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New York, United States

New York, Ny, Us

Managing the development, deployment and operation of a real-time urban flood sensor network in New York City called FloodNet. This gained funding of $7.25M and is actively used by communities, city agencies and government weather services to monitor and analyze flood conditions in real-time for emergency alerting and flood model validation.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed, sourced, and deployed a network of domestically deployed noise sensors, employing design for manufacture (DFM) principles. This was in collaboration with LOFT LLC, a multidisciplinary product development studio. To monitor air/noise health impacts on at-risk communities in NYC, I extended this new system with a highly accurate air quality sensor with deployments in NYC Chinatowns. This period has seen $2M in successful grant funding including an exciting project called FloodNet that had me build a new team and develop an ultra-low-power, LoRaWAN based flood monitoring sensor network for urban street flooding. This system is actively used by city agencies and government weather services to monitor and analyze flood conditions in realtime for emergency alerting and flood model validation. I have since completed its design for manufacture (DFM) process to scale up production to 500 deployed devices.

New York, Ny, Us

Continued the development and expansion of the SONYC sensor network, one of the worlds largest and longest operating urban noise monitoring networks. I built up a diverse team of scientists and engineers to implement dev-ops solutions to the network backend and sensor provisioning. My work with city agencies increased as I tailored and integrated our solutions into their operational procedures. This position also saw the award of $2.6M in grants, which had me leading a hardware/software team developing a multi-modal sensor system incorporating 15 channel MEMS microphone arrays, dual high res cameras and a GPU equipped compute core for edge intelligence creation. In addition, I co-founded a startup concept for acoustic condition monitoring of manufacturing machinery including intense customer discovery and business model development.

New York, Ny, Us

Brought on as one of the first postdocs to the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) to develop novel sensor systems for the monitoring of urban noise. I created a set of MEMS microphone based prototype urban noise sensors as part of the "Noise Project". This early project success led to a $4.6M National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the Sounds Of New York City or SONYC project. During this period, I was the sole hardware research & development engineer on the project, designing and implementing a deployed fleet of 75 sensors mounted at strategic acoustic locations across NYC. This included the implementation of a full stack client-server infrastructure for robust data collection and network analysis. For the sensor's custom MEMS microphone module, I designed, prototyped and liaised with fabrication houses in China to have 500 modules assembled to an exacting standard for high audio quality and module consistency.

Technical Lead of the FloodNet team managing all of the technical aspects, including: sensor design, manufacturing and deployment; firmware development; backend development; finances; project scoping and development.

Salford, Greater Manchester, Gb

Running a short term research project investigating hyperlocal TV services, with a particular focus on sports coverage. The project is partnered with BT, and a number of local charities and media organisations. The main aim is to gauge audience appreciation towards hyperlocal content and the ways in which they consume it.

Internet and Mobile Technologies for a Public Role in Noise Surveying. Roles include:• Developing project software using namely: C#, Java ME, Flash, XNA, XML Web Services• Producing web content using: HTML, Flash, Java Script, PHP, ASP.NET• Creating promotional material to publicize the project• Carry out pilot studies in local schools promoting the science behind the project• Managing project expenditure and budget• Acoustic analysis of environmental recordings on a large data set• Statistical analysis of participant responses from large data set• Reviewing existing methodologies in the field for comparative analysis

EPSRC funded project ISESS (Identifying a Sound Environment for Secondary Schools): a three year research project investigating the effects on teaching and learning of different acoustic designs within secondary schools and classrooms. Roles included:• Developing cognitive tasks using E-Prime• Carrying out acoustic testing within UK secondary schools• Planning lessons for KS 3-4 students involving acoustics• Running pilot studies with school groups• Publishing journal papers on the data analysis

Work placement in a busy professional audio service department. Roles included: • Sole responsibility for microphone repair• Sole responsibility for audio CD burner repair and laser calibration• Fault diagnosis and localization• PCB reworking• Maintenance logging• Customer liaison including in-person and telephone technical support

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Acoustics

Bachelor’S Degree, Acoustics

A2 Level, Physics, Mathematics, Computing And Media Studies