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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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