ISO 26262: Functional safety for engineering

Dave Higham: Head of Functional Safety, Delphi Diesel Systems

Helen Monkhouse: Commercial Manager - Functional Safety, HORIBA MIRA Ltd.

Helen Monkhouse is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ experience working in a product development environment. Helen’s career in system safety started in railway signalling with British Rail Research. She then took that knowledge into the automotive domain working at Jaguar Land Rover for 15 years, as Power train System Safety Technical Specialist. In 2011 Helen joined Protean Electric, a technology company developing in-wheel motors for electric vehicles, as their Product Safety Manager. Then last year Helen joined HORIBA MIRA as the Commercial Manager for Functional Safety. Helen has published a number of papers on automotive functional safety and promotes industry best practice through her work with MISRA, ISO 26262 and SAE groups.

Russell Shipton: Group E&E Compliance and Functional Safety Manager, JCB

Russell Shipton is Group E&E Compliance and Functional Safety Manager at JCB, based at the World Headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire. He studied Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and an MSc in Safety Engineering, Reliability and Risk Management at the University of Aberdeen. After leaving Aberdeen in 2005, Russell joined TRW Automotive (now ZF TRW) to work in Electrically Powered Steering systems RAMS. Four years later, Russell joined Xyratex (now part of Seagate) to work in enterprise-class and HPC data storage systems RAS. This was followed by a Principal Engineer position at Intelligent Energy delivering safety cases for hydrogen fuel cells within vehicle powertrain applications. Russell is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Edith Holland: Lead Engineer - Functional Safety EESE, Jaguar Land Rover

Edith Holland holds a MEng degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bristol University. After graduation she joined Jaguar Cars and worked on projects related to Functional Safety in several departments across Powertrain and Chassis and Electrical Engineering. She is currently a Lead Engineer for Functional Safety within the Jaguar Land Rover Electrical, Electronic and Software Engineering department developing Functional Safety processes for and guiding Functional Safety activities for ADAS projects.

Alan Peters: Principal Technologist – Automated Transport Systems, Transport Catapult

Alan Peters leads a number of automated vehicle projects and specialises in systems engineering, functional safety and safe management of automated vehicle trials at the Transport Catapult. Alan is working on the LUTZ Pathfinder automated vehicle project, FLOURISH CAV project and with Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) on automated vehicle standards. Previously, Alan has worked on the safety case for the Heathrow Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system and Towards autonomous projects for Jaguar Land Rover. In 2011, he completed a EngD in Systems Engineering with thesis: The Safety of PRT Systems. Alan gained a MEng and EngD from University of Bristol and was Visiting Fellow of the ‘Centre for Systems’.

Per Johannessen: Chief Project Manager and Technology Specialist Functional Safety, Volvo Group

Per Johannessen is a Technology Specialist for Functional Safety within Volvo Group and currently work as Chief Project Manager implementing the ISO 26262 standard. Before coming to Volvo Group, Per had a similar role within Volvo Cars introducing the ISO 26262 standard. Since 2006 Per has been an expert in the ISO committee responsible for the ISO 26262 standard and led the work of introducing trucks, buses and trailers into the standard. He is currently the project leader for Part 7 of the standard. Per has Master of Science degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD from Chalmers University of Technology within Computer Engineering.

John Botham: Technical Specialist -- Safety Critical Systems and Software, Ricardo

John Botham is a technical specialist in functional safety at Ricardo, where his experience lies mainly in the field of automotive electronic systems. John represents Ricardo on the steering committee for MISRA, and contributed to the development of ISO 26262 as a member of the UK working group. He is currently part of the MISRA working group that is developing guidelines for automotive safety cases, and was the technical lead for the industrial research programme PICASSOS.

Dr Jeremy Bryans: Research Fellow, Centre for Mobility and Transport Research, Coventry University

Jeremy Bryans is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Mobility and Transport at Coventry University, specialising in automotive cybersecurity. He is interested in the questions of how to build secure automotive systems, and how can it be demonstrated that they are secure. In his career he has developed and applied formal verification methods and techniques to problems of security, dependability and resilience within large systems including socio-technical systems, systems of systems and cyber-physical systems.

Roger Rivett: Functional Safety Technical Specialist, Jaguar Land Rover

Roger Rivett has worked in the automotive industry for over 35 years on real-time embedded-systems and is currently a Functional Safety Technical Specialist in Jaguar Land Rover responsible for embedding functional safety processes and practices within the company. He is the chairman of MISRA and a member of the ISO working group that has produced the automotive functional safety standard ISO26262. He is a Chartered Engineer and a fellow of the IET. He has an MSc in Software Engineering from Oxford University and is currently studying for an Engineering Doctorate at York University.

Angus Lyon: Director, Rockfort Engineering Limited

Angus Lyon has 22 years’ experience within the automotive and motorsport industries. Working for OEMs, Tier 1 and R&D start-ups as well top level F1 and electric racing teams, Angus gained a strong capability in all areas of active systems from suspension to engine and transmissions as well as extensive expertise in EV/HEV technologies. Over the last 10 years Angus has developed EV motors and systems including the car currently holding the world electric land speed record. In 2013, Angus started Rockfort Engineering Ltd, a systems and safety consultancy specialising in development and application of EV/HEV technologies and systems

Simone  Fabris: Engineering Manager - System design, ZF TRW

Simone Fabris has been working in the automotive industry since 2007 starting as contracting system safety engineer for major Italian and German OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Since December 2010 he has been working for TRW Automotive (now ZF-TRW) in its Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) department initially as functional safety manager for radar and camera based systems. He is now leading the system engineering department for the design ADAS systems supporting automated driving at levels 2, 3 and 4. He is responsible for the system architectural design and its partition into HW and SW according to ISO26262 and Automotive SPICE (SYS.1/2/3/4).

Richard Burke: Protean Electric Limited, Software & Systems Manager

Richard Burke is the Software & Systems Manager at Protean Electric Limited where he has worked for the past nine years. He graduated with a first class degree from Keble College, Oxford, in 1984. Over the course of his engineering career, he has worked in a wide variety of industries including aerospace, transportation and automotive. During his time at Protean, he has become the holder of eight motor-related patents. He is a chartered engineer and a member of the IET.

Gareth Price: Functional Safety Manager, Protean Electric Limited

Gareth Price is the Functional Safety Manager at Protean Electric Limited where he was worked for the past four years. He graduated from Bristol University in 1995. He started his career at Hitachi supporting microcontroller development for automotive applications before moving to McLaren where he developed systems for F1 and aviation. He is a member of the MISRA Steering Committee and Safety Case Working Group.