )

Design engineer for Jaguar Cars Ltd. Initially working as part of a team responsible for the design and development of the Jaguar S-type navigation system and from March 1999 lead engineer. Duties included project management of supplier base, resolution of engineering issues. Design specification and verification. Specification of Human Machine Interface. Inter departmental liaison. Presentations to senior management and support of press events.
Avionics Technician

Royal Air Force

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

January 1992 — May 1998 (6 years 5 months)

Fault diagnosis of aircraft avionics systems to board and component level. Areas of responsibility included, autopilot systems, inertial navigation systems, ground mapping and terrain following radar, air intercept radar, HF, VHF, and UHF radio, weapon aiming systems.
Extensive training received in RF generation techniques, Digital and analogue fault finding, Microwave frequency generation, Radar systems, and aircraft electronic systems.