GILMORE ENGINEERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- a Specialist
- Vice President Engineering
Dr Raymond L Hope is the Vice President Engineering of Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd | e3k. He leads an award-winning, cross-industry, innovative team, specialising in Engineering Failure Analysis and providing Professional Expert Witness services to the legal profession.
Dr Hope is a highly experienced Expert Witness. He has investigated more than 500 incidents over the last 22 years and prepared expert engineering evidence for the legal profession of Australia. This evidence has ranged from detailed failure analysis of major industrial accidents, machinery failure, including numerous engine failures, patent and copyright actions, motor vehicle accident investigation and re-construction and personal injury cases.
In 2019 Dr Hope presented vital evidence in the Brisbane Supreme Court in a case where an excavator operator was charged with manslaughter, after a death on a work site. Dr Hope investigated the available evidence and was able to identify an excavator failure mode that was not identified by either Workplace Health and Safety or Police investigators. The client was found not guilty of all charges.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Managing Director
- President
- Fellow of Engineers Australia
Duncan B Gilmore is the Managing Director and President of Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd | e3k, New Product Research, Development and Commercialisation Specialists, and the Bright Devices Group Pty Ltd.
He received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree in 1972, with First Class Honours and The University Medal. He completed a Master of Engineering Science degree in 1975, and the Ph.D degree in 1977, all from the University of Queensland. His postgraduate research interests lay with the instrumentation of two-phase gas-liquid flows and with the use of hot-wire anemometry in the study of non-isothermal turbulent fluid flows, the technology which laid down the experimental benchmarking results for computerised computational fluid dynamic software which evolved in the 1970's and 1980's.
Duncan Gilmore is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and a Member of the Mechanical College; Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1988; a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers Australasia, and a Member of Materials Australia.
He has travelled extensively overseas to work, to lecture, and to visit research and manufacturing facilities principally in the USA, Japan, UK and NZ. This began in 1972 with a tour of industrial and cultural Japan sponsored by the Mitsui Company, as a selected participant in the current Mitsui Educational Foundation (MEF) Program, which began in 1971. In 1985 he travelled worldwide to negotiate research and development contracts for the University of Queensland, and in 1996 to the USA for Bankers Trust Australia.
For two months in 1988, he worked at the Robotics Division in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tsukuba, Japan; and for six months taught and researched at the leading-edge of mechanical design as a visiting professor in the Systems and Design Division, Mechanical Engineering Department, of the foremost private University in the United States of America, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.
A Division of Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd, named e3k (Engineering 3000) specialises in Industrial Research and Development, particularly New Product Design, Development and Commercialisation. This activity requires a broad knowledge of Engineering, from which ideas and fresh approaches to problem-solving can be drawn. Complete products which satisfy an identified market and consumer demand are created from initial concepts or partially developed devices. This requires a highly creative and experienced approach, together with cross-fertilisation of ideas from other disciplines to enable them to be world competitive and suitable for export. A complete idea-generation, design, prototype development and testing service is provided. Commercialisation and manufacture of the product are considered constantly with assistance being given in protecting Intellectual Property, conducting market research, liaison with regulatory authorities, and importantly interacting with sources of finance. The Division also conducts Computer Simulation (including Computational Fluid Dynamics) and Project Engineering.
Duncan Gilmore is named as an Inventor on over 30 Patents worldwide, from 7 patent technology families.
Over 1,500 major reports of expert engineering evidence have been prepared for the legal profession of Australia since 1984. This evidence has ranged from detailed failure analysis of major industrial/equipment incidents (cranes, aviation, marine), through patent and copyright actions, to detailed forensic motor vehicle accident analysis and personal injury. Personal injury reports particularly include ergonomic analysis and an assessment of the system of work. Traumatic injury caused in industrial workplaces is an area of specialty. Dr Duncan Gilmore appears regularly in the Federal, Supreme and District Courts as an Expert Witness, and has acted as a review arbitrator. Recent major matters include a mining dragline boom collapse, severe road accidents, Robinson R22 mustering helicopter incidents, industrial and consumer equipment injuries, patent actions and an expert assisting the Coroner in the Gold Coast Dreamworld Thunder River Rapid Ride inquest.
Strategic assistance and management level advice based on personal experience is given to organisations wishing to take a product to market, or a product to a new market. In particular, in-depth experience exists in negotiating joint ventures leading to International business. This expertise has been accumulated in companies and projects with which Duncan Gilmore maintains an equity interest or is a Director, and through retainer ships and interactions with major investment banks since 1993.
Duncan Gilmore maintains a wide list of associated consultants and colleagues in many fields within Australia and internationally to enable specialist teams to be assembled and to provide the personal networking necessary to create successful technology-based businesses. His biography was included in the Marquis Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and the Reed Publication Australian Men and Women of Science, Engineering and Technology.
Dr Duncan Gilmore founded Gilmore Engineers in 1986 with incorporation following in 1993.
Gilmore Engineers is a leader in forensic engineering including the investigation and analysis of significant machinery failures, aircraft and motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, fires and explosions, personal injury, and intellectual property, and product liability. We have provided more than 1500 Expert Reports to the legal profession over the last 30 plus years.
In 2001, e3k (e3k.com) was launched as a division of Gilmore Engineers to provide expertise in engineering design, research and development, computer simulation and project engineering.
Kieren joined Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd | E3K as a Research and Development Engineer in 2023. Kieren has had a variety of experiences in different engineering disciplines. Most recently, Kieren has worked for an Australian manufacturer, developing new products from concept to completion.
Through his studies and work experience Kieren has developed a passion for research, design, and development. His interests include additive manufacturing, material research, computational modelling and simulations.
Kieren received his Bachelor of Engineering with an extended major in Mechatronic Engineering from the University of Queensland in 2015. He also completed a Master of Engineering Science in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering in 2020 from the University of Queensland. His undergraduate thesis focused on using computational methods to analyze in situ combustion efficiency using infrared spectroscopy. Kieren's postgraduate thesis focused on the biodegradability of biodegradable polymers in an anaerobic environment.
In 2017, Kieren worked as a Graduate Electrical Engineer at Wood and Grieves Engineers, now a part of Stantec. Here Kieren worked in building services providing drafting and engineering support to the project engineers. This included working on an energy audit and providing energy-saving recommendations for Brisbane City Council pool operators. Through this experience, Kieren practised key skills relating to project management, design principles, and stakeholder engagement.
In 2019, Kieren was engaged by Storm Water Consulting (SWC) to update and develop key software applications for their business. He was able to implement the desired improvements which significantly reduced SWC's labour costs through a reduction in repetitive menial tasks, future-proofed their business, and provided SWC with a competitive edge against their opposition.
In 2022 Kieren began working as a design Engineer at Everhard Industries (EI). Throughout his tenure at EI, he was involved in designing, developing, and implementing multiple products. These products were made from precast concrete, injection molded polymer, and rotomolded polymer products. He developed skills in Finite Element Analysis (FEA), design for manufacturing (DFM), and project management.
Matthew Gray joined Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd | e3k as the Operations Manager in 2019.
Matthew's career began in the civil construction industry, working collaboratively with trades and Civil Engineers. Matthew has specialised knowledge in civil construction and maintenance having notably worked with the Safelink Alliance team on the Centenary Motorway upgrade in Brisbane Australia.
Matthew also worked on the Anglo American Grosvenor Metallurgical coal project based in Moranbah, Queensland, Australia on a mine duplication project.
In 2013 Matthew expanded his career by following his passion as an SME business owner in the seafood industry. Matthew has a keen eye for business operations, marketing, accounting, management and HR.
Owning and being responsible for his enterprise has given Matthew a thirst for business in a global sense - hence he is currently expanding his horizons by undertaking a Diploma of Business and stepping sideways into an operations role. Matthew also holds his real estate licence, revealing his passion for all things related to development.