Rob Williams

Past

• Senior Staff Engineer at Motorola
• Software Engineer at Bell and Howell
• MTS at AT&T/Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs

• ATE Programming Consultant at Several Different Companies
• Design Engineer/ATE Programmer at Plessey Marine

see less...

2 more...

Education

• University of Leeds
• University of Southampton

Recommended

3 people have recommended Rob

Connections

117 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My Website

Rob Williams’s Summary

Self motivated and innovative software engineer experienced in tools design and development, test automation, test execution and documentation. High level of expertise in performance, stability, feature and network testing of telecommunications infrastructure software. Strengths include excellent problem solving skills, technical leadership and an ability to visualize new processes and procedures to improve quality and efficiency. Effective working individually or in a team.

I am actively seeking a temporary position in the USA as I plan to move to the UK in September/October 2009.

Rob Williams’s Specialties:

Software system test, software performance test, UNIX, Linux, TCL/TK/Expect, GUI, Perl, C, MS Windows, TCP/IP, SS7 and other Common Channel Signalling protocols, MS Word, Excel, Access, SQL, HTML, CGI, CATTgen(proprietary development system for test automation equipment from Catapult Communications, Inc)

Rob Williams’s Experience

• Senior Staff Engineer

  Motorola

  (Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1993 — March 2009 (15 years 7 months)

  Systems Integration and Test Dept., Schaumburg, IL (2006 to 2009)
  Software installation and network level testing of 2 major infrastructure subsystems (Network Fault Management and Fire Station Alerting) in communication product for emergency services.
  
  Cellular Infrastructure Performance Tools Team, Arlington Heights, IL (2004 to 2006)
  Technical lead in development and test of call generator state-machine applications using CATTgen development environment. The applications were used for background call load, stability, performance and stress testing of Motorola Network products including Electronic Mobile Exchange (EMX2500 and EMX5000), Motorola Soft Switch (MSS) and MR Message Register (MR).
  
  Cellular Infrastructure Performance Modeling Group, Arlington Heights, IL (1996 to 2004)
  Technical lead of EMX performance test team.
  Performed performance and stability testing of many EMX releases. Developed and documented EMX lab databases for load testing and designed test tools.
  
  Cellular Infrastructure Software Lab Support Group, Arlington Heights, IL (1993 to 1994 as a contractor and 1994 to 1996 as a permanent staff member)
  Responsible for load bring up activities in several EMX labs and for maintaining a suite of Perl programs used to auto-generate command files which were executed on the EMX lab switches to populate their databases

• Software Engineer

  Bell and Howell

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year )

• MTS

  AT&T/Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs

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

  August 1986 — February 1992 (5 years 7 months)

  This was a contract position. For the first 2 1/2 years, worked at the Malmesbury, UK location (then known as AT&T and Philips Telecommunications, Ltd). In February 1989, transfered to AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL USA. Worked there until February of 1991 except for a 3 month interlude when I worked back in Malmesbury. The work was feature test and stability test of 5ESS telephone switching system.

• ATE Programming Consultant

  Several Different Companies

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  January 1979 — August 1986 (7 years 8 months)

  Programmed Automatic Test Equipment for assembled electronic printed circuit boards. Mostly I worked at Clients premises for extended periods varying from 6 months to a year or more. Clients included Membrain (Ferndown, UK), ITT (Antwerp Belgium), STK (Oslo, Norway), Vanwell Datasystems Ltd. (Melksham, UK), STC (Paignton, UK), IAI (Israel), DEC (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Moscale Ltd., (Bath, UK), Tasbian Ltd (Plymouth, UK).

• Design Engineer/ATE Programmer

  Plessey Marine

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  November 1975 — December 1978 (3 years 2 months)

  Hardware design engineer for about 18 months, then Automatic Test Equipment Programmer for about 18 months.

Rob Williams’s Education

• University of Leeds

  Graduate Certificate in Education , Teaching , 1972 — 1973

  Activities and Societies:

  Did Outdoor Activities course with Don Robinson in addition to regular teacher training.

• University of Southampton

  BSc(Eng) , Electronic Engineering , 1967 — 1970

  Activities and Societies:

  Mountaineering Club, Folk Club, Red Stags Morris Side

Additional Information

Rob Williams’s Websites:

• My Website

Rob Williams’s Interests:

Traditional folk music, song and dance, playing melodeon(button accordion) and concertina, classical music, opera, ballet, art, computers, Linux, web design, health and personal development, reading, swimming, gardening, hiking and mountaineering, movies, crosswords and word games.

Rob Williams’s Groups:

Hammers and Noters Dulcimer Society of Illinois, Inc (Board member), Fox Valley Folklore Society, Sierra Club, One Beat to the Bar (folk band which I lead).

•    University of Southampton Alumni
•    Software Testing & Quality Assurance
•    Motorola Past & Present
•    QA & Testing Group

Rob Williams’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch