About

Hello, my name is Nick. Here you can find out a little bit about me. By education I am an electronic engineer with a career in teaching, training and web developing. In addition I also write magazine articles on computing topics as well as being a keen local historian with several published books and articles.

Professional work

I am an experienced teacher/lecturer (PGCE) and have taught in Higher Education (HE) & Further Education (FE) on topics including networking, website design and development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL), computer programming (C, JavaScript, PHP), object oriented programming (OOP with C++), and systems software to BTEC First, National Diploma and Higher National Diploma (HNC / HND) and City & Guilds courses.

Education

I obtained a PhD with research conducted in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath. My main research involved developing noise reduction and preprocessing methods for digital images and video using Mathematical Morphology. The research also delved into ‘Psycho-visually Lossless‘ preprocessing for digital images.

Thatcham: An historic town in a changing world book cover
Thatcham: An historic town in a changing world
Thatcham Soldiers Talk
Nick giving a talk on Thatcham’s WWI soldiers.
Thatcham: Britains oldest inhabited settlement?
Thatcham: Britains oldest inhabited settlement?
PSYCHO-VISUALLY TUNED AREA-MORPHOLOGY TOOLS FOR IMPROVED IMAGE COMPRESSION
Psycho-visually tuned area morphology tools for improved image compression

Voluntary work

I am actively involved in the community and am, or have been, a volunteer for several organisations including Thatcham Vision, Heartstart Thatcham, the Peter Allen Memorial Lectures and Thatcham Historical Society. These have included a number of community projects, teaching CPR, educating pupils and the community about CPR, defibrillators and promoting local (Thatcham and Newbury) history.