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Paul Golding, listed in the Who's Who of Britain's Young Business Elite, has over 14 years of significant and intense experience in the wireless technology field culminating in his current specialist interest in mobile applications, a field in which he is about to publish a major book "Next Generation Wireless Applications" (Wiley, May 2004).

In those 14 years, he has worked in so many quite different areas of the technology that it is rare to find someone who can move so easily between disciplines. Today he is an active consultant, entrepreneur, author and evangelist in the wireless arena, fiercely independent of any affiliations with particular technologies or financial backers. He is a wireless applications specialist and has been for some time.

Starting with digital simulation techniques for GSM base stations, moving to custom GSM chip design, then to mobile 3D compression methods (for wireless virtual reality), then to Artificial Intelligence receiver design principles (in conjunction with HP labs - see paper). After a successful career in wireless infrastructure, Paul then moved to software technology and design, initially in mobile multimedia, web-based architectures and then to wireless portals, wireless email and much more. He remains actively engaged in wireless applications design, focused on Java (J2EE and J2ME) implementations (a field in which he now offers specialised training courses).

Paul has a First Class degree in Electronic Engineering and studied part-time for PhD (not completed) at the prestigious Mobile Multimedia labs in University of Southampton whilst working on research projects for Motorola, initially wireless virtual reality and then fuzzy logic applications. He was a key member of Motorola Wireless research team up until he founded his own consulting practice, Magic E Company, in 1995, which prevented him from continuing the PhD (sponsored by Motorola). Among his achievements in digital cellular:

1. Worked on the first GSM system to go live (commercially) in the world (Comviq, Sweden).
2. Filed for many patents, and has been awarded patents in GSM, UMTS and related wireless technologies including signal-processing technologies.
3. Considered for nomination for patent of the year in Motorola worldwide in 1995.
4. Saved Motorola significant millions of dollars through a novel GSM chip design that he project led (several patents).
5. Worked in the US on advanced microprocessor architectures for wireless using parallel processing (1 patent application).
6. Has worked on all digital wireless standards including GSM, UMTS, CDMA, TDMA, HiperLAN and DECT.

Since Motorola, Paul has focused on internet technology, all software biased. Most of his consulting activities involve innovative projects and training practioners within global wireless telecom corporations such as Lucent Technologies, Vodafone, Three, Virgin Mobile, O2 and NTT DoCoMo.

At Lucent Technologies, Paul led a project to build their GSM.WEB global intranet for wireless. During that time, he was recognised as the first person to promote the idea of the wireless portal concept (BEFORE portals were recognised in the wired world). This was project Zingo, widely shown at shows like GSM World Congress, that used 802.11 technologies to simulate 3G connectivity and featured many aspects of location services, home based networking and intelligent agent-based mobile assistants. Zingo was featured in all major investment advisory reports at the time, described as the leading wireless portal (but never survived its dot.com ambitions).

For more details, visit Paul's personal website.

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