In 1987 John moved to Brush Electrical Machines Ltd. working on the power generation management systems and also in the Automotive Test Systems Group where he was part of a team developing rolling roads for testing vehicle performance - cool job but not quite DSP. In 1990 John moved to Loughborough Sound Images, to help form the Applications Group, of which he went on to become the Group Manager. In 1998 LSI merged with Mizar Inc. to form Blue Wave Systems, which was purchased by Motorola Computer Group in 2001, where he was DSP Technical Marketing Manager. John finished at Mototola in 2006, when they closed the entire office and then worked full time at Numerix on some very interesting contracts. In January 2007 John was offered a job that he just couldn't refuse - Senior FAE at picoChip Designs Ltd, where he supports their customers in WiMAX, WCDMA and LTE markets.

John is a visiting lecturer at The University of Oxford where he teaches DSP as part of the Summer Engineering Program For Industry. John was also a visiting lecturer at Loughborough University, where he taught DSP, for 15 years, as part of the MSc course in Digital Communication Systems. John also teaches DSP classes at the Embedded Systems Conferences, in the USA and Europe. John was a long standing member of the Technical Review Committee and the Industrial Advisory Board for DSP World / ICSPAT and laterly GSPx.

For 4 years John was a member of the England Canoe Slalom Team and regularly competed at international level on white-water in the UK and Europe. After standing down from the daily grind of training, training and more training, to concentrate on his career, John built a rally car with his brother and spent a couple of years entering local car rallies. John's hobbies now include snowboarding, playing guitar and flying helicopters at East Midlands Helicopters - undoubtedly the hardest thing he has ever tried to do but great fun.

John tries to play guitar and has played a few concerts with the Fantastic Motley Blues. John's other musical passion the rock group AC/DC and he is very fortunate to have been able to have met the band on many occasions and has some great memories back stage with them at concerts.

John is maried to Lois and she has managed to put up with him for 20 years :-).

Snowboarding with my brother - Squaw Valley - Lake Tahoe, USA

Arguably the best fun you can have with your trousers on :-)

The Serpent's Tail Premier Division Slalom, North Wales

Stopper blasting - Chappel Falls, River Tryweryn, North Wales

Road rallying with my brother - East Midlands Championship

Stage rallying - Manby showground, Lincolnshire - East Midlands Championship

Making a noise with a few mates !