Nicholas O'Brien

Nicholas O'Brien

Junior/Senior Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Principal Applications Engineer at Tollgrade Communications

  • Education

    • Christ Church, Oxford University

      1969 - 1972
      Master of Arts (M.A.) Natural Sciences 2.1 Honours
    • Westminster School

      1964 - 1968
      A-levels, S-levels Maths, Physics & Chemistry A2, B & A1
  • Experience

    • EMI Central Research Laboratories

      Sept 1972 - Aug 1976
      Junior/Senior Engineer

      Developing studio audio recording and reproduction equipment for Abbey Road.Developing a post pressing quality monitoring equipment for EMI LP record factory

    • EMI Systems and Weapons division

      Sept 1976 - Dec 1977
      Senior Engineer

      Developing a monitoring and logging system for test launches of the sub-harpoon missile.

    • Dolby Laboratories

      Jan 1978 - Dec 1978
      Application Engineer

      Applications Engineering and Customer Technical Support for Dolby's Professional Noise Reduction Systems

    • AFA-Minerva (EMI) Ltd

      Jan 1979 - Jan 1981
      Senior Engineer and Team Leader

      As Project Leader responsible for the hardware and software design and development of the company's first microprocessor product and the earliest successful microprocessor intruder alarm controller on the UK market

    • Thorn Security Limited

      Jan 1981 - Jan 1992

      Defining and running research projects for Intruder and Fire Alarm systems Managing a Fire and Intruder product design and development department with a budget of 0.5 million. It comprised about 20 engineers and technicians organised in several sections Project management and supervisory control over a section of 12 hardware and software design engineers. In particular developed a high reliability front-end processor to link existing alarm signalling methods to a new alarm monitoring computer system.

      • Applications Research Manager

        Jan 1989 - Jan 1992
      • Development Manager

        Jan 1987 - Jan 1989
      • Section Leader

        Jan 1981 - Jan 1987
    • Browns Operating Systems Services

      Oct 1992 - Sept 1997
      Technical Manager

      Running the Customer Support Team and supervising the development engineering team.

    • Time Technology Ltd

      Oct 1997 - Aug 1998
      Development Manager

      Lotus Notes Software development management

    • Teradyne

      Dec 1998 - Jul 2007
      Field Applications Specialist

      Applications engineering for Telecommunications Line Test Systems

    • Enghouse Networks

      Aug 2007 - now
      Principal Applications Engineer

      Applications engineering for telecommunications Line Test Systems

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Chartered Engineer

      Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Hon. Treasurer

      Issued by St Johns Church, Milford, Surrey on Sept 1999
      St Johns Church, Milford, SurreyAssociated with Nicholas O'Brien