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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 UCL MSc GIS programme. I am an
Honorary Visiting Fellow (SPLINT CETL) at the University of Leicester (September-December 2009). 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,
Environmental
Modelling and Software, and Computers,
Environment and Urban Systems.
2006- 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)
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, subsequently sold to
the London Stock Exchange). 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: Geospatial Analysis (3rd edition,
2009, now published in full colour) 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: Fellow Royal
Geographical Society, Fellow Royal Statistical Society, Freeman of the
Corporation of the Town of Winchelsea.
Awards: 2009 SPLINT
Fellowship – to assist in financing the publication of the 3rd
edition of Geospatial Analysis
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