Engineering and Maintenance Staff: Don Maillet

MANAGER, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Address:
Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Level 2, Gehrmann Laboratories
Research Road
The University of Queensland
Brisbane. Qld. 4072
E-mail address: Don Maillet
Telephone: +61-7-3346 7254
Fax: +61-7-3365 3833
Home Page: Don Maillet

Career Profile:
I received a BA in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick, then spent several years designing remote data acquisition systems under private contracts. One design involved a remote controlled camera platform for time-lapse photography, another design became a single-handed chord keyboard for the Macintosh. As a young man with the urge to travel, I was lured to the Canada's West Coast, where I travelled plenty as a field service engineer for Bruker Spectrospin (Canada) ltd. My experience base grew to include RF electronics, Unix based computer systems, superconducting magnets, and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging.

Roles and Responsibilities:
As the Senior Systems Engineer for the Centre for Magnetic Resonance, I look after the CMR Research laboratories, maintain and repair the NMR, MRI and ESR spectrometers, and provide technical support for the research staff. This includes on-call responsibility for service and maintenance of three clinical MRI scanners located at The Wesley Hospital and the Royal Brisbane Hospital. With a background in electrical engineering and a strong interest in MR systems and RF circuits, I provide technical support and advice to the UQ community for NMR site planning, RF development and MR troubleshooting. As the Centre has many links to the greater MR community, my duties have also expanded to consult to a wider community, within Australia and overseas.