1. Lee Brinkley
Personal
Information
Marital status :- Divorced
Nationality :- British
Date of Birth :- 08-03-63
Professional
experience
Dec 2008 to Feb 2016
Engine engineering. Ford Dunton.
Position :- Senior Designer/detailer/checker
Working mostly on detailing and checking of base engine castings.
Cylinder blocks / Cyl heads /front covers and oil pans for the new
generation of small gasoline and diesel engines. Using CATIA V5
And teamcenter.
June 2007 to Dec 2008
ATEO External controls and applications. Ford Dunton.
Position :- Designer
Working as part of a small team designing and installing Auto
Transmission shifter and control cable systems. Installing and
packaging Auto Transmissions received from suppliers and Getrag Ford.
Working in both Ideas 12 with teamcentre (Tce) and Ideas classic with
metaphase. The creation and maintenance of both DS and DI’s for all
external control systems across car line for FOE and FAPA.
Nov 2006 to May 2007
PDE Automotive.
Position :- Designer
Working in part of a small team of designers for Ford Motor Company on
a new V8 Diesel engine design.
Oyster cottage
9 Chapel Road
Burnham-on-crouch
Essex
CM0 8jB
Mobile 07787711634
E-mail
leebrinkley@gmail.com
2. 1996 to Oct 2006
Roush Europe, Hutton, Brentwood, Essex.
Position: - Designer / Checker.
Working as both a CAD designer using IDEA’S and as Roush’s in
house checker on various powertrain installations for client programs.
. Ford ST170 engine packaging.
. Ford ST220 engine packaging.
. Land Rover Freelander V6 engine packaging.
. Pinzgauer Diesel engine packaging to meet new emissions.
. London Taxi 2.3 North American Ford Ranger engine installation for
North American markets.
. Unique Military vehicle design for the MOD.
. High tech radio and communication systems integration and packaging
into a varied range of Military platforms for the MOD.
Off site positions held for Roush clients.
. Ford Diesel Powertrain Engineering –
Fourteen months working at both Ford’s Dunton Research and
Development Centre and then moving over to the new Dagenham Diesel
Centre on its opening. Carrying out both design and checking for the
Lion V6 and Lynx / Puma design teams. Also creating the engine Master
Assembly for the Lynx engine.
. Visteon –
One year working on the Ford C1 program air induction systems as a
checker involving travel to Visteon’s manufacturing plant in Charleville
France to resolve component and system tolerance and gauging issues.
1983 - 1996
Ford Research and Design Centre, Basildon, Essex.
Position - Designer / Checker.
Department – Powertrain Systems Engineering. (PTSE).
1983 - 1986
Working as a manual design draftsman creating package layouts, detail
drawings and installation drawings for all PTSE component systems
including Induction, Exhaust, Fuel, FEAD, Cooling and Engine mounts.
1986 - 1988
Working as a CAD designer using CADDS 5 on all of the above
components and systems.
1988 - 1996
Working as a Design Checker specializing in geometrical tolerance
control (GDT) and becoming a permanent member of Ford’s European
drafting standards committee.
During this time I also spent one year commuting back and forth to
