Leader and manager of the global team of systems architects for the business. Content owner of the technology roadmap and the Advanced Development (AD) funnel for the business. Designer of the AD process. Pioneering and creating metrics and tools to facilitate the lean management of AD, technology and product development across the business:[1] The Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) methodology has been adapted to establish the priority of AD programs in as objective a manner as possible. The WSJF approach facilitates business and marketing partners to contribute their input on the potential value of a future technology while the technical stakeholders provide the input on content, feasibility and effort.[2] The CTQ (Critical To Quality) tool facilitates an objective process in identifying and prioritising the needs, drivers and CTQs that are used to measure the progress and feasibility of each AD program.[3] Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a known methodology which has been adapted for the evaluation and staging of AD and product development. The TRL approach has become embedded in the way of working at all stages of the innovation pipeline.Supporting a number of co-developments between different Philips businesses as well as between Philips and external partners. Pivotal in providing a comprehensive set of requirements on the technical route and feasibility for the MR-LINAC co-development. Working closely with Elekta and Philips (Helsinki) personnel during the start-up phase of the program and providing the initial architectural blue print and competence/effort estimate for the MRI system component of the integrated MR-LINAC system. Facilitating co-development together with Elekta by identifying and defining the various interfaces between sub-systems and assigning development content and ownership.

Fellow (Senior Director on the managerial scale) is the most senior technical position within a business unit (BU) of the Philips Healthcare organisation. Responsibilities include technology and product road-mapping, research guidance, advanced development and aspects of product safety. Leading and managing the team of systems architects responsible for maintaining and developing the product reference architecture and design guidelines. Generating and evolving a longer term platform and technology vision and providing support and technical guidance for ongoing product developments. A key ingredient for clarity of vision is (hands-on) involvement in product development and innovation. Direct involvement in the design, validation and documentation of many of the aspects related to RF (Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)) and system wide safety. Technical and approbation related work towards obtaining FDA approval for the Ingenia 1.5T & 3.0T products (received in April 2011). Regular marketing and sales support as well as generating white papers and making conference and workshop presentations.Recipient of the Philips Technology Innovation Award (December 2010) in recognition of the significant impact that the MultiTransmit innovation (see below) has brought both to Philips Healthcare and the field of MRI in general. The Technology Innovation Award is a Philips Healthcare wide (research & development) initiative that recognises outstanding innovations and innovators that also generate significant product and customer value.

Lead architect in establishing the functional, technical requirements and design boundary conditions for the magnet, gradient and RF transmit sub-systems of the 1.5T & 3.0T Ingenia MRI product platform. Ownership to deliver functional and design simulations and manage the coordination of a global team of senior technical experts, designers and managers in reaching a common agreement on boundary conditions, requirements and specifications. The Ingenia MRI systems are compact in length, light in weight, with a wide patient bore and large field of view (FOV). Ingenia were the world’s first MRI systems to incorporate MR signal digitization directly at the patient. Digitised MR signals are transported from the patient utilising a digital broadband protocol via a fiber optic cable. Chief designer for the Achieva 3.0T TX MRI system (inclusive overall conceptual design, execution of both hardware/software feasibility and product development). Achieva 3.0T TX was the world’s first clinical MRI product to incorporate MultiTransmit. The MultiTransmit innovation was developed from a concept submitted for patent application in 2003. Extensive simulations/calculations were performed as part of an advanced development activity which demonstrated the potential of MultiTransmit using the selected architecture. Leader of the team which executed the feasibility study involving design and construction of the hardware and prototype software necessary to demonstrate full functionality on both phantoms and volunteers. The Achieva 3.0T TX MultiTransmit product was introduced at RSNA 2008. Its effectiveness in resolving many of the fundamental image quality issues affecting MRI at 3.0T makes MultiTransmit an industry changing step in the overall development of MRI technology in general.

Senior Systems Architect involved in a number of key technology/product innovations:[1] Between 1999 and 2002 systems architect role in defining the technology and conceptual design of a fully actively shielded 1.0T open MRI system. The prototype resulting from this advanced development activity transitioned to product development and was released in 2004 as the Panorama HFO system.[2] From 2000 onwards, chief designer/architect responsible for system design of what became the Philips Intera and Achieva 3.0T product lines. The Philips Intera 3.0T was the world’s first compact 3.0T clinical whole-body MRI system and also the first 3.0T MRI system to utilize parallel imaging (SENSE).[3] Proposed and demonstrated a novel way to perform contrast enhanced angiography which is both robust to bolus timing inaccuracies and minimizes venous signal enhancement. This was submitted for patent in 1999 and became widely known as CENTRA (Contrast Enhanced Timing Robust Angiography). Since introduction, CENTRA has become the technology of choice for CE-MRA and has been broadly adopted across the MR industry.

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Senior physicist and member of the group of 8 physicists responsible for both the hardware specifications and MRI sequence software development of 3 whole-body clinical MRI products (0.5T Privilege, 1.0T Prima, 2.0T Prestige). Developer of the techniques, library, acquisition and reconstruction software for Echo Planar Imaging (all variants). Developer of automated field-map based B0 shimming, various system pre-scan calibrations, single-shot fast spin echo, breath-hold 3D CE-MRA methods and fat-free TOF angiography. Co-inventor and co-developer of the modular gradient system concept (commercially known as the "Twin Gradient" and later adopted by General Electric Medical and re-branded the "Twinspeed"). A time of intense learning in the “art” of product development, a very different and new experience compared to academic research. Working with a small company and competing with the bigger players requires multitasking, pragmatic actions and innovative thinking. This period was also characterised by a lot of interaction with product marketing and customer support with many learning opportunities on the commercial side of the business.

Post-doc researching Echo Volumar Imaging (EVI), limits of peripheral nerve stimulation in MRI and multi-resonant gradient coil drivers. Hardware design (acoustic noise reduced gradient coils) and software support for the development of one of the world's first whole-body 3.0T MRI systems. Part-time lecturer in applied physics at Nottingham Trent University. Invited representative, in place of Peter Mansfield, at an industry organised landmark workshop on peripheral nerve stimulation (1992). First insights into the industrial world of MRI product development. Award winner at the 1993 ESMRMB for research presented on peripheral nerve stimulation. Insights that have since been incorporated into the IEC definition of gradient waveform properties in relation to peripheral nerve stimulation safety limits.

National Physical Laboratory, UK, in the Department of Mechanical and Optical Metrology. Hardware and software device and tools development for the evaluation and calibration of precision rotary air bearings. Design and manufacture of a novel screw pitch measuring machine incorporating a HeNe laser interferometer and computer automated measurement system. Development of general purpose control software. Nanotechnology and Nanometrology.