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2008- present: creation
of the widely used open-access website, www.spatialanalysisonline.com
and associated book and e-book; creation and management of Winchelsea
community website: www.winchelsea.com;
design and development of Drumlin
PDF security software and associated digital rights management (DRM)
service (www.pdf-publishing.com)
2001- present:
Academic research and lecturing. In this connection am associated
with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), the Department of Civil, Environmental and
Geomatic Engineering at UCL (Teaching Fellow) and the Department of
Geography at UCL (Honorary Senior Research Fellow). I teach the Spatial
Analysis in GIS module of the MSc GIS programme. I also act as a
reviewer on a number of academic journals, including Computer Aided Civil and
Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE), Environment and Planning Series B , Annals of the
Association of American Geographers (AAAG), Cartographica
and Computers,
Environment and Urban Systems.
1979-2001: Managing
Director of telecommunications consultancy and computer systems businesses in
association with Richard Clark and Dr Bill Bain.
These were developments of the original consultancy operation, focusing latterly
on real-time financial information systems (e.g. the design and development
of Proquote, www.proquote.net).
Following the sale of the main business to a public quoted company IS Solutions plc in April 2000
re-established links with UCL and continued commercial activities on a
part-time base as a non-Executive Director of IS Solutions and as an
independent consultant. Recently have also become involved with the Prince's
Trust Charity (http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/)
as a business mentor and in this capacity have supported three start-up
businesses.
1974-9:
Researcher, Communications Studies Group (CSG), University
College London (UCL) - a unit
specialising in optimal network design and video- and audio-conferencing. CSG
subsequently became a commercial telecommunications consultancy,
Communications Studies and Planning Ltd (CS&P, 1976 onwards). In 1979
left CS&P and established an independent consultancy in collaboration
with the image coding expert, Richard Clark (http://www.elysium.ltd.uk).
Books: 2007- Geospatial Analysis (3rd edition to be published in 2009) 2006 Maths for the Mystified
Resources: Publications (and
corrections!) - Distance Transform models - VORTAL models (Variationally Optimised Rapidly
expanding Random Trees), PhD thesis - Chapters
and complete document Academic inks
Academic qualifications: Mathematics
(BSc), Geography (BSc,
MA, PhD)
Associations: FRGS
(current), FRSS (past), FIoD (past), MMRS (past)
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