Ian Kimber is a retired independent scientific and technical consultant with a long record of innovation into both the commercial and defence research and development areas. In spite of his mature years he is still active in the area of innovation with several useful patents in the last few years.

Most of his working life Ian was employed full time in CRL Ltd (formally EMI and then THORN EMI Central Research Laboratories) and still has contacts with them. However he is able to offer consulting effort as a free agent and be bound by strict commercial confidentiality to any company he works with. He is also quite happy to assign any patents that come as a result of paid consultancy work to the company that is employing him for this task for use in the area within which they operate.

He has a very broad base of experience in the area of the Physical Sciences, Electronics and Signal processing and has a good track record of teaching innovative skills to others and re-motivating engineers and project teams.

He is also familiar with contract bidding procedures and has writing skills that enable the creation of successful competitive bids by the development of Unique Selling Points (USPs) and the "beefing up" of the project team's track record during the bidding process and the initial stages of design.

Areas where his skills may be particularly well applied are listed below. These originate from his lifetime's experience of working as a scientific expert in support of innovation within a large manufacturing conglomerate company and the selling of innovative problem solving to company directors, and R&D agencies.

• The technical and commercial aspects of bidding for projects.

• The assessment of technical bids from others into non-technical areas or areas outside the immediate technical competence of existing project teams.

• The solution of a wide range of sensing and measurement problems.

• The use of skills and knowledge from different disciplines to solve problems.

• The analysis of existing systems and the suggestion of routes to innovation.

• The short term support of an established product area that needs an innovative boost.

A more detailed description of his experience with project examples is given in the main part of the CV.

Ian Kimber is not available for full time employment but is able to enter into long-term part time support arrangements to ensure that initial ideas are seen through to successful completion.

Ian can arrange to be in daily commuting distance of a large area of the south east or south west of England. Other areas of operation will incur accommodation or transport costs.

Ian Kimber offers his scientific and technical consultancy services through Camfield Consultants Ltd. This is a husband and wife team of technical and commercial consultancy with a rare spread of skills. Jose Kimber is a commercial and risk management consultant working on bid negotiation contract procedures and long-term risk management.

Main Address

DATE OF BIRTH :- 4th June 1943

PLACE OF BIRTH :- Thurmaston, Leicestershire

NATIONALITY :- British NATIONALITY OF PARENTS British

BOLTON COUNTY GRAMMAR SCHOOL

1959 GCE "O" Level:

1961 GCE "O" Level:

1961 GCE "A" Level:

1962 GCE "A" Level:

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

1965 Degree BSc (Special) Physics Upper Second Class Honours

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers

Associate Member of the Institute of Physics

Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society

A member of the "Association of Old Crows"

MOD Security Clearance held by CRL Ltd, details available if needed.

Normal daily rate ?400 per day +expenses for odd days of consultancy. This is negotiable for longer term relationships and call off consultancy.

The daily rate includes up to about 20 miles of driving to a customer's location from one of the company's locations. Longer distances will incur transport surcharges at Inland revenue approved mileage rates.

Design of circuits for a magnetic film store. Evaluation of the first monolithic integrated circuits (RTL, DTL & TTL) and their associated equipment practice for large system use.

Magnetic film store electronics design. Very wide band (DC-1GHz) amplifier

Designing a varactor diode parametric amplifier at 10GHz. Extreme speed digital circuits

for counters (DC-1GHz).

Research on a radar design problem led to the design of fast-switched microwave local oscillators for a maritime search radar system that went into production and is still in use. Investigation of high-speed digital circuits for CAT scanner. Team leader of up to 6 engineers.

Leading several teams with a total of about 15-20 engineers.

Research into Electronic Warfare. Team leader for the signal processing and local oscillators of a major EW System. Lead the CRL end of the project from writing the feasibility study proposal to the Pre production model delivery during this period.

Other projects during this period

• Research into fire and intruder alarms and systems including Microwave and ultrasonic detectors. Design of microprocessor controlled infra red alarm system with BIST and many other innovative features.

• Research into fibre optics for video distribution.

• Initial studies and setting up team to design a medical ultrasonic imaging system.

• Research into mainsborne telecontrol resulting in the design of an innovative system for use by all the utilities. This went on to a large-scale field trial and entered the pre-production phase under utility support but privatisation sopped R&D and may have lost the UK its World lead. This system could still cause a revolution in utility metering and load control in recent years the patent rights have been sold.

• Starting a Research Programme into Digital Radio Frequency Memories (DRFM). This includes originating one of the two world leading patents in this area originated by EMI This is a critical innovation for the next generation of EW Equipment and the origin of today's digitally implemented radio systems.

Expanding the DRFM research to cover the whole area of fully digital radar EW and communications systems. Work included the whole range of RF and control hardware, algorithms and system from ASIC to MMI. This work was the precursor to today's software implemented radio systems.

Continuing and developing the programme above. With the accent gradually turning towards DSP based solutions Selling the work to a wide range of potential users. Consultation and idea generation throughout the laboratory.

Major activities

Research for generic DSP systems for radar and EW systems. Led a team developing design and software tools for internal company use.

Bid for and won a project to design a software-implemented modem for European Space Agency This modem had to perform all tasks from broad band Spread spectrum to extreme narrow band ranging

The originator of several significant DERA Pathfinder projects in the area of flexible signal processing systems design and the algorithms that they would use. Led the teams that developed the deliverable hardware and software. The final project completed in 2001 resulted in the design of commercial off the shelf digitiser processor modules.

Other activities during this period include a study into the performance of leak noise correlators for Thames water. This resulted in a successfully completed project on an advanced leak correlator built as a software virtual instrument and running on a standard laptop PC. This involved several patented processing ideas that increased the efficiency of the processing and enabled the automatic filtering of the signal to optimise the accuracy of the result. This work was later published in the journal of the IEE. Work on locator and detector systems for use in extremely difficult environments.

In 1999 Ian took early retirement so he could spend more time on his own personal research and web page developments. These are available via http://i.am/ian.kimber. He still contracted back to CRL two or three days a week and during this period supported several bids and created further innovations these involved the following broad topics.

• The application of extreme speed processing and algorithms to develop the use of the COTS digitiser processor.

• The development of the correlation processing ideas to enable mechanical noise analysis

• The extension of the sonic processing into the ultrasonic area to include active ultrasonic analysis and passive sound generation detection.

At the end of March 2002 it CRL decided that as part of a reorganisation it would change its relationship with innovative consultants. Rather than support them directly it would allow them to sell their services independently but offer them special terms if they brought R&D projects into CRL. This enables the consultants to offer more economic rates stripped of the CRL overhead but means that they have to do most of the marketing themselves! (2007 added note) Some time after this CRL ceased trading and Ian kimber is not actively seeking any new contracts but might be persuaded to help if any interesting propsals come his way.

Named as inventor on the following British Patents

Not Known Magnetic store Sense Amplifiers (with Plessey)

BP1271517 Differential amplifiers

BP1518103 Signal receiving and transmitting systems

BP1523196 Oscillator circuits

BP1532777 Apparatus for providing a succession of output signals from a single input signal

BP1571828 Surface wave oscillator arrangements

BP1602193 Frequency Modulated pulse generation

BP2009547 Oscillator circuits

83300988.9 Communications systems for a high noise environment

8824968.5 Radio frequency transmission and reception system

This list is not complete. More recent patents and applications in the pipeline have not been included.

Presented paper on High performance microwave local oscillator measurements at

RSRE radar symposium 1970 (Classified Secret)

Measurement of frequency stability of agile frequency sources.

IEE Colloquium paper 1981

Design and trials of a noise resistant technique for Mainsborne signalling

IEE MATES conference paper 1982

Generic techniques for the identification of wanted and unwanted modulations on pulses

IEE Colloquium paper 1994

"Breaking the mould" Open systems for military signal processing at the joint EWRCC and RRCC conference The interplay between modern radar systems and modern EW systems. May 2001

The Thames Water software correlator paper was published in IEE review September 1999