Personal
- Name: Michael Collinson
- Address: Stockholmsvägen 53, Stocksund 182 74, Sweden
- Mobile: +46-735-81-22-19
- Email: mike@ayeltd.biz
- Nationality: British
Education
1996 - 1979 University of Cambridge
MA (Cantab) Natural Sciences
- Chemistry, Geology, Maths, Physics, Philosophy of Science
- FORTRAN
1998 - 1999 University College, University of London
MSc Marine Earth Science
- Marine geology and geophysics
- Thesis: Geophysical detection of marine placer deposits
- FORTRAN, JCL
Professional Experience
2007 - Current, Stiernegrip Trading Strategies AB, Sweden
Hedge fund technologies start-up
2005 - 2007, Xave Pty. Ltd., Australia
Co-owner and Managing Director, educational software development company
1995 - Current, AYE Ltd., Asia-Pacific
Own management, consultantancy & development company
- 2002-2004 Infrastructure design for e-learning infrastructure provider
- 2002 Design/costing for a large digital animation studio
- 1996 - 2001 - Started ImagineAsia, Inc. & Spectrum Studios, Inc. (see below).
- 1996 Manila - Technical feasibility study for CDPD wireless data overlay on existing cellular network.
- 1996 Manila - Technical feasibility study for wireless security monitoring company start-up.
- 1996 Manila - Setup Tetherless Access Ltd. (of Sunnyvale, California) joint venture for public metropolitan wireless internet network.
- 1995 China - Implemention of Motorola DataTAC Wireless Data System demo systems for Matrix Telecommunications & Jitong Communications.
- 1995 - 1996 Philippines - Vice President. National ISP rollout Joint Venture with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company.
- And other projects.
1996 - 2001 Global Animation Holdings, Inc.
CTO, COO
- Management of start-up of two companies:
- ImagineAsia, Manila
- 200+ staff 3D digital animation and digital ink & paint services company
- Clients included DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, Carsey Werner/NBC Television, Cinegroupe / Columbia TriStar
- Headed studio and infrastructure design and project managed implementation and initial client projects.
- Spectrum Studios, Los Angeles
- High end optical and magnetic motion capture house.
1994 - 1995 Matrix Telecommunications / EasyCall Philippines
Consultant Manager for Engineering
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Project managed all technical activities relating to EasyCall's test deployment of Motorola DataTAC 5000 Two Way Wireless Data System.
1989 - 1994 NEC Corporation, Japan
Assistant Manager
- UNIX Operating System and middleware development
- Technology scouting, evaluation, license contract negotiation
- C, Assembly, Shell script Porting
Early Career, Europe & Middle East
Geophysicist & Geophysical Applications Analyst
- Gravity and magnetic geophysics
- FORTRAN, PL/1, scientific and graphic programming, IBM Mainframe, minicomputers
Technical Skills
- Strategic Analyis
- Project Management, Financial and Business Plans
- Methodologies, Requirements, Analysis, Modelling, Design, Implementation.
- QuickfixJ FIX, Bloomberg WAPI, Reuters Foundation Architecture (RFA), AcquireMedia, Tickdata Inc ...
- UNIX (System V, BSD, Sun Solaris) - developer, administrator
- Linux - architect, administrator
- MS Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP - architect, administrator
- C, UNIX Shell scripts, PHP, MySQL, XML, XHTML
- Java, C# / .NET, C++, Perl, JavaScript, BASIC, ASSEMBLY, MS Office macro ...
- TCP/IP, POP, SMTP, DNS, ...
- Apache, MySQL, Sendmail, Qmail, Bind, iptables, Openswan, FTP, VNC, ...
- 2D / 3D digital animation / Motion Capture / Graphics software and systems
- Wireless: DataTAC / RD-LAP (Ardis in USA), spread-spectrum wireless TCP/IP.
- Etc
Formal Training
- ICOM - MCSE Windows 2000, Cisco CCNA
- TAL - Spread-spectrum wireless internet
- Sun Microsystems - Java
- ARAMCO - PL/1, Clists, ISPF, JCL