Dr. Martin Beckmann

• Founder and CEO of company • Responsible for consulting activities of company, both legal and technical

• Student at the European Law School, Maastricht University (starting 2005) • Offering IT services to small companies • Offering GPS consultancy services to the aviation and GPS industries • General software consulting

• Internship at major Dutch law firm AKD, as part of law studies.

• Responsible for all contractual aspects of the SA-NBS project for the Swiss Railways (SBB) to install a cabin-signaling system on the new Mattstetten-Rothrist Line, handling customer and sub-contractor correspondence, variation orders, disputes, claims • Internal adviser on all matters pertaining to SA-NBS contract and related subcontracts • General adviser to VP of Information Solutions Business Unit on contractual aspects of several other major projects and tenders

• Defined offerings of ALSTOM Transport Information Solutions offerings in the emerging markets for rail asset tracking & management, and satellite-positioning based signaling systems • Managed bid for the ALSTOM Transport Information Solutions offer to Australian Rail Track Corporation for a signaling system based on satellite positioning

• Responsible for the completion of a major release of a cabin-signaling system project for the Dutch Railways, and for the day-to-day management of the team of engineers performing all project system engineering • Handled contract management in absence of a dedicated Contract Manager

• Offered systems engineering, avionics certification and industry group representation services to aerospace companies and organizations

• Responsible for the new AeroNav® IV GPS-based navigation system • Representing Aerodata in several industry working groups and committees developing standards for GPS avionics

• Responsible for technical definition, planning and execution of several projects including the Trimble Satellite Landing System, Trimble’s next generation of GPS receiver designs, and year 2000, GPS week 0 rollover and leap year testing of all Trimble avionics products • Represented Trimble in several industry working groups and committees, developing national standards for GPS/WAAS navigation systems

• Responsible for planning and execution of the development effort for the TN-500 GPS-based General Aviation navigation system • Introduced new software development process and tools to ensure conformance with Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) requirements and increase software development efficiency

• Project lead on development and FAA certification of several Trimble Avionics products • Supervised avionics software group

• Project lead on development and FAA certification of several Trimble Avionics products • Developed RAIM algorithms for Trimble avionics products

• Researched interference problems in the Loran-C radio navigation system • Project lead on contract research done for various European government agencies • Research work resulted in PhD degree in Electrical Engineering

European Law School