1980 - 83 MNC
1983 - 84 Cole Electronics - Assistant Design Engineer - telephone call centre
monitoring equipment, and mains (as in 240v 50Hz) filtering and monitoring
gear.
1984 - 88 Thorn EMI on contract to the Admiralty Research Establishment at
Teddington - Trials Engineer - fitting sonar signal processing and data logging
equipment on to RN vessels.
1988 - 95 Thorn EMI on contract to the Admiralty Research Establishment at
Teddington and then Portland (89 onwards) - Noise Ranging Officer - sonar
acoustic signature measurement and reduction for RN vessels.
1994 Joined Defence Research Agency (doing same job as above...the contract got
terminated and I got "in-sourced")
1995 - 99 In 1995 DRA became Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) - I
got involved in "Quality" doing TQM and ISO9000 implementation - 98 became
"Sector Improvement Manager" looking after QA for ~1200 staff and ~30
sites!!
1999 - date Change of direction, still with DERA - became the Business
Development Manager (effectively Marketing) for the "Aerospace"
environment.
Got married to Lorraine (Tim William's sister's best friends sister!!) in
September 88 and our first child Matthew was born in 1997. Now live in deepest,
darkest Dorset.
Working for www.qinetiq.com