Mark Wilcox

Current

• Director at Sorcery Limited

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Pace Micro Technology
• Consultant at Nokia (UK) Ltd
• Contract Engineer - Platform Team at Samsung

• Software Architect at Nokia
• Software Engineer at Teleca

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Education

• University of Reading
• University of Bath

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Industry

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Mark Wilcox’s Summary

8 years embedded software development experience in almost all areas of mobile handsets.

Mark Wilcox’s Specialties:

Embedded software. Mobile handset development. Digital TV & Multimedia.

Mark Wilcox’s Experience

• Director

  Sorcery Limited

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Software consultancy and contracting business.
  Provided consultancy for a GPS pet tracker project.
  Developed a Symbian/S60 application and Multimedia Framework Controller plugin for a private company client.
  Currently technical authoring for Symbian Press and the Symbian Developer Network.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Pace Micro Technology

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  April 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  Set-top box and network file system development on Linux. Developing a multi-room high definition TV demonstration system.

• Consultant

  Nokia (UK) Ltd

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

  December 2005 — September 2006 (10 months)

  Final integration for product release of multimedia, browser and messaging software for Symbian S60 smartphone (N80). Support and consultancy to 3rd party developers to prepare applications for product launch.
  Consulting, configuration and error management for N73.
  VoIP integration, configuration and bug fixing for N80 Internet Edition.

• Contract Engineer - Platform Team

  Samsung

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

  January 2005 — November 2005 (11 months)

  Designed, developed and integrated an energy management server (Power Saving Engine) for a GSM/GPRS/UMTS platform from scratch. Wrote NAND flash programming routine for Trace32/Lauterbach and helped develop and integrate drivers for inter-processor communication.

• Software Architect

  Nokia

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

  January 2003 — December 2004 (2 years)

  Technical Lead and requirements manager for a Symbian/Series 60 smartphone project (Nokia N80).
  
  Previously design engineer for a Series 40, 3G handset integration project (Nokia 7600).
  
  Technologies worked on include:
  Audio drivers, Browser, Java (J2ME), JSR135, Music Player, SIM/STK, WLAN.

• Software Engineer

  Teleca

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2001 — January 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  Sub-contracted to work on wireless handset developments for Panasonic, Fujitsu and Ericsson.
  
  Projects were:
  1) GPRS protocol stack development
  2) Full lifecycle colour screen handset development
  3) Symbian handset development (SMS Cell Broadcast)
  4) Platform customisation for Chinese OEM.
  
  Technologies worked with include:
  Audio, Cell Broadcast, GPRS, SMS, SIM/STK, UI.

Mark Wilcox’s Education

• University of Reading

  Cybernetic Intelligence September 2000 — January 2001

  Research postgraduate. Studying machine learning and pattern recognition.

• University of Bath

  MMath (1st class), Mathematics, October 1996 — June 2000

  Studied Maths, Stats, Physics and Computing.
  
  Awarded Department of Mathematical Sciences Computing award for best computing student in my Year (ahead of all students studying a computing degree).

Additional Information

Mark Wilcox’s Interests:

Qualified Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. Keen basketball player and qualified coach.