Experience of technology start ups, and IPR issues through own patent application. Experience of project leadership with wide range of responsibilities including design, planning, reporting, liaison with partners, co-workers, staff, suppliers and sub-contractors, and application of commercial consideration to packaging and mass manufacture of products.


Extensive experience of computer and IT hardware, applications, programming, e-commerce; web use, design, marketing; e-commerce; basic networking; scientific and technical writing.

Services offered

Project management; scientific and technical consultancy including all aspects of IT and e-commerce, website analysis specification and design; metrology and data analysis; mathematical modelling; programming; electronic and optical system design; and training and production of training materials.

Clients include

  • Voluntary Action Orkney
  • Orkney Islands Council
  • Orkney Enterprise
  • Shetland Enterprise
  • Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise
  • Highlands and Islands Enterprise
  • Development Partners Ltd.
  • Key Commercial Services Ltd.
  • Orkney Photographic
  • Orkney Folk Festival

Qualifications and indemnity arrangements

  • BSc (Hons) 1st Class Physics, University of Aberdeen 1987
  • PhD, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh 1993
  • Member of Institute of Physics, Chartered Physicist (MInstP CPhys)
  • SFEDI Accredited Business Adviser under HIE QA Programme,since 2002
  • Trained in PRINCE2 project management methodology
SERVICE(S) PROVIDED:
Computer & IT ServicesConsultancy & Research