Ian Stokes

Head of Horizon R&D Outsource technical Management &

Wideband Base Transceiver Systems Engineering Manager responsible for the Technical Management & Development of Firmware & FPGA also Hardware Digital & Mechanical projects. Around 96 projects across several major general software releases for GSM Systems division. Teams working for me on these projects are located in the USA, UK & China. Frequently travels to Europe, China & India to support project needs / customer issues.

Firmware Engineering Manager for Motorola in the UK. I have worked in GSM for Motorola 9 years. I manage teams in different countries responsible for 2G/2.5G/3G/WiMax/ projects. My particular expertise is in Digital Signal Processing for the 2G Speech codec's used in the GSM system. The teams I Manage are based in the UK, Poland and China although I had teams in Singapore and Italy also for past projects. My main project currently is as Global Manager for the GSM BTS MOL project.

Digital Signal Processing Real time Systems C++/ C / Assembler VHDL Classic Control Theory Engineering Mathematics

Specification and Design Software Testing Software Development Management Extensible Markup Language Web Services Object Orientation Concurrency and Distributed Systems Object-Oriented Design Managing Risk and Quality Practical Software Engineering