Nigel Sheppard joins Pico Technology as operations manager to help meet the growing demand for PC-based test and measurement solutions
Pico Technology, specialist in PC-oscilloscopes and PC-based data loggers, has appointed Nigel Sheppard as operations manager to respond to increasing demands for the company's popular low-cost test and measurement solutions.
Sheppard worked for 20 years for the UK's Ministry of Defence (telecoms, test equipment repair and calibration) before joining Ericsson Mobile Communications in 1995 - where he was involved in the growth of the company from 10,000 to 420,000 units shipped per month.
In 2000 Sheppard joined Nortel Networks as production manager, where he once again implemented changes to improve productivity (by more than 400%) while reducing unit costs (by more than 25%). Sheppard comments: "Drawing on my experience of working within blue chip companies, and easing their growing pains during times of maximum demand, my plans for Pico Technology are to position the company so that we can better respond to ever increasing market demands and prepare for the anticipated, and arguably inevitable, switch from traditional to PC-based solutions for all but the very high end (scientific) applications".
