Speaker biographies
Find out more about those speaking at the forthcoming RF Challenges for Multi-Standard Handsets event.
Anthony Eaton
Prior to joining Mirics Semiconductor in July 2005, Anthony Eaton spent over 6 years at Sony Semiconductor’s UK based design centre. There he led a number of project and development teams working on Bluetooth and cellular RFIC product developments. Prior to working at Sony Semiconductor Anthony was an Engineering Manager and Wireless Systems consultant at Starkey Laboratories, a US medical electronics healthcare company. Before this he worked at PA Consulting Group in Cambridge where he developed system design and board level reference design expertise for GSM and DECT based radio systems. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1996 with a First Class Engineering Degree and a Distinction in Masters of Engineering. |
David Srodzinski
David founded Elonics Limited in 2003 as a fabless semiconductor design company specialising in RF and mixed-signal silicon devices. Having worked in the UK semiconductor industry for 20 years, latterly with Intel, on Ethernet communications ICs and Wolfson Microelectronics, on low power mixed-signal devices for consumer market. Graduate of Bristol University. |
Devis Iellici and his team are responsible for developing new and innovative solutions in antenna and RF technology. He has comprehensive experience in designing antennas for handsets and laptops, and his designs have been manufactured in millions of units. Dr. Iellici has a PhD in theoretical physics and joined Antenova in 2003. |
Geoff Varrall
Geoff joined RTT in 1985 as an executive director and shareholder to develop RTT's transnational business as a provider of technology and business services to the wireless industry. He co-developed RTT's original programme portfolio including 'RF Technology', 'Data Over Radio', 'Introduction to Mobile Radio', and 'Private Mobile Radio Systems'. Geoff Varrall regularly presents to audiences throughout Asia Pacific - predominantly in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. In addition to working in Asia Pacific, Mr. Varrall presents the annual Espoo Design Week in Finland every spring. He has been the lead author on two recent studies commissioned by the GSM Association on handset RF cost economics and UHF cellular handset design. |
Ian Keen
Standards manager role representing the company at international industry standards bodies and organisations for the development and promotion of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. Applications manager for NFC and RFID systems including: pre-sales application support to sales & marketing force as well as customer field applications support. Technical project manager, line manager, design authority and team leader for projects involving electronics consultancy ranging in scope from initial feasibility, proof of concept demonstrators, full design and development through to series production. Projects are targeted at low cost design for production including major elements of mixed signal custom ASIC, FPGA and embedded software design and development. Interaction with clients regarding marketing activity for proposals, design consultancy through to project progress reporting as well as vendor and sub-contractor liaison regarding the product detail and production support. Skill set and experience encompasses the complete project life cycle for mixed signal ASIC, embedded software, RF, analogue/digital hardware design & development through to support into production. A wide range of engineering management experience, delivering innovative technical solutions and product development improvements to our international customer base. Achievements have resulted in successful and profitable product lines for clients/customers as well as establishing core technologies that Innovision is exploiting in its wider markets. A member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers; his earlier career experience includes design, development and customer support in the fields of high performance sonar systems, missile seeker and sensor technologies at his previous companies; Thomson-Marconi Sonar Ltd and British Aerospace Systems & Equipment Ltd. |
Livia Ruiz Livia is currently a PhD student on the area of novel filter structures in the Institute of Microelectronic and Wireless Systems, in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She already has a M.Eng.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in the National University of Ireland in the area of SDR and a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. She spent one year as a student in Rouen (France) to complete the engineering final project in the Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs Generalistes and working at France Telecom R&D. She is a student member of the IEEE and has the following publications: /“A platform for the Development of Software Defined Radio”(PIMRC 2007), “Demonstration of a SDR platform for dynamic spectrum allocation”(DySpan2007), “Reconfigurable Transceiver Architectures”(RIA 2006), ”Reconfigurable Radio Testbed”(ISSC2007). |
Pieter Hooijmans
Pieter is an Electronic Engineer from Delft, The Netherlands, where he obtained his Masters and PhD (cum laude). Since 1985 he worked with Philips Electronics, always involved in activities related with RF or high-speed electronics. After a number of years in Philips Research, working on heterodyne optical receivers, he became development manager for TV tuner modules in Germany and Singapore. Next he was head of the group in Philips Research responsible for all radio and high-speed integration research. In 2003 he moved to then Philips Semiconductors to become the head of the RF Innovation Centers in The Netherland and France, and the NXP-wide VP for RF, in the meantime joining the transition to NXP Semiconductors in 2006. Since beginning of this year he has become the Technology & Competence manager for all analogue, mixed-signal, power and RF activities within NXP. SDR is one of his main drivers in this role. |
Dr Walter Tuttlebee
Walter Tuttlebee is Chief Executive of Mobile VCE, established by the telecommunications industry in 1996 to undertake long-term, industry-steered, collaborative research. Mobile VCE’s research is defined and steered by its industry members, including Samsung one of our founder members, is undertaken by the UK leading academic research teams, and has twice been independently assessed as ‘world class’, in 2003 and 2006.Its research is used to ‘seed & feed’ its member companies’ in-house developments. Walter works closely with Mobile VCE’s members companies to define strategic research programmes across a wide range of technology – wireless, networks and software – as well as ensuring delivery from the research and operational activities. Industry membership of Mobile VCE includes leading operators and manufacturers from America, Asia and Europe: Alcatel-Lucent BAE, BBC, BT, Fujitsu, Huawei, Hutchison 3, KT, NEC, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, Orange, Philips, Samsung, SK Telecom, Thales, Toshiba, Turner Broadcasting, Vodafone. Mobile VCE’s core research is presently focussed on delivery of ubiquitous services, optimising delivery efficiency of the wireless channel, and ensuring security, privacy and trust of new services, interworked networks and increasingly smart devices. Prior to Mobile VCE, Walter worked for Siemens Roke Manor, responsible for business development, as well as having a successful research career with major international contributions in personal communications (DECT, GSM, UMTS), digital broadcasting (DAB) and satellite communications, resulting in many publications and patents. He conceived and is editor of the Wiley Book Series on Software Radio, and edited three of the books in the series, as well as the standard reference ‘Cordless Telecommunications Worldwide’.Walter is an invited member of Ofcom’s Spectrum Advisory Board (the UK regulator), a member of eMobility’s Expert Advisory Group and in recent years e has led several UK industry missions to China, Korea and Japan. Walter holds BSc, PhD & MBA degrees and is a Fellow of the IEE, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the RSA. |