Barry Flannaghan CEng. MIET, Managing Director
Barry is a recognised expert in the areas of broadcast audio and video design. A co-founder of InSync Technology in 2003, he has an impressive record of leading commercially successful product ranges. His skills extend into the requirements of complex algorithm specification, detailed analogue and digital design and high speed FPGA design. His particular specialities include composite video decoding and encoding, standards conversion and video noise reduction techniques. Barry previously worked at the BBC, IBA and then Snell & Wilcox, where he had overall responsibility for a large proportion of their products. He is a chartered engineer and a member of the Royal Television Society.

Tim French, Senior Design Engineer

Tim has designed hardware for video, microprocessor and PC interfaces. He has extensive experience of firmware implementation using VHDL and hardware design. His expertise includes video keyers, fibre optic interfaces, 1GHz Power PC, Gigabit Ethernet and dual SCSI controllers. He enjoys being involved with the whole product lifecycle from conception through to production. Tim previously worked at Aston Broadcast and Snell & Wilcox. He graduated with a 2:1 MENG in Electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Sheffield in 1998.

Charlotte Swanton, Operations Manager

Charlotte joined InSync Technology in May 2005, as operations assistant. Now managing operations she is involved in all aspects of InSync's activities including product forecasting, purchasing, sales, monitoring stock and overseeing production. Charlotte enjoys the challenges of working in an evolving technology company and being part of the team. Charlotte previously worked at Aker Kvaerner within the project control department. It was here she gained an HNC in Mechanical Engineering and an HND in Business Studies.

Daphne Civelli, Accounts

Daphne has had a variety of roles, covering many of the aspects of accounts and payroll, which her present position encompasses. She joined InSync in 2003 having previously worked for Snell & Wilcox Ltd for 16 years. While working at Snell & Wilcox she gained an HNC in Business and Finance and an HND in Business from Portsmouth University.

Dan Burgess, Senior Design Engineer

Dan is skilled and experienced design engineer who has been working in the broadcast field since the beginning of his career. He has been involved in all aspects of product design, from initial specification and algorithm research, to hardware design, through FPGA and embedded software implementation and finishing with successful production release. Dan has previously worked for Harmonic Inc / Broadcast Technology Ltd, where he was responsible for the design of the range of MPEG video and audio decoder modules, and Snell and Wilcox where primarily he designed Products for the modular range.

David Banks CEng. MIET, Director, Hardware Solutions
David's passion is the implementation of complex algorithms and he has recently completed an advanced vertical-temporal filter architecture design and extensive modelling of motion compensation techniques. He has extensive experience in board level hardware design, high-speed digital video and audio FPGA and embedded software design. David is a co-founder of InSync Technology and has previously worked at Snell & Wilcox as a Principal Design Engineer and at the Royal Greenwich Observatory as a Higher Professional Technology Officer where he developed CCD controllers & researched adaptive optics techniques. In his time at EEV he designed a series of CCD cameras for OEM and machine vision applications. He is a chartered engineer.

Denise Hardy, Manufacturing

Denise joined InSync Technology to assist with manufacturing operations. She is responsible for testing the finished products as well as some assembly and prototype work. Denise has previously worked as a production supervisor for Snell & Wilcox and is now actively involved in InSync's quality management program.

Divya Kumar, Design Engineer
Divya joined InSync Technology in February 2008 as a design engineer. She has recently graduated from the University of Southampton with a Masters degree in Microelectronics System Design specializing in System on Chip. She has worked on various academic projects which include the design of a navigation system for unmanned airborne vehicles which was a prototype designed and tested on an FPGA. Divya has worked previously in the Aerospace domain, where she was involved in integration, requirement based and unit level testing of software programs written in C.
 

Lee Hunt, Principal Design Engineer
Lee's design experience spans audio and video disciplines and he has implemented a range of hardware, high speed digital video and audio FPGA designs including the writing of their embedded software. His broad design implementation skills add significant value to InSync's complete approach to product creation. His particular expertise is the processing and manipulation of broadcast audio in analogue, AES, Dolby E, Dolby Digital forms and when embedded in digital video streams. Lee previously worked at Snell & Wilcox as a Senior Engineer and at De La Rue where he was a test and commissioning engineer for cash sorting machines.

Dr Richard Porges, Senior Software Engineer
Richard has worked in a variety of roles covering many aspects of the design process from inception to completion. After graduation, he undertook six years of “blue skies” research in an academic environment investigating high resolution techniques applied to passive sonar. He has extensive experience of detailed mathematical modelling, including digital filter design and analysis, both in general signal processing terms and also specifically tailored to video applications. On a practical level he is a competent FPGA designer, having been responsible for state of the art aspect ratio converters and composite decoders. He is currently working with the InSync team as an embedded software designer.

Staff

Dave Kitchen, Director, Software Solutions

Dave is now on his second company directorship after steering Pearpoint from £10k to £5m turnover in the 1980s. He took ten years out to pursue his passion for implementing complex software structures as a Principal Engineer at Snell & Wilcox where he earned "Software Guru" status from his peers. He is a co-founder of InSync Technology and continues to be hands on, heading the implementation of all aspects of software for the company. He specialises in the software architecture and design, including network control and monitoring, but also is experienced in PC software and hardware design.

Yiye Zhou (Joe) Software Engineer

Joe joined InSync Technology as a software engineer. He has graduated with an MSc in Mobile & Satellite Communications concentrating on embedded wireless sensor systems, from University of Surrey. He participated in the e-SENSE project implementing a variety of pattern recognition algorithms based on FreeRTOS. Joe enjoys getting involved with algorithm design and has solid background in mathematics.

James Shepherd, Principal Design Engineer
James' career has focused on motion estimation techniques applied to video processing applications such as standards conversion, de-interlacing, image stabilisation and content identification. He has experience of the complete development process from specification and architecture through implementation and release of numerous standards conversion products. In the course of product development he has researched novel algorithms such as non-linear filtering techniques and state of the art film-cadence detection, repair and conversion. James has a 2:1 Master of Engineering Science degree from the University of Oxford and previously worked for Snell as a Principal Design Engineer.

Garry Heather, Validation Engineer

Garry has previously provided technical services and field support roles for a number of broadcast companies including Pro-bel and Sony BPE before joining InSync in July 2010. He has also worked as a product validation engineer for Silicon Image and has prior experience in content distribution and digital cinema.

Jon Dilley, Senior Software Engineer

Jon has been working in the field of embedded software systems for over 20 years. After graduating with a BSc in Electrical and Electronic engineering from the University of Hertfordshire, he moved into the process control industry. After several years of designing data telecommunication systems, within an automated control environment, Jon moved into the broadcast industry, working for both Philips and Sony. Jon continued to broaden his video systems knowledge by working on military sonar and aircraft mapping applications at BAe. Jon continues to enjoy the challenges of embedded system design and specializes in Linux kernel device drivers and applications.