Security Clearance

B.Sc. in Computing Science (University of East Anglia 1986)

Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (2004)

Amateur Radio Licence (1988) 

Relevant Experience 

[snip]. – Stevenage, United Kingdom (2000-Present)

·         Designing and implementing a control and monitoring system for mobile military satellite ground terminals. Windows 2000 Server. XML. C++. Astrium’s Generic Equipment Monitoring System (GEMS). TCP/IP. UDP. SNMP. Serial equipment control.

·         Designing and implementing a control and monitoring for two Government Satellite Ground Stations. Windows NT. x86 Solaris. GEMS. TCP/IP. Serial equipment control.

·         Allocation and configuration of IP addresses, variable length subnets and routing tables for two Government Satellite Ground Stations. Router configuration.

·         Designing and implementing the Skynet Spot Beam Management System (SBMS). x86 Solaris. GEMS. TCP/IP. Serial and IEEE 488 equipment control. 

[snip], United Kingdom (1998-2000)

·         Designing and implementing a control and monitoring system for Darius’s own X/Y dish antenna mount. Predictive tracking using NORAD orbital model data, primarily for low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Delphi. C++. Windows NT.

·         Network infrastructure design and support.

·         SMTP mail and Internet gateway maintenance. Linux.

·         Designing and implementing a satellite command interface accessible across an intranet or the Internet. The command structure was written in accordance with ESA Standard ESA PSS-04-107 Issue 1. Delphi. Windows NT. 

Terma Elektronik A/S – Leiden, The Netherlands (1996-1998)

·         System administrator, network and user support at the European Space Agency’s Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands. HP-UX. Windows NT. Windows 95. MacOS 8. 

Serco Systems Ltd. – Worcester, United Kingdom (1986-1996)

·         Designing, implementing and running an In-Orbit test suite for Skynet 4 and Nato IV satellites. Pascal. C. HP-UX. IEEE 488 equipment control.

·         Implementing and improving the Controlled Motorway Indicator Interface embedded software for the Highways Agency’s M25 Controlled Motorway Pilot Scheme. C++. MS-DOS. DSP GCAT 6000 micro PC.

·         Designing and implementing an interface between a tank’s threat sensor suite and its defensive countermeasures unit for DRA Fort Halstead. C. MS-DOS.

·         System and network administrator at DRA Malvern and processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar data. Meiko CS1 super computer. Sun Solaris. SunOS. Windows 3.11. FDDI.

·         Designing a software simulator for the Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling (MIDAS) system for the Highways Agency. Teamworks CASE tool. VAX. VMS.

·         PC installation and support at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.

·         SCADA design and implementation for the East Worcester Water Company using radio telemetry and command. System administration. C. AIX. IBM RS6000. USData FactoryLink. Recital relational database. Serial equipment control.

·         System administrator at DRA Fort Halstead. SunOS. MacOS 8.

·         Designing and implementing a radio monitoring test program. C. IEEE 488.

·         Assessing and reviewing operating systems and applications to produce a standard PC configuration for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands. MS-DOS. PC-DOS. DR-DOS. Lotus 1-2-3. MS Excel. Lotus Freelance.

·         Creating an Internet accessible UK Columbus Information System for the Columbus Space Laboratory project. SunOS. Windows 3.1. MacOS. X25.

·         Evolving and improving a modem/facsimile encrypted communications system running directly from EPROM. 8086 Assembler. PC. 

Related

Interests:               Computer System and Network Security, Computer and Radio Communications, Digital Video and Multimedia.