I worked at Philips Research for 11 years on multimedia, artificial intelligence for games, TV, and 3d-graphics, then Imagination Technologies who do chips for 3d graphics and video in games consoles and phones. Now I’m at altera, who make a type of chips that you can turn into lot of different things after you’ve built it into a product – car safety systems, video, lots of stuff to do with mobile phones, motors, solar power etc.
I’ve had a few other jobs as a student, shovelling sand or delivering letters.
I’ve not worked for many different companies, although my last job changed names no less than three times in the time I was there! I joined Westinghouse Rail Systems, who became Invensys Rail until they were bought out and became Siemens Rail Automation! I think they’ll be keeping that name for a while now. I now ‘work’ for the University of Bristol as a PhD student, but I am also self-employed as a contractor to earn a little extra money.
While I was a student I worked for the likes of Maplin, Cattles and in the pie stand at Hampden Park football ground – I can’t remember who the company was called though!
Rover/BMW where I looked at applying new technologies and materials in the manufacture of car bodies
Lombard medical where I developed three variations of aortic stent graft.
Renishaw – I ran projects developing measurement probes
Maats – I manage a team of engineers supplying equipment for pipe and cable lay vessels
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