With over 20 years experience in the maritime industry, there are few areas within maritime communications that he has not had direct involvement with. From Graduating from Plymouth University with a Bsc in marine technology, specialising in marine computer systems, followed by time spent in the field with Oil and Gas exploration, leading to onshore jobs designing and supporting systems for maritime communications.
From Country and Regional sales management to Designing back end communications systems, front end user interfaces, Virtual servers with multiple redundancy, 24/7 VPN access to vessels, Customer support centers, Networks and systems for vessel users to integrate with Shore based networks and systems, Analysing network security or auditing existing airtime providers and services.
A keen interest in IT security, starting in the wild days before the dot com boom, led to a long learning curve, achieving milestones such as certified ethical hacker.
Being able to offer a fresh pair of eyes, along with years of experience working within shipping companies and providers, helps give an insight into the current suitability and scalability of vessel networks and communications systems and future strategies that are available.
