Colin Chisholm

Current

Senior Systems Design Specialist at Thales

Past

Principal Staff Engineer at Motorola
Principal Staff Systems Engineer at Motorola
Staff Engineer / Design Engineer / Engineer at Motorola

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Education

University of Toronto

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Industry

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

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Colin Chisholm’s Summary

Systems engineer and P.Eng. with extensive experience developing two-way wireless telecommunications systems at Motorola. Also experienced with process improvement activities and promoting intellectual property development. Now working on system engineering activities for advanced train control applications at Thales Rail Signalling Solutions.

Colin Chisholm’s Specialties:

• Requirements development and management, DOORS RM tool
• Systems engineering methodologies
• Wireless infrastructure and handset development (GSM/iDEN, TETRA, & APCO-25)

Colin Chisholm’s Experience

Senior Systems Design Specialist

Thales

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Principal Staff Engineer

Motorola

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

November 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Senior technical member on a new Build & Release team responsible for generating configuration files and software release packages for CDMA cell phones for select tier 2 North American carriers such as TELUS, Bell, and Virgin.
Principal Staff Systems Engineer

Motorola

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

June 1998 — October 2006 (8 years 5 months)

Responsible for developing feature and system specifications for two large-scale, IP-based wireless telecommunication systems: the TIA APCO25-compliant ASTRO 25 system and the GSM/iDEN-based ETSI TETRA-compliant Dimetra-S system. Responsible also for various process development & SEI assessment tasks.
Staff Engineer / Design Engineer / Engineer

Motorola

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

September 1986 — June 1998 (11 years 10 months)

Responsible for software development and all stages of testing for trunked radio system infrastructure.
Responsible for the development and testing of feature and platform software for mobile radios & base stations.
Responsible for writing the manufacturing and testing instructions used by the front-end production line staff and the back-end test team in the system products factory, for specially modified radio system products. Resolve all questions and issues from the factory floor. Execute environmental (temperature/shock/vibration) testing.