I have been reporting on the electronics industry for most of my
working life, although at the start I did train and then work - for
a fairly short time - as a design engineer. Straight out of college I
worked for a bit of the then-dominant (in the UK) GEC-Marconi
company, in instrumentation development. My first move into technical
journalism was also in instrumentation, but in that case, in the
sense of process-control instrumentation. From there, I moved into
electronics titles, and I've been following this industry ever since.
The last few years I have spent editing EDN Europe, I have had the
benefit of the expertise of a team of editors who work on the US
edition of the magazine, who are each specialists in a particular
aspect of our industry. I work a little differently to them, I have
to be interested in all aspects of electronic design. As the subject
develops it sometimes feels like I know less and less, about more and
more topics! - but that is