Freelance Consultant | Mobile, Defence (SC Cleared), & Internet Professional | Pro Photographer (LBIPP)
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Freelance Consultant (SC Cleared) at Thales Aerospace
- Founder & Owner at VeilandTrain.com
- Freelance Photographer at Ian McGraw Photography
- Past
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- Business Development at CodeGuys Ltd
- Software Integration & Delivery manager at Ericsson Mobile Platforms
- Freelance Consultant at Sonus Networks
- Freelance Consultant at Zynetix.com
- Contract Build & Release Management at Samsung Electronics Research Institute
- Contract Software Engineer at Ericsson Mobile Platforms
- Contract Software Engineer at Motorola
- Contract Software Engineer at Nokia
- Senior Software Engineer at Lucent Technologies
- Software Engineer at GPT / Siemens
- Graduate Software Engineer at GPT
- Education
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- British Institute of Professional Photography
- Kingston Upon Thames College
- Sheffield Hallam University
- De Montfort University
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Ian McGraw’s Summary
Mobile, internet & media system consulting
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Freelance consultant with vast experience of mobile systems, internet based mobile services, mobile multimedia and systems & defence consulting. Experience at all levels of business & project lifecycle (Thales, Nokia, Ericsson,Motorola,Siemens,Samsung, Sonus).
Internet Systems
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Real world commercial Mobile Pre Pay system project specification, management & execution.
Interest and research into new and interesting ways to utilise the power of WordPress as a CMS & Semantic Web.
Mobile Systems
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Software Integration & Delivery Management
Project Tenders
GSM/UMTS/HSDPA handset & basestation
Representing Client Products at 3GSM
Low Power GSM basestation
Realtime Systems Integration
Fixed Wireless Access
Pre Pay systems admin Interface
SMPP Protocol and Interfaces
Online Marketing Skills
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Forum Platforms - integrating and managing phpBB based forums to increase backlinks + online traffic
Blogging Platforms - intimate knowledge of turning bare bones WordPress into full blown websites with associated blogs, customising themes, blog SEO, traffic generation & analysis.
Design, Layout and copy - Quark & Photoshop, managing graphic design & photography requirements
Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Submission, Keyword analysis, backlink generation
PPC & keyword research Google + Facebook & Affiliate campaigns
Stats - Google Analytics, Web Stats, Woopra
Media and Visual Communications Experience
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Undertaking commercial briefs for production of corporate imagery, including products, people, and places. Clients include Liberty Plc online, Stax Leisure & Amida Health Clubs Next Generation Clubs, Unilever, Met Police/Hilton Heathrow, Sonus Networks, St Davids Care in the Community Claridges, The Dorchester, Essex LMC. LBIPP & HNC qualified. Photoshop & Avid trained. Founder of VeilandTrain.com
Ian McGraw’s Specialties:
Networker, Entrepreneur, Organiser, Director at Lulsgate Ltd, R&D professional, Founder & Owner of VeilandTrain.com. Security clearanced (SC).
Ian McGraw’s Experience
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Freelance Consultant (SC Cleared)
Thales Aerospace
(Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Defence related R&D (SC)
IV&V, UAV Mission Management Systems, ESM Systems Enhancement & Upgrade -
Founder & Owner
VeilandTrain.com
(Photography industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Veil & Train is an exciting new Wedding Service that offers an all encompassing Photography, Hair, Makeup and Health+Fitness package.
First and foremost we believe in working closely with you to produce your total wedding day image. We listen carefully to your requirements and design a service that is personal to you.
Our tailored service can include any of our individual specialities right through to the complete package. For example choose just Wedding Photography, or a combination e.g. Hair, Makeup and Photography.
We also run a referral scheme that pays 10% on successfully referred clients. See http://www.veilandtrain.com/referrals/veil-train-referral-scheme/ -
Freelance Photographer
Ian McGraw Photography
(Photography industry)
February 2005 — Present (5 years )
[UPDATE]
Weddings, PR shots, Ian McGraw LBIPP, Claridges, Veil & Train buisness dev, Liberty Plc product shots, eduserv industrial images
[05/02/07]
** brief for Kingston College Business Enterprise
[23/01/07]
** Unilever uses images for it's Catalyst programme
[21/10/06]
** Charity Ball - Ordinary to Extaordinary, The Brewery, EC1
[13/10/06]
** Charity Ball - Chelsea Royal Hospital
[06/09/06]
** Product/pack shots for Zynetix Ltd.
[15/08/06]
** Heathrow Hilton / Dreamflight charity / Met Police summer ball.
[15/06/06]
** provides event photography services to Amida Beckenham & Hampton Health
[20/04/06]
** photography work is featured on www.fattalent.com podcast & website -> http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=24909
[16/04/06]
** Latest project http://www.accomodationcalpe.com completed -
Business Development
CodeGuys Ltd
(Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)
Provision of business development services to CodeGuys Ltd.
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Software Integration & Delivery manager
Ericsson Mobile Platforms
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)
July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Working in Customer Project Office at EMP. Responsible for customer software releases for HSDPA handset software (Sagem). Working to tight customer deadlines, actively contributing to improve software release process & quality. Clearcase/ClearQuest, realtime software, GSM/UMTS/HSDPA handset. (contract)
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Freelance Consultant
Sonus Networks
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SONS; Telecommunications industry)
April 2007 — June 2007 (3 months)
June 07 - ClearCase development guide
June 07 - PrePay Web Interface regression test plan
May 07 - Management of SVN to ClearCase migration
May 07 - Milenage integration planning -
Freelance Consultant
Zynetix.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)
December 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Zynetix develops and markets low-cost small footprint GSM solutions for the emerging Low Power GSM market.
Primarily a development role however being a small company I get involved in all aspects of business as well as development.
Mar 07: Procurement of Cisco Gateway equipment.
Mar 07: Integration of Asterisk Voicemail with GSM Softswitch.
Feb 07: Attended Barcelona 3GSM briefing customers and giving product demonstrations.
Full cycle projects completed:
Web based Pre Pay Administration UI (PHP / MySQL / Javascript / Smarty / HTML / Dreamweaver / Photoshop CS2 / Expression Engine).
SMPP sever for SMS, MMS & OTA provisioning ( Linux / C++ ), integration of commerical GSM/GPRS MMSC solution.
SNMP system integration ( MIB design, NetDecision, SNMP ).
Software package evaluation.
Development of knowledge base.
Realisation of product photography for Zynetix.
Specification of new webiste for Zynetix (on going).
Skills: LAMP, C++, Project Management -
Contract Build & Release Management
Samsung Electronics Research Institute
(Public Company; smsn; Consumer Electronics industry)
May 2005 — November 2005 (7 months)
Build and Release Management of GSM/UMTS Handset platform software. Scheduling of correct features and fixes for merge into release major platform releases. Coordination of release/eligibility/live network testing for candidate platform software. Interfacing with product integration team. Coordinate fault diagnosis and trace activities. ( Clearcase/Clearquest )
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Contract Software Engineer
Ericsson Mobile Platforms
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
February 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 9 months)
Integration/upgrade of hardware drivers for GSM/GPRS handset. C/MSVC/ClearCase.
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Contract Software Engineer
Motorola
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2004 — August 2004 (8 months)
Implementation of Tetra Basestation Interference detection software. SDL/SDT/TCL/Expect/Clearcase.
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Contract Software Engineer
Nokia
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
January 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 10 months)
Design & Implementation of GSM/EDGE Basestation base band automated test application. MFC, C++, TCP/IP.
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Senior Software Engineer
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
August 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 6 months)
Working on development of CDMA based Fixed Wireless Local Loop telephony system. ISDN based subscriber call processing. C/C++, OOD, VXWorks, nmake, SDL.
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Software Engineer
GPT / Siemens
(Telecommunications industry)
November 1993 — August 1997 (3 years 10 months)
Worked on call processing software team for development of iSDX/Realitis/Hicom products.
Gained National Examination Board (NEBS) Supervisory Management Certificate Award -
Graduate Software Engineer
GPT
(Computer Software industry)
1993 — 1997 (4 years )
Ian McGraw’s Education
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British Institute of Professional Photography
LBIPP , Licentiateship , 2008 — 2008
Institute Professional Qualification
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Kingston Upon Thames College
HNC , HNC Photography , 2005 — 2007
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Sheffield Hallam University
2:1 , Information Technology , 1991 — 1993
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De Montfort University
HND , Electronic Engineering , 1987 — 1991
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