Mr Leslie Philip Overs

Biography

In 1992, Mr Leslie Overs started a degree at the Queensland University of Technology and also became the Queensland State Service Manager for Sanyo Australia, responsible for service and support in the Queensland and northern NSW region. In this role he managed Sanyo staff and over 300 contracted service centers. Mr Overs was also the youngest State Service Manager for Sanyo Australia at the time of his appointment.Mr Overs received his First Class Honors Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1997 (working full time and studying part time) from the Queensland University of Technology. In that year, he presented a paper on his final year project, “AC-DC Quasi- Resonant Converter with Sinusoidal Input Current and Unity Power Factor”, with Dr Keith Hoffman at the AUPEC '97 Conference. He also won the Power Engineering Project Expo'97 at the Queensland University of Technology; was granted one year’s free membership to the Institution of Engineers, Australia; admitted to the Dean’s list of students for excellent academic performance; and granted membership to the Golden Key National Honor Society for outstanding scholastic achievement.Mr Leslie Overs joined CSIRO in 1999. In the Autonomous Systems lab, his primary task was the design of hardware systems for the laboratory’s many projects and activities. He is currently the engineering manager and a research team leader for the Brisbane laboratory and his team delivers the underpinning electrical, electronic, and mechanical and computer systems critical for all AS lab projects (over 30 projects this year). He manages nine staff members, including technicians Steve Bronson and John Whitham and engineers James Brett, Paul Flick, David Haddon, Serge Lichman, Ryan Steindl, Ben Wilson, and Brett Wood.

Research Interest

Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified