Consultants and Associates

David Armstrong

Paul Chartier

Peter Hawkes

Catherine Murphy

Ian Pattison

Bertus Pretorius

Ruth Sutherland

Chris Turner

David Armstrong
Director

The early part of David's career was spent at Quantel where he established the company's Military Electronics Division. Thereafter he was Technical Director of Kontron Instruments Ltd, part of a major international medical group. David joined BTG (the world leader in IP management) in 1990 and initially concentrated on developing BTG's position in nanotechnology, MEMS and semiconductors. In 1994 he was appointed Director of BTG's Electronics and Communications Division and in 1999 became Director of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing. In 2000 David led BTG's RFID new venture investments and in July 2002 he assumed responsibility for all of BTG's technology acquisition activities. In 2005 David left BTG to set up RFIP Ltd with Chris Turner. David has a degree in Electronics from University of Southampton and an MBA from Henley Management College. He is a Chartered Engineer and Physicist. darmstrong@rfip.eu

Paul Chartier
Principal, Praxis Consultants

Paul has been involved in AIDC technology for over 30 years, and established Praxis Consultants in 1980. Various international industry bodies have retained him to develop over 20 application standards using OCR, bar code and RFID technology. He has a deep understanding of the breadth and variety of user applications.  With particular relevance to RFID standards, he is Project Editor for ISO standards (ISO/IEC 15961 and ISO/IEC 15962) dealing with a data protocol allowing users to communicate with, and encode data on, RFID tags.  The data protocol supports a variety of sectors and multiple tag architectures and frequencies.  He is also Project Editor of ISO/IEC 24753, for processing of information from sensors attached to RFID tags.  In 2003, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Technology Innovation Centre, part of the University of Central England. 

Peter Hawkes
Consultant

Peter has a BSc in Special Chemistry and Physics from Queen Mary College, London University. After graduation he worked for GEC where he led a team pioneering the application of integrated circuits in telecommunications. After joining the NRDC, BTG’s predecessor body, he initiated several projects on smart cards, biometric identification and secure network technology. The early part of this work was done in collaboration with Donald Davies of the National Physical Laboratory, the inventor of Packet Data Switching. In 1992 this experience led to recognition of the future potential of the contactless smart card and its close relative, the RFID tag. Since then Peter has participated in the development of the international standards needed for these devices and provided invaluable technical advice on the production of RFID chip prototypes. He has published widely on these and related topics; a number of these papers are available on this website.
peter.hawkes@rfipsolutions.com

Catherine Murphy
Consultant

Catherine has project managed and worked on many ERP system implementations, including SAP & JDE (OW), in manufacturing and supply chain environments. Her work in manufacturing companies includes the implementation of the following systems: production planning, production support, time and attendance, warehousing and transportation, finance, controlling and purchasing

Catherine’s recent portfolio includes leading a successful traceability project within a large multinational paper company and working on RFID implementations in the mines of South Africa. She holds a BSc in Geography from Leeds University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Operational research and Computer techniques. She is also CIMA qualified with a strong financial background.
catherine.murphy@rfipsolutions.com

Ian Pattison
Director of Training

Ian is active in the development and implementation of RFID-based solutions. He has an MBA from Lancaster University. He has 25 years experience in business process improvement, systems engineering and programme management. His work in the automotive, consumer products, defence and pharmaceutical industry sectors includes: · Forecasting, replenishment and product management systems · Customer service and supply chain systems across Europe · High volume order processing systems supported by EDI · High volume warehouse automation systems · Improvement of inter-company supply chain processes · Supplier-driven efficient replenishment systems using Vendor Managed Inventory · Organisational change around channels to market and supply chain His publications include books on selecting distributions systems and a reference guide to EDI.
ipattison@rfip.eu

Bertus Pretorius
Consultant

Bertus specialises in the use of Automated Identification and Encryption for preventing crime and fraud. He has considerable experience in systems architecture, RFID, networking, data manipulation and data delivery for massively distributed processes. He has worked in banking, safety and security, sport and supply chain industry sectors, and has successfully taken many products from concept to market.

Bertus is the chairman for SC71K (ISO/IEC JTC1/31 – ISO AutoID) where he represents South Africa in important decisions on RFID. He also chairs the STANSA SC71H WG4 (ISO/IEC TC204), which is the driver behind the South African Electronic Vehicle Intelligence [EVI] project, aiming to reduce crime and create new business opportunities for South Africa. He is an acclaimed speaker and is acknowledged for his ability to train in encryption and RFID. 
bertus@rfip.eu

Ruth Sutherland
Consultant

Ruth has twelve years’ experience in successful technology commercialisation at BTG International Limited. She joined BTG in 1995, to manage the portfolio of patents and licences in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In addition, Ruth has acquired and commercialised a number of inventions in medical electronics across a range of applications. Her most recent role was in the Medical Technology and Ventures Group as Vice President responsible for business development in Europe. Prior to joining BTG, Ruth worked in the Diagnostic Imaging industry for ten years, specialising in MRI.

Ruth left BTG at the beginning of 2007 to set up her own consultancy in the evaluation and commercialisation of medical device technologies. Ruth has a BSc from the University of Sydney, and an MBA from Henley Management College.
rsutherland@rfip.eu  

Chris Turner
Chief Technical Officer

Chris is an Incorporated Engineer registered with the UK Engineering Council. He holds an engineering diploma in Radio and Electronics engineering and has 30 years experience in radio communications and RFID product development and system engineering. Prior to his involvement with RFID as technical director of BiStar, Chris headed up Motorola's development organisation in South Africa. Since 1998, he has been an active participant in the development of the key RFID international standards and holds 8 US and 5 European patents in the field of RFID with another 14 pending in the USA and Europe. Chris who is chairman of Eurotag is a regular speaker at International conferences and events and is the technology columnist for the Eurotag organisation. He has published more than 30 papers in the field of Radio Communication and RFID technology.
cturner@rfip.eu