Owner
Inception Software Technology Inc.
Dates Employed Feb 2003 – June 2018
Established a consulting services business specializing in telecommunication software development, which resulted in rapid business growth providing services to several global telecommunication suppliers.
Established our secure development office with specific attention to physical, security, computer network security and business continuity. This successfully passed a strict customer audit by a major global client in preparation for conducting on-site development projects.
Directed a team updating the ICBC voice technology strategy and delivered the final report within the tight time constraints.
Performed technical analysis on another ICBC technology strategy studying the evolution of the wide-area data network.
Conducted an investigation of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) carried over geostationary satellites to evaluate service quality and confirm standards compliance.
Directed development and launch of a system providing secure live video surveillance to cell phones.
Directed an in-house development project to deploy an open-source Asterisk PBX soft switch, which resulted in setting up our internal phone system.
Directed the introduction of our internal process based on an ISO-9000:2000 quality management system.
Launched “BC Technology Review” (via iTunes), a podcast profiling BC leaders in technology.
Instructor
Columbia College
Dates Employed May 2012 – Aug 2016
Member of Math/Science faculty providing instruction in:
Introduction to Computer Science
Introduction to Digital and Computer System Design
Instructor
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Dates Employed Sep 2012 – Dec 2013
Member of Faculty in the School of Business providing instruction in:
Human Factors & Computer Interface
Animation
Systems Analysis and Design
Information Technology Project Management
Instructor
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Dates Employed Jan 2008 – Jun 2010
Member of computing faculty providing instruction for several full-time courses, including: Systems Design, Software Engineering, Computer Architecture, Computer Security, Data Networking.
Created and instructed a new course on Legal and Ethical Issues in Information Technology.
Motorola
Senior Engineering Manager
Dates Employed Sep 1998 – Jan 2003
Managed the definition and introduction of several major system releases from concept through to customer deployment. Often this required coordination of multi-site development projects enabling the successful introduction of new features.
Member of the process steering committee, responsible for introducing the quality system and process changes, directed a series of improvements enabling certification of TL9000/ISO9001 and an SEI level 5 assessment. Transferred technology and process between international locations resulting in a smooth handoff.
Directed a plan to leverage skills and introduce a software tool (DOORS) to manage 1000 system requirements, create automated documentation with traceability through to test cases and generation of volatility metrics.
Committed to an aggressive problem correction plan. Through constant reinforcement with my team we totally eliminated the system design defects in backlog over a 4-month period from the peak of 42 problem reports.
Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Staff Engineer, Principal Staff Engineer, Member of Technical Staff
Dates Employed Sep 1990 – Sep 1998
Built a series of traffic, analytical queuing and discrete event simulation models to understand product performance of new radio protocols. The performance studies allowed us to gain confidence and credibility resulting in winning network expansion business.
Responsible for research liaison and completing milestones of research projects. By allocating funds to research goals, seeking matching funding from government, negotiating grant agreements, resolving intellectual property rights issues and tracking milestones all projects completed successfully.
Initiated a program to protect company intellectual property including training programs, established targets and forming a patent review committee. As a result, the site achieved a goal of 2 patent disclosures per engineer and many patent filings.
As chairman of the Engineering Council, we institutionalized the technical ladder, advanced staff career paths.
Adjunct Professor
University of British Columbia
Dates Employed Jul 1988 – Jul 1995
Created a course on “Real-Time System Software” based on methodologies and real-time OS design.
Senior Systems Engineer
MacDonald Dettwiler
Dates Employed Feb 1987 – Dec 1990
Analyzed the ground segment requirements for a ground station under contract for the European Space Agency and managed a European subcontractor. Responsible for subcontractor management of a processing subsystem.
Created an experimental payload simulation model to allow a factory test by generating signals from five asynchronous instrument sources. This resulted in the resolution of subsystem integration problems.
Hewlett Packard
Software Development Engineer
Dates Employed Feb 1985 – Feb 1987
Investigated approaches to new digital tape storage devices, including firmware design, performance, compatibility, testing and field support.
Specified analysis and design of interface firmware, coordinated system integration requirements and produced prototype.
Worked with a team to move development activities from USA to UK.
Investigated future storage products, standards, technologies and trends.
Helped to transfer manufacture of established Winchester disk storage products from USA to UK.
Hewlett Packard
Manufacturing Engineer
Dates Employed Feb 1983 – Feb 1985
Appointed key manufacturing engineer of a 500 units per month disk drive production line with responsibility for coordinating production and process changes, ensuring production quality and coordinating problem resolution.
Specified, procured and commissioned test equipment including functional automatic test equipment and environmental equipment.
Trained technical staff and new engineers.
Senior Engineer
Plessey Aviononcs and Communication
Dates Employed Oct 1982 – Feb 1983
Studied feasibility for a Navstar Global Positioning System application.
Designed and structured software to military-standards to control a Navstar simulator.
Research Student and Demonstrator
University of Wales
Dates Employed Sep 1979 – Oct 1982
Carried out doctoral studies in a wide range of topics including position fixing systems, coordinate conversion, map projections, data combination (Kalman filtering), and digital filtering techniques.
Investigated digital signal processing of radio navigation data with emphasis on tracking terrestrial vehicles using low-frequency hyperbolic navigation systems.
Undertook demonstrating duties in the undergraduate control laboratory.
Electronics Technician
University of Manchester
Dates Employed Jul 1970 – Sep 1976
Undertook a 3 year electronics apprenticeship, and trained in electrical and mechanical design, manufacture, assembly and maintenance.
Developed and maintained laboratory experiments and DEC computer interfaces in the Nuclear Research Group.
Education
University of Wales, Bangor
Degree Name Ph D Field Of Study Electronic Communications
Dates attended or expected graduation1979 – 1982
University of Wales, Bangor
Degree Name B Sc Field Of Study Electronic Engineering and Physics
Dates attended or expected graduation1976 – 1979
Patents
- Method for an Admission Control Function for a Wireless Data Network
- Method and Apparatus for Communicating in a Wireless Communication System
- Method for Communicating Data in a Wireless Communication System
- Message Delivery Improvement for Data Communications System Using Single Frequency Reuse Networks
- Hybrid Data Communications System and Method Employing Multiple Sub-Networks
Patents
Scholefield C, US Patent Number: 5,410,752, Hybrid Data Communications System and Method Employing Multiple Sub-Networks, Apr. 1995.
Scholefield C, US Patent Number: 5,530,913, Message Delivery Improvement for Data Communications System Using Single Frequency Reuse Networks, Jun. 1996. (Also filed as Canada CA2102027)
Scholefield C and Gerhards R H, US Patent Number: 5,742,592, Method for Communicating Data in a Wireless Communication System, April 1998. (Also filed as World WO97/11566, China CN1194742 and Europe EP0847652)
Scholefield C and Gerhards R H, US Patent Number: 5,752,193, Method and Apparatus for Communicating in a Wireless Communication System, May 1998. (Also filed as World WO97/09836, China CN1194083 and Europe EP0847657)
Scholefield C and Ono-Tesfaye T, US Patent Number: 6,216,006, Method for an Admission Control Function for a Wireless Data Network, April, 2001. (Also filed as World WO99/23842, Canada CA2306888, China CN1278389T, Austria AU734357/AU8685898, Great Britain GB2346298, Finland FI20000969, France FR2770716, Germany DE19882747T and Sweden SE0001549)
Publications
Scholefield, C, A Study of Certain Applications of Position Monitoring Receivers (Ph.D. thesis) University of Wales, 1983.
Last, J D & Scholefield, C, The combined use of a low-frequency radio and dead-reckoning for automatic vehicle location, 1st International Symposium on Land Vehicle Navigation, July 1984, Munster, West Germany.
Last, J D & Scholefield, C, Experimental vehicle location system using Decca Navigator and dead-reckoning sensors, IEE Proceedings, 1985, 132(F) pp.388-395
Last, J D & Scholefield, C, Coordinate conversion techniques in microprocessor-based receivers for hyperbolic radio navigation systems, Journal of Navigation, 40, pp. 81-95, Jan. 1987.
Scholefield, C, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology applied to the Simulation of Data Communication Networks, Proc. 2nd Motorola Object-Oriented Development Conference, pp. 29-33, Phoenix AZ, Jun. 6, 1991.
Scholefield C, Evolving GSM Data Services, Vol. 2, pp. 888-892, IEEE 6th Int. Conf. on Personal Communication (ICUPC), San Diego, CA, Oct. 1997.
Scholefield C, Mobile telecommunications and nomadic computing in Asia, Vol. 2, pp. 908-912, IEEE 6th Int. Conf. on Personal Communication (ICUPC), San Diego, CA, Oct. 1997.
Scholefield C, GPRS as a Platform for Emerging Mobile Data Applications, IBC Conf. on GPRS, London, UK, May 1998.
Scholefield C, Understanding the Key Characteristics of GPRS Phase 1 and Phase 2 and their roles in Ensuring a Seamless Evolution of GPRS to UMTS, Centre for EuroTelecomms Conference on GPRS Applications, London, UK, 1998.
Scholefeild C, Sau J, Scheduling and Quality of Service in the General Packet Radio Service, Vol. 2, pp 1067-1071, 7th Int. Conf. on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC), Florence, Italy, 1998.
Bigloo A, Li D N, Pang Q, Scholefield C, Simulations of Scheduling Methods for GPRS, Motorola Simulation and Modeling Engineering Symposium, 1999.
Pang Q, Bigloo A, Leung V C, Scholefield C, Service Scheduling for General Packet Radio Service Classes, Vol 3, pp. 1229-1233, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, 1999.
Scholefield, C, Leung, V C M and Alnuweiri H A, Experiences in Industry-University Wireless Technology Collaboration, IEEE MTT-S International Symposium on Technologies for Wireless Applications, pp. 129-131, Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 1999.
Hossain, E, Dong In Kim, Scholefield, C, Bhargava, V.K., TCP performance in WCDMA-based cellular wireless IP networks, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, pp. 167 –172, 2000.
Pang Q, Bigloo A, Leung V C, Scholefield C, Performance Evaluations of Retransmission Mechanisms in GPRS Networks, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1182 -1186 vol. 3, Chicago, Sep. 2000.
Bigloo A, Pang Q, Scholefield C, Performance Investigation of GPRS Flow Control and Buffering Mechanism“, International Conference on Telecommunications, pp. 192-196 vol. E, Beijing, Jun. 2002.
Scholefield C, IEEE Vancouver Section Centennial Booklet.