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professional CV which you can navigate on-screen click here or here for the pdf
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Ian is an experienced
telecommunications consultant with a background in network design,
planning and optimisation and defence systems. He obtained an
Honours degree in Physics with Electronics from the
University
of Southampton
in 1984 and had a successful career in the defence industry before
moving to telecoms in 1992. His main fields have been antenna
design, communications systems anaylsis and telecommunications
network
design. After forming Peak Intelligence Limited in 2004 he
worked
with clients at ministerial level in a post-Soviet government
advising
on revising the telecommunications licensing regime and has also
supported investors establishing joint ventures in the Central
Asian
region. He worked with investors and entrepeneurs on a new
network project in southern Europe and has a developing client base
in
the rail industry with projects related to the provision of
broadband
communications to rail passengers and GSM-R.
He
has presented papers at technical and professional conferences on
subjects from near-field antenna measurement (QMC Antenna
Symposium,
London, April 1986) to broadband deployment using WiFi in rural
areas
(telekomdagarna 2003, Stockholm, SE) and wireless communications to
trains (BWCS Train Communications Conference, London, June
2006,
2007 and 2008).
A registered European
Engineer (Eur. Ing.) since 1991, Ian is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Engineer, a
Chartered Physicist, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a
Member
of the IEEE.
Ian has recently completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Professional
Legal Practice (BVC) at the Inns of Court School of Law (now City Law School)
in London and was Called to the Bar of England and Wales by
The
Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn in 2008. He obtained
an
honours degree in Law at the Open University at the end
of 2005. He
was awarded a Diploma in English Law (Dip Eng Law (Open)) in late 2004.
As part of this programme of self-development Ian was Chairman of
the
Open University Law Society in 2005 and 2006 and a sub-editor of
the
Open University Law Society Review. He founded the Open University
Law Society web site in January 2005. He has done
volunteer
work with the Derby Law Centre, a charitable legal practice
based
in Derby, including assisting in establishing the East Midlands
Law Centre Partnership under a DTI funded programme to raise
awareness of new employment regulations.
Ian has been
a licenced Radio
Amateur since 1977. He was appointed registrar of the
Bristol
Owners'
Club in 2004 and was responsible for producing a CD-ROM archive of the club bulletin
in
2003.
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