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Sussex, UK

SJB Technology Consulting is a small independent consulting company delivering technology-based business development opportunities to large private sector companies where influencing and gaining buy-in at senior level within that organisation is necessary for success. I also have on-going technical and personal development activities with a number of SMEs.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

After 28 years working at Philips, I have retired and set up my own consulting company. One of my contracts kept me as the Innovation Director at the Research Lab but with a much stronger focus on business development involving research rather than in the research work itself. My focus during this time was on future home healthcare technologies, especially.

Redhill, Surrey, UK

Managed portfolio of LTPS AMLCD research projects for TPO, Hsinchu City, Taiwan.

Redhill, Surrey, UK

Programme Manager for the UK Research Laboratory of Philips, responsible for each year's technical programme and also for the strategic development of the lab's competences to migrate from a world-renowned Displays and Wireless lab into a Home and Personal Healthcare Lab. Member of the Laboratory Management Team. One of two managers who relocated the UK.

Redhill, Surrey, UK

Following my return from Japan, I found Philips was slowly moving away from display manufacture and, together with my group, we selected biosensors, later and more generally Home Healthcare, as our future area of focus.

Redhill, Surrey, UK

Managed a portfolio of research projects carried out in the Eindhoven and Redhill Research Labs developing technology for mobile phone LCDs. Responsible for the Philips Active Matrix LCDs research as a whole, supporting, in addition to Philips MDS, LG.Philips LCD, world #2 LCD maker. LRTO = Long Range Technical Objective.

Seishin-Chuo, Kobe, Japan

Development Manager and LTPS Design Centre Manager. Set up a new engineering group within the Philips active matrix LCD factory in Kobe to fulfil the commitments of a new JDA with Mitsubishi. Recruited new staff and completed first 3 development samples. Philips lead manager for the JDA aimed at developing state-of-the-art LTPS-based active matrix LCDs for.

Redhill, Surrey, UK

Managed the Large Area Electronics Group, then Thin Film Electronics Group. The Group studied a-Si and LTPS thin film transistors (TFTs), working both on the materials preparation and development and on TFT device design and optimisation. Started projects on 3D LCD and plastic LCDs, making the world's first plastic TN AMLCD. Made the world's most highly.

Redhill, Surrey, RH5 1HA

Senior Research scientist studying semiconductor devices based on MBE-grown GaAs/AlGaAs, including Hot Electron injected Gunn diodes, Hot Electron Transistors, High Electron Mobility Transistors and conventional MESFETs. Senior Principal Scientist studying Si high frequency bipolar transistors for CATV modules and AGC tetrodes for TV signal pre-amplifiers.

Corporate Laboratory, The Health, Runcorn, Cheshire

I worked with Dennis Ballard on the application of heavily filled hydrophilic polymers such as PVA and PVAlcohol for physical reasons (electrical, magnetic, acoustic etc.)

Phd, Physics

PhD Thesis "The Thermoelectric Effect in Superconductors"

Msc, Physics

Awarded English Speaking Union scholarship to study in Canada. Master's Thesis "A Physicist's View of the Thermal Denaturation of DNA"

Bsc, Physics

First Class Honours

A1, S1, A1, S1, A1 In Maths, Physics And Chemistry

Pre-O Level

Activities and Societies: Stage lighting. Sang in Choir at opening of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Learned to sail on the Marine Lake.

Yachtmaster Coastal

A commercial yachting skipper's license, regulated by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency.