St Clement Danes Grammar School, Ducane Road, Hammersmith, London.

O-Level Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Language, English Literature, Geography, French and Biology

A-Level Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

S-Level Pure and Applied Mathematics, and Physics. State Scholarship awarded.

University of Nottingham.

Birkbeck College, University of London.

B.Sc. Psychology, with subsidiary Mathematics. IIii. First three years were part-time, whilst employed by Rank-Xerox (UK) Ltd. Final year was full-time. Final year project: An Investigation of the Similarity of Random Shapes.

Self-employed: Development of low-cost Altera FLEX design kit. Direct digital synthesis system using the Analog Devices AD9850. MSP4530 module. Prototype unattended ground sensor system using geophones. Currently working on a low-cost audio processing system for low-power broadcasting using the Alesis DSP chip set.

Senior Engineer, IRISYS Ltd., Towcester Mill, Towcester, Northants. NN12 6AD.

Responsible to the Development Manager for the design of embedded systems used in the company’s range of infrared detection systems. Hardware/software design using Analog Devices ADSP-2187 DSP. Developed high-performance assembly language floating-point and fixed-point routines for the ADSP-2187. Hardware/software design using Atmel AVR and Microchip PIC controllers. Developed PIC-based GSM modem system for radio remote people-counter.

Embedded Systems Development Manager, Integrated Technologies and Systems Ltd., Technology House, 73-77 Lowlands Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middx. HA1 3AW. IT&S went into voluntary liquidation on May 25, 1999.

Responsible to the CEO for the development of our own range of EPOS equipment. Staff working directly under my control were a senior engineer and two trainee engineers. The main Subscriber Access Module was to be based on the IDT 3041, and the back-office system would have consisted of 32 four-processor modules, each module to be connected to an EIDE hard disk, with an ARM host processor handling I/O. The modules were to be based on the Analog Devices ADSP-2181, with a Lattice GDX digital switch chip handling inter-processor communications and disk I/O.

Self-employed: Human factors consultancy. Win95 and WinCE development experience using Visual C++ with the Windows API and MFC. Development of unstable tracking task (Jex-type) software using C. Development of a low-cost DSP training system based on the ADSP-2104, a direct digital synthesiser system using the AD9850, and a phasing direct-conversion receiver using DDS and DSP techniques. In doing this I have acquired a good knowledge of DSP techniques including filtering, modulation and demodulation. I have also worked on a re-configurable computing module using the Xilinx XC6216 FPGA.

Principal Engineer, Racal Communication Systems Ltd., Western Road, Bracknell, Berks. RG12 1RG.

Human factors of military communication systems, mainly on the MoD Bowman project. Bowman training for senior MoD personnel. Successful completion of all the human factors verification tests for which I had responsibility, as well as ComSec and Voice Communications Facilities engineering verification tests. Responsible for MANPRINT on another large project. Database techniques using Access were developed for task analysis, human factors requirements tracking and training needs analysis. Rapid prototyping of user interfaces using C++ Builder. Provision of human factors and MANPRINT consultancy and advice on many projects. Participated in the development of a frequency planning tool written in C. Customer Information Systems design for a Racal Research contract.

Leading Engineer, Advanced Cockpit Research Group, Military Aircraft Division, British Aerospace Ltd., Brough, N. Humberside.

Human factors of advanced military aircraft cockpits: virtual reality, helmet-mounted display (HMD) systems, HMD symbology, workload measurement. Market research conducted into virtual reality theme parks. Supervision of student projects: neural net for gesture recognition, statistical software and a tracking task.

Proprietor, Concurrent Techniques.

Development and marketing of transputer-based systems. Customers included Plessey Roke Manor, BAe, RSRE, RARDE and Oxford University Programming Research Group.

Freelance human factors, software and hardware consultancy.

Image quality investigations for Burroughs Corp./Midland Bank. Development of software for 3-D movement monitoring system. Database development for the DHSS. Patient records database developed for a large company. Porting of PICASO graphics package (FORTRAN) to a microcomputer system. Design of a low-cost 8088 development system. Freelance journalism. Microcomputer training courses developed and conducted for the DHSS, a local authority, and the WEA. Development of a complex CBT package for ICL.

Research Associate, HUSAT Research Group, University of Loughborough.

Ergonomics of visual display units used in the newspaper industry. Human factors of advanced office systems.

Consultant to Industrial Design/Human Factors Department, Xerox Research (UK) Ltd.

Human factors of office equipment: subjective copy quality investigations using psycho-physical scaling techniques, machine graphics, user stereotypes, usability studies. Developed prototype systems for eye-movement monitoring using electro-oculography, and for heart-rate monitoring using bio-telemetry techniques.

Various temporary assignments.

Final year of psychology degree (full-time).

Planning Engineer, National Workshops, Rank-Xerox (UK) Ltd.

Responsible for photo-copier refurbishing procedures, tooling, plant layout and industrial equipment, in the main national workshops and branch workshops.

Contract Estimator, English Electric-Leo-Marconi Computers Ltd.

Student Apprentice, English Electric-Leo-Marconi Computers Ltd.