GRAHAM PHILIP VINE BA MSc
56
Colchester Road, St Osyth, Essex, CO16 8HB
email:
graham.vine@btinternet.com
tel:
+44 1255 821 655, mob: +44 7919 624 720
Profile
Commitment – Project Management – Team Leadership – Innovation – Electronic
Design – Programming -
Team-player – Communicator – Quality
practitioner – Technologist
Employment
Essex Learning Hub – Colchester Institute (Jan 2003 – present)
- Audit Officer, responsible for scheduling and performing
internal audits and advising on the requirements for external funding, quality
and process audits. Liaison with fellow Hubs, the Learning and Skills Council
and the University for Industry on all matters concerning the Individualised
Learning Record funding return. Presenting process-model descriptions to
the whole of the Hub.
BT – Martlesham Heath R&D Labs (1973 – June 2002)
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Project
Manager, Broadcast Futures Project (1996 –
June 2002)
Responsible
for a £1/2 million project bringing emerging technologies to Broadcast
Services. Operating to demanding timescales, my team have rolled-out new
techniques for test and evaluation to better meet the needs of broadcasters,
protecting potential penalty clauses worth millions of pounds.
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Since
1998 I have chaired and led the Wide Area Networking working party of the
international Professional MPEG Forum.
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Managing
the transition to a fully commercial company at Martlesham (BTexact
Technologies), I set up the Broadcasting Solutions Lab, offering testing,
design and consultancy to external companies.
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Senior
Professional Engineer, Multimedia Applications Centre (1991 – 1996)
Team member
compliance-testing externally manufactured equipment for suitability for
deployment in the BT network. Code-writing for micro-controller in own-designed
automatic fail-safe switcher. Visual/C++ design for database covering BT’s
transmission network.
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Divisional
Quality Manager, Visual and Broadband Networks Division (1989 – 1991)
Responsible for writing and introducing processes, including safety, calibration and equipment logistics, leading to successful registering of BT Martlesham with Lloyds (LRQA) to ISO-9001, BS5750. Presenting to teams, auditing projects, leading a team of Section Quality representatives.
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Executive
Engineer, Visual Telecoms Division (1981 –
1989)
Design authority for
VideoConference terminal equipment. Architectural design for wideband video
exchange. Co-author: “Videophony”.
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Assistant
Executive Engineer (1973 – 1981)
Human Factors
Division. Electronics design for Human Factors experiments. Ergonomics Design
(including console for MoD). Ergonomic evaluations of VDUs and BT network
tones. Microprocessor generation & control of visual displays.
Sony – Consultancy Work (July
2002, short-term)
Consultancy regarding professional
video over IP networks, DVB standards and Pro-MPEG.
Professional MPEG Forum – Consultancy Work (Sept 2002, short-term)
Professional video over IP
networks, Interoperability, Wide Area Networks. Presentations at the
International Broadcasting Convention, Amsterdam
Radiocommunications Agency – Consultancy Work (Dec 2002, short-term)
Consultancy regarding roll-out of
digital terrestrial television and re-use of analogue spectrum.
European Union Consultant (1989
– present, part-time)
Analysing technical
collaborative projects for cost-effective use of resources and state-of-the-art
technology. Team Rapporteur, presenting findings to EU national
representatives. RACE, ACTS and IST programmes.
College Lecturer – Suffolk (UEA-affiliated) (1981 – 1984, part-time)
This role included
lecturing and course-design responsibilities for the course: “Industrial
Electronics 3 – Microprocessors”.
St Osyth CofE Primary School – Governor (1991 – 1994, elected)
Chair of Premises Committee
overseeing major extension work. Member of staff selection board for teachers
and new Deputy Headteacher.
Innovations – (see
also my page of papers written / presented)
I have consistently shown innovations
in all my spheres of activity over the last two decades. Notable examples of
this have included:
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I have created innovative solutions that led to the
registration of two patents for my employers:
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Visual
Display brightness control;
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Delay-compensated
network architecture for smooth TV interviews in a digital environment.
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Discovery of bit-rate matching technique to allow
interoperability between Sony and ECI digital coders for the first time in the
world.
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Design of stepwise refinement technique to discover all possible
interoperability operating points.
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Many new electronic designs published in the journals
“Electronic Product Design” and “New Electronics”.
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Several ideas submitted to BT’s ‘New Ideas’ scheme.
Key Skills and Training
I have attended significant training
courses in the following areas:
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Effective Project Management
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Total Quality Management
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Valuing diversity workshop
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Marketing Technology
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BT Leadership Programme
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Learning Tree IP Network Design Professional
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BT Network, practical – installation, pole-erection, use of
safety equipment
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Public Speaking
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C Programming for Microcontrollers
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Radio Amateur’s Examination, including full Morse licence
Education – (for full details see my qualifications page)
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Postgraduate
Degree (University of Hertfordshire)
MSc
Computer Science, 1981
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First Degree (University
of Essex)
BA
Electronic Engineering. 1973
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A Levels (Howardian High School, Cardiff)
Mathematics
Physics
Engineering
Drawing
I also obtained
the higher qualification of S Level in Physics.
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O Levels (Howardian High School, Cardiff)
8
O-levels including English and Mathematics
Personal Details
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A pretty comprehensive family tree is held at: www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/1557/history.html
Hobbies
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Radio Presenter. Since 1992 I have been a volunteer
presenter on a number of stations – Mellow Radio, Dream 100, Radio Northsea
International, Radio London, Radio Caroline, and Radio Mi Amigo; the last four
of these were 28 day licence low-power stations. I am an active member of the
team of volunteers which completely overhauled the LV-18 lightship for use as a
safe and legal radio station off the coast of Clacton in 1999, tackling all
jobs from rust-chiselling to web-page design, studio construction, and DJing.
In the early '70s I presented 'Colchester Column' with Alan Hayman on
Hospital Radio Colchester
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DIY: I am currently renovating my property’s 300 year old
coach-house and completed a self-build four-bedroom house in 1982. As well as
these major projects I perform most elements of ongoing maintenance around the
house.
Then there's always my fun car . . . . . 
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I enjoy writing CD and equipment reviews for www.hometheaterhifi.com , a US-based
e-magazine, for which I am the European Editor.
Other writing, including
how to build a live web-site in 10 minutes!