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Mike Carr joined BT in 1972 as a Technician Apprentice. After working for four years on the installation and maintenance of telephone/data and cable TV transmission systems, he was sponsored by BT to undertake ‘Communication Engineering’ Degree course at Plymouth Polytechnic. He Graduated in 1980 with BSc(Eng) 1st Class Honours. He then joined the Visual Communication Research Division at BT Labs, Ipswich, UK.
During his 14 years at BT Labs, his career has focused on the research, development and practical design of real-time audio/visual and multimedia communications systems. He has headed the teams which have developed a wide range of BT’s video-conferencing products including Video-conferencing codecs, multipoint systems and transmission multiplex equipment.
From 1980 to 1989 he was the UK representative "COST211" European collaborative project which led to the world the worlds first international standard for video conferencing at 384kbit/s to 2Mbit/s (CCITT H.120).
In 1984 he became the UK representative at CCITT SG/XV/1 (OKUBO group) which produced the H.261 standard in 1989. During this time he was also the BT representative at ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute) NA5/VCM, which was tasked with standardising Videoconferencing systems in Europe. From 1987 to 1990 he was Chairman of the ETSI/NA5/VCM group.
In 1988 he was appointed head of the Multimedia Systems Section at BT Labs and led the development teams which designed a range of BT’s multimedia communications products.
In June 1994 he was appointed as "Principal Engineering Adviser, Multimedia" within BT’s development organisation and is responsible for overseeing the architectural/system design of BT’s information communications network, including VOD.
In January 1995 he became Chairman of the "Systems" Technical Commitee within the "DAVIC" industry collaboration.
In April 1998 he was elected to the Board of TINA.
In July 1998 he became the President of DAVIC.
He has several patents to his name in the field of video compression coding and has published/presented many international papers on the topic.
He currently heads the Multimedia, Middleware and Electonic Commerce Technology Strategy Unit within BT
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