Having gained my Electronics BSc(tech) degree from the University of Wales, Institute of Science and Technology in 1987, I have subsequently worked as an Electronics Design Engineer mainly with communications systems and to a smaller extent in many other fields such as automotive electronics, domestic appliance control systems, integrated home control and community care alarm systems.
I have been with my current employer since January 1993. This is with the telecommunications test equipment manufacturer Tempo Europe Limited (formerly known as Chesilvale Electronics Limited) where we are working on new and varied projects to suit many markets worldwide. Some of our latest products are a range of hand-held LAN cable test sets, cable and pair tracing equipment and associated tools. I am currently one of the company's Product Development Managers for Copper (local loop) testing products. These new products will also assist in the deployment of advanced telecommunication products such as ADSL, SHDSL and VDSL by pre-qualifying the cables and also acting as an advanced fault location tool.
I am responsible for a small engineering team in the the UK but am also involved in recruitment to our Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Bangalore and also often travel to the USA to work with my colleagues within the Tempo/Greenlee organisation.
Being part of the larger Textron Corporation has allowed me to gain a lot of experience of international working, collaboration and training. I have recently completed my Six-Sigma Greenbelt scheme and have also attended a very useful "Developing Leadership Excellence" course to help me progress from being a lowly engineer to a manager, sorry "leader", of engineers & others in our teams.
Through a wide and varied graduate training program and further project work carried out with my first employer, AB Electronics (now part of the TT Group), I gained a broad range of design and development experience both in hardware (analogue and digital) and software (microcontroller firmware and high level, protocol and MMI) design and implementation.
I spent my industrial placement year (August 1985- August 86) during my degree, at GEC's Hirst Research Centre in Wembley. Here I spent most of my time in the Communications Laboratory helping to develop a unit that would allow access to channels in a primary rate ISDN link. This was used in subsequent projects to allow loading trials to be completed on primary rate ISDN switches. Several of which would then be used to load 145Mb/s links.
My final year project whilst at university was an Arbitrary Waveform Generator that could be controlled by a BBC microcomputer. The example that was built easily generated audio frequency waveforms but the principle of phase continuous generation could be applied across all frequency bands, mHz to GHz. This successful project earned me a WINTECH prize (sponsored by the Welsh Development Agency) for an innovative and possibly commercial application of technology.
It is interesting to note that this technique of "Direct Digital Synthesis" (DDS) is now being used by my team in the Analogue Network tester that we are currently developing. But it is now in an "off-the-shelf" chip and will work up to 25MHz with a small power consumption.
Please send me an e-mail if you have any questions or would like a copy of my full CV.
This site was last updated during February 2007
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