CEREUS ULTRASONICS - Key Persons
Chris has over 39 years' experience working on the development of advanced sonar systems.
Chris joined the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE) on the Isle of Portland, UK. He then went to university to study Physics with Electronics. On his return he designed, built and tested preamplifier and ADC systems for future UK sonar systems.
Job Titles:
- Senior Signal Processing Engineer
Joe has a background in Chemical Engineering (MEng) and Mechanical Engineering (PhD). His PhD thesis focused on the use of a novel superimposed standing wave method for thickness measurement of thin surface coatings and films.
He brings 5+ years of experience in the use of Ultrasonics for condition monitoring and the associated signal-processing techniques. He has consulted for international industrial clients and has published his research work in "Ultrasonics" journal.
Experienced Electronic Engineering Technician with a demonstrated history of working in the airlines/aviation industry. Skilled in Avionics, Electronics, Manufacturing, Aerospace, and Testing. Strong operations professional with a Electronics focused in C&G Electronics Servicing from Bournemouth&Poole collage.
Job Titles:
- Ultrasonics Engineering Manager
After completing a four-year MoD apprenticeship in 1996, Mark continued to university before returning to QinetiQ in 2000 as an Electronics Engineer within the Fibre Optic Sensing group developing fibre optic systems for acoustic and seismic applications. This technology was spun out as Optasense and, while still supporting the technology, Mark was transferred to the Electronics group in QinetiQ, designing sonar system interfaces for UK Naval platforms.
In 2009 Mark joined Paul Doust at DNV within a Norwegian group as Senior Electronics Engineer to develop Acoustic Resonance Technology for inline pipeline inspection tools following the success of their first trial of the technology. Mark was working on transducer testing as well as matching and optimisation techniques; remaining with the group when it was spun-out from DNV as ‘Halfwave'. As well as ILI-related acoustics, Mark and Paul were also involved in research into the tracking and delivery of cancer treatment drugs with an Oxford Biomedical company. Mark later continued from the development of transducer techniques to become Electronics Engineering Manager in 2017, leading the design of electrical system inspection tools ranging from 4 to 640 channels; systems capable of travelling over 1200 km. Electro-acoustics remained at the centre of the system design.
Mark took on a new challenge in 2019 after being asked to join Cereus Downhole Technology to lead the development of the first Cereus Downhole inspection tool to use the ART technique developed at DNV in the hostile conditions of downhole wells.
Since 2002, Nigel has worked for a number of successful early-stage oilfield technology start-up companies, focussing on downhole sensing and well production optimisation technologies.
Job Titles:
- Electronics Engineer
- Principal
Paul has over 34 years' experience working on the development of advanced sonar systems.
On leaving school, Paul initially trained as a scientist at the Admiralty Research Establishment (ARE) on the Isle of Portland, UK. There he modelled the complex acoustic environments found in shallow coastal waters and evaluated novel signal processing techniques for future UK torpedo sonar systems.
In more recent years as a member of QinetiQ, Paul's focus moved to the design of analogue/digital electronics and the associated real-time systems required to synchronously capture high fidelity signals from multi-channel distributed ADC systems covering sampling rates from 50Hz up to 80MHz.