Sarsen Spotlight Series ... This week, All You Ever Wanted To Know About 'Our Tim!'

Tim Norris
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NAME – Tim Norris
ROLE – Sales Account Manager
TIME SERVED – 7 years

Tim is one of our longest serving inmates, and has been a part of the Sarsen sales team for nearly 7 years. Tim manages some of our biggest accounts, across a variety of market sectors. He has been focussing on our HFT customers recently, winning some significant business with the BittWare Altera Stratix V boards.

Because he’s been here so long, Tim is a walking repository of useful information. (Mostly.) He is able to help with queries about any of our 10 manufacturers, and is pretty handy with a screwdriver when the situation arises and we have to get intimate with the hardware!

Tim’s Hobbies
Tim has recently learnt to ride a bike….. down hills, through mud, over ramps. He’s a keen mountain biker, and spends his weekends on 2 wheels around Wiltshire and Wales. Tim is also captain of his local pool team. When he has a spare 5 minutes, he takes pictures with one of his many cameras.

Tim’s Favourite things -

Favourite music – (Very) Loud Guitar Rock
Favourite Colour – Black
Favourite Food – Mexican
Favourite Movie – True Romance
Favourite book – Jaws (Peter Benchley)
Favourite flavour Crisps – Smoky Bacon

Final Insight
What did you want to be when you were little? - A ZooKeeper

If someone were to make a movie about your life, who would you hope to play you? – Hugh Jackman.
(We actually did a scientific experiment on an unnamed app, and Hugh Jackman was the first name out. Tim – “He wouldn’t have to work out much more to be as muscly as me”).

Every Tuesday we shine the spotlight on an area of our lives at Sarsen Technology; whether it's a type of technology, one of our manufacturers, or as we have today, giving you a peek into the (sometimes strange) world of our staff!

If you'd like to get to know us even better, give us a call on +44 1672 511166, or drop us an email. We look forward to hearing from you!

Conduant's 'Big River NTX16' in the Sarsen Spotlight

This week we're sharing all our trade secrets about the Big River NTX16 PCI Express Recorder from Conduant Corp!

Conduant Corp. designs and manufactures real-time, long-duration digital recording and playback disk systems. But unlike traditional general purpose disk storage, Conduant’s products ensure reliable, guaranteed and sustained performance in increments of 800 MB/s. Now thats something you don't see every day.....

The key to Conduant’s technology is the innovative way data is recorded; directly from a third party source, bypassing the bottlenecks that can occur in traditional recording systems.

The Big River™ NTX16 recording system provides up to 800 MB/s recording and playback performance in a 3U rack mount chassis. The system can operate independently from a host computer with command and control performed over a network connection. Control can be automated from a software application using the StreamStor® software API from a network connected computer.

A cabled PCI Express interface provides high speed connectivity to a host computer for command and control or data access, and can be used to connect to nearly any computing architecture, such as PCI Express, XMC, VME, VPX, VXS, AMC or other mezzanine / backplane environments.

Solutions are even available for connection to notebook computers!

Features include:

• Peer-to-peer PCI Express recording and playback capability
• Performance independent of host load
• Standalone capable operation with network command/control
• Sustained recording and playback at up to 800 MB/s
• Rear PCI Express cabling
• 3U chassis at only 21” deep
• Scalable data storage capacities up to 48TB
• Solid-state or magnetic disk drive media
• Cabled PCI Express (x8) for full speed data access

For even more information on the digital recording and playback systems from Conduant please get in touch with us here at Sarsen. There are 9 different ways... pick any one. But we'll have to whisper it.....!!

Sarsen puts the Spotlight on...... Robbie Burns!

NAME – Robbie Burns

ROLE – Sales Account Manager

TIME SERVED – 2 years

LinkedIn Profile

Twitter - @Robbie_Sarsen

Robbie Burns is part of the Sales Team here at Sarsen Technology, and is responsible for looking after some of our largest customers. He tends to work remotely, spending a lot of time on the road meeting with existing and potential customers, so it’s always a treat for us when he makes it into the office.

Robbie joined the team in 2011, coming from a semiconductor based sales role with an international distributor. After initially training as an electronic engineer at the start of his career he then made the lucrative move into sales.

Alongside his engineering and sales skills Robbie has also worked in personal growth and development field utilising NLP, hypnosis and other techniques to enable positive life enhancing change. Strictly Non Hippy.

Robbie's Hobbies
When he’s not at work Robbie has his hands full with his one dog, 2 cats, a goldfish and 6 children. When he does have a spare minute he likes to clear his head with a walk along the beautiful coastline near his home in Somerset. As a West-Country resident, he’s a cider drinker, and is a frequent visitor to the local cider farm. He is also planning on brewing his own beer – Robbie, just so you know, you have plenty of willing taste-testers here!

Robbie’s Favourite things -
Favourite music – Electric Blues
Favourite colour – Blue
Favourite food – Lamb Rogan Josh
Favourite movie – Blade Runner
Favourite book – 1984
Favourite flavour crisps – Salt & Vinegar
Favourite Smell – Bacon sandwich

Robbie's knowledge about the embedded hardware and technologies available from Sarsen is extensive, and he is always looking for new ways to build on this knowledge base. If you have any questions about a new project, or would like to know more about Robbie, please give us a call or drop us an email - we look forward to hearing from you!