Mr John McIver
Position: Associate
Expertise: Electronics, Programming, Computer Animation
Qualifications: B.Eng. (Aero)
John graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1978 with a Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He subsequently spent 5 years working at Aeronautical Research Laboratories in the areas of computer simulation and mathematical modelling of various aspects of aircraft performance. He was also involved, at various times, in the areas of aircraft flight trials, data reduction and analysis, and in the management of a minicomputer-based high performance graphics system.
Following periods working at Ford Motor Company and Fluor Daniel, where he worked as a Computer Technical Analyst providing support for these companies' CAD design systems he started a consultancy. This business offered services in the fields of Computer Aided Design and Engineering, including technical programming in a number of computer programming languages.
Since 1991, the work has expanded into the fields of 3 dimensional computer modelling, servo control system programming (CNC machine tools), photorealistic rendering and crash-investigation. These skills have been used on a number of occasions in the preparation of animations for use in Court cases.
John has also written a large number of articles and reviews of computer hardware and software for MultiCAD Magazine, CAD User Australia, MOZ and several other publications.
Key Areas
- crash-investigation (crash-investigation)
