richard brooks

Solution Builder using: Sensors connected to servers to make Internet of Things Wireless Sensors - we integrate them and invent them if needed Bluetooth MESH Networks of sensors and things Google Backend - or AWS if you like! Google AI via Tensor Flow End to end security for sensor data over 4G and 5G networks User reporting of data into Web Tools, and Phone Apps What have we built so far? SMART Parking using Bluetooth MESH SMART Predictive Maintenance for very large Port Cranes using Google AI to predict maintenance and failure

I am a technical thinker who also has business analytics and management skills and a reasonable understanding of statistics, data, and IT systems. I have a Masters in Social Statistics Methods. 

I am now ...

Managing Director of a Parking and IoT Tech Start Up - Blue Mesh Solutions. 

I am a widely experienced business leader and entrepreneur.  I have started three businesses, and worked in IT, IoT, Business Services & Consulting, Data Analysis, Financial Services, and Technical Sales.

I recently ran a small commercial team of 4 people for CliniSys - a UK Health IT Systems specialist.

Also I worked for Sagoss Group - they have a cloud based ANPR parking and vehicle management solution that is growing rapidly with recent clients such as Virgin Trains and Transport for London.

Before this ...

I worked with Koncar - Industrial Internet of Things business targeting the hydropower energy sector. 

Before that ...

I was a founding Director of Wavehill Limited a social and economic research and analysis consultancy and sold out via an MBI end 2016.

And finally i was ...

The UK Managing Director of Media Connection Limited the importer and distributor of PlayStation and PC video games.

Back in the past ... I worked in financial services in the City - as a Financial Information Analyst,  then as a sales-analyst / broker for a Private Equity / Boutique Bank [Baird Capital] specialising in smaller companies.  

I started working ... as a data analyst at Datastream and Dunn & Bradstreet the financial and business information systems company, providing data to financial companies across the UK and Europe.

I like ... coaching football to kids and Southampton FC.

I am bad at ... golf and sorting my expenses on time.