Curriculum Vitae - Andy Kirkham

Education

  • ONC Electrical Engineering
  • HNC Electrical Engineering
  • BSc Electrical Engineering

Career history

The following lists employments dating back to the 1980s, with the most recent listed first:-

  • Stellar Technologies Ltd, Fife, Scotland; Owner, Director
  • Synergy Newmedia Ltd, London; Technical Director
  • TECC Ltd, London; Senior systems administrator
  • K2 Internet Ltd, Crawley, West Sussex; Owner, Technical Director
  • Image Industries Ltd, Epsom, Surrey; Senior hardware design engineer
  • Harmonic Drive Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex; Senior hardware design engineer
  • Rapiscan Security Products Ltd, Crawley, West Sussex; Senior hardware design engineer
  • VG Microscopes Ltd, East Grinstead, Sussex; Senior hardware design engineer
  • Link Miles Ltd, Lancing, West Sussex; Hardware design engineer
  • GEC Turbine Generators Ltd, Old Trafford, Manchester; Hardware design engineer

Experience

  • Technologies
    • Hardware design using Analog Devices ADSP21xx series DSPs, Atmel AVRs, ARM, Intel x86, FPGA design using Xilinx and Altera, USB systems using NXP and FTDI components. PCB design using Cadstar and Proteus CAD systems. Mechanical design using AutoCAD systems.
    • Software design for both PC (Windows), Unix (Linux and FreeBSD) and embedded systems in assembler, C/C++, QT4 framework (cross platform development), network sockets engineering
    • Industrial control using Siemens and Mitsubishi PLCs
    • Online; Dynamic web site design using F/LAMP (FreeBSD</Linux, Apache<, MySQL<, PHP<) and Drupal<
  • Particulars
    • Systems design for:-
      • Embedded image processor systems design for quality control industry
      • Embedded industrial process control PID applications
    • Applications:-
      • Unix system administration in the ISP enviroment including use of Bind, Sendmail, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Drupal<