Biography

Richard joined Symbian (then known as Psion) in 1983 after several years teaching maths, physics and computer science. During that time he wrote a Forth language implementation for Acorn Computers, and wrote accompanying user manuals for the Acorn Atom and BBC Micro.

He has spent the majority of his time in system integration (SI), building and leading the SI team. He has produced user documentation for software for the Sinclair QL, the PC application software for the Psion Organiser I and the source code translator for the original version of OPL. Joint author of the Organiser II spreadsheet and principal designer and author of the Psion Series 3 and 3a word processors, he was also lead author of the Psion SIBO SDK team.

Educated at Balliol College, Oxford with an MA in Natural Science (Physics), Richard also graduated Sussex University with an MSc in Astronomy, and spent a further two years of postgraduate research in the Astronomy Group at Imperial College.

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