Led the Product Group’s Development function which included line management responsibility for our agile software development, devops, QA and UT (user terminal) type approval teams consisting of 40+ staff in the UK, Norway, Canada and US operating with an annual project budget of ~$10m.My focus was the delivery of the product roadmap for Fleet Edge, our next-generation, maritime application services platform implemented as a set of Docker-based microservices running in VM’s on Alpine Linux at the edge and EKS (Kubernetes-on-AWS) onshore

Service technology start-up : defined & implemented an online technical due-diligence process to validate prospective partners for a digital hospitality service exchange.Visual surveillance (private client): developed an object detector for legacy security camera RTSP feeds using a CNN (convolutional neural network) running on OpenCV 4.0 in AWS EC2.Open-source: extended the TensorFlow Lite v2 C++ sample code to support an SSD-MobileNet v1 quantized CNN on the Raspberry Pi.

PNDA : http://pnda.io and https://github.com/pndaproject Product owner for the Linux Foundation-hosted, big-data network analytics platform project based on the Hadoop ecosystem including Kafka, HBase, Spark, OpenTSDB, Impala & Jupyter.Co-created a credible business model in terms of go-to-market and a coherent product roadmap.Roadmap definition and resulting backlog capture and prioritisation using Atlassian Jira.Line management of project technical leader, system architect and 3 senior development engineersLed the open-source process with the Linux Foundation to brand, launch and market the project.Evangelised the project at Cisco US & EU conferences resulting in a multi million-dollar platform sale.Conceived and co-developed the red-PNDA developer version of the platform.Led the development team through the internal productisation process to deliver a secure, validated and supportable, on-premise version of the platform.Supported internal services and account teams on pre-sales activities and customer trials.Machine LearningDeveloped a network traffic loss detection application based on a mu-sigma and digital-filter model on router telemetry using Python, SciPy, Pandas, PySpark and Apache NiFi.Authored a project proposal to use closed-loop, simulation-based training of a CNN object recogniser for video analysis-based use-cases.Technical due-diligence on UK big-data and ML start-ups for prospective round B funding.Technical reviewer on UK & US university research proposals in the big-data and ML domain.

Corona - project leader for a cloud-hosted, Hadoop-based analytics platform for OTT video service providersChampioned the concept at an internal innovation contest - awarded first place.Built and led the 9-person UK platform development team.Led the go-to-market strategy as part of the existing service provider analytics portfolio.Evangelised the platform and initial use-cases to pay TV customers at EU and US broadcast industry conferences.Defined and completed a TV audience profiling co-development with a major French telco using a PCA & K-means cluster-based model.Delivered an AWS-hosted platform instance for a major EU telco.ITXG - project leader for a web-hosted, OTT content rights & channel creation platformDefined service feature roadmap with senior management stakeholders.Architected the high-level channel creation workflow.Led the 12-person UK-Israel-Denmark team of in-house and external software architects & developers.Evaluated and negotiated content production and delivery services from UK facilities house.Resulted in an agreement to deploy a trial service at a German pay TV operator.xShare - inventor and project leader for a peer-to-peer, set-top-box, content-sharing platformDefined the end-to-end high-level architecture.Led a 12-month prototyping activity culminating in a working proof-of-concept and successful patent application.

Led the design and development of a web-based authoring platform for interactive TV and advertising content for the Sky ‘red-button’.Deployed and operated the platform for interactive TV advertising agencies.Led the application and content design for an interactive TV DVR game concept resulting in demonstration to the Chairman and senior management of a major global media group.

StreamServer - group manager for digital TV multiplex & conditional access control systemSuccessfully built and led in-house 8-person team to transition ongoing development and customer support from an external consultancy to in-houseSubsequently took on and led an expanded team of 85 people across 2 UK sites responsible for the development, test and project management of the broadcast control product suiteResponsible for the £1m opex and capex team budget, staff management and product roadmaps Delivered and maintained system installations at News Corporation pay TV customers worldwide

Design and developed the embedded C-based, programme playout control user interfacesIntegrated, tested and delivered these applications in time for the new HQ ‘Go live’

Led the embedded C/Pascal software and VME hardware development on a new teletext inserter projectCommissioned first systems at the Austrian national TV broadcaster

Conceived, designed and developed a fibre-optic-based data acquisition system for the UK 4.2m optical telescopeBit-slice hardware, FPGA design and embedded Forth software on a number of telescope instrumentation control projectsProvided engineering support on the GMT service including live leap-second insertion