Tom Thomas Email & Phone Number

Stroud, Gb

Stroud, England, United Kingdom

I have over two decades experience bridging design, architecture and SME roles, and am actively seeking a new permanent opportunity in the following sectors:- Content security- Broadcast/OTT/IPTV platform security/architecture- ASIC securityI am open to contract work in the interim.

London

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Security architecture across Terminal Chipset Division of HiSilicon, covering STB, TV, camera, IoT. Led the silicon integration of numerous Tier 1 CA systems on HiSilicon's latest STB/TV SoC line. Responsible for development and certification of DVS.2 Common Criteria development facility at HiSIlicon's Bristol office. Working closely with partner team in Shenzhen.

Bristol/London/The World

Security technology audits and design consulting across the globe for Pay TV operators, CA and DRM vendors, system integrators/operators and OEMs and general security solution providers.Worldwide project work with or on behalf of most major studios, all Tier 1 and many Tier 2 security vendors including:- Synamedia- Nagra/Conax- Irdeto- Inside Secure/Verimatrix/SMI- Alticast- Akamai- IMAX- Novel SuperTV- Cryptoguard- Safeview- Exsetand many more...Working on various projects within the Farncombe security practice covering Security Monitoring for Pay TV platforms, security-related consultancy, and various ad-hoc projects in support of raising the bar for content protection in the industry, including bespoke technical and executive-facing reports and analyses for customers. - VPN and content usage rule circumvention studies for various content providers- Running the security monitoring service for YouView

Bristol, United Kingdom

Independent consulting services in the Digital TV industry and related.-> Product architecture-> Product development-> Industry intelligence-> Technical authoring

Osterley

CPE and system level architecture and design at BSkyB (Customer Technology - Exploratory Architecture).Requirements gathering and spec generation for next generation products, covering various types of device, as well as general support to the architecture team.Explorations into BSkyB approach to in-house high performance Wi-Fi router supporting mesh.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Providing silicon and system level security, DRM, licensing, standards, and general technical expertise gained from the STB arena for ARQ Media's forthcoming range of innovative multi-media products.Much of my activities naturally overlap into the product marketing arena (industry know-how from broadcast, HD, on-demand, multi-platform, consumer electronics).

Bristol, United Kingdom

- Complete renovation of Victorian family house

Bristol, United Kingdom

Designing & specifying secure on-chip solutions to support customers security requirements, involving close collaboration with driver/application engineers, IP designers, SoC integration team and technical marketing functions.Close liaison with customers, service operators and CA vendors on security schemes and DRM issues, chip CA certification.Research into future enhancements to general SoC security and content protection.Project managing and reviewing the security implementations on ST devices, including STB, DVD/Blu-ray and TV chips.Worked on STi7109 and derivatives, 7200.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Hardware designer, with a speciality in security IP.Designed various IP with varying degrees of complexity, including embedded microcores, various cryptographic block ciphers, stream ciphers and hash algorithms (AES, TDES, RC4, SHA, MD5 etc.), DMA engines, transport processing blocks.Liaison with SoC teams (international multi-site) on integration, physical & TA issues.Design flow from rtl through verification, synthesis, formal checking.Experience in assembly code for proprietary microcore.Worked on STi5514, 5528, 5516/7, 51xx/52xx/5300, 7710, 7100, 7109.