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Expert is a professionally registered chartered engineer and a senior member of the IEEE, with extensive software and systems development experience (solutions provider). His strengths are his innovation, pragmatic approach, reliable delivery and ability to integrate quickly into a project team and be a key player. He has a wealth of hands-on experience and has worked on many of the cutting-edge, innovative telecommunications developments and products of the last 30 years, from early digital exchanges, through to GSM second generation mobile phones to current 4th generation (and LTE-A) networks. He has provided expert knowledge and opinion to patent attorneys relating to IPR infringement litigation and in particular 3GPP/ETSI infringements. His skill set includes real-time embedded MISRA C, MS Windows C#/C++, M2M, 3GPP standards expertise, device drivers, IPv6, GUI and various operating system (including Linux and VxWorks). Expert has developed IP and TDM based fixed network infrastructure (switching and transmission), mobile network products (BTS, eNodeB), mobile handsets (2G, 3G, 4G), test systems and M2M (IoT) solutions.
To date, he has 32 years of unbroken experience, gained working Internationally (including UK, Italy, The Netherlands, USA, Germany, France, Japan and Hong Kong) on a number of major projects for high profile clients, including GEC, NEC, Panasonic, Toshiba and AT&T. Expert has a strong mix of hardware, software and systems design and development experience, developing projects/features from concept through to final production, launch and ongoing support. He has led teams, mentored engineers and handled complete project developments (both Agile and waterfall model based), including planning and progress tracking.
For the last 20 years, he has been operating as an independent consultant through his UK registered limited company. He has had many long contracts, contract renewals and has frequently been invited back for new projects by previous clients. He has often gained new projects by reputation and referral. He is a registered chartered engineer [CEng MIET], regulated by the UK engineering council and therefore operates with the highest ethical standards, competence and respect for client confidentiality. Expert has recently passed UK security screening for a government related project.

Expert has extensive real-time embedded software design and development experience using a number of different real-time operating systems and programming languages, including MISRA and ANSI C.
Expert has developed mass-volume mobile communication consumer products from marketing concept through to final production and product launch.
Expert has developed many proof of concept prototypes.
Expert has extensive experience developing kernel and applications with VxWorks, embedded Linux and MS windows XP/7 multi-threaded development (mutex locking, etc).

Expert has extensive internet protocol development experience, IPv4 and IPv6, including DHCP, UDP/IP, TCP/IP, FTP, RTP, UPnP, NFS.
Expert has ported many existing applications and protocol stacks onto new operating systems and platforms.
Expert has extensive mobile internet development experience.
Expert has extensive client / server IP based system development experience (sockets, binding).
Expert has m2m "internet of things" (IoT) smart meter communications hub development experience.


Selected consultancy examples from the expert's last 20 years of consultancy:
- Tier 1 Japanese handset manufacturer project for DoComo – expert managed the porting of an existing GSM/GPRS layer 1 onto an new DSP platform, including proof of concept demonstration, produced MS project plans and tracked progress, managed the DSP supplier and delivery milestones. Reported directly to the software project group leader. Created an innovative solution to adapt the existing protocol stack to a new DSP platform, allowing significant code re-use, reduced time to market and subsequent significant cost savings.
- Tier 1 Japanese handset manufacturer double mode 2G/3G handset project – expert was a major layer 1 resource in the development of the first double mode 2G/3G handset capable of live video calling. Launched in Hong Kong . This was a high pressure role. Expert was a key resource. There was a high level of responsibility as the expert had to produce daily software deliveries to the Japanese integration team. Therefore, many engineers directly depended on his delivery. The handset was also successfully launched in the UK and was seen as a stepping stone / milestone product into 3G in the UK.
- Pico cell GSM/GPRS/Edge base station development - Supported special customer projects and introduced new standard software modules, allowing significant new revenue streams for the company.
- Tier 1 Japanese handset manufacturer project – out-source of layer 1 development for 2008 Beijing Olympics to produce layer 1 bug fixes on an existing PCS1900 handset, which were required for the Olympics. The handset was later given to dignitaries during the Olympics, as a product promotion. The expert successfully delivered many software fixes to the Japanese test team.
- International joint venture project: a communication distribution system located within a street cabinet, with extremely aggressive environmental constraints – Expert developed innovative RS485 based low power Ethernet LAN solution for backbone communication. Created concept of collision detection using linear devices to detect voltage change. Allowed Ethernet to be used with low heat generation within convection cooled street cabinet, as solution replaced higher power standard Ethernet transceivers.
- Tier 1 International Telecoms equipment manufacturer project – out source of RLC/MAC over TCP/IP stream multi-standard BTS project. The expert successfully created a project proposal for this work and created the plan and milestones. Expert successfully delivered and was paid for each milestone of the project.
- Large test system vendor 4G LTE test platform project – expert managed the3rd line support of the LTE test system – handling complex bug fixes from many customers on a daily basis. Managed the 3rd line support help desk.
- M2m Internet of Things (IoT) communications Hub development - expert consultant in the communications hub software development team. Expert developed the WAN manager and IPv6 socket manager and supported all aspects of these developments, including mentoring other team members and providing customer support to the end customer.
- High value patent infringement project - expert provided expert insight for major patent infringement trial relating to ETSI/3GPP patent infringements, leading to trial.