New consultancy looking at contract research, tech watch, horizon scan,and scientific investigations.Experience in Cyber security, cyber risk, risk management, Machine learning, AI, Data analytics as well as future technologies.

Contributing to the overall research strategy of MASS.

Delivering business strategy to open new avenues of work for the company. Developing new business processes to look at Tech watch and Horizon scanningBusiness Analysis activitiesBusiness Development and Marketing supportContract Research

Responsible for R&T activities within MASS. Basically, anything that will further our commercial objectives but from a research perspective. IncludesBid WritngExperiment DesignLiterature searchesWhitepaper writingMarket SurveysTechnology reviewsInnovation

A volunteer senior elected official responsible for promoting Consumer Electronics globally within a not-for-profit environment.• Leading international teams across different countries, cultures and time zones.• As conference organiser, • Technical Chair of conferences targeting a global audience ensuring quality control of submissions to keep in standing with mandatory guidelines. • Creating budgets and raising funds to support conferences and events and making profits well in excess of the forecasted income. • Increased profits back to the society by 50% over the past 7 years. • As treasurer, • Responsible for planning and maintaining an annual budget of over $1M.• Responsible for financial control of projects, ensuring that they meet the budgetary constraints and meet necessary P&L guidelines.• Responsible for reporting on financial status to BoD and other stakeholders. • Responsible for following consumer trends within the CE sector and planning future directions of the society.• Part of the team that has raised membership by 1-2% year on year in a diminishing market.

Co-founder and Technical director of an SME with the goal of developing technology to improve revenue streams for clients in the media sector through the use of Big Data analytics. • Secured £1M in VC backed seed money, angel funding and other investments.• Producing business strategy documents including business plans, patent applications and shareholders reports. • Networking with clients, prospective clients, partners and stakeholders to gain market traction.• Managing several concurrent projects using agile methodologies.• Managing the product lifecycle from requirements to documentation and delivery. • Recruiting, training and management of directors, non-executives, technical, sales and back office staff. • Full sales activities including pre-sales, sales and marketing. • Leading sales and engineering teams.• Increasing customer base by 300%.• Promoting products at a number of international trade shows and conferences. • Interfacing between the client and the technical team. • Negotiation, planning, management and delivery of bespoke client projects.• Exploring and implementing distributed frameworks for Big Data analytics such as Hadoop, Cassandra, mongoDB, noSQL, Graph analytics, RDF/SPARQL and Fuseki.• Comparing Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) to leading/bleeding edge/bespoke solutions.• Designing innovative analytic algorithms.• Designing and building a web-based remote management interface using ASP.Net, JavaScript and HTML/CSS.• Responsible for innovation of new products and services derived from the core business according to emerging market needs.

Developing proof of concept prototypes and architecting bespoke projects on:• Using graph analytics to improve metadata extraction for multimedia asset management.• Architecting a mobile distributed Big Data processing framework using the Android platform.• Processing consumer Big Data with personal clouds and the Internet of Things.• Created a proposal for a new, cross-standard taxonomy for metadata to help define internet resources for semantic web.• Publishing articles for international conference, journals and magazines• Sitting on a panel of experts on "Consumer Big Data on the Personal Cloud" at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Consulting at Itron in Felixstowe, mentoring a young professional on a number of smart metering projects to attain Chartered Engineer status.Skills needed:CommunicationMentoringTraining

Consultant, architecting the development of a low cost, low power, high complexity, scalable embedded platform for the home security and healthcare market.• Working in consultation with the CEO to ensure design meets relevant specifications.• Working with embedded devices including ARM and PIC.• Implementing security protocols to minimise probability of attack.• Ensuring that the final product meets all necessary legislation requirements.• Managing documentation and software codebase to ensure smooth technology transfer.

AA senior position with a focus towards commercial research and teaching while working with industry and other universities to reach strategic goals of the organisation. • Successfully managed high risk projects with strict budget and resources. • Consultant at external universities and local SMEs.• Work with local industries to solve real commercial challenges. • Invited to teach and give presentations at international institutions including China, Singapore & USA• Teaching and training in business related skills including Project Management, Software Engineering and project supervision• Publication of over 40 conference, journal and magazine articles and have presented at many different events to a variety of different audiences including academics, investors, managers and professionals.• Raised over £1M in grants and other funding to support commercial R&D• Leader of a subcommittee in a £4.2m new infrastructure project.• Manager of a video and multimedia analysis research suite.• Architect of a new MSc in Professional Engineering.

Teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD studentsWorking on projects including:TelecommunicationsVideo EngineeringEmbedded SystemsProgramming

Installing networks, hardware and software for Microsoft's training headquarters in Reading, UK. Responsible for ensuring that each classroom was set-up according to teaching needs and to test the installation.