Nicholas O'Brien

Experience

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  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

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  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.

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  Dolby Laboratories

  Jan 1978 - Dec 1978

  Application Engineer

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

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  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

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  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
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  Browns Operating Systems Services

  Oct 1992 - Sept 1997

  Technical Manager

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

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  Time Technology Ltd

  Oct 1997 - Aug 1998

  Development Manager

  Lotus Notes Software development management

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  Teradyne

  Dec 1998 - Jul 2007

  Field Applications Specialist

  Applications engineering for Telecommunications Line Test Systems

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  Enghouse Networks

  Aug 2007 - now

  Principal Applications Engineer

  Applications engineering for telecommunications Line Test Systems