Wohler Technologies has recruited Steve Farmer as Director of Engineering, who will ‘take on oversight of Wohler’s engineering activities’, and be responsible for ‘consolidating and focusing the company’s engineering efforts to target key markets more effectively’.
Farmer began his engineering career after earning his degree in electronic systems engineering from the University of Essex and completing an apprenticeship at Thorn EMI Ferguson. In his first professional role, he rose to the position of senior design engineer at Northern Telecom Defence Systems Division, where he developed technologies and products in the field of fibre-optics and secure and cryptographic communications systems.
Farmer subsequently joined the GEC-Marconi Future Systems Laboratory as a principal engineer and then moved to Drake Electronics in the broadcast sector, developing communications and talkback systems for studios and outside broadcast facilities. When Drake was acquired by the Vitec Group in 1998, he moved from the role of engineering manager to Director of Engineering for both Drake and Clear-Com in the Bay Area. As his role evolved, Farmer also participated in business development, acquisitions, change management and product management.
In 2005 he founded Claratech Limited, which later acquired both BAL Broadcast and Faraday Technology Corporation. Recently Farmer founded DSMB Technology, which develops video, audio, and communication products. He holds two patents, one for a digital wireless communication system and the other related to the transmission of digital audio.
‘Steve brings a wealth of experience and a history of delivering results,’ says Wohler President/CEO, Carl J Dempsey. ‘He will aid us not only in maintaining our role as an extension of customers’ own engineering resources, but also in continuing to marry our monitoring technologies with our stream-based and file-based solutions.’
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