John Teryima Martin

Managing Consultant

Actica Consulting Limited

Actica Consulting Ltd (www.actica.co.uk) provides business and IT management consultancy, primarily in support of the procurement cycle, with a strong focus on the public sector. Email address is john.martin (a) actica,co,uk; tel 01483 484090.

Consultant

Worked as Consultant at Defence Information Services Team...DPS.

Terminal Leave/Resettlement

Royal Air Force

Relocation to UK, resettlement leave and terminal leave prior to discharge on retirement from the Royal Air Force.

Systems Engineering Consultant

Termporary engagement with Lucent Technologoies to deliver UMTS demonstrator for CWID 2006. Keywords: UMTS, network design, Voice/video over IP, Cisco, Asterisk, Linux, SLES 9, VPN, firewall.

Command and Control Resources Manager

Responsible for 4 senior sysadmins deploying Solaris networks into the field to provide air command and control capability. Duties included deployment planning, network design, systems design, procurement (sizing, specification), user requirements, application support, hardware support, help desk, system operations. Keywords: Solaris, NIS+, Oracle, Java, DNS, apache, email, chat, XMPP, network adm

Officer

Worked as Officer at UK MOD (RAF).

RAF Officer

MOD

Project Manager

Project manager for roll-out of defence intranet across UK Ministry of Defence and migration from existing WAN solutions. Directly authorised spend of £10M per year. >50 internal customers. Suppliers from within BT Group. Line manager for 6. One of 4 PMs in Complex Projects Team. Team co-ordinator for risk and budget (£28M per year). Keywords: PRINCE2, TCP/IP, security accreditation, network desig

Head of Electro-Optics

Responsible for specifying, designing, planning, preparing, delivering and supervising the delivery of military electro-optics training from graduate to MSc level. Responsible for team of 3 instructors/technician, world-class teaching laboratory and procurement of opto-electronic equipment and training aids. Keywords: thermal imaging, optics, infrared, fibre optics, communications systems, SDH, SO

MSc in Optoelectronics and Laser Devices

One year full-time Master of Science course in preparation for next role at RAF College Cranwell. Thesis project was measuring optical properties of some organic dyes in solution and in polymers. Measurements were performed using nano- and picosecond-pulse techniques, and results were compared against numerical models devloped by myself to obtain underlying photoelectronic properties of the dyes.

Officer Commanding Communication and Information Systems Engineering Flight

Responsible for all communications and IT in a large air defence bunker, one of the largest and most important in UK air defence. Directly responsible for 40 personnel. Deputy squadron commander (150 personnel). Overall manager for network management, IT maintenance, IT procurement, CIS operations, telephony.