Currently: Senior Researcher, BBC Research and Development
Previously: Archive Technology Manager, BBC Information & Archives (1994-2006)

International work:

• BBC project manager on EC projects PrestoPRIME (digital audiovisual preservation) and PrestoSpace (audiovisual preservation technology for Europe)
• Head of European Broadcasting Union panel on Future Radio Archives (2000-2002)
• Overall Project Manager for EC-sponsored project PRESTO
• Represents BBC on UK/US project Spoken Word (with Glasgow Caledonian, Northwestern and Michigan State Universities; 2003-2008 and continuing)
• Member of EC(Delos)/NSF Working Group on Spoken Word Archives (2001-2002)
• Member of Advisory Committee for “TRECVID” = annual international video retrieval evaluation exercise (host: US National Institute of Standards and Technology)

UK academic work (for JISC = Joint Information Systems Committee)

• Advisor to JISC Digitisation Programme
• Co-author, AHDS: Moving images and sound archiving final report;

Education: Michigan State University BSc Engineering Science 1967
University of Michigan MA Computer Science 1972
Southampton University PhD in Digital Signal Processing (Speech Synthesis) 1988

Previous employment:
Worked in acoustics, speech and signal processing for US and UK Government research laboratories, University College London (Research Fellow). Royal National Institute for the Deaf (Senior Scientist) and
Cirrus Research 1990-94 (acoustical and audio equipment design)