Mark Goulding

Current

• Business Development at Warwick Warp
• Managing Director at MSG Technologies Limited

Past

• UK Managing Director at Cogent Systems
• Director at Home Office, e-Borders
• Director at Lord Chancellors' Department (now DoJ)

• Managing Consultant at CSC
• Director Identification & Verification Services at PITO
• Programme Director National Fingerprint System at Home Office
• Managing Director at Byzantine Technology Ltd
• Company Director at Meiko Ltd
• Technologist Project Lead, design engineer at Inmos
• Technology Officer at Ministry of Defence, procurement

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Education

• University of Southampton

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Mark Goulding’s Summary

Major programme and project management delivery. Particularly business start up, visioning and leading advanced technology and business tansformation programmes, procurement and implementation.

Lead in the creation of our society's next national critical infrastructure - identity - to the benefit of the citizen, giving primacy to serving and protecting individuals.

Mark Goulding’s Specialties:

Identity Management and large scale high performance biometric systems implementation. Border security systems using multi-modal identity technology. Identity, document checking and biometric enrolment systems and services.

Design, development and implementation of biometric identity systems, and the assurance of design, development and implementation of others systems.

Mark Goulding’s Experience

• Business Development

  Warwick Warp

  (Public Safety industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Software technology improves performance ahieved for matching of low quality fingerprints.

• Managing Director

  MSG Technologies Limited

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Business Strategy, Development, Implementation and Technology for large scale high performance biometric identity management systems.
  Specialists in government procurement and programme management, bid development, programme and company start-up, team build and business/programme reviews, including gateway reviews. Technology (Hardware/Software/Process) insallation, maintenance, training and support.
  Strategic and Operational business advice and support services relating to Identity checking services in the public and private sectors.

• UK Managing Director

  Cogent Systems

  (Public Company; COGT; Biotechnology industry)

  August 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 6 months)

• Director

  Home Office, e-Borders

  (Public Safety industry)

  August 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 6 months)

  Start up and leader of the multi-agency UK national border security programme 'e-Borders' as its Director - a major business transformation and technology delivery programme. Within two years this government programme delivered proof of concept and operational services in the areas of iris biometric automated clearance gates at UK ports and Semaphore the precursor business and systems for e-Borders - an Identity Management programme allowing all UK government, in partnership with the transport industry, to automate the clearance of everyone travelling to, from or through the UK and facilitate the handling of passengers when they arrive at our ports to the benefit of the traveller, business and society - improving security for all.
  I was the senior Civil Servant that introduced the concept of Home Office business wide and strategic Identity Management linking together progrmmes such as the National Identity Scheme, e-Borders, Police and Criminal Justice Identity, visas and passports.

• Director

  Lord Chancellors' Department (now DoJ)

  (Government Administration industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years )

  Technology and Business Change advisor to Director General Policy for civil and criminal justice services, courts and legislation.

• Managing Consultant

  CSC

  (Public Company; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 2 months)

  Range of strategic consulting roles relating to programme and project management, implementation of global business services for Nokia.

• Director Identification & Verification Services

  PITO

  (Public Safety industry)

  1994 — 1998 (4 years )

  I was the architect and chief system design engineer for the UK's first national scale high performance biometrics system NAFIS - that architecture and design produced in 1994 was realised by TRW and Cogent as the most advanced Police identity system in the world. The system design combined central and distributed computing across a national network, with large scale parallel processing, workflow management and resilient transaction processing, local Scene of Crime case management, matching and archiving services.
  I built business new division rsponsible for Police Identification & Verifiation Services and headed up the group as one of the board of directors of PITO reporting to its CEO.

• Programme Director National Fingerprint System

  Home Office

  (Public Safety industry)

  April 1992 — 1994 (2 years )

  Director Identification and Verification Services
  Chief Systems Engineer/Architect and Programme Director for the design and implementation of the UK's National Automated Fingerprint Identification System. NAFIS
  I introduced HPC parallel supercomputing, central and distributed computing to the first national scale high peformance biometrics system design.

• Managing Director

  Byzantine Technology Ltd

  (Computer Networking industry)

  March 1991 — July 1992 (1 year 5 months)

  A startup advanced technology company.
  The first technology and designs we introduced included the concept of high performance thin client computer terminals to link to the new emerging generation of parallel supercomputer and multi-processing servers and networks.
  Set up Crab Advanced Technologies in the UK and Italy for the development of a new generation of high performance graphics terminals, including the design and develepment of silicon devices embedded into the workstations (Communication recursive architecture bus) to support local parallel processing and access to high speed dual port video memory systems.

• Company Director

  Meiko Ltd

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 1988 — January 1991 (2 years 10 months)

  Design, development, manufacture and supply of Parallel processing supercomputer systems (hardware and software).

• Technologist Project Lead, design engineer

  Inmos

  (Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

  March 1984 — April 1988 (4 years 2 months)

  Part of transputer and graphics processor VLSI microprocessor design team. Project manager for single chip video graphics microprocessor

• Technology Officer

  Ministry of Defence, procurement

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  September 1976 — March 1984 (7 years 7 months)

  Technology officer and manager for procurement executive - weapon, communication and computer systems.

Mark Goulding’s Education

• University of Southampton

  B.Sc 1st Class Hons , Electronic Engineering , 1980 — 1983

  Specialised in Computing, Graphics, Imaging signal processing, integrated circuit design.
  Final Dissertation related to the design of a medical TV Image Enhancement Systems for Microscope viewers.

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