Software Development Manager
Melbourne Area, Australia
- Current
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- TMT Consultant at Map Research
- Past
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- Advisor at Percipo Inc
- Director of Software Engineering at EFI
- Software Engineer, Architect, Lead at Digital Ideas
- Software Engineer at Umetrics AB
- Education
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- University of Melbourne
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Peter Williams’s Summary
Peter has 20 years of systems engineering and management experience working on market leading products in Australia, the USA and Sweden. Peter's domain expertise is in the areas of new product development, project management, software development and testing. His specialities include idea/concept development, product architecture & development, strategic planning & roadmap development, contract negotiations, engineering process improvement, automation, embedded systems, imaging and signal processing.
Peter has a track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams to meet business goals, and delivering highly complex software+hardware projects on time and within budget. He has experience in the entire product development life cycle as an engineer and manager, and in many forms of architecture and technology used in embedded and shrink wrap products.
Peter Williams’s Specialties:
- In-depth understanding of both development and management issues.
- Building high performance software development teams.
- On-time delivery of large multi-faceted software projects.
- Design and implementation of complex systems.
- Engineering process improvement.
- Planning and roadmap development.
- Contract negotiations and contractor management.
- Java, C++ programming.
- Digital imaging.
- System optimization and test automation.
- Signal processing and statistical methods.
Peter Williams’s Experience
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TMT Consultant
Map Research
(Computer Software industry)
February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Consulting in Technology, Media & Telecommunications.
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Advisor
Percipo Inc
(Computer Software industry)
October 2008 — November 2008 (2 months)
Develop face recognition solutions
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Director of Software Engineering
EFI
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EFII; Computer Software industry)
May 1999 — September 2008 (9 years 5 months)
- Championed and implemented key software development tools and practices.
- Managed the delivery of company’s main code platform.
- Led the development of a new modular parallel processing architecture and the world's (then) fastest network print server.
- Indirectly managed the Systems, scan, middleware and LCD groups.
- Managed the delivery of several high revenue network print server products. -
Software Engineer, Architect, Lead
Digital Ideas
(Computer Software industry)
1992 — 1999 (7 years )
- Designed and implemented Windows NT server based systems for the printing industry.
- Integrated and customized a PostScript interpreter for these products.
- Wrote device drivers. -
Software Engineer
Umetrics AB
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1990 — 1991 (1 year )
Developed an experimental design program
Peter Williams’s Education
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University of Melbourne
B.Sc.(Hons) , Physics
