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Meet the STEAKS Group
Edwin Field BSc CEng MIEE MIEEE graduated in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University in 1980. Ed has been working as an independent consultant for over 20 years now, specialising in digital electronics such as embedded processors and controllers, custom logic design such as ASICs and FPGAs, and VHDL. He has designed systems and components for the aerospace, automotive and telecommunications industries amongst others. His son, James, is in Upper Prep.
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Charles Curry BEng FIEE is an Electronics Engineer and Managing Director of Chronos Technology Ltd. Charles has one last student (having had 4 at one stage) at The King's School, Patrick in Upper 6th. Stephanie, who was at the school from 11 to 18, graduated from Exeter University in Biological Sciences and having done a PGCE at St. Lukes is now deputy head of science at Ashburton Community College on the edge of Dartmoor. Jo, who was also at the school from 11 to 18 has just graduated with an English degree from The University of London, Royal Holloway and is now teaching juniors at Ryarsh School in Kent. Duncan who attended the School from 10 to 18 is at Worcester University doing Sport and Recreation Management. Charles is currently chairman of the STEAKS group. Email: 
Dr. Mike Smith PhD MA, is a Specialist in the behaviour of engineering structures with cracks in them, and has worked on structures as diverse as rails, spacecraft, and nuclear power stations. Mike's role as a Neighbourhood Engineer has involved considerable assistance with ICT within the school. His wife, Ann, was until March 2000 responsible for support to all the school's ICT facilities, and is still a familiar sight in Junior School. Mike has two children at the school, Benjamin and Christopher. 
John Stanton has spent over 30 years working in the electricity supply industry. Initially he worked in the South East where he was responsible for electricity pricing and commercial negotiations for large new supplies. In this latter role he agreed the terms for the supply to the Channel Tunnel, a £30M contract which was some ten times larger than any other previous project in the company. He then moved to the South West where he ran the project to introduce competition into domestic electricity market for SWEB, South West Electricity PLC, which was the largest IT project ever undertaken by the company involving some 140 staff and a spend of around £40M. John has recently joined a start up company called Secure Electrans. 
Catherine Coates was appointed Director of Planning and Communication in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in November 2000. The Directorate is responsible for corporate planning, marketing and communications, public awareness of science and engineering, and EPSRC's international links. Before becoming Director, Mrs Coates was Programme Manager for the Infrastructure and Environment Engineering Programme. She has worked in a variety of roles within EPSRC, and before that in the Science and Engineering Research Council, mostly within Engineering, but also with Physics and Mathematics.
John Gilbert MA MSc CPhys MInstP started his career as a theoretical physicist in the electricity supply industry over 30 years ago. Since 1990 he has worked in a number of commercial roles in electricity and gas supply businesses and currently manages technical developments in the wholesale markets in gas and electricity for Npower. 
Peter Nelson graduated from National College of Agricultural Engineering (now part of Cranfield University) in 1977 and joined RDS Technology Ltd. At that time RDS was a sales & marketing company operating from the founder's chicken shed. The company now designs, develops, manufactures, sells and supports a wide range of electronic monitoring and control systems for agricultural and industrial vehicles. Peter is currently Engineering Director for RDS co-ordinating and managing the development team. In 2000 RDS moved into a new purpose built factory and now employ about 65 people across various disciplines. Peter has two children at King's, William and Emma. 
Graham Sturgess I Eng FIET MAPMhas for over 30 years worked
in the defence sector, initially as an Engineer and for the past 15 years as a
Project Manager. Graham enjoyed a break from main-stream projects for a few
years when he was seconded to the UK Council for e Business (UKCEB) where he
worked closely with major companies in the UK and US on secure information
sharing and with Bath University on the very long-term availability of
information (“Immortal Information”) – a project which has since secured EPSRC
funding as a pan-university, pan-industry sector initiative to address the
problems of ensuring design and contextual information availability over many
decades. Graham’s son, Harvey, attends King’s junior school.