1. Delivered winning proposals, including devising highly customised technical solutions, for over £15 m of company turnover
2. Drove the bid management effort in sample management systems to create validated proposal costings, helping to develop the tools and techniques that have now been embedded in ISO-2001 accredited processes
3. Created the concept for the world’s first large scale robotic biorepository holding specimens exclusively at -80°C, one of the 4 finalists for the 2008 MacRobert Award issued by the Royal Academy of Engineering
4. Launched the world’s first individually coded 384-way sample tube, enabling critical high-value sales
5. Convinced the company to invest in ultra-low temperature systems, specifying the -20°C test chamber now used to prototype low temperature components and subsystems

1. Successfully delivered automation project, sold value £3 million, the first system running under Windows NT, incorporating the first Customer Ordering System, and introducing a major new robotic subsystem as well as numerous other innovations
2. Established clear guidelines for Robot Safety despite a managerial blind spot, created TAP’s robot safety training presentation and delivered training to the entire company
3. Delivered project sold value £1.5 million, the first “Solar” including devising its robotic architecture. Persevered so that the system went into productive operation despite unforeseeable difficulties on site including a flood and failure of client supplied services
4. Dealt with a very difficult client character, who despite chronic and voluble complaints throughout the project, came back to him personally to buy again
5. Created a benchmark for the standard of technical specification required for deliverable systems, effectively creating templates used on subsequent projects
6. Devised and delivered a vision application that, integrated into the company’s existing BasePlate product, enabled vision-guided colony picking to be demonstrated at exhibitions in UK and USA

1. Created the unique “Ovation” product, solely responsible from concept development, through proof of principle testing, to the design, delivery and installation of sold systems, and their subsequent maintenance and support.
2. Set up and managed a programme of internal lunchtime talks (the “Lunchtime University) which ran throughout this period, featuring both internal and external speakers
3. Took over a part documented product, becoming the product authority, producing a complete package of documentation, and delivering subsequent systems

1. Designed and implemented optical system and image processing algorithms for a fully automated flexible tablet packaging system (PostScript) that could sort non-repeating but exact counts of tablets from a continuous stream into bottles
2. Designed and developed a complete system for scanning cell culture tissues in T-flasks to automatically identify possible sites of abnormal growth, and installed this in a regulated environment
3. Designed and implemented system for vision guided alignment in a robot assembly cell
4. Developed a unique approach to text recognition that allowed verification of arbitrary print-on demand text
5. Designed systems for fluorescence imaging using TDI cameras including applications for mail sorting for Royal Mail and inspection of printed electronic devices

1. Jointly commissioned and subsequently maintained a ground-breaking inspection system for verification of Volkswagen Golf car wheel assemblies, used on VW’s Braunschweig production line for many years
2. Developed algorithms for automated detection of extended linear structures in complex images, and applied this to crack detection in car wheel hub castings
3. Designed part of firmware for a commercial image analysis platform
4. Taught Physics to the University of Manchester Medical School Pre-med year, enabling students with non-scientific backgrounds to study medicine
5. Co-created a prototype object-oriented compiler and graphical user interface for image processing, pointing the way forward for the group’s development environment
6. Researched non-procedural approaches to automated image analysis, leading to 8 publications and numerous conference presentations

Rescued a half-designed microprocessor-based data station and converted this into a working product for Unicam. Learning assembler language from scratch, transformed unspecified, uncommented and unfinished assembler code into a fully specified and supportable software product including test specifications, user manuals, at times having to debug both code and prototype hardware simultaneously