Steelbadger Consulting Ltd : Experience

The Plessey Years September 1986 to August 1995 : Plessey Radar (became Siemens Plessey Systems). Started as a sponsored student and then joined the Digital Techniques Team on graduation. Worked on, and then became responsible for the design and integration of a unique timing system for a new class of military radar. Then I was seconded to Plessey Semiconductors where I ran a small team creating a huge (for the time!) ASIC for use in radar systems and for sale as part of their normal signal processing range. This involved most of the engineering specification, day to day management, and creation of the verification test routines for the production of the device. For this work I received the Plessey Radar young engineer of the Year award for 1988. Then took over the responsibility for the implementation of the signal processing system for a complete new generation of an existing radar with a team that peaked at 11 engineers. A key part of this development was the development and integration of a Built In Test System which ran whilst the Radar was operational to provide real time fault detection to LRU level. This Radar was successfully delivered to extremely tight timescales and is recognised to have been one of the most successful projects in the company at that time. This project involved me in project management and direct customer liaison for the first time.

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Plessey Radar in Cowes on the Isle of Wight ... was originally a Decca site after being an emergency landing field in WW2. In fact whilst I was there they discovered a set of pipe mines laid across one of the fields to destroy the landing area in the event of an invasion. Became Siemens Plessey Systems in 1988 and has been through several different incarnations since then. Now it’s part of BAE Systems.