Curriculum Vitae for Dr. Martin Stewart Overington
(15th January 2006)
Address: 64 Broad Road, Lower Willingdon, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20 9QU, UK
Tel.: (Home/Work) +44 1323 486261
E-mail: martin@msoverington.co.uk
Currently: Self-employed consultant
Availability: February 2006
Age: 48
Dependants: Wife and 2 daughters, aged 18 & 14
Marital Status: Married
Nationality: British
Sex: Male
Smoker: No
Objective
Home-based, if possible, temporary or permanent position as Mathematician/Programmer, preferably involving real-time control/instrumentation - ideally working close to the hardware and being involved with a problem from beginning to end - &/or mathematical modelling but would also consider purely programming applications.
Area
Willing to consider work anywhere in the world, except the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent, but must be able to finish putting younger daughter through an English speaking schooling system.
Experience
Applied Mathematician with over 25 years experience of applying mathematics and computer technology to the solution of real world and academic problems. Worked on scientific problems using numerous computers from microprocessors to mainframes, coding in many languages, from Assembler to C++, on problems ranging from basic mathematical formulation to complete system integration. Modelling, simulation and experimental analysis of man-made fibre rope systems. Modelling and simulation of man-made fibre woven fabric systems. ROM-based microprocessor operating system design & implementation. Real-time control system implementation & analysis for particle accelerators.
For project reporting and general office work I make full use of WordPerfect & Paradox, but am increasingly obliged to use the Microsoft Office components, particularly Excel.
Specialised Professional Information
Author of 9 conference papers, 1 journal paper and 23 technical reports or papers (including two in French). A list of publications is available on request.
Education
1982-1986
PhD (Textile Technology & Computer Science)
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), UK
Thesis: Computational Modelling and Simulation of the False-Twist-Texturing Process.
1980-1981
MSc (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), UK
Thesis: Dynamics of Structural Cables : Characteristics approach to non-linear stress wave propagation.
1975-1979
1978-1979 : BSc (Applied Mathematics), grade 2:2, Bath University, Avon, UK (final year)
1977-1978 : 12 months industrial training at Marconi Avionics Ltd., followed by 3 months as a summer student at CERN (Centre d’Etudes pour la Researche Nuclearie).
1975-1977 : Bath University, Avon, UK (years 1 & 2)
1968-1975
'A' level Pure & Applied Mathematics, grade A
'A' level Physics, grade B
'A' level Technical Drawing, grade B
Nailsea Grammar School, Avon, UK
Employment History
Dr. M.S.Overington, Consultant Mathematician / Programmer
64 Broad Road, Lower Willingdon, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20 9QU, UK
1990 - Present : Consultant Mathematician / Programmer
February 2004 - Ongoing : Speculative development of
Simulated Human Vision - Optical Extensometer & more (SHV).
Reason For Considering Alternatives
Inexperienced at marketing, unable to attract enough work as an independent consultant
Tension Technology International Ltd. (TTI Ltd.)
36 Huggetts Lane, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 0LU UK (http://www.tensiontech.com/)
Small fibre rope consultancy, co-founded by my PhD & MSc supervisors
1990 - 2004 : Associated & Senior Consultant
December 2000 - December 2002 : Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) Grant Investigator responsible for integrating mechanical and graphical models of yarns, ropes and braided, woven & knitted structures for technical textiles
* Front-end for Windows 9x/2000 using Delphi 5, with OpenGL & VRML graphics.
* TKSolver for back-solvable background numerical calculations.
April 2000 - January 2004 : DTI Grant Investigator responsible for migrating TTI Rope Modeling program from DOS (OpTTI_Rope) to Windows 9x/2000 (Fibre Rope Modeler)
* Direct migration of DOS code from Turbo Pascal to Delphi 5
* Extensive test program on smallish ropes to further validate twisted rope codes and to provide preliminary validation of newly added code for braided structures.
August 1999 - February 2004 : Speculative development of
Optical Extensometer Analyser into 2-D (OEA-2D) & 3-D (OEA-3D).
Oct.1998 - July 1999 : Developed a 1-D Optical Extensometer Analyser (OEA-1D), with Delphi 4 user interface. Package provides full control of a Creative Labs WebCAM II camera (for video capture of the test) and a Pentagon Instruments Supreme mini-POD (for capture of the analogue load and crosshead strain signals from the test machine). OEA package interfaces to previously developed 16-bit FORTRAN codes for marker location, by extracting edge location data from each frame of the decomposed video test record. OEA summarises the test results graphically.
Oct. 1997 - Oct. 1998 : Intimately involved in the test coordination for research grants to look into the feasibility of incorporating optical fibre sensors into fibre rope systems
Feb. 1997 - Sep. 1997 : Development of PC-based Visual Basic 5.0 ship mooring & ship manoeuvring analysis programs
Dec. 1996 - Jan. 1997 : Test coordination (at the UK National Engineering Laboratory), data analysis and reporting for a second series of TTI funded heat build-up tests on fibre ropes to confirm the modelled effects.
Mar. 1996 - Nov. 1996 : Test coordination (at the UK National Engineering Laboratory), data analysis and reporting for 2nd phase of Oil Company Project focussing on heat build-up in large diameter polyester ropes.
July 1995 - Feb. 1996 : Test coordination (at the UK National Engineering Laboratory), data analysis and reporting for series of TTI funded heat build-up tests on fibre ropes to confirm the modelled effects.
July 1994 - June 1995 : Test coordination (at the UK National Engineering Laboratory), data analysis and reporting for Oil Company Project focussing on heat build-up in large diameter polyester ropes.
With the current trend to push oil production to deeper and deeper waters, the oil companies are now actively considering using polyester ropes to replace steel ropes as platform tethers.
* Extended the Gen_Rope (now renamed to OpTTI_Rope) model and software to include internal hysteresis heating effects (in addition to internal and external frictional heating effects) and the model predicted significant heating problems with the large diameter ropes that would be required for such an application.
* Developed the hardware and software for PC-based real-time temperature monitoring equipment to monitor heat build-up in large diameter fibre ropes under test in the laboratory.
* In 1996, several oil companies formed a joint industry project (JIP) and are tested larger diameter ropes. Results from this project indicate that the problem is very real.
Jan. 1994 - June 1994 : Test coordination, data analysis and reporting for Joint Industry Project focusing on Fibre Tethers in the year 2000 and beyond
Sep. 1993 - Dec. 1993 : Extended Gen-Rope model to include axial compression fatigue
Aug. 1992 - Aug. 1993 : Focused attention on the use of man-made fibres in woven fabric constructions for Rolls-Royce, the UK aero-engine manufacturer.
* In order to characterise woven fabric containment component response for a large-scale simulation of an aero-engine, the client required an accurate description of the non-linear load-elongation curve of the woven fabric itself.
* Used crimp-interchange to model woven fabric response to in-plane loading.
* Developed PC-based FORTRAN simulation of woven fabric belt response when subjected to selected, shock or sustained, edge loadings.
* Successfully predicted non-linear load-elongation response from initial loading to rupture.
June 1992 - July 1992 : Simulation of Flexible Risers
* PC-based model coded in PDS Basic
Sep. 1990 - May 1992 : Initial involvement with TTI was the development of a PC-based fibre rope response program for the US Navy.
* In order to minimise the number of time-consuming and expensive field trials required for experimental ropes based on new synthetic fibres, TTI were commissioned to model a variety of rope constructions and then implement the theory in a validated computer program.
* Detailed modeling of various fibre rope constructions.
* Established multi-level hierarchical model for fibre ropes.
* Model was then coded into the program Gen_Rope, using Pascal and completed on schedule.
Reason For Terminating Association
Man-made fibre ropes accepted as engineering structures, so limited modelling opportunities.
Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre (SRRC)
No. 1 R & D Road VI, Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu 30077, TAIWAN, R.O.C.
1986 - 1990 : Research Associate
Solely responsible for development of the Intelligent Local Controller (ILC) real-time operating system and application software based on Motorola 680x0 microprocessors.
* Designed to act as a VMEbus controller,
* Developed the rom-based ILC OS to provide digital I/O, A/D & D/A conversions as well as rs232, GPIB & Ethernet communications.
* Also developed the other end of the Ethernet communications link by developing software in C++ running under VMS on a MicroVAX.
Reason For Leaving
SRRC relocating to the west coast of Taiwan.
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST)
PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, England
1982 - 1986 : Research Assistant
* Used Pascal to produce a simulation of the process on a CYBER 72 computer.
* Used Assembler on BBC microcomputers (6502 processors) & in-house motor controllers (Intel 8086 processors) to instrument a high speed false-twist texturing rig.
* Used Sinclair QL to prepare thesis, developing a keen interest in the 680x0 microprocessor.
Reason For Leaving
Completed PhD and no more funding on project.
Centre d'Etudes pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), PS Division
1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
1981 - 1982 : Fellow
Specified enhancements to the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) complex so that it could become the pre-injector for the sequencing and timing of the proposed Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP).
* Performed many upgrades to the original software which had become necessary due to the evolving needs of the complex and the newly acquired operating experience.
* These specifications formed the basis of the implementation which was adopted 8 years later, when the LEP construction was completed and the new facility fulfilled its objectives within days of commissioning.
Reason For Leaving
Return to UMIST to undertake PhD.
Centre d'Etudes pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), PS Division
1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
1979 - 1980 : Contract programmer (from Benney Electronics Ltd.)
Developed software for real-time control of Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) complex.
* Programs were written in NORD-PL (the manufacturer's structured assembler) or NODAL (an in-house interpreter) for a network of NORD-10 mini-computers or Assembler for the TMS 99000 microprocessors embedded in the CAMAC hardware system.
* Supervised trainee software engineer for 6 months to take over on my departure.
Reason For Leaving
Return to UK to undertake MSc at UMIST
Centre d'Etudes pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), PS Division
1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
July - September 1978 : Summer Student
Developed, with Seraphin Seferiades, a Computer Aided Stopband Investigation facility using CAMAC hardware and FORTRAN software
* Demonstrated the feasibility of full computer control of a particle accelerator.
Reason For Leaving
Return to Bath University for final year of BSc.
Marconi Avionics Ltd., Airborne Software Division
Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Herts., England
1977 - 1978 : Sandwich Student / Programmer
Developed real-time software for the Nimrod Airborne Early Warning radar system.
* Coded modules in Assembler for an ELLIOT 905 and Coral 66 for GEC 4080 computers.
Reason For Leaving
Secured 3-month position as Summer Student at CERN after completing 12 months industrial placement.