EXPERIENCE

• Jan 97-date: retired
  

INMARSAT

• July 94-Dec 96: Operations Engineer, Network Operations Centre. Special responsibility to make sure contingency arrangements work: In charge of the backup Network Operations centre and its upgrading and maintenance. In charge of disaster and rebuild plans generally, and plans to operate over backup satellites. Also general responsibility to make sure the NOC is faced with no surprises.
  
  
• June 93 - June 94: Operations Engineer, Aero Group
  
  
• Nov 88 - June 93: Aero Div, GES Development Engineer.
  
  Brought all the diverse parts of the ground segment of the Inmarsat Aero communications network into operation. Developed test methods, standards for GESs, resolved system problems with station builders and owners. Ensured that actual GESs operated correctly. Ensured that any system or particular problems that emerged were quickly dealt with.
  
  
• April `90 - Inmarsat `Thanks' award
  
• Mar 91 - Inmarsat `Special recognition' award
  
• April 91 - promoted
  
  
• Mar - Nov `88 (plus temp appt, Feb) CES Development Engineer, investigating means of lowering the cost of Coast Earth Stations working with Inmarsat.
  

OUTSIDE INMARSAT

COMSAT

• Sept 86 -Dec 88: Network Technology Dept, Comsat Labs. Comsat delegate to US and international fora ensuring that the new broadband data protocols (ATM, SONET etc. remained satellite friendly, rather than being intrinsically restricted to fibre optics.
  
  
• Sept 73 -Sept 86: Engineering Dept, Maritime Systems Div, Comsat. `73-'78 Senior Design Engineer, `78-80, Manager, Access and Control, `80-'86 Manager Network Engineering. part of small team that introduced the first mobile satellite system, and followed through to its subsequent evolution to the Inmarsat network
  
  
• `69-'73: Designed and wrote communications protocol and computer programs for Intelsat SPADE system. One of the first uses of demand assigned channels over satellites.
  
  
• `68-'69: monitored RF contracts for the new earth stations Comsat was building to work with the Intelsat III system
  
  

PREVIOUS

• `68-'69 Page Communications Engineers, Washington DC, servo system design for satcom antennas
  
  
• `63-'67 Atlantic Research Corporation, Washington DC (and London), technical consultants to broadcasting industry in USA
  
  

PERSONAL

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