Résumé Details for Martin Leese

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Skills

• Image Processing - Designed, developed and used two image processing systems, one to restore and enhance satellite images of the earth's surface and the other to process side-scan sonar data of the seafloor.
• Software Development - Designed and developed large suites of programs, including a couple of image processing systems and a geographic information system (GIS).
  

  Languages:

  PHP

  HTML

  Perl

  C++

  C

  PostScript

  UNIX shells, AWK, GREP, SED

• Computer Network Analysis - Reorganized and extended Ethernet networks including planning of UTP, optical fiber and coax cable layouts, and upgrading to Fast Ethernet.
• UNIX Network Administration - Administered networks of UNIX computers, including SMTP servers, POP servers, FTP servers, NFS servers, and a Web server.
  

  Platforms:

  PC/Linux

  SGI/IRIX

  Sun/Solaris

  Sun/SunOS

• Metadata - Created Perl scripts to generate FGDC and ISO 19115 metadata for spatial data sets.
• HCI Experimental Design - Designed and executed experiments to measure attitudes towards computer synthesized speech.
• Physiological Measurement - Measured skin conductance to monitor responses to uncivil political debate.
• Statistical Analysis - Analysed social science experiments using the SPSS statistical package.
• Experience in both academic and industrial environments.

Teaching Experience

• Guest Lecturer - Presented a guest lecture at the University of Calgary on Public Participation Issues for a course on land use planning.
• Teaching Assistant - TA for courses at Stanford University including one course in which I taught sections of 20 students. Edited undergraduate assignments for correct English.
• Guest Lecturer - Presented guest lectures at the University of New Brunswick on Remote Sensing and on Printing Technologies for a course on mapping concepts and technology.

Qualifications

• MA in Communication, Stanford University, USA, 2001
• MSc in engineering, Liverpool Polytechnic, United Kingdom, 1979
• BSc in engineering, Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom, 1975

• European Engineer (EurIng) in over 30 European countries
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) in the United Kingdom

• Associate Fellow of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (AFRSPSoc), United Kingdom
• Member of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (MIMIS), United Kingdom
• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET), United Kingdom

Summary of Employment

2011 - 2011:

Systems Project Manager with the National Energy Board, Calgary, Alberta.

2008 - 2008:

Software Tester contracted to the National Energy Board, Calgary, Alberta.

2005 - 2009:

Past President, President and Vice President of the charity Calgary Community Network Association, Alberta.

2004 - 2005:

Remote Sensing Consultant with GeoArctic Limited, Calgary, Alberta.

2002 - 2003:

Technical Director with the charity Calgary Community Network Association, Alberta.

1999 - 2001:

Graduate Student in the Department of Communication, Stanford University, USA.

1994 - 1999:

Computer System Manager with the Ocean Mapping Group, University of New Brunswick.

1990 - 1994:

Systems Manager with the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

1986 - 1989:

Image Processing Scientist with Wimpey Laboratories Limited, United Kingdom.

1980 - 1986:

Image Processing Scientist with Geosurvey International Limited, United Kingdom.

1979 - 1980:

Senior Development Engineer with Molins Limited, United Kingdom.

1978 - 1979:

MSc Student at Liverpool Polytechnic, United Kingdom.

1975 - 1978:

Process Technologist with Molins Limited, United Kingdom.

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