Welcome to my website. I am a keen photographer and am mainly into wildlife & landscape photography, but do play with others. In addition I am also a keen historian, interested mainly in pre-historic and British history and am also a member of the Thatcham Historical Society, of which I run the web site (www.thatchamhistoricalsociety.org.uk). Please also take a look at my Curriculum Vitae .
I obtained my PhD on the 10th December 2003. My research for the PhD was conducted in the Signal and Image Processing Group (SIPG) at the University of Bath from August 1999 to December 2002. My main research involves developing noise reduction methods for digital images and video using Mathematical Morphology. The research also delves into 'Psycho-visually Lossless' preprocessing for digital images. Whilst at the University, I also became a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET).
My previous job was as a teacher/lecturer at Newbury College. This involved teaching networking (networking, network operating systems, network design & administration, network project, wide area networks), web site design, object oriented programming (with C++), and systems software to BTEC National Diploma and Higher National Diploma students. Prior to this, I have worked for the University of Bath & Newbury Electronics. My work for the University included running some of the UCAS Open Day presentations and helping out in running the Matlab lab classes. My work at Newbury Electronics included running CNC machines (mainly with Sieb & Meyer Controllers), goods in, gold plating, electroless plating, HASL, black oxidising, printing, bonding, BBT, etc.
