Experience

NEP UK

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Software Architect

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  As our industry undergoes huge structural disruption, NEP is in a prime position to exploit the opportunities this offers. I help NEP build and acquire the right forms of software to enable the next generation of workflow - whilst still producing the best and most exciting live coverage, globally. As our industry undergoes huge structural disruption, NEP is in a prime position to exploit the opportunities this offers. I help NEP build and acquire the right forms of software to enable the next generation of workflow - whilst still producing the best and most exciting live coverage, globally.



Brunel University London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • May 2015 - Present

  Having worked with the academics at Brunel University Department of Computer Science for many years, I now have an official title at this fine institution. All I wanted was a library card ... Having worked with the academics at Brunel University Department of Computer Science for many years, I now have an official title at this fine institution. All I wanted was a library card ...



Grass Valley

• Canada
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Software Architect

  • Sep 2019 - Mar 2023

  Responsible for software architecture across the whole of Grass Valley. I am a resource to all product teams helping as we transition from monolithic to micro-service architectures. Going deep into Kubernetes, using CI/CD & DevOps, exploiting Eventual Consistency, advocating Evolutionary Architectures. Responsible for software architecture across the whole of Grass Valley. I am a resource to all product teams helping as we transition from monolithic to micro-service architectures. Going deep into Kubernetes, using CI/CD & DevOps, exploiting Eventual Consistency, advocating Evolutionary Architectures.



Grass Valley, a Belden Brand

• Principal Software Architect

  • Oct 1999 - Sep 2019

  I am one of the architects for revolutionQ, a sea change in broadcast workflow that uniquely allows broadcasters to not care about the form or location of their essence. An asset that is 10 years old is treated the same as recordings 5 seconds old; globally. Ingest naturally grows an archive. Completely standards based, only using software running on COTS hardware and exploiting the power of AAF, AS-02 and FIMS; the prototype of revolutionQ has already been sold for an eight figure sum to a major US broadcaster. revolutionQ takes the best of the Web architecture (Representational State Transfer – or REST – a type of Service Oriented Architecture) and mixes it with the best of Quantel’s understanding of how to exploit disk technology – utilising the multi-pattented Quantel Virtual File System. revolutionQ won a TV Technology Star award and an IABM Game Changer at NAB 2012. Show less



Softel-USA

• Software Development

• Senior Software Engineer

  • May 1994 - Oct 1999

  I created an OO framework to allow five different products to re-use an optimised display engine. I conducted a user study to design Swift, a revolutionary and award winning development in subtitling products. The job involved a lot of international travel for pre - sales demonstrations and post-sales installation, network configuration and diagnostics. The role demanded planning, teamwork, research and problem solving. I persuaded Softel to sponsor my university research and grant me a weekly day release. I regularly trained programming staff at Softel. Show less