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Shehan Caldera

Clarkson,WA

Summary

A people-focused product development professional looking for an opportunity in quality assurance or product acceptance to leverage my current experience developing autonomous haulage, high precision machine guidance, and collision avoidance products and utilise my skills in setting up processes, evaluating outcomes, building high performing teams to deliver value iteratively and incrementally to continously improve technology products in mining.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner - Autonomy

Fortescue
Perth, Australia
07.2023 - Current
  • Define product features in line with high-level business themes, validated end-user requirements, and acceptance criteria for the high-precision machine guidance product and the collision avoidance system developed in-house.
  • Manage Business Analysts for engaging subject matter experts to identify operational processes impacted using end-user surveys, identify business rules and engineering standards, and meet regulatory requirements when defining product features.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Architecture, Development, Verification, and Site Acceptance teams, to see through the delivery of themes from definition through to deployment.
  • Coordinated the development activities within the joint development program between Liebherr and Fortescue, establishing processes for sharing knowledge, reviewing, and aligning on project scope, and keeping track of joint development activities, including joint integration of systems from proof of concept to the development of high-precision machine guidance product.
  • Liaise with on-site support teams and project teams to prioritise critical bugs, ensuring minimum impact to the production environment.
  • Support the scrum masters, development coordinators, and squad leads with reviewing the backlog, prioritisation of activities, and guidance on sprint goals.
  • Provide technical leadership when exploring solutions for issues identified during the review of significant incidents, and manage a small team of developers to deliver proof of concepts to achieve decarbonisation goals of the business for heavy machinery.

Squad Lead - Autonomy

Fortescue
Perth, Australia
06.2022 - 08.2023
  • Reviewed product requirements and initiatives with the product owner to prepare a backlog of tasks for the development team, delivering a vehicle awareness product as part of the fleet management project.
  • Managed the fortnightly sprint, balancing the team assignments, capacity management, team availability for unplanned work/bugs, while maintaining a consistent delivery of sprint goals as part of vehicle awareness and fleet management system for the Iron Bridge project.
  • Monitor the progress of the sprint and the individual velocities to utilise team retrospectives to understand areas needing improvement and celebrate success.
  • Built a high-performing team of different skill sets and diverse backgrounds, focusing on team processes, people, and outcomes.
  • Contributed to individual development plans of teammates, organising one-on-one sessions to identify areas to improve in line with business values on family-focused culture, improving safety of operations, and to encourage generating ideas.
  • Coordinated the development of a proof of concept to integrate the vehicle awareness system with a machine telemetry solution to provide machine guidance for Excavator Operators in partnership with Liebherr and Fortescue, and provided technical leadership to prove the concept for the high precision machine guidance product.

Senior Engineer - Autonomy

Fortescue
Perth, Australia
01.2021 - 06.2022
  • Demonstrated abilities in implementing modern C++ principles and practices as part of rail mapping, vehicle awareness, and fleet management projects.
  • Collaborated with an external specialist to create a calibration procedure for a Lidar and GNSS system, which was implemented in autonomous haulage and digital terrain mapping solutions.
  • Conducted safety analysis on design components of safety-critical systems, identifying gaps and implementing necessary protections to ensure safe functionality in the vehicle awareness system developed for fleet management.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide quick feedback from feasibility studies and proof of concepts prior to committing a larger number of resources to develop a solution to detect tray strike incidents for autonomous haul trucks and provide early warnings to loader operators.

Autonomy Systems Engineer

Fortescue
Perth, Australia
07.2019 - 01.2021
  • Offered technical guidance to convert intricate business and functional requirements into concise technical system specifications for a digital terrain mapping project.
  • Designed the high-level system architecture, including offboard data storage, desktop user interface, system component interactions, and data flows involved with producing point cloud maps, to incorporate with company geospatial information systems.
  • As part of autonomous robotics inspections project, demonstrated my ability to integrate various sub-systems (Simulation, Software, Control Logic, Sensors, Electronics, Mechanical) into a single robotic platform in collaboration with a larger cross functional team (Project, Engineering, Specialists, Procurement, Management, External Vendors).
  • Collaborated with principals, external vendors, and other SMEs to determine the optimal computer architecture for the autonomous light vehicle project.

Robotics Research Engineer

Edith Cowan University
Perth, Australia
02.2019 - 06.2019
  • Collaborated with DSTG on a joint research program to create a cutting-edge robotic system capable of mapping and delivering medical aid in unexplored environments.
  • Collaborated with project stakeholders and vendors to assess project requirements and evaluate the feasibility of achieving desired outcomes using available technologies.
  • Provided technical leadership in creating a peer-reviewed design, highlighting limitations and outcomes.
  • Demonstrated the ability for a robotic platform to map a representative environment and navigate around obstacles using simulated sensor data.
  • Provided weekly updates to project stakeholders.
  • Prepared the final report outlining details of the experiments in simulation and results achieved.

Robotics Engineer (Casual)

Chironix
Perth, Australia
01.2019 - 06.2019
  • Aided in setting up the company during its start-up phase through developing capability demonstrations for clients and building the team's understanding of robotics.
  • Collaborated with Woodside Energy Robotics team to create a data review pipeline that captures essential elements for the development of an advanced system capable of detecting wear and tear early on, efficiently planning shutdowns, and preventing unexpected maintenance tasks.

Technology Development Engineer

Tempo Australia
Perth, Australia
10.2018 - 01.2019
  • Worked in the Assets and Maintenance team, developing a digital platform to provide asset maintenance as a service to clients in mining, construction, and hospitality.
  • Mapped the user requirements for a drone-based asset inspection solution in consultation with the senior business stakeholders and the leadership teams.
  • Liaised with vendors and suppliers to develop a proof of concept to trial at a client's site.
  • Demonstrated the ability to plan autonomous drone flights around the assets, switch between color and thermal camera outputs to record footage of the assets, and provide live camera view over the air to the remote operator.

Academic Tutor (Casual)

Edith Cowan University
Perth, Australia
03.2017 - 10.2018
  • Facilitated lab sessions and tutorials, helping students understand concepts outside the classroom in practice.
  • Facilitated discussions between students to promote the exchange of ideas and perspectives.
  • Encouraged critical thinking skills by posing thought-provoking questions during class discussions.
  • Evaluated student papers and lab assignments based on School guidelines, ensuring alignment with accepted answers and match index compared to both classmates and external submissions.

Trainee Engineer

Western Digital
Bangkok, Thailand
05.2015 - 08.2015
  • Assisted with maintaining equipment used in hard drive manufacturing processes.
  • Researched feasibility of a design to prevent or reduce manufacturing defects.
  • Implemented a computer vision system to identify the root cause of the identified defects.

Engineering Intern

Nikini Automation
Colombo, Sri Lanka
06.2014 - 08.2014
  • Assisted in the department for fabricating conveyors and industrial automation solutions for the local manufacturing industry.
  • Reviewed the production process of the CNC Milling Station to understand the current rate of production and areas that can be improved in the control logic.
  • Revised control logic of CNC Milling Station to increase tool lifetime by 4-fold and production rate by 8-fold.

Education

Master of Engineering (Research) - Artificial Intelligence And Robotics

School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University
Perth, Australia

Bachelor of Science - Mechatronics Engineering

Asian Insitute of Technology
Bangkok, Thailand

Skills

  • Strategic Product Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Requirements Traceability
  • Release Planning and Processes
  • Test Driven Development
  • Software Project Management
  • Multi-component Integration
  • Perception/ Mapping/ ML for robotics
  • OpenCV/ Pointclouds Library
  • DDS/ ROS2
  • C/ Python
  • Linux/ Linux SocketCAN
  • CAN/ J1939
  • Ethernet/ UDP/ TCP
  • Jira/ RTM
  • GoogleTest/ PyTest

References

Available upon request.

Timeline

Product Owner - Autonomy

Fortescue
07.2023 - Current

Squad Lead - Autonomy

Fortescue
06.2022 - 08.2023

Senior Engineer - Autonomy

Fortescue
01.2021 - 06.2022

Autonomy Systems Engineer

Fortescue
07.2019 - 01.2021

Robotics Research Engineer

Edith Cowan University
02.2019 - 06.2019

Robotics Engineer (Casual)

Chironix
01.2019 - 06.2019

Technology Development Engineer

Tempo Australia
10.2018 - 01.2019

Academic Tutor (Casual)

Edith Cowan University
03.2017 - 10.2018

Trainee Engineer

Western Digital
05.2015 - 08.2015

Engineering Intern

Nikini Automation
06.2014 - 08.2014

Master of Engineering (Research) - Artificial Intelligence And Robotics

School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University

Bachelor of Science - Mechatronics Engineering

Asian Insitute of Technology

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