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About Craig Miles — RF Engineer, DSA Mentor & TEDx Speaker

Craig Miles speaking at TEDx Brayford Pool 2023

Craig Miles

Wireless Communications Engineer · Educator · TEDx Speaker · Founder

BSc Hons PGCE QTS Level 4 DSA Specialist Mentor Full Amateur Radio Licence (G7) TEDx Speaker 2023

About Craig

I’m a wireless communications engineer and educator based in Lincolnshire, England, with 30 years of experience spanning aerospace engineering, LEO and GEO satellite systems, RF communications, and technical training.

My career has crossed a wider range of environments than most: from ILS engineering on NATO geostationary satellite programmes at Airbus Defence and Space, to running a two-way radio and wireless communications business, to speaking at TEDx on how low Earth orbit satellites can close the global education gap. I hold a Level 7 PGCE with QTS and work concurrently as a DSA Specialist Mentor supporting neurodiverse university students across England.

What connects all of it is a single interest: the point where engineering, communications technology and human learning intersect — and what becomes possible when that intersection is designed well.

TEDx Brayford Pool · 2023
Using LEO satellites to close the global education gap

273 million children worldwide have no access to school. My 2023 TEDx talk explored how low Earth orbit direct-to-device satellite connectivity, combined with AI-powered personalised learning and repurposed smartphones, could deliver secondary-education-standard learning to unreached children — without building a single new school or laying a single new fibre cable.

The talk draws on my engineering background in satellite systems, my work as an educator and DSA mentor, and the research underpinning the ReachED Foundation.

Qualifications & credentials

Education
Level 7 PGCE with QTS
Business & Economics — Qualified Teacher Status
Specialist qualification
Level 4 DSA Specialist Mentor
Autism Spectrum Condition specialism — supporting university students
Degree
BSc Hons
Business & Telecommunications Systems
Amateur radio
Full Licence — G7 prefix
Practical involvement in repeater systems and UHF analogue infrastructure
Quality systems
AS9100 aerospace quality
Applied in NATO satellite and defence radio programmes
Speaking
TEDx Brayford Pool 2023
Satellite connectivity and the global education access gap

Career

2024 – present
Founder — ReachED Foundation
ReachED Foundation · Lincolnshire
Developing a systems architecture for delivering secondary-education-standard learning to the 273 million children globally without school access, using LEO direct-to-device satellite connectivity, AI-powered personalised learning, and repurposed smartphones.
2010 – present
Founder & Director — Yesway Communications
Yesway Communications · Lincoln
Two-way radio and wireless communications specialist providing system design, installation, fault diagnosis and training across RF, satellite and private network technologies. Clients span industrial, public safety, logistics and remote working sectors.
Ongoing
DSA Specialist Mentor & Study Skills Tutor
Higher education providers across England
Level 4 DSA-funded Specialist Mentor supporting autistic and ADHD university students across Computing, Cybersecurity, Arts and Humanities, Forensic Chemistry and Music Psychology. PGCE and QTS qualified.
2023
TEDx Speaker — Brayford Pool
TEDx Brayford Pool · Lincoln
“Using LEO satellites to close the global education gap” — exploring how direct-to-device satellite technology and AI-powered learning can reach the world’s unreached children.
Prior to 2010
ILS Engineer — NATO satellite & defence radio programmes
Airbus Defence and Space (formerly Astrium) · UK
Integrated Logistics Support engineering on NATO geostationary satellite programmes and classified UK defence radio infrastructure. AS9100 quality systems. Aerospace ILS across international programmes.

Areas of expertise

LEO satellite communications
Direct-to-device (D2D) technology
Non-terrestrial networks (NTN)
3GPP Release 17–20
RF system design & link budgets
Two-way radio & PMR
TETRA, DMR & private networks
Spectrum planning & Ofcom policy
DSA specialist mentoring (ASC)
Neurodivergent learning support
CPD-accredited technical training
SDG4 & education access

My organisations

Yesway Communications
yesway.co.uk
RF, satellite and two-way radio communications services — system design, installation, fault diagnosis and technical training. Based in Lincoln, serving clients across the UK.
ReachED Foundation
In development
A charitable initiative using LEO direct-to-device satellite connectivity and AI-powered personalised learning to deliver secondary-education-standard schooling to unreached children globally.
Connectivity Intelligence
connectivityintelligence.com
Disruptive RF and connectivity training for engineers, executives and decision-makers — covering 5G private networks, LEO satellite and IoT.

Writing on this site

I write about LEO and GEO satellite connectivity, direct-to-device technology, RF and wireless communications, and neurodivergent learning in higher education. My aim is to make technically complex subjects clear to non-specialists, while remaining accurate enough to be useful to engineers and policy professionals.

My writing draws directly on practitioner experience — not aggregated or AI-generated content. Where I reference regulatory frameworks, I cite primary sources including Ofcom decisions, GSMA policy documents and ESA technical reports.

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Work with Craig

Available for consultancy, CPD training delivery, conference speaking and DSA specialist mentoring.

Our Approach

How We Teach

Real-World Examples First Theory follows application — every concept is grounded in a system you might actually work on
Practitioner Perspective Taught by an engineer who has designed, delivered, and maintained the systems being discussed
No Prerequisite Overwhelm Each tier builds cleanly on the last, with no unexplained jumps in complexity
CPD-Aligned & Verifiable Structured to meet CPD frameworks — with certificates you can log and share
Remote, Flexible, Global Fully online delivery that fits around shift patterns, time zones, and existing workloads