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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Dynamic technology leader with a proven track record of delivering innovative, market-leading telematics solutions.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Cranfield, United Kingdon

• LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT:
• Led department of 25 engineers and project managers within a budget of £1.7million.
• Consulted with the business regularly at all levels to draw together technical strategy for architecture and in-vehicle technology appropriate for >200,000 units.
• Introduced quality management system for engineering ensuring traceability and control for activities at all stages of product development lifecycle.
• Established outsourced development team (India) at short notice to meet requirements for resource capacity.DELIVERING RESULTS:
• Safety Analytics driver behaviour assessment module for fleet management system.

Northampton, United Kingdom

• Setup Telematica Systems Limited as a joint venture with Trafficmaster plc and a business partner from Pro:technical as a telematics design house and consultancy.
• Grew development team from 4 to 24 including hardware, embedded software and high level software engineers. Managed performance of the team, invoiced to customers on a daily rate, profitably every year.
• Led technical team to innovate and deliver complete product/service solutions for clients including: “Fleetstar Online” – SAAS, GPS/GSM fleet management system (now owned by Masternaut). “Trackstar” – the first GPS/GSM.
• Selected components and suppliers, from the global market, including manufacturing partners for hardware production and worked with them on site during new product introduction.
• Liaised with graphical and product enclosure design houses to deliver ground breaking integrated products optimising form fit and function at a competitive cost.
• Devised highly effective data compression techniques for storage and communication of Vehicle Registration Marks (for traffic journey-time monitoring), vehicle event/location data (for fleet management) and navigation.

Mansfield, UK

• Design of low cost, traffic congestion warning devices, all introduced to mass production (e.g. 100,000 units) for customers including Trafficmaster, Vauxhall, AA & RAC. “Oracle” and “Freeway” speech products continue.
• Researched, analysed and prototyped technologies for traffic monitoring on trunk roads (leading to subsequent development of ANPR solution).

Lincolnshire

• Complete design, development and introduction to production of a range of low cost, low power, industrial LCD meters, including intrinsically safe products, using ASICs and embedded micro-controllers for UK and US.
• Innovation of the first speaking in vehicle traffic congestion warning product “Trafficmate” using very low cost technology from Texas Instruments “Speak and Spell” to do everything.

M.A. (Hons), Natural Science, 2:1

Main focus on Physics

Dphil, Electronics