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. 3M's DST touch technology is one that I did most of the hardware design for.
I lived in Great Stukeley for 10 years, serving on the Parish Council for the final four. Great Stukeley is where John Major lives.... It is a nice sleepy village, but a bit too big and impersonal for our tastes, so we've moved on to somewhere more rural. The downside is that my commute is now nearly 30 miles each way.
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 9 years now, and I quite like it there. The work is varied, if not a tad stressful as there seems to be an infinite supply of optimistic deadlines!
