Our Team

Steve is the Managing Director of STAR-Dundee Ltd. He has over 23 years experience as an electronic engineer and has spent more than 17 years working on electronic systems for spacecraft. Steve is a chartered engineer, chartered physicist and chartered IT professional.

He is the technical leader of the SpaceWire Working Group and wrote the SpaceWire standard document (ECSS-E50-12A) with support from members of the working group. Steve has worked on SpaceWire technology since 1992.

Iain is both the Company Secretary and a Senior Software Engineer for STAR-Dundee Ltd. He has been writing drivers and test software for SpaceWire devices for many years and is currently responsible for the SpaceWire PCI-2 and SpaceWire DSP drivers.

Iain is also experienced in writing software for real-time operating systems such as VxWorks and the VisualDSP++ Kernel from Analog Devices.

Chris is the electronic systems designer of STAR-Dundee. Chris is experienced in FPGA and ASIC designs and has worked on routers, interfaces and test and development boards for SpaceWire.

He has recently completed SpaceWire router design for a radiation tolerant Atmel device which will be realised by Austrian Aerospace. The project was run by ESA as a routing platform for data system payloads in the present future. Previously Chris was involved in a customisable design of the SpaceWire CODEC/link interface.

Stuart has completed a PhD related to SpaceWire drivers and higher level protocols.

He is a Senior Software Engineer for STAR-Dundee Ltd. and is responsible for the drivers for the SpaceWire USB devices for both Windows and Linux.

Martin has recently finished working on a feature extraction and tracking FGPA chip for Astrium and ESA to support vision guided planetary landers.

He is a Senior Software Engineer for for STAR-Dundee Ltd. and is involved with designing and implementing FPGA solutions in VHDL as well as providing Linux technical support within the team.

Paul is responsible for circuit board, FPGA and software design.

His current doctorate has focused on validating FPGA-based packet processing systems.

Alex designs applications and driver related software for a range of STAR-Dundee products.

Alex is experienced with SpaceWire applications in the LabVIEW environment.

David is responsible for all PCB layout design and mechanical housing design, for liaising with PCB and housing manufacturers, and for management of all production drawings.

Doug handles the sales management and promotional material.

He has degrees in both Electronics and Management, and is the main customer contact for STAR-Dundee

Lisa manages the administration and accounts for STAR-Dundee.

She also deals with customer orders and general queries, travel and conference organization.

Pete is responsible for circuit board, FPGA and software design.

His PhD developed an embedded vision system for X-ray beam diagnostics in Synchrotron Radiation Facilities.

Bruce is responsible for business development & sales in China, support of Chinese customers, and technology research and development.

His PhD developed a FPGA-based on-board image compression system for Earth Observation satellites.