Mark Bladen-Hovell

Address:	14 Grantham Court
	Shenley Lodge
	Milton Keynes
	Bucks
	MK5 7DP

Telephone:	01908 670917
Mobile	07723 487035
	Milton Keynes
e-mail	mark@fragrantsword.com

Personal Profile:

I am hard working and very keen to learn new skills and technologies, which I can pick up quickly and efficiently. I am honest, loyal and enthusiastic. I have a strong sense of my responsibilities.

Key Skills:

High speed digital design, lvds, multi layer pcb design.
Project management, Thermal design, Design for EMC and signal integrity.
Altium designer, VHDL, SOC, Altera FPGAs, Stratix, Cyclone, NIOS II, Quartus, Modelsim.
Linux server(Debian/Ubuntu), HTML, MySQL, Mail, Apache, PHP, groupware, SVN.
C, Assembly Language Programming.

Education:

BSc with Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hatfield Polytechnic in 1986. TEC Diploma in Tecnology(Engineering)(Formerly OND) with Distinction Nene College Northampton in 1982.

Training:

Portable and modular VHDL design.
Thermal design of complex systems.
Programme and project management.

Employment History:

08/1997-12/2008. Senior Design Engineer CADAC Electronics plc, 1 New Street, Luton, LU1 5DX.

I work closely with a small team of Design, production and sales Engineers designing .high-end. audio systems. I was primarily responsible for the system architecture of a large digital audio mixing engine aimed at the theatre and live entertainment market.

The system I designed consisted of audio racks and a dsp engine which was capable of connecting to a number of control surfaces. Each component communicated over a 800Mbps copper link up to 100m in length which would transfer the audio data to all racks in the system within 1 audio frame. The system infrastructure is capable of up to 512 inputs and 512 outputs at 192k 32-bit samples per second or 1024 ins and outs at 96k samples per second.

Data transfer within the audio rack were passive, high speed lvds backplane while the DSP rack consisted of an active backplane capable of transferring over 18Gbps of data.

The mixing system utilised FPGAs and the audio processing used SHARCs.

The team I led implemented the system in C, Sharc assembler and VHDL.

08/1995-08/1997. Software Engineer. Psion Dacom plc, Milton Keynes, Bucks.

Psion Dacom were leaders in Europe designing and manufacturing mobile communications products such as modems and Ethernet products. I worked as software Engineer providing solution for the medium-volume production of their products. I worked as an interface between R&D and the production Engineers.

08/1995-08/1997. Senior Design Engineer. Audio Kinetics, Borehamwood, Herts.

I worked with a small team on the hardware and software of the Audio Kinetics Es-Lock 1-11 and 1-12 Audio/Video/Film machine Timecode synchronising and editing system.

Interests:

I enjoy listening to music and I am continuing to learn to play the keyboard and guitar.

Professional Membership:

Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Member of the Audio Engineering Society
Associate of the Institute of Engineering Technology