Paragon consists of the following people:

Peter Bass

Hayden Brown – With several years of preceding work experience in the electronics industry, Hayden graduated from Canterbury University with a B.E.(Hons) in 2006. Since finishing his degree and continuing his engineering career, he has come to love the variety and breadth of scope from working in two well-known and respected electronics design consultancies.

With his own interests lying in both the hardware and software arenas, Hayden has been involved in all aspects of the product design process. In particular, he has worked on an array of projects, ranging from embedded sensing and datalogging applications, to the design of DSP-based acoustic measurement equipment for structural grade timber.

Formally a software engineer at Paragon, but enjoying the ability to regularly “get his hands dirty” with the hardware, Hayden has significant experience in a variety of design packages, including Xilinx ISE & Altium Designer. In addition, he is skilled in a range of languages including: C/C++, Java, Matlab, assembler and VHDL.

Dominic Driver

Since graduating from the University of Reading, UK in 2003, Dom has put his Masters Degree in Cybernetics to good use. An engineering role with Siemens in the UK gave Dom the opportunity to grow his OO-design skills by devising and implementing control systems for steel mills. Following time spent on site in such far-flung places as China and South Korea, he now plys his trade as a Software Engineer at Paragon.

Day-to-day, Dom busies himself with C/C++ projects for both embedded and desktop Linux platforms, and ocassionally fiddles with the hardware gubbins when the need arises. He is currently involved in maintaining the TotalSense software, and has previously produced applications to capture video data to DVD for the Police and to synchronise flashing beacons using the magic of GPS.

Dom has also worked with C#, Delphi, Matlab, SQL Server, Oracle and a host of other software packages at some point in his career.

Enjoying the challenge and diversity at Paragon, Dom branches out from his Linux-based tasks by working on Windows-based 3D graphics programs at home ( in between mountain biking, gaming and hitting the gym that is.)

Andrew Fordyce

Ben Gordon

Shane Harrison - Shane’s engineering career began with a BE (Hons) from Auckland University in 1986 and then he joined Philips New Zealand as a hardware engineer.  Later he moved into software engineering, project management and finally into engineering management, developing a strong technical background particularly in the subscriber-to-exchange domain.  Shane has worked as an engineer and project leader for a European multi-national, a director and engineering manager of a self owned New Zealand company and an engineering director for an American startup. This career has given him solid experience in technical management and a wide exposure to various management approaches and ideas. This, underpinned with a strong people focus is what drives his vision and management style.

Richard Hudson – Richard’s professional career spans 20 years. After graduating with a BSc (Hons) in 1980, he started his software career working on embedded data communication products writing 6809 assembler. He then went on to write device drivers and applications for real-time operating systems such as RSX-11M, Unix and MS-Windows before moving into project management and software management. Prior to moving to New Zealand, Richard was the VP of Software Development for a UK based company developing IP for 3D graphics and SoC devices. As a result, he has extensive experience of working with large international companies such as Compaq, Microsoft, Matrox, ST Microelectronics, IBM and NEC. Since joining Paragon Solutions in 2000 he has successfully managed several multi-disciplinary development projects. Richard brings a broad knowledge of the electronics industry and project management techniques to the Paragon skill set along with some ‘coal face’ programming skills in Visual Basic.NET, Windows, Palm OS and general C programming.

Rory Latchem – Rory began developing telecommunications software after graduating with a BE from Auckland University in 1981. He joined Philips New Zealand and worked on call control software for their PBX product line. During the subsequent 13 years at Philips, Rory proved himself to be a very thorough, efficient and highly professional engineer. He was a key member of the Paragon Solutions software team from 1996 to 2000. The contract development environment provided Rory with a rich diversity of products and technologies from which he has developed a broad industry knowledge. Rory is comfortable with all phases of software development, from requirements analysis, to high level system design, implementation and test specification.

Rory is very strong in C and C++ in the embedded arena.

Owen Lynch – Owen began his career in embedded telecommunications software development at Philips in 1992, after graduating with a BE (Hons) from Canterbury University in 1984 and spending several years developing embedded software for fire alarm and motor controller products. The ensuing years have seen him develop from junior to senior engineer with a corresponding depth of experience in the telecommunications industry and professional software programming practice. Owen enjoys the variety of work and exposure to leading edge technologies that the contract development environment provides.

Owen has extensive experience in embedded C/C++, CE.NET and C# programming. He has spent the last few years contracting to a Silicon Valley startup that has developed a sophisticated automated test system. This has taken him from programming in C# .NET for Windows and Mono to writing Java plugins for an Eclipse RCP product. As part of a small development team he has been involved in all aspects of the modern software life-cycle, including authoring Wiki-based specification documents, implementing the design and associated unit tests, supporting field engineers with bug fixes across multiple release versions and facilitating remote meetings via teleconference.

Jan Page

Ahmed Salem

Darrin Scott - Darrin was introduced to computers at a young age - he started playing with his father's D2 (6800) system when 10 years old. Since then he has spent many work and non-work hours involved in a wide range of computer related projects. Darrin graduated with a BE (Hons) from Canterbury University in 1987, and with a post graduate diploma in computer science (DipCS) from Victoria University in 1993. In between he worked for Wellington Polytechnic and the spin off company Digicom Networks Ltd doing various special projects. In 1995 Darrin joined Philips New Zealand as a software engineer. During his time at Philips and subsequently Paragon Solutions he has worked on a wide range of telecommunications products including analog and ISDN phones, xDSL cards, and various terminal (protocol) adapters. Darrin also wrote Paragon's custom "Taupo" kernel, the generic low level 68302 hardware support, and their ISDN layer 3 protocol stack. Recently he has been heavily involved in transaction processing over GPRS.

Darrin is very strong in C and C++ in the embedded area but also has significant experience in writing Windows applications.

Delme Thomas