Address 87/33 Latrobe St, Melbourne Victoria 3000, Australia Home +61 3 9663 2845 Mobile +61 404 522 002 E-mail [email protected] Web http://paul.troughton.org/ Born 18/02/1973
British/New Zealand citizenship Full, clean UK & NZ driving licenses
Skills
• Have developed an understanding of what is needed for a company to succeed through exposure to many different firms, from monopoly utilities to small start-ups
undergoing rapid growth.
• Experience of taking ideas through from conception to prototype, commercialising
them through negotiating licence agreements, and the technology transfer process. • Versatile. Quick thinking. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Very inventive mind; can evaluate ideas against market realities to arrive at
commer-cially viable products.
• Highly numerate, with background in Bayesian statistical analysis. • Able to work in a team, and lead when appropriate.
• Presentable and persuasive in a sales situation.
• In-depth knowledge of sound, audio engineering and DSP, both from my academic and commercial experience and from 10 years of hands-on live sound engineering. Particular interest in psychoacoustics and phased arrays.
• Lived with computers from an early age, resulting in exceptional computer skills. • Fluent in Matlab, C, Python, Delphi/Object Pascal, PHP, LaTeX, XHTML+CSS.
Expe-rience in bash, SQL, various assemblers. • Rusty but good French, GCSE Spanish.
Experience
2003–Mar 2006 Consultant— Cambridge, UK
As well as purely technical work, my consulting jobs have included: • Technical due diligence on companies working in Radio Frequency
Identification and internet services. This typically involved: – Surveying competing firms and technologies
– Analysis of the company’s technology and intellectual prop-erty protection
– Assessing the realism of the company’s business plan • Assessing whether a proposed rural broadband business would
have a sufficient competitive advantage. This involved:
– Researching the regulatory and competitive background – Estimating demand levels
– Developing cost models for different technical solutions – Planning a pilot project to validate the models
– Predicting competitors’ likely actions
• Negotiating a development and licencing agreement between a
group of audio consultants and a Chinese client. This involved: – Incorporating sufficient safeguards for both sides, such as
staged payments and the use of escrow
– Ensuring that the intellectual property ownership remained
clear under all circumstances
2004–2005 Director— Occasional Photography Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Occasional Photography was formed to address a market in which the incumbent players had not changed their business methods for decades. It entered the market offering a higher quality product while
having much lower fixed costs.
2003–2004 Chairman, UK executive committee — Audio Engineering Society
I was elected chairman of the UK section of the international
profes-sional body for audio engineers. In the previous year, I organised and
1999–2003 Research Engineer/Senior Research Engineer — 1 Limited, Cambridge, UK
I was an early employee at this consumer electronics start-up. My
achievements included:
• Showing that the technology under development could not work
as promised
• Proposing a new product based on the same prototype hardware,
which now accounts for most of the company’s profits
• Developing new designs on the basis of simulation and modelling
• Recruitment and management of several engineers, project
man-agement, and involvement in licence negotiations
• Gaining considerable commercial experience through extensive personal contact with companies in Japan, Europe, and the USA
1998–1999 Research Associate
— Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK Following on from my PhD work, I won government funding for further
research in Bayesian nonlinear modelling and Markov-chain Monte Carlo simulation methods. I also supervised final year project students.
1994–1995 Energy Transmission Analyst
— Electricity Corp. of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ
I worked here for a year between degrees. My projects included: • Interpreting and summarising the government’s Maui gas
con-tracts to form a package of core knowledge for transfer to newly
formed utilities on break-up of ECNZ
• Developing an Excel cost model for preparation of transmission
outage compensation claims
• Secondment, as one of ECNZ’s two representatives, to a team within Transpower (the grid company) to study a proposed
dispatch-based marginal pricing scheme, then reporting back to
senior management on implications and possible gaming
Education
2003 Entrepreneurship Summer School
Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, UK 1995–1999 PhD in Statistical Signal Processing
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
Developed new Bayesian nonlinear modelling methods to enable the blind restoration of distorted audio signals. To use these models,
in-vented efficient Markov-chain Monte Carlo simulation methods.
1991–1994 MA (Cantab) (1st class hons) Engineering/Electrical & Information Sciences
University of Cambridge, Clare College 1988–1991 STEP Mathematics (Scholarship pass)
5 A-levels (all at grade A): Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry, Computer Science
10 GCSEs (all at grade A): Biology, Chemistry, Computer Studies, En-glish Language, EnEn-glish Literature, French, Geography, Maths, Physics, Spanish
1986 Awarded the Science Scholarship to Wellington College, UK.
Other accomplishments
1995–1996 President, Clare May Ball Committee
Recruited committee of 12. Organised high-profile event for 1000
people, with 100 workers/contractors and a budget of£75,000. Learned to delegate and motivate.
1994 Engineering Design Award, University of Cambridge The Pressed Steel Prize, Clare College
1993–1994 Co-President, Clare Jazz Club
Ran a whole year of profitable concerts, creating a large cash sur-plus, enabling replacement of ageing PA equipment. Subsequently trained several generations of students in live sound engineering in an
acoustically difficult venue.
Paul Troughton, Anthony Hooleyet al. Digital loudspeaker system.PCT Patent Application WO03059005,
published July 2003.
Paul Troughton, Anthony Hooley & Angus Goudie. Signal processing device for acoustic transducer array.PCT Patent Application WO03034780, published April 2003.
Paul Troughton & Mark Shepherd. Controller interface for directional sound system. PCT Patent
Application WO03026343, published March 2003.
Alex Bienek, Paul Troughton,et al. Method and apparatus to direct sound using an array of output transducers.European Patent Application EP1224037, published July 2002.
Paul T. Troughton. Convenient multi-channel sound in the home. Proceedings of the 17th Audio
Engi-neering Society UK Conference, pp.102–105, 2002.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill.MCMC methods for restoration of nonlinearly distorted autore-gressive signals.Signal Processing, 81(1), pp.83–97, 2001.
Paul T. Troughton. Bayesian Restoration of Quantised Audio Signals using a Sinusoidal Model with Autoregressive Residuals. Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and
Acoustics, Mohonk, NY, 1999.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill.Restoration of Coarsely Quantised Audio Signals Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods.Audio Engineering Society, preprint 5055, Presented at the 107th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, New York, September 1999.
Paul T. Troughton.Simulation Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Models with Application to Distorted Audio Signals.Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill. MCMC methods for restoration of quantised time series.
Proc. IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, 2:447–451, 1999.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill. Bayesian model selection for linear and non-linear time series using the Gibbs sampler. InMathematics in Signal Processing IV, pp.249–261, Oxford University Press,
1998.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill. MCMC methods for restoration of nonlinearly distorted au-toregressive signals. InProc. European Conference on Signal Processing 1998, vol.IV, pp.2029–2032, September 1998.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill.Restoration of Nonlinearly Distorted Audio Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods.Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (Abstracts), 46 (6), p. 569 (1998 June), preprint 4679. Presented at the 104th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam, May 1998. Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill. A reversible jump sampler for autoregressive time series. In
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 1998, vol.IV, pp.2257–
2260, April 1998.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill. Bayesian model selection for time series using Markov chain Monte Carlo. InProc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 1997,
vol.V, pp.3733–3736, April 1997.
Paul T. Troughton & Simon J. Godsill.A reversible jump sampler for autoregressive time series, employ-ing full conditionals to achieve efficient model space moves.Technical ReportCUED/F-INFENG/TR.304, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 1997.
