Richard Thomas (LabVIEW Champion)
👤 Richard Thomas
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| Citizenship | Cambridge, England |
| Titles | LabVIEW Champion |
| Certifications | Certified LabVIEW Architect |
| Years active | 2000-present |
| First LabVIEW version | LabVIEW 6i |
| Application areas | Software consultancy providing solutions to most scientific and industrial software challenges. |
NI Handle: Thoric
Programming Languages: LabVIEW (incl. RT and FPGA)
Biography
I've programmed in LabVIEW since version 6i as a post-grad student at Leicester University, where I used LabVIEW to acquire and analyse data from a large scale laminar wind tunnel. I expanded my experience further when I took up a post-doc position at the Turbomachinery Group of the Engineering Department at Cambridge University, where LabVIEW is used extensively for hardware control and instrumentation acquisition and data analysis.
I currently work as a Senior Systems Engineer at Product Technology Partners, also based in Cambridge, UK. As a software consultancy we provide solutions to almost any scientific and industrial control challenge. I'm a hugely enthusiastic LabVIEW programmer, and enjoy pushing LabVIEW and NI hardware to their limits.
I host the Cambridge LabVIEW Users Group, one of only two user groups here in the UK, and frequently present material on a wide range of topics, with my favorites being Object Oriented programming and User Interface design.
Personally, when I'm not working with LabVIEW, I'm often finding things to break so that I can fix them (I'm an aspirational DIYer), and annoying the local townsfolk every Monday night ringing the church bells as a student campanologist.
User Groups
I host and regularly present at the Cambridge LabVIEW User Group (CLUG). We gather three times a year in the Cambridge area. Visit our website if you are interested and want to come along (http://www.labviewcambridge.co.uk/). The site has its own forum pages and a downloads section that includes all our presentations and demonstration material.