2003 - present. Spacon (spacecraft controller) monitoring and controlling satellites at the European Space Agency I have worked on Integral, ESA's gamma ray observatory, XMM-Newton its X-ray space telescope, Sentinel 1A, Sentinel 3A the EU funded Copernicus earth observation program, Cryosat, that measures ice height over the poles, Swarm that measures magnetic fields in and around the earth, and GAIA that is accurately measuring the positions of 1 billion stars in our galaxy the Milky Way. I am also involved in the ESOC Radio Club, the cybernetics club and follow closely cubesats such as D-Sat and ESOC's OPS-Sat.

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2003 - Short contract at Eumetsat, the European Meteological Satellite Organisation. IT Support.

Receiving weather satellite images direct from space has been one of my hobbies, for many years. The first system I built was a handbuilt VHF receiver connected to a decoder and 32kb BBC computer which displayed the low resolution APT pictures. My current 32 000 000kb PC system receives Eumetcast:- Ku-band DVB-S2 data re-transmitted by Eumetsat from MSG, GOES, NOAA, Feng Yun, Metop, and Sentinel satellites. Looking at these images I often see things that have not even been mentioned on the news such as fires, sandstorms, and volcanoes The glaciers of Antartica are also amazing to look at.

Since 1995 I've mostly done computer work such as IT Support, Network Support, Systems Administrator, Installation and Rollout Engineer.

I also learned Macromedia Dreamweaver and do Internet Web Design.