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CURRICULM VITAE

NAME : Stephen Hughes

DATE OF BIRTH : 23/03/63

NATIONALITY : British.

STATUS : Single.

FURTHER EDUCATION : ONC Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1980 to 1982).
: HNC Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1982 to 1984).
Glasgow Caledonian University.

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

TRINTECH, Dublin, Ireland (Jan 98 to Feb 01).

POSITION: Senior Test and Development Engineer.
 Responsible for design, test and integration to Manufacture of new generation Point Of Sale Terminal (POST) for credit card markets.
 Complete set-up at UK subcontractors premises for new product manufacture.
 Liase with in Field Engineers to solve customer specific problems.
 Conducted Beta trial of developed product at customer premises to verify design, functionality and overall quality at pre-manufacture stage.
 Gained safety,EMC and TBR/CTR 21 Approvals for new product connection to the Public Service Telephone Networks (PSTN).
 Project Managed external design house in the development of V.90 Modem.
 Performed an audit involving four companies in the Far East evaluate a suitable CEM for new business.
 Performed Product Acceptance at Far East manufacturing facilities.

KODAK, Rochester, New York, USA (July 96-Nov 97).

POSITION: Test Systems Engineer
 Involved in the complete set up of a CD-R (Compact Disk Recordable) Manufacturing facility from start up condition.
 Evaluate OEM Manufacturing and Test Equipment for process integration.
 Develop CD-R Test Equipment to be used at other Kodak manufacturing sites.
 Proactively monitor Manufacture Process data to identify gaps and define specific improvement projects to enhance Manufacturing/Performance.
 Generate statistical process control tools, to indicate during manufacture related issues on a “real time” basis.

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (March 87-June 96).

POSITION: Design/Development Engineer.
 Conducted Test Campaign at Harris Space Systems to assess Fiber Optic Communication Technology(digital/analogue and various data coding techniques) used on board NASA’s Space Station. Generated Final Report to advise to advise ESA on compatibility, integration and feasibility of implementation on board the ESA’s Columbus manned Space Module.
 Designed fully automated Fiber Optic Test Bed to route digital and video using PFM (Pulse Frequency Modulation) format. Test Bed supported multi-standard video formats(NTSC, PAL, Secam) with optical attenuation of 20 db’s while still maintaining eia-250-c satellite standard.
The architecture will be used on ESA’s Space Station. Given award by ESA for design.
 Designed and developed operational hardware for low noise micro-gravity measurement system used during ESA’s parabolic measurement campaign.
 Interface directly with European Space industry to control, advise and monitor the status of ESA related contracts.
 Support and advise ESA scientists and Payload specialists during testing and integration of Space Qualified Hardware.
 Assigned to Tenerife, Spain(Jan 95 - July 96) as ESA’s on site representative to assist and co-ordinate the integration of an Optical Ground Station. This station provided the means to establish Space to Ground (and vice versa ) laser communications to Geo-Stationary Satellites.
 Conducted free space laser communication link between two islands in the Canaries over a 145 km distance. Extrapolated test results to atmospheric model predictions.
 Designed and implemented the Communication Subsystem for the Optical Ground Station. The system checked out the received laser payload signal from the ESA Spacecraft Artemis in terms of Bit Error Rate and Jitter. The components consisted a sensitive avalanche photo detector with low noise amplifier followed by an automatic gain controller( to compensate atmospheric fluctuations). the electrical signal was then separated into clock and data for analysis.

Ferantti, Buckinghamshire, England (June 85-Feb 87).

POSITION: Electronic Design Engineer.
 Design of MIL-Standard 1553b serial bus adapter. The interface was based on the Motorola 68000.
 Provide technical support to Production for new and existing products.
 Responsible for acceptance testing of marine digital depth sensor used on board submarines.
 Write Test specifications for PCB’s/ Subassembly’s/ Assemblies for Production Testing.

Barr & Stroud Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland (Aug 80-May 85).

POSITION: Electronic Engineering Apprentice(Aug 1980- Oct 1983).
Covered work in the following departments,
 Digital and Analogue design departments.
 Production Test
 Equipment / PCB fault finding.
 Production Build.
 Quality Control

POSITION: Junior Electronic Engineer(Nov 1983 - June 1985)
 Involved in the design of infra- red thermal imager and laser range finder for MOD purposes.
 Responsible for generating operational hardware from Engineers conceptual designs.
 Manufacture of lab generated test equipment for prototype check-out

PUBLICATIONS: Fiber Optic Technology for the Attached Pressurised Module.
ESA Technical report, March 1992.

The Attached Pressurised Module Video and Data distribution system and Fiber Optic Test Bed results, June1994.

HOBBIES : Golf (former Captain of the ESA Golf Club), Snooker, Skiing and Music.

Telephone: (44)-141-812-2998
Address:
30 Parkinch
Erskine
Renfrewshire
Scotland
PA8 7HZ