Philip Wilson Email and Phone Number

I lead a dynamic growing business with world leading RF and Digital team taking products from paper to manufacture..Delivering leading edge RF Digital product design our main specialist area's are radar signal processing, Radar Transponders, Jamming, High Frequency Solid State Power Amplifiers SSPA, Transmit & Receive Modules.Some of our latest work and products:- Phased Array Radar Xilinx RFSoC, TX & RX with high speed optical links- Ground Penetrating Radar RF and Digital Design- White Rabbit IEE1588 time and synchronisation timing end nodes- 5.8 GHz Active RF Beam Former- 2.4 GHz Microwave Heating ISM Band, up to 1KW- L, S and C Band Frequency Converter suitable for LTE Modem input- X, S, Ku, Ka Band SSPA Amplifiers- X Band 9-10 GHz Quad Transmit Receive Module (QTRM) Phase Array beam forming Radar Application- Digital Baseband Up Down Converter, UDC 10GHz.- 5G 28 GHz Transmit and Receive Module (TRM) Research- 2-6 GHz High Power Amplifier- 5 GHz Doherty Power Amplifiers- S-X Band up converters- RADAR Transponder system- Marine RACON Transponder RF and Digital System design and manufacture- Cellular Doherty Power Amplifiers for cellular and jamming- VHF TAC Sat Amplifiers- Radiation testing and evaluation of space application parts- RADAR pulse de-interleaver and emitter classification running on low cost embedded RTOS System- Real time pulse signal processing RADAR Signals in FPGA system- DDS Microwave Direct Digital Synthesis using FPGA and DAC for high frequency RF applications- WEB Connected 'Internet of things' RF Power Amplifier with full system control- High speed pulsing modules for SSPA with fast nano second rise and fall time- Alignment of RF pulse propagation delay of multiple synchronised amplifiers- Factory test solution for digital and amplifiers testing Labview and Teststand ATE- We/I also love to develop embedded control systems using FreeRTOS, Linux, C, C++, C#, Python...

The Local Enterprise Partnership, Business, Innovation and Growth.A business leader by their nature is entrepreneurial, an entrepreneur for me means the ability to drive forward product, business ideas from paper to commercial success, the journey to achieving this is challenging and many hurdles need to be overcome in innovative and creative ways. Support from government initiatives and policy can be fundamental in the process to success.I believe that this support applied in the right way is fundamental to business growth and regional growth and stability.Having started a business from a business incubator centre in Leeds and a garage workshop, to a business that has a great team delivering personal and business growth, this unique experience into the challenges it takes, which gives me real opportunity to help others and help to steer the direction of the LEP support business in the region.

We started the business in my Dad's garage, expanded the business to larger facilities, employed a team, Designed and Built a 6kW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, it was neat and we learned a lot. During this exciting time, after all, how many people get to design and build a wind turbine, we set up Slipstream Engineering Design at the time mainly to generate revenues we could re-invest into the wind turbine, it was very much bootstrapping a startup. Slipstream Engineering Design was in demand and our efforts shifted to support the expansions of Slipstream Engineering Design. Without Slipstream Energy and the support that was provided from Family, Friends, innovation funding and businesses willing to support us the stepping stones to Slipstream Engineering Design would never have happened. So we did a lot of work to get Slipstream Energy rolling, our attitude was and still is. If we had to do it, we did it, if we needed to learn it we learned it, if we needed finance we raised it, we did what we could to make it a success.

Embedded firmware and hardware development of world leading Filter and Power Amplifier products.During my time at Filtronic I designed many digital hardware and embedded firmware systems used for base station RF Filtering and Power Amplification. The product were world leading including the first 3G filter system, Digital Predistortion and control of Doherty Power Amplifiers. My main responsibilities in this position included:• Digital hardware design, specification of micro controller systems and embedded firmware.• Key contact for large OEM customers• Translating end user needs into technical specifications• Proactively keeping the customer aware of developments and progress• Management of prototype builds including product documentation, toll gate sign off, planning of timescales, delivery of milestone achievements and budgets.• Presentation of reports on project status with both internal and external business connections.• Managing and mentoring junior members of the design team.My major achievements in this position included:• I joined Filtronic as a graduate. The consistent quality of my work was quickly recognised by senior management; I was promoted in 2003 and then successfully applied for an internal post to transfer into the new Power Amplifier group.• Successful system management of a complex control system design, implementing new technologies and algorithms to support a state of the art Power Amplifier module• Successful completion of third generation filter control circuit international volume manufactured across Filtronic sites.• 3 month secondment to Filtronic Comtek America bringing a third generation product to prototype stage.• Integration of new products into Filtronic Finland production facility

Hames Electronic provided private telecommunication solutions. I mainly worked on VHF and UHF bands radio equipment, the work was diverse and I designed systems that was used for communication on large crane systems for shelf picking of products. Radio systems with data modems used with scanners in shipping dispatch environments. I have spent time in freezers used by the UK's largest single-site frozen consolidator, improving wireless links with leaky feeder antennas. Worked with filters made out of beer barrels then installed at Emley Moor Transmitter which is the tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom. I once installed radio equipment in a large bank safe. As well as repairing radio equipment, I spent a good portion of time supporting Yorkshire Water with there wireless infrastructure seeing most of Yorkshire during this period, even installing radio equipment in disused cold war bunkers. We worked with lots of different radio equipment supplied from Motorolo, Ericsson, Icom, Repeater Stations where commonly used to increase the range of the radio's a for runner to mobile phones and Tetra system, which I would go onto design equipment for at Filtronics.I left Hames Electronics and started an Electronic Engineering Degree at Hull University as a mature student.