Home address ------------ Kim Booth 14B Watery Lane London SW20 9AD Telephone --------- Home 0208 544 9545 Mobile 0779 1783 719 Email ----- g e r h i l d @ t a l k 2 1 . c o m (please remove the spaces intended to stop the automated collection of email addresses) My name is Kim Booth. I am looking for work in/around London or Berlin. I have wide experience in research, development, marketing & management of new products, through a variety of companies in a variety of roles in the UK and Germany. Most recent work has been with manufacturers of broadband telecoms equipment. I am a fluent German speaker, if with a slight Birmingham accent. I have the usual PC/Macintosh skills. I am ready for a change, having just been made redundant. At Metrodata I earned £51,750 and had a company car. I have produced a web-based CV http://www.kim.booth.dsl.pipex.com/ Here is a summary – ================================================================ 1.Jan 1999 – 15.Sep 2003 Metrodata, Egham, UK I was the Engineering Manager, managing the team of real-time software and hardware engineers as they develop new products. Metrodata makes a variety of equipment to attach customer equipment to the WAN e.g. leased-lines, ATM networks, satellite base stations and line-of-sight wireless installations. Teamwork -------- I was employed to rescue the development department. Design-staff were fleeing the company and software development was endless, a deliverable product was not in sight and no believable estimation was possible. Software development was taking so long that hardware components were being made obsolete before the product could be shipped. I have good personnel skills so I could quickly introduce normal teamwork, could restore the staff turnover to acceptable levels and could introduce a high quality development process. Planning -------- I have introduced project planning and project evaluation procedures, careful requirements negotiation, a better change control system, source control, bug-tracking, peer reviews, collection & analysis of metrics – all designed to continuously improve performance whilst being careful to avoid the “blame game”. ISO9000 ------- The team gladly took up all of the improvements/changes and it led to ISO9000 approval at the first attempt. Technical approach ------------------ I organised the complete redesign of the company's top-end product, using a software module concept. The previous monolithic approach has proved almost unmanageable. The modular software concept with extremely well-defined interfaces provides a much more flexible base for product variants and copes well with changes in available hardware. This is vital in an industry where chips are superseded at a frenetic pace. Product Management ------------------ I managed the redesign of an ISDN D-channel product widely deployed by BT. This included negotiating the specification with BT’s team at Martlesham Heath, planning and supervising the execution through to regression testing of old features and acceptance testing of new features and the update process. Intranet -------- I introduced the active use of a web-based Intranet, to form a searchable knowledge base of the company's intellectual property. This is invaluable for teamwork. Information is no longer a privilege. Everyone inside the company firewall has access to the information necessary for success. Training -------- I was trained on the Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Information. I was trained on “Dealing successfully with Difficult People”. ================================================================ 1991 - 1998 Cellware, Berlin, Germany. I was one of the founders of Cellware in 1991 and helped to build the company up until it was sold to Adva. My achievements there always reflected successful teamwork. Please think of the excellent team which provided the basis for what follows. As usual in small companies, I had many roles. Product Marketing ----------------- I talked constantly to potential customers about their broadband needs. It was always best, of course, to find ways of using existing products but, if appropriate, I discussed realistic changes to existing products to better match customer requirements. Such discussions always include the business case to justify the project. As I left the company, I had been focussing on DVB over ATM & the company has developed a good range of products, extending to audio payload with AES-EBU to ATM products aimed at radio-stations. Product Management ------------------ I managed a number of products. This meant identifying opportunities for products and specifying exact, achievable goals for the development team in realistic time-scales. Constant comparative analysis was required to ensure that products were well placed in the market. One of the more successful actions was at CeBIT, suggesting the modification of a 4 port ATM switch into a 64 port distribution unit for Video On Demand (VOD), working together with nCUBE. Until that sort of VOD faded away, the distribution units became Cellware’s most profitable product line as they were installed in VOD/ADSL trials around the world. Marketing & Communication ------------------------- I designed the original company logo, data-sheets, manuals and various marketing materials. These vary from very technical specifications through to lighter presentations designed to explain new concepts to prospective customers unaware of the potential advantages. A little humour often helps to break down fear of the unknown. I was flattered to see a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer plagiarise my “pocket guide” to ATM. I held presentations in English and German for potential customers, at technical fairs/exhibitions, at events run by distributors and occasionally at universities. My presentations were usually quite popular as I can present complex material in a digestible way. The Internet ------------ I designed the company web-site and filled it with content. This was much praised. The Database ------------ I designed and implemented the company data-base using Filemaker. These days you might call it a CRM system. This fully integrated system managed names and addresses, correspondence, price lists, quotations, orders, invoices, timesheets, forecasts, summaries and so on. This was conceived for an internationally operating company, producing documents in English or German as appropriate in whatever currency was required. Project Leader -------------- I led the development of the hardware & software for a high speed (140 Mbit/s) Frame-Relay switch. This was initiated by the owner of the company. After gathering information from the marketplace, I recommended the termination of this project to focus on the companies core competency - ATM. Working on a contract from Deutsche Telekom, I led the development of an SMDS to ATM adapter. This contract was split between two manufacturers and I am pleased to say that our product proved to be much faster than the competitors and was also delivered one year ahead of theirs. EEC financed projects --------------------- I originally acquired and then helped coordinate Cellware's work on an European Community financed multinational research project into ATM. This was an interesting experiment into network topologies & technologies suitable for a domestic ATM network. It involved co- operation with a number of companies spread all across Europe. ================================================================ 1988 - 1991 SYSTEC, Berlin, Germany. Design and project management for B-ISDN work within the BERKOM 140 Mbit/s network and RACE 1015 DCPN-PASS project, after assisting with the project acquisition. Presentation of project results in the German technical press and at various broadband conferences (London, Berlin). When SYSTEC went bankrupt, I was part of the engineering team which then founded Cellware. ================================================================ 1985 - 1987 BICC Research & Engineering, London. Design & patent of strategic products for the BICC group as well as technical and management consultancy activities for group members to help modernise their product range. This included hardware & image processing software for an optical fibre fusion splicer. ================================================================ 1982 - 1985 Xionics, London Senior engineer designing hard & software for the Xionics " Cambridge" ring. Hardware included CVSD voice messaging system. Software was a complete rewrite of company’s proprietary workstation software for the then brand-new IBM PC (with 2 floppy disc drives). ================================================================ 1980 - 1981 International Aeradio, London Design of equipment to be installed at the Air Traffic Control centre, Heathrow. Switching/Conferencing of up to 256 channels A/mu law coded speech. ================================================================ 1977 - 1980 Gresham Lion, London Design of torpedo guidance equipment for the Royal Navy, slow-scan TV for BT Martlesham Heath, video quality control system for a printing company. ================================================================ 1975 - 1977 Marconi-Elliott Avionics, Boreham Wood Design of digital filtering equipment for the Royal Navy. ================================================================ 1975 - BSc Hons. in Electronics, at Southampton University, UK. 1953 - Born in Birmingham, UK References ---------- I have written references from Xionics (English) BICC (English) Systec (German) Cellware (German) Referees -------- I can supply details, if required. Outside work ------------ I am married and have no children. I occasionally make pieces of furniture for fun and have recently moved to sculpture. I have a keen interest in art, dance, cinema, classical music and cabaret. Keywords for search engines --------------------------- Telecommunications, Telecoms, Development Manager, Product Manager, R&D, Engineering Manager, ATM, IP, Ethernet, Frame-Relay, FDDI, DVB, AES-EBU, leased-lines, Real-Time Software, Hardware, ATM passive star sub-system for a B-ISDN DCPN (Domestic Customer Premises Network). Broadband packet switch. ATM SMDS terminal adapter ATM service multiplexer, VMEbus based ATM constant bit-rate access product ATM traffic-shaping network terminator ATM multiple service access multiplexer Intelligent ISDN board to control a VSB / VMEbus based broadband 140 Mbit/s BERKOM network adapter. 2048 * 1538 * 24 resolution video-adapter for BERKOM 140 Mbit/s B-ISDN network 2M/8M PCM interface board for optical PCM transmission system. Fusion splicer for monomode optical fibres. Intelligent distributed lighting control system. Integrated video surveillance system. Audio/telephony facilities for a Cambridge Ring LAN sending packetised, CVSD coded, speech between users on the LAN. Xionics terminal emulation software package for the IBM PC. Colour wallpaper inspection system for precise quality control whilst printing at full speed. Slow-scan monochrome TV transmission system. Weapons guidance equipment. PCM speech distribution system for air-traffic control system. Digital filter system, acting as a vernier on an FFT based, acoustic analysis location & identification system. 270803