Trainers

Lucid Staff – all experts in their fields.

Experts With Vision

Our Trainers


We firmly believe that the most important factors in training are the skills and experience of the trainer. At Lucid, all of our trainers are very highly qualified experts within fibre optics, communications cabling and their specialist fields, with a total of more than 100 years of industry experience between them. They are reliable, friendly and patient. Training professionals who provide not only the best possible training, but also technical support that is second to none!
Furthermore, all our trainers are long-term members of staff, involved in developing and updating “their” courses. They are not just contract trainers who come in to go through the motions. Our staff are rightly proud of the quality of training they deliver as expert Lucid trainers.

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Advanced Fibre & testing

John Colton​

John’s background is in optical fibre instrumentation, measurements, calibration & troubleshooting. He has worked with most fibre measurement instruments over the years, and is an expert on OTDR, PMD and chromatic dispersion measurements, not to mention a few less well known fibre measurements!
John is also a director of the Fibreoptic Industry Association (FIA) with responsibility for training and joint responsibility for qualifications. He is an invited member of the National Advisory Council for ICT, and a member of the Telecommunications Sector Action Group (TSAG) organised by e-skills. John is currently working more on skills and industry qualifications for various organisations, primarily the FIA, City & Guilds and the Open Awards.
John also has many years experience as a fibre optics expert witness and consultant.

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Fibre, Copper & Umbilical​

Alistair McMeekin

Alistair came into fibre optics from a background in IT cabling and datacoms networking. From very early in his career Alistair has been involved in training, gaining experience with a wide variety of training development and delivery including both conventional and online training materials. Alistair first started working as a specialist fibre optics trainer in 1998, and has been responsible for course development and delivery in both fibre optics and copper communicationss cabling for several employers, gaining a wide ranging experience of different industry sectors. Alistair has worked on course development and qualifications in a wide range of fibre optics fields, but in particular was responsible for developing one of the first fibre optics training courses aimed at the umbilical cable industry with specialist subsea cables.

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Fibre & communications​

William Thompson​

William has an extensive background in training worldwide, and is the lead trainer on several of our programmes aimed at getting trainees from challenging backgrounds into work as fibre installers.  William has also taken on our blown fibre installation courses and is working with Annette on some of our new online and remote courses.
Like all Lucid staff William also has extensive experience in training abroad, with Africa as a special area of expertise.
In addition, Williams training activities include a range of personal development and communications courses and coaching.

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Laser & LED Safety​

Annette Colton

Annette is involved in the development of our advanced courses and consultancy work. Her PhD thesis was on experimental plasma physics, radiation transfer, and mathematical modelling carried out at the prestigious European JET Joint Undertaking project near Oxford, on secondment from Risø Danish National Laboratory.
Annette’s experience ion mathematical modelling has since been applied to many of Lucid’s client consultancy projects involving optical and fibre optic modelling, as well as laser safety and the even more exotic area of LED safety where Annette has many years experience with consultancy projects.
In addition, Annette has taken on the Internal Verifier role for both Open Awards and City & Guilds, and most recently she has been leading the development of our range of formal Open Awards qualifications.

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