1980 Technical Officer, duties including
service and calibration of all types of mainly RF test equipment.
1981 Joined BT Fulcrum Manufacturing R&D division 1981
developing 8080 and Z80 MPU based systems. Team member with
responsibility for processor design on Air Defence Electronic Keyboard System (ADEKS)
line concentrator project. First users
London Fire Brigade HQ and Gatwick Airport Control Tower.
1982 Promoted to Assistant Executive
Engineer. Research with parallel processing with the InMOS Transputer
& OCCAM software.
1983 Team member on 140-565MBit/s plesiochronous optical
multiplexer
project.
1985 - 88 Team member on
SyncMux - a 2-140MBit drop and
insert mux (SONET type), key responsibilities: transfer to production of
surface mount PCBs, system EMC testing and advisor
to the company on advanced manufacturing techniques. Represented BT Fulcrum at ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)
and member of BT Product Styling Committee.
1988 Promoted to Senior Design Engineer,
leading SyncMux project during hand over to production.
1990 Left BT to form Allgood Technology
Ltd.
Professional Memberships:
Institute of
Management
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Incorporated Engineers.
Registered with the Engineering Council as an Engineering Technician.
External interests:
Aviation - learnt to fly at Inverness
1993
Amateur Radio - licenced in 1979, callsign G8RXZ
Shooting but only targets, nothing furry.
Main sport is clay pigeon - particularly skeet but also licenced for small
and full-bore target rifle and muzzle loading, currently shooting historic
black powder revolver and flintlock pistols.
A wide range of other interests including
photography, engineering, science and technology, computing, music,
reading. In the past was heavily involved in modified road cars - built a supercharged
Alfa Romeo Sprint.
