This page is a resource enabling 1999 graduates of the Electroacoustics and Audiotechnology courses at the University of Salford, and their friends, to remain in contact with one another.
I'm still in a band, playing cheesy covers, and we're about to start gigging again soon, so email me if you're interested in coming down for a listen if you're in the Manchester area!
Glad to hear that everyone's getting on well!
All the best,
Aaron."
Hope to hear from people soon, and hope you're all enjoying yourselves!"
Best wishes to you all
Nige"
Nice to see that everybody is in employment and living 'normal' lives at last... a far cry from those days as a student (I should talk!!). I'm still living in the sleepy village of Newhey (near Rochdale), and I think it's the longest I've ever lived anywhere for the best part of 10 years.
My weekends are no longer filled with PA work as I have finally found something constructive to do with my life, I've been learning to scuba dive. Its great, and I don't know why I never tried it before. If any of you get the chance to try it out... DO IT!!! If all goes to plan I should be going
to the Red Sea to swim with Hammerhead and Reef sharks at Easter and later in the year to South Africa to go diving with Great White sharks - whey-hey!! I realise there's a common denominator here - yes sharks, they're so cute!! Check out the links:
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/sharktrust/index.shtml
If that's not enough, I'm also training to become a gliding instructor which takes up quite a lot of my time.. oh yes, how could I forget... and there's my PhD. That's nearing the end with a mere nine months to go and the research is going well. The ultimate diffuse array is just around
the corner... oh yeah!! I will be presenting a paper at the AES Munich conference so hope to see some of you there.
As I have such a busy social life I'm still single, and for the foreseeable future.... who knows!!!
Hope to see you all soon,
I'm one of the guys who joined you in the final year after your year in industry. I'm working as research engineer for Goodmans Loudspeakers Limited (GLL) down there in Havant near Portsmouth. Having a whale of a time messing around with fragments of speakers and playing with PAFEC all day. Feel free to drop me a line anytime on either:
griffiths.k@gll.co.uk or kelvin@yours33.freeserve.co.uk"
More importantly I can get mail routed directly at
ant@engineroom.uk.co
New address I think
Did I ever tell people that I was moving up here? My memory is screwy
at the moment.
New stuff on the EngineAnt front.
I've got myself a couple of club nights up here, where I run the tech stuff, eg. I make sure that ISDN lines are correct for the night and that the mix is cool for the radio. I get to work friday nights and saturday nights (oh joy - I'm sure I don't get paid enough for it) I run some very shady deals
on computer parts, digicams, and pretty much, you name it and I can get it sort of thing (so if you are short a couple of Christmas presents....)
I have moved into my new house (many months ago now) with Jude, and we share a tense arrangement as couples usually do, that washing up gets done and things like that.
Just an added note - If any is looking for a job, there are usually radio gigs going up here, whether it be at Emap/Capitol or the rest. Give us a shout and I can put you in the right direction.
North -- its the place to be.
Ant"
"I have recently added forums to my website
Potter along and place your messages. I will be administrating throughout the day, and will see messages pretty much as they appear. Plus you can use the board to chat if using the phone is too much trouble.
If anyone is geeky enough own a webcam I will be sorting out a camportal, that anyone who wants to can join in. Laugh at the terrible jokes we can perform, cry at how ugly we look. (As you can see I do own a webcam and I do use it! Oh do I!)
Cool
Antony Hill
Station Engineer
TFM & Magic 1170"
I've now moved out of Huntingdon to Sawtry, a village north of Huntingdon, just off the A1. I have much more space now, and it's a lot quieter than my old flat in Huntingdon.
Outside work I seem to spend every spare moment working on the robot – make sure you keep watching, because we've been doing quite well..."
rupert@mywitsend.co.uk or
bwian@judean-peoples-front.co.uk
My old mobile number has also been resurrected
Please update your address and phone books accordingly.
All the best, Rupert"
Just to let you all know that I have just handed my notice in at work pending starting a new job in Birmingham on the 5th of June!! My last day working here will be the 22nd of May. Then I'll have a couple of weeks to try and move house. If anyone knows of anyone with an empty room in Brum then shout up!
My new job is with WSP Group, an environmental consultancy and I'll be working within their acoustics department performing many an acoustical survey and write up including new stadiums, roads, shopping centres and housing developments etc. They even did the survey for the new LCFC Stadium!!!!!
Ta – Jim"
Yes, things have changed again ever since, and it's again time to update the info page (sorry
andrew...)
So I have taken a new job 9 months ago, developing new hearing aids for Phonak in their Electroacoustics departement (you'll find us at www.phonak.com) and as well sometimes doing some modelling of the human hearing and its components. It's been a big change and quite a massive challenge, so I'm spending hours and hours at the office... But then Pris as well has started a new career as a Business Information Analyst at DOW Chemical, she as well is very happy and challenged, so we're both busy working at the moment.
Now, it's about time to see you all again, so get the barbecue organised and let us know when
it takes place ! We're both missing England and would love to jump over for some drinks !
So take care of yourselves !
Pris & Tom"
Click here to see Andrews Simpson and Marchant thrashing their cars down a dragstrip...
Andy"
"Hi Andy
I am still at Arvin doing vehicle NVH, and still enjoying it.
I think I can hear a cup of coffee calling... better go
Website - www.bigsound-pa.co.uk
The rules are simple - tell me what you want to put here and I'll put it. When your address changes, you get a job, get fired, get married (or whatever!), email me (or write to me with) the details. I'll post them here and email everybody involved in the list about the change.
To give you an idea of what to put, see the entries below.
Get togethers: It's been a while since we all got together. Anyone like to propose something?
Download the Passworded zipfile version of this page also containing phone numbers and addresses of the participants below. If you forget the password, email or call someone! The zipfile contains a Word 6 document.
Aaron Ashworth - Aaron_Ashworth@pac.co.uk
"Hi everybody! If you can't remember me, I'm the one that had a big nose, long hair, lived at home (Rochdale), and always turned up late to lectures. I'm currently still living in Milnrow (near Rochdale) - a proper grown-up house owner, putting all I learned in my Audiotechnology degree to use (not!!) working as a Software Developer for PAC International, an access control manufacturer in Stockport (thanks to that bit of Pascal we did - annoyed the hell out of me at the time, but I'm making a living out of it now!! (Delphi & Lotus Notes)).
Unfortunately, I think I've forgotten most of the Acoustics theory I .....well, .....that I didn't learn too well in the first place, (...ahem!!) but I've managed to put my knowledge of TQM (thanks to Gordon Gatiss!!) to use in my current job - PAC is very much a Total Quality company! (still a crock of over-hyped sh*te though, this TQM thing!!!!)
Jill Barrie - jill_barrie@hotmail.com,
nick_savva@hotmail.com
"Me and Nick are now living in a little town called Haslemere in Surrey (about 10 miles outside Guildford. We moved here because Nick got a programming job in Guildford itself after getting his MSc. I wasn't very lucky in finding a job outside Thomson Marconi, but in the end I managed to get a transfer to the site in Church Crookham (near Farnborough) and I'm now working as an acoustics engineer and enjoying every minute of it! The company are no longer part-owned by Marconi (seeing as they sold off all their valuable assets and are now reaping the benefits!). So we're now fully owned by the Thomson side, who have now changed their name to Thales so we're now called Thales Underwater Systems Ltd (UK) or TUSUK for short.
Everyone got that?
Nigel Burton - njsburton@hotmail.com, nigel@pointblank.in2home.co.uk
"Hi people, After graduation I decided to go on one last holiday to Australia for 4 weeks (absolutely brilliant - thoroughly recommended!) I am now working for Bickerdike Allen Partners (the acoustic consultancy that Jill worked for on her year out) and apart from the travelling, I'm really enjoying it!
Lee Copley - L.D.Copley@pgr.salford.ac.uk
"BIG HI to everybody,
http://www.whiteshark.co.za/
http://users.iafrica.com/g/gr/greylamb/jaws.htm
Lee :)"
Timo Esser - timo@esser.u-net.com
"I'm working for Visteon now, my job is loudspeakers and in-car acoustics for audio systems."
Webpage - http://www.esser.u-net.com
Kelvin Griffiths - griffiths.k@gll.co.uk, kelvin@yours33.freeserve.co.uk
"Hi Guys,
Antony Hill - ant@engineroom.uk.co, Antony.Hill@tfmradio.com
"New Website
http://www.engineroom.uk.co
Yeah that's uk.co (hey it was cheap)
Ant
Website - http://www.engineroom.uk.co
Andrew Marchant - Wickmesh_NO_SPAM@rocketmail.com
"Well, life goes on – I'm still at NXT although I've worked under 3 different managers this year and come January I'll get yet another one...
Website - http://www.geocities.com/wickmesh/
Carole Murray - clmurray@QinetiQ.com, carole@carole-murray.fsworld.co.uk
Kyriakos Papanagiotou - kp@isvr.soton.ac.uk
"I will begin a PhD at ISVR in Southampton, beginning in January."
Rupert Poole -
rupert@mywitsend.co.uk,
bwian@judean-peoples-front.co.uk
"All,
Friday 19th July is my last day at Lear. I will be starting at Jaguar on the 29th. Until further notice I can be contacted at:
James Powlson - jpowlson@hotmail.com
"Hi All
Tom Raymann - traymann@hotmail.com, thomas.raymann@phonak.ch
"Hello to all of you !
And yes we have moved as well, to the lovely town of Rapperswil (it's really nice here:
www.rapperswil.ch) where we live now in a nice appartment in the old city centre (want to visit Switzerland ? Be welcome anytime!).
Website - http://www.traymann.free-online.co.uk/
Andy Simpson - asimps10@ford.com
"I'm now working/masquerading as an NVH Engineer on a contract basis at Ford Motor Company in Dunton, Essex, not exactly a million miles from Timo. The Bug project is STILL ongoing - I will finish it, maybe even in 2000, but that's being kinda precise about it, so I'd better stop before I get carried away with such hedonistic thoughts ;-)"
Andrew Vepers - vepersa@cs.com (home),
Andrew.Vepers@ArvinMeritor.com (work)
"Greetings
it's about time I wrote something, so in a nutshell.... Straight after finishing the course I went into a consultancy job for a small firm in Skelmersdale. Did all the usual stuff that goes on - PPG24, noise at work, etc. About five months later I landed on both feet by getting a job in NVH research and development, for a car exhaust manufacturer, much more interesting.
We've moved house to a quiet village in Lancashire, more space, friendly natives, and a good pub. Jacqui and Kezia are both very well, Kezia is moving on in leaps and bounds (literally).
well as usual I get info to you just too late. We have moved house again!! This time back to Cumbria. Yes, it's a bit of a haul to work in the morning, but it's a fairly easy run on the M6.
All the best
Andy"
Daniel Wainwright - D.Wainwright@ampy.co.uk
"E-mail me any time at work, no dirty attachments please!"
Duncan Wild - duncan@bigsound-pa.co.uk, duncanwild@aol.com
"After deciding that sitting in an office wearing a shirt and tie and doing paperwork wasn't really for me I quit my job at panasonic to start a PA company which is slightly more fun as I am about to do a USA and Australia tour with Bob Geldof."