Meet the team
AIDC Staff Profiles
Ken Bellamy – Operations Director
Ken Bellamy is a founding Director of AIDC(UK) Ltd. Prior to this he was Head of ICT and Business Systems at Sheffield City Council with responsibility for the authority’s eGovernment Strategy and the management of a £10m per annum outsourcing contract for a range of ICT and related services. Ken has led on a number of major eGovernment and modernisation projects in Sheffield –for example the eVoting pilot for 2003 which included the distribution of 174,000 smartcards to citizens for use as an authentication credential in the UK’s largest binding electronic election to date when citizens could vote over the internet, via phone and SMS and through public information kiosks across the city. He has also led a number of EU funded projects for both the City and the region in FP5 and FP6 and Interreg IV as well as being involved in a number of high profile UK Government sponsored initiatives through the Department for Communities and Local Government and the cabinet office.
Peter Collins – Marketing Director
Peter began his career in commercial and industrial energy marketing at Yorkshire Electricity. He moved to financial services where he undertook a number of roles before becoming Retail Marketing Manager at the Halifax with responsibility for all marketing activity across the company’s retail bank and estate agency network. At the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), he introduced an Account Management process working with major companies such as Rolls-Royce, Siemens, BAE, Caterpillar and Cummins. He has an MSc in Strategic Marketing Management and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. He is a regular conference speaker on marketing and promotional issues.
Sharon Green – Business Development Manager
Sharon has many years experience working on smartcards within a local government setting. Her previous role involved working on a project team looking at the integration of leisure cards onto Smartcards for a local authority. She was also responsible for the rebranding, development and the management of a city wide leisure card scheme, which was based around social inclusion. She is a current Core Group member of the national Smart Card networking Forum, which offers advice to local authorities. Sharon is currently working on a European project and more recently has worked on a DfT funded transport project based on citizen cards.
Professor Keith Osman - Consulting Academic
Keith is also the Research Director for Birmingham City University. Keith has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering, a PhD in Industrial Automation and more than 20 years academic and professional experience of conceptualising and delivering industry collaborative research, development, technology transfer and consultancy. Keith has a comprehensive knowledge of existing and emergent AIDC, RFID and ICT technologies and their applications within industrial and commercial contexts.
Silvia Butnarasu - Software Analyst
Silvia completed a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and started her career with the I.A.R. Helicopter Factory in Brasov, Romania as a Software Analyst on the aerodynamic characteristics tests programs run for Puma Helicopters. Her involvement in the related communication systems field led to design and implementation developments in Multicast Satellite Transmissions architectures, for Deuromedia Germany. Silvia was technical project manager in the SATIN-7 European Project for Deuromedia, working with international organisations researching into public access service from technical options of optimising satellite bandwidth to ground VSAT receivers. Silvia joined Public DataWeb UK in 2003 as technical development manager on several public access kiosk innovations including Wi-Fi to mobile services, remote monitoring methods and developments for Avatar and Smart card integrations and unique Mobile Barcode Ticketing systems. Silvia currently develops and runs all testing procedures for the AIDC LASSeO verification programme.
