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GX Group expands their electronic services with the appointment of Dan Walmsley
21 April 2015Award winning product designers the GX Group recently appointed Dan Walmsley to work alongside the design engineering team developing electronic hardware and embedded software for both medical and consumer products.
Having an in-house electronic engineer with embedded software skills is a vital part of modern product design, it ensures that the electronic hardware and its software can be seamlessly integrated together to produce an optimal solution. Dan graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2006 with a degree in Electronic Engineering. Since then he has worked in technology sectors including oil and gas, touch screen and medical devices. He most recently worked in the Netherlands working on embedded systems products for Dutch banking systems.
Commenting on Dan’s appointment, technical director Jeremy Saunders said; “Dan’s knowledge and understanding of making software control complicated electronic functions ensures that we can provide a complete product design and development service to our clients. He has expertise in applying modern software design techniques in embedded software to produce scalable, maintainable and reliable solutions.
Employing an in-house electronic engineer to work alongside the product development team means we can be more efficient developing the design and easily make minute revisions at the prototype stage, thereby optimising both the cost and performance of electronic products.”
Since December when Dan joined GX Group, he has been kept busy developing electronic hardware and embedded software for several sectors including the medical and consumer sectors. “I really enjoy the variety of my working day at GX – every day there is another interesting project to work on, it’s gratifying to see how my work makes a difference to the product development. Plus by working alongside the designers I can appreciate how they want the electronics and software to perform and am able to quickly make the necessary changes to software and schematics.”