All about Chris Cowdery
I am an Electronic Engineer, and for an infinitessimally short segment of time, I looked like this:
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My history
I was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, and then lived nearby in Brimpton Common (near Reading). (Excepting time at University of course). I attended Aldermaston C.E. Primary school, and then Kennet Secondary School and Sixth Form in Thatcham. I got a few A-Levels, which enabled me to go to Bangor to study for an Meng in Computer Systems Engineering. I graduated there during the Summer 1996 with a 1st Class Honours degree, and took a Graduate Engineering post with Thomson-Marconi Sonar Limited, where I stayed for just over 2 years.
Next I served time at TAG McLaren Audio (now defunct) where I worked on their Aphrodite and DVD32R products. My advice to you is do not ever work for an audiophile company, otherwise you will spend endless months searching for that last subjective audiophile tweak, not measurable or detectable by mere mortals, but capable of rendering a product unlistenable by those in the know. Try Peter Belts Homepage. You thought Witchcraft died out in the middle ages?.
Doug Self, well known name in audio circles has a few choice remarks on audiophiles too.
After two years working for a madman and kapton tape enthusiast I had the good fortune to be offered a position at New Transducers Ltd. Here I still am working as Senior Engineer on lots of interesting projects. This touch technology is one that I did most of the hardware design for.
I have bought a nice house in Great Stukeley, which is a quiet village just to the North of Huntingdon on Ermine Street. John Majors house is just across the field. It's a typically boring 3 bedroom semi. But it keeps the warm air around me, and the rain somewhere else, so it can't be all bad. It's a well connected place actually, with the A1 running North/South about 2 miles away, and the A14 running East/West about 1 mile away. So it's quite future proof as far as jobs go in the Cambridge / Kettering / Peterborough / Bedford areas go. Even trains run from Huntingdon Station down to London in no time at all.
I seem to do quite a bit of DIY, in fact the pace has been hotting up recently to get all the major work done before the nanny state interference (wiring regs, building control) makes it just impractical to even wire a plug. But I don't really enjoy DIY, so I'm not going to go on about it here!
My hobbies
You can see all of my hobbies by choosing from menu bar. In fact, this website is pretty much all about my hobbies!
My future
I've been at NXT for 6 years now, and I quite like it there.
