Paul Parkinson

Current

• Senior Systems Architect at Wind River

Past

• Senior Field Applications Engineer at Wind River
• Senior Applications Engineer at Blue Wave Systems
• Senior Engineer at Loughborough Sound Images

• Software Engineer at GPT Limited

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Education

• The University of Manchester

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Paul Parkinson’s Summary

Pre-sales technical consultant and embedded software engineer with 18+ years experience, and in-depth knowledge of Aerospace & Defence industry sectors, with current UK Security Clearances.

Professional Interests include Information Security (InfoSec), Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and Intelligence Surveillance & Target Acquisition Reconnaissance (ISTAR) systems.

Author of numerous technical papers & published articles, see:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.j.parkinson/publications.html

Paul Parkinson’s Specialties:

* Secure operating systems (VxWorks MILS 2.0), Common Criteria
* Safety-critical systems (Def Stan 00-56, DO-178B, ARINC 653)
* Embedded and real-time software (VxWorks 5.x / 6.x / 653);
* Web design (HTML, XML, RSS);
* Device driver development (Solaris / UNIX, LynxOS RTOS)
* VMEbus
* PowerPC architectures
* Digital Signal Processors (TI C40, Analog Devices SHARC)

Paul Parkinson’s Experience

• Senior Systems Architect

  Wind River

  (Public Company; WIND; Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)

  Pre-sales technical support and consulting for Aerospace & Defence customers in UK, with technical specialisation in safety-critical systems (avionics & defence).
  
  In addition, since November 2008, acting as Information Security (InfoSec) specialist providing pre-sales technical support for VxWorks MILS 2.0 secure operating system across EMEA.
  
  Current UK Security Clearances held since 2001.

• Senior Field Applications Engineer

  Wind River

  (Public Company; WIND; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 9 months)

  Pre-sales technical support and consulting for Aerospace & Defence customers in UK & Nordic countries. Current UK Security Clearances held since 2001

• Senior Applications Engineer

  Blue Wave Systems

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 1997 — January 2000 (2 years 3 months)

  Technical pre-sales support of Blue Wave's multiprocessor DSP VME systems to telecomms sector and Aerospace & Defence sector. This included the development of presentations, demos, training materials and technical prototyping.

• Senior Engineer

  Loughborough Sound Images

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 1994 — November 1997 (3 years 3 months)

  Development of device drivers and application libraries for LSI's multiprocessor DSP VME boards, including SunOS, Solaris, LynxOS, VxWorks and OS-9. Target-side DSP code included Analog Devices SHARC and TI C4x.
  
  Note: LSI became Blue Wave Systems following the merger with Mizar Inc.

• Software Engineer

  GPT Limited

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1988 — September 1994 (6 years 1 month)

  Sponsored degree student on GPT industrial training programme, and post graduation worked as a UNIX software engineer on System X digital exchange using USL UNIX SVR4.0 on Intel IA32 and Motorola UNIX on 88110 processor.

Paul Parkinson’s Education

• The University of Manchester

  BSc(Hons) II(i) , Computer Science , 1988 — 1992

Additional Information

Paul Parkinson’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Paul Parkinson’s Groups:

European Engineer (Eur Ing, FEANI)
Chartered Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
Chartered Electrical Engineer (CEng)
Chartered Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS)
Chartered Information Technology Practitioner (CITP)

•    EUR ING - European Professional Engineers
•    Embedded
•    Information Security Community
•    Wind-X
•    Defense & Aerospace
•    SIL3
•    BCS Information Security Specialist Group

Paul Parkinson’s Honors:

Wind River President's Club winner 2006
Wind River EMEA Outstanding Technical Account Manager 2006
Wind River President's Club winner 2002
Wind River EMEA Field Engineer of the Year 2002

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