Mark C. Sinclair: Curriculum Vitae

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Mark C. Sinclair: Curriculum Vitae (October 2001)

Personal Details

Name:	Mark Colin Sinclair
Date of Birth:	14th August 1963
Age:	38
Work Address:	OMF, PO Box 1490, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Work Telephone:	+855 23 882031
Marital Status:	Married (to Shirley Patricia Sinclair)
Children:	Lisa Suzanne (born 6th August, 1993)
	Martin John (born 27th September, 1995)

Further/Higher Education

1982 - 1985	Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
	B.A. in Electrical Sciences (Class: II-1)
1989	Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
	M.A. in Electrical Sciences
1988 - 1990	University of Essex
	M.Sc. (with Distinction) in Telecommunication and Information Systems
2001	University of Essex
	Ph.D. in Electronic Systems Engineering

Professional Qualifications

1991	Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
1991	Chartered Engineer
1994	Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Employment History

1985 - 1991	GPT Limited, Edge Lane, Liverpool L7 9NW
	Position: System Designer
1991 - 2001	Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
	Position: Lecturer
2001 - date	Self-employed, serving with OMF, PO Box 1490, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
	Position: Member of OMF, currently studying Khmer language

GPT Limited, System Designer (Sep. 85 - Sep. 91)

GPT is a manufacturer of a wide variety of telecomms products, but my work with the Company was always in the area of public switching (i.e. System X). During my six years, I held four posts: the first was six months as a programmer in the Engineering Planning Dept.; the second, nearly two years as a system prover and programmer on the Liverpool System Feasibility Model; the third, seven months as a system builder with the Liverpool Export Systems Task Group; and the fourth and final post, three years as a system designer with SABC System Design.

The planning packages I wrote in the Engineering Planning Dept. were used on a monthly basis, at least until 1991, to monitor actual spend, and to forecast future spend, on development projects worth many 10 millions pounds.

In the Liverpool Export Systems Task Group, I was responsible for the System Builds for the Stock Exchange, Iran and Colombia contracts, as well as designing and preparing Exchange Security Data, in particular that used in the International Stock Exchange, London.

In SABC System Design, one of my many projects was the system design of a Primary-rate-only Concentrator, including the development of a new termination for 2Mbit/s PCM with TS16 Channel-associated Signalling. At the time of my leaving the Company, contracts for Primary-rate-only Concentrators, to my system design, were being finalised with one customer to an approximate value of some 20 million pounds.

Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering,
University of Essex (Oct. 91 - Oct. 01)

The University of Essex in Colchester, with about 6,000 students, has an excellent research and teaching reputation. I held a Lecturship in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering for ten years. My post was initially funded by a contract with BT Laboratories, and was for three years in the first instance. The BT contract, which supported four academic posts, was designed to further strengthen the Dept.'s M.Sc. course in general, and the modular Spring Term Short Courses in particular. From February 1993, however, I was appointed to a permanent Lectureship in the Dept., which was confirmed in October, 1994 after successful completion of my three-year probationary period.

Teaching

My teaching in the Dept. largely focused on the M.Sc. in Telecommunication & Information Systems and the M.Sc. in Computer & Information Networks, where I taught Core Courses (1991/2 to 1993/4: Principles of Switching Systems; 1993/4: Networks and Systems Software; 1994/5 to 1997/8, 1999/2000 to 2000/1: Network Engineering; 1999/2000 to 2000/1: Network Computing; 1999/2000 to 2000/1: Introduction to Java) as well as several Spring Term Short Courses (1991/2: Real-Time Computing for Communication Systems; Performance Engineering; Telecommunications Networks; 1992/3: Software Engineering, Techniques and Management; Performance Engineering; Telecommunications Networks; 1993/4: Software Engineering with Object Technology; Telecommunications Networks; 1994/5: Software Engineering with Object Technology; Engineering with Natural Algorithms; Telecommunications Networks; 1995/6: Software Engineering with Object Technology; Engineering with Natural Algorithms; Telecommunications Networks; 1996/7: Engineering with Natural Algorithms; Telecommunications Networks; ATM and Multimedia; 1997/8, 1999/2000 to 2000/1: Internet Communication). Over the ten years I supervised some thirty-three M.Sc. projects, supervised or contributed to a variety of software laboratories at both postgraduate and undergraduate level, gave many undergraduate lecture courses, and tutored/supervised undergraduates at several levels on different degree schemes.

Research

Over the last five years of my time at Essex, I increasingly focused my research activity on one area: evolutionary computation for telecommunications applications. Until April 2000, I acted as de facto supervisor of the research officer on a three-year Fujitsu Telecommunication Europe Ltd. project (held by Prof. Mike O'Mahony) studying options for future broadband access and transport networks, as well as developing design and dimensioning approaches for multi-ring all-optical networks. Until August 1997, I held a European Commission (EC) funded project (GBP 309,000, jointly with Prof. O'Mahony), with two research officers, which addressed the structures, systems, technologies and management of wavelength-agile and wavelength-routed optical systems, to provide end-to-end customer connections across a complete public telecommunications network. I also had a lesser involvement in two further, EC-funded optical network projects, OPEN and HORIZON, as well as contributing to two earlier contracts. The first was for two years ending February 1994, with BT Laboratories, where I was again de facto supervisor of the research officer. The project studied self-organising transmission networks and the development of a new multi-layer distributed restoration algorithm, the subject of several US patents applications by BT. The second was a RACE project which ran for four years until December 1995. I was also part of the EC COST 239 project (1992-9) on the development of an all-optical network interconnecting the main centres of Europe. I published a book and 56 papers, of which 8 are academic journal papers and 20 were published at international conference or workshops. I supervised four PhD students to successful completion: in 1996, 1998 and two in 2000. In academic year 1998/9, on study leave, I was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Information Systems, UEA. I am an individual member of the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing. I attended 23 conferences, workshops and colloquia, presenting at 15 of these, and chairing a session at one. I was co-organiser of a workshop at GECCO'99 entitled "Evolutionary Telecommunications: Past, Present and Future" that attracted distinguished speakers from the UK, USA and Japan. I have refereed papers for four IEE and IEEE journals and several international conferences. Finally, I have held consultancies with CLEAR Communications Limited, New Zealand, BT Laboratories and Ilotron.

Administration

At University level, I was a member of the Senate Disciplinary Panel from 1999/2000 to 2000/1. Within the Dept., my administrative responsibilities included being Course Supervisor for the M.Sc. in Computers & Information Networks from 1999/2000 to 2000/1. I was a member of several Boards of Examiners (1992/3 to 1995/6, 1999/2000 to 2000/1: M.Sc. in Telecommunications and Information Systems; 1999/2000 to 2000/1: M.Sc. in Computers & Information Networks; 2000/1: M.Sc. in Computer Games Engineering; 1992/3 to 1993/4: M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (European Joint Scheme); 1992/3 to 1996/7: M.Sc. in Communications Software Management (ICIS); 1994/5 to 1995/6, 1999/2000 to 2000/1: Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Systems; 1994/5: Tripartite Year 5) and membership (and in two cases, chairmanship) of a wide range of the Dept.'s Committees and Working Parties, mainly on the postgraduate side. In addition, I have organised several of the M.Sc. Spring Term Short Courses (1991/2: Real-Time Computing for Communication Systems (jointly); 1992/3: Software Engineering, Techniques and Management; 1993/4 to 1995/6: Software Engineering with Object Technology; 1994/5 to 1996/7: Engineering with Natural Algorithms (jointly); 1999/2000 to 2000/1: Internet Communication) and supervised several software/network laboratories (both postgraduate and undergraduate).

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Creator: Mark C Sinclair <mcs@ieee.org>
Date: 23 x 2001