SAFER SYSTEMS - Key Persons


Jim Mateer

Job Titles:
  • MIET, MRAeS Associate
Dynamic, security cleared, senior engineering manager with 25 years of cutting edge product, vehicle, software, weapon and aviation systems safety experience. Success delivered through charismatic leadership, teaming and an unwavering focus on customer needs, supported by effective communication, flexibility of approach and attention to detail. System safety and airworthiness expertise underpinned by demonstrable professional competence, including extensive practical experience and the latest academic education including an MSc in safety critical systems

Yuri Tempest-Woods

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • IET Chartered Engineer
Yuri is a IET chartered engineer with over 25 years experience in safety and dependability design assurance. Yuri has a very pragmatic attitude to safety and reliability engineering and has multi discipline experience relevant to mechanical, electrical/electronic as well as software intensive systems. Yuri has been involved in safety programmes at all levels, from systems of systems down to the equipment level. Yuri has worked across all sectors including Defence, Transport, Offshore and Industrial projects. Yuri's focus is to identify following a thorough safety assessment and working closely with the Client, practical areas where the design can be influenced to optimise its safety characteristics. In this way clearly demonstrating to the Client that value has been added. Yuri has also developed for a number of companies procedures and a defined process model for ensuring within their delivery process that safety is appropriately integrated into the design process. Experience includes; Armoured vehicles, Armoured vehicles route proving (rollers, ploughs, lane marking, bridge launch system), Missile fuzes, Situational awareness systems, Air Traffic Systems, Software and SIL assessment, Offshore pipelay systems, Saturation diving systems, Railway systems, Drone countermeasure system