A Defence Research Scientist and thought leader, working in the technical surveillance field for over 25 years with previous experience in defence simulation and modelling for the assessment of systems effectiveness. Working with a multinational customer base, designing, and developing innovative and cutting-edge technical surveillance systems intended for harsh environmental conditions employing open standards to provide secure robust and resilient systems. Employing state of the art AI and data analytics in low power EDGE computing to deliver next generation surveillance systems.
Key Capabilities
- Served as Director and CTO, general management, and functional leadership covering Software Architectures, Systems integration, Embedded Systems, and High compute Edge processing.
- Delivering R&D, new product development, bringing disruptive products to market, product enhancement, obsolescence management and user training. Highly experienced software engineer working at all levels of the software stack.
- AI Data analytics and image processing specialist in Gstreamer, Deep Stream, OpenCV and NVIDIAs tool chains in C, C++ and Python. Implementing new and emerging algorithms for high performance low power architectures.
- Practical implementation of academic research in operational scenarios. Designer, developer, and implementer of an open architecture framework to encourage the integration and cooperation of 3rd party organisations to deliver inter operable operational software solutions.
Key Achievements
Designed and developed 7Technologies ‘Processing At The Edge’ platform to achieve high performance data analytics and AI at the Edge in a low power battery operated environmentally protected sensor platform.
Delivered to an international customer base, new remote sensing systems exploiting best in class communication systems and environmental MEMs sensors.
Developed innovative solutions for Tagging Tracking and Locating with COTs components to deliver capability with Over the Horizon communication systems within urgent operational timescales.
Pioneered the development of high-performance sensor processing techniques with low power small footprint processing platforms.
Designed and developed first to market video over 3G live streaming store and forward camera systems.