Rob Weller - Cambridge Office
Rob joined Hawkins in November 2007 and is based in our Cambridge office. He is a fire investigator and has an electrical engineering background.

Rob spent the last six years with EDF Energy doing technical work including network planning and infrastructure development, writing technical standards and incident investigation work. Rob represented EDF Energy on several industry-wide forums and became a point of contact for technical queries.

He provided technical support and network studies for several large projects including offshore wind farm connections and development of the London railway supply infrastructure.

Before this he worked for Thales Optronics for two years as a software and electronics design engineer for airborne reconnaissance products. Rob has a PhD in engineering from Cambridge University for work with superconductors and achieved Chartered Engineer status with the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 2005.

If he has any spare time Rob likes to go flying in his Skyranger microlight, or on non-flying days can be found working on various projects in his shed. Cycling, motorcycling, DIY, walking the dogs and breeding chickens occupies any remaining time!

Matthew Spindler - Bristol Office
Matthew joined Hawkins in June 2007, from Honda of the UK Manufacturing Ltd, where he spent several years working within a validation, performance and production engineering environment. Matthew brings with him a wealth of knowledge from the automotive industry, having been responsible for component performance testing and analytical problem solving for design failures and production line issues.

Matthew completed a Masters in Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing Systems at Bristol University before spending two years as a Design Engineer on Interior Trim components at MG Rover Group. After this Matthew furthered his education with a Masters in Automotive Design at Coventry University before moving to Honda in 2005.

Matthew has added to the engineering knowledge in our Bristol office and works on a wide variety of engineering and road traffic accident investigation cases.

Matthew has recently taken up painting as a hobby, and is also a keen guitarist, but considers himself to be a practitioner of the Eric Morecambe school of music, "My style is more, all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order!"