Mike Snook

Past

• Risk Manager for Access Glasgow at Serco
• Project Control Manager at BT
• Project Manager at Forth Dimension Displays

• Systems Administrator at BancTec Ltd working for the Bank of Scotland
• Software Engineer at Royal Observatory Edinburgh
• Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh, Physics Dept

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Education

• University of Bradford
• University of Bradford

Connections

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Industry

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Mike Snook’s Experience

• Risk Manager for Access Glasgow

  Serco

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SRP; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)

  Fixed Term Contract. Risk Manager for the Serco / Glasgow City Council joint venture for Glasgows ICT, working in the Project Management Office.
  Responsible for setting up of Risk, Issue procedures and the management of the risk registers for all aspects of the venture.
  Chaired risk assessments to define risks for projects and programmes

• Project Control Manager

  BT

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

  July 2007 — December 2007 (6 months)

  Fixed Term Contract. Within the Project Management Office Production of programme and project status reports, Generation and maintenance of project plans and project risk, Issue and change registers, Control, tracking and forecasting of programme and project budgets and resource to ensure projects achieved a high level of financial control. Wrote project planning & estimation processes and procedures based on PRINCE2 for BT’s business transformation programme.

• Project Manager

  Forth Dimension Displays

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  2000 — 2007 (7 years)

  Responsible for the project management and development of new micro-display products; costing, production of specifications, system architecture and transistor level design of products. Specified silicon processes, designed the architecture, critical circuits and layout for large full custom CMOS ASICs for use as micro-displays. Liaised with the silicon foundries on technical issues. Solved chip product lifetime problems using novel techniques, increasing lifetime by 10x. Reduced the manufacturing cost of PCB and chip level products by 20% and 40%. Developed a high current (40A) sub µs switching LED driver for a projection engine. Carried out hardware designs for various power supplies and liquid crystal drive circuits. Attained PRINCE2, Practitioners qualification, in project management.

• Systems Administrator

  BancTec Ltd working for the Bank of Scotland

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)

  August 1998 — July 2000 (2 years)

  Administered the UNIX system used for the Bank of Scotland’s clearing operation. Customer facing software delivery and support role.
  Designed and wrote numerous pieces of diagnostic shell script and C based code to aid cheque clearing.

• Software Engineer

  Royal Observatory Edinburgh

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  June 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  Wrote real time software (C and FORTRAN, UNIX and VMS) to control a new telescope camera and its integration in to an existing control system.
  
  * Drew up project specifications and interface specification documentation
  * Successfully implemented and tested software / hardware integration on schedule.
  * Designed, developed and integrated new multi-process software in to a complex pre-existing system running under a real time multi tasking control and support environment.

• Research Fellow

  University of Edinburgh, Physics Dept

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  October 1986 — July 1997 (10 years 10 months)

  Successful research in to the design and fabrication of high resolution LCOS (Liquid Crystal On Silicon) micro displays and image processing chips. ESPRC funded work, continually achieving Alpha rating.
  VLSI analogue silicon circuit design, specification, transistor level design, simulation and layout of 7 full custom large area ASIC VLSI silicon chips using Cadence design suit.
  
  Carried out research in the x-ray analysis of condensed matter, developed scientific instruments, wrote software to analyse data and control equipment.
  
  Analysed ocean wave data using statistical and mathematical techniques with oil rig safety in mind.