I am an experienced Chartered Engineer having held Line, product and programme management roles.
After closure of ST-E UK, took over ownership and management of a friend’s 23 year old but dormant company. Set up a small team for a series of consultancy style engagements after my ex-colleagues referred new business to me (all unsolicited).
The smaller assignments of less than 6 weeks included: auditing the R&D assets of “DCT” a company in Washington DC; product management for a custom cellular PA in a Tier 1 laptop PC (Smart Antenna Technologies Ltd, Birmingham), setting up the business case and system architecture for novel NFC analogue ASIC application; and presenting the potential for power efficient SoC applications in the wireless market for the Deeply Depleted ChannelTM offering (SuVolta in Los Gatos)
Two assignments. Qualified and gained Tier 1 Phone customer acceptance for secure supply of product in the mobile phone market. Helped develop critical semiconductor process technology, PDK, and target device.
An international team of system engineers and technical experts across six sites to develop a new sub-system in super-critical time for a key customer who recognised their need late.
Set up a new $170M automotive RFIC line in the satellite radio market.
Line managed (functional and resource allocation) an international team of system managers and technical experts across six sites for mobile chipsets including Cellular/RF standards, NFC, WiFi, GNSS, Bluetooth, high speed digital interfaces, and low power techniques.
Led TETRA Handset and Base Station Programmes for the major part of SRT’s RF, Baseband, DSP, MMI, Application and Embedded software engineering resources in the UK and the development group in India. Winning customers and attracting interest worldwide.
PA Consulting launched UbiNetics in 1999 to develop 3G, 2.5G and 2G products for wireless data and voice applications. Led teams to design the GSM/GPRS ‘2G’ protocol and wireless telecoms modules and phones for high-volume manufacture and the next generation Multi Mode ‘2G/3G’ mobile terminals.
Led team to implement Wideband Signal Processing products. Consolidated a number of diverse applications into a single programme. Designed critical elements needed to achieve the specified baseband sampling rate of 576MHz, doubling the performance achieved by previous designs but using the same GaAs ASIC technology.
Authored proposals, developed system architecture, generated estimates for tenders and quotations, developed new customers, bid and subsequently managed the P&L for those new contracts.
Created the innovative and original concept for a triple redundant Transputer architecture and designed communications and DSP for Space Flight image processing.
External management training whilst employed at Ericsson, UbiNetics and Matra Marconi Space.
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BSc (Hons) Electronic Engineering (II-I) University of York