Currently working on part-time PhD work in mobile adhoc networks as well as Master degree in Business Information Systems. Phew! Currently interested in functional languages including F#, Scala, CAML, noSQL technologies as well as applications of RFID and non-GPS positioning technologies. Mathematics behind the technology. Research ideas for extending messaging paradigms to overcome limitations of traditional SMS/EMS based technologies Worked throughout Europe, Russia, USA and Far East and now Middle East for most of the last 20 years. Talented, ambitious and versatile multi-skilled software professional, with excellent analytical and technical skills with over 25 years industry experience in the wireless and small devices industries. Customer facing and team leading, management and mentoring skills. Professional memberships include: Member of British Computer Society, (MBCS) Chartered IT Professional, (CITP) Chartered Engineer, (CEng) Member of Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET) Associate Member Of Institute Of Mathematics And Applications (AMIMA) British MENSA C,C++, Android, iPhone, all flavours of Java, J2ME, Brew, wireless, Objective-C, ADA, low level hardware-facing, SMS/EMS/MMS, messaging, Symbian S60 & UIQ, Bluetooth, InfraRed and wireless connectivity systems, RFID, GPS, web technologies and for the older folks Cobol, Lisp, Prolog, Fortran, Forth, Occam and more ..... Connection methods: Skype ID : colinwilcox1967 Specialties: Technical software innovation especially embedded, Agile, Symbian, BREW, Android and other mobile phone platforms and other limited memory devices. Team leading, project management, technical design and development, divisional management and pretty much anything else really

Head of Mobile Development @ emaratech is a technical and management consulting company that provides high end market strategies and advanced Information Technology solutions for both private and public sectors and individuals. Investment Corporation of Dubai, as part of our investment profile makes emaratech the leading technology and consulting company in the Arab World. Reporting to Chief Software Manufacturing Officer this role includes building and expanding in-house mobile software development capabilities to provide support for external customers, internal software development services and resources for new projects. Responsible for developing mobile roadmap and strategy of the business going forward, including recruitment, performance reviews and project management and training. Technical and architectural overview for all mobile aspects of the business with regards to mobile development. From May 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Dubai, United Arab EmiratesHead of Mobile Technology @ Responsible for all things mobile from software development to mentoring junior employees. Role is both technical and customer facing providing exposure to many interesting customer projects and relationships. Development of commercial focus on mobile skills using my experience and connections to maximize the success of the business. Line management duties over junior development staff included the usual suspects such as appraisals, recruitment and assessments. As an aside to the main role was the responsibility for managing and assessing commercial training for junior developers and apprentices within the business. Involved liaising with training and non-commercial facets of the business. From May 2012 to May 2014 (2 years 1 month) Salford Quays, ManchesterTechnical Director @ Formed with friends and ex colleagues to develop low impact, efficient software for mobile devices. Ongoing development of Android 2.0 applications and development of training material on Android. Development of Android games and utilities for the new Google OS Development of a simple generic ARM disassembler for Windows as an aide to debugging other projects easily. Windows utility to analyse various types of IP data packets including ICMP, HTTP, TCP, DNS, UDP, IGMP over WinSock to help with debugging a communications project. Windows based WLAN IEEE 802.11 packet analyser. Design and development of a fast, lightweight, portable multimedia framework for mobile devices allowing on demand loading of audio and video codecs. Design of portable memory manager for mobile phones. Development of portable games engine for mobile devices allowing the creation of games quickly for, amongst others, Symbian and BREW platforms Development of Unitest suite of automated testing utilities providing over the air testing via SMS, EMS and MMS including support for scripting, negative case and bulk testing options. From September 2003 to January 2014 (10 years 5 months) Innovation Architect @ Responsible for innovation and development leading to potential IP rights feeding into product development. Investigation of new and emerging technologies and their application in the mobile space. Development of Android and iPhone proof of concepts. Senior member of Research and Development team focussing on applications of mobile messaging technologies and intelligent delivery systems for portable devices. From May 2011 to May 2012 (1 year 1 month) Salford QuaysSoftware Architect @ Product architecture, establish and follow best practices both in software development and managerial process. From January 2011 to April 2011 (4 months) Salford QuaysSenior Software Architect @ As part of the mobile innovation team was involved in the design and development of mobile solution, specifically Symbian and Android messaging. From June 2010 to January 2011 (8 months) Staines, MiddlesexTechnical Analyst - Consultant @ Project and Team Management of company's off shore development of Symbian S60, iPhone and Android mobile applications for several large and well known customers. Android expert used in technical pre-sales and technical management. From February 2010 to June 2010 (5 months) Salford QuaysSenior Consultant @ Worked on several interesting Android development projects including a WISPr service, part of user interface team for Vodaphone 360 social networking client, prototype of a skiing map application and an audio conferencing client. Written Android training course material for a local Universityand contributed to a new Android development book due out in 2010 byh O'Reilly. Development/porting of several applications and comms utilities to Android. From September 2008 to December 2009 (1 year 4 months) Wilmslow, CheshireSoftware Projects Manager @ Reporting to the operations director. Responsible for software projects management, staff appraisals, mentoring and project estimation Porting of Opera micro browser modules to Symbian S60. Located in Lynkopping, Sweden. Development of user interface for a flagship Android Vodafone 360 social networking client. Development of a prototype Android mapping application for ski resorts using custom mapping technology. Technical lead of a prototype Android audio conferencing client. Design and development of micro browser plugins for BREW-based mobile internet browser products. Design and development of user interface for ESET mobile antivirus client for Symbian S60. Development of various camera and image browsing functions for Samsung devices. Project manager and technical lead in design of client side software for mobile data synchronisation software for Sony Ericsson devices. Based in Stockholm, Sweden From June 2007 to December 2009 (2 years 7 months) Senior Technical Lead @ Worked as project manager/technology lead on a large Symbian WMDRM project for Sony Ericsson. Based in Tampere, Finland. From October 2006 to October 2007 (1 year 1 month) Tampere, FinlandSenior Technical Consultant @ Spent 18 months in Sweden for a leading mobile phone manufacturer as technical lead in the development of Symbian connectivity server components used in several Symbian UIQ3 mobile phones. Development of set of Windows tools useful when working within the Symbian UIQ3 environment;including a source code framework generator and SIS (SISX) file unpacker. Development of Windows POCSAG/SMS conversion and transmission software. From January 2005 to September 2006 (1 year 9 months) Stockholm, SwedenLead Developer - Consultant @ Part of team merging the functionality provided by Nokia's Mobile Location Framework into the location based services (LBS) software provided by the core Symbian OS Rationalising test suites to provide a uniform set of acceptance tests for the LBS functionality. Responsible for establishing Symbian LBS test specification based on functional requirements Member of the Symbian Bluetooth development team with responsibilities including designing and writing C++ test harnesses to test and debug the L2CAP protocol components. From May 2004 to December 2004 (8 months) Cambridge, United KingdomMobile Team Lead @ Over-the-air provisioning system for AT&T to allow settings on a Series 60 Nokia handset be interrogated and updated via a custom website. Allows automatic remote installation of Symbian software, configuration of email settings and updating of contacts on the handset. Development of tailored Series 60 communications DLLs for Symbian OS platforms using infrared and SMS as delivery mechanisms. Tools to interrogate Symbian Series 60-based phones and transmit specific system information over the air via SMS using messaging server. Design of asynchronous messaging DLL for Symbian OS to provide an abstraction of the messaging server MTM and simplify transmission and reception of messages over the air via SMS and MMS. Development of Orange email configuration wizard for Sony Ericsson UIQ mobile handsets and subsequent port to run on Symbian S60 devices. From September 2003 to May 2004 (9 months) Hastings, United KingdomPrincipal Designer @ Technical lead in the design and development of UniTest, a Windows based MFC messaging test tool for creating, editing and live transmission of concatenated SMS and EMS media messages to suitable handsets. Development of 'over the air' message decoder utility for Ericsson used as a means of analysing data packets and for presenting message content in a quick and easy way. Development and integration of software to play a compressed synthetic video format on a range of UIQ and Series 60 Symbian handsets, including the Sony Ericsson P800 and Nokia 7650 in a limited 1K bandwidth Design and development of data transformers (codecs) for use in future MMS-compliant products, including transformers for Release 5 graphics, sound and animation formats together with manufacturer specific data types. Many of these codecs were then demonstrated as part of the generic UniCodex and UniPlayer media player ‘proof of concepts’. From February 2002 to September 2003 (1 year 8 months) Warrington, CheshireClient Team Leader @ First employee to join Magic4 during its planning and startup phase in 1999. Technical Lead of Motorola v125 and v130 development teams. Responsibilities included planning, design and development of core Gate client to support mobile originated and mobile terminated Enhanced Messaging. Role involved various development and integration work being based with Philips Mobile in Le Mans, France, Motorola in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and and Compal inTaipai, Taiwan. Design and development of a thin embedded messaging client, gate, for use in processing smart SMS/EMS messages within a number of mobile handsets. The Gate software was used as part of a client-server solution to enhance the user experience of value added services on mobile devices. Designed and implemented mechanism to provide ‘form-based’ functionality which allowed client-server interaction between mobile handsets and remote servers. This technology was integrated as part of several handsets including from Motorola, Philips and others. Responsible for design and delivery of how Magic4 messaging technologies would integrate with Nokia Smart Messaging. Involved working with Nokia in San Diego. From March 2000 to February 2002 (2 years) Warrington, United KingdomDivisional Manager - Consultant @ Part of the divisional management team responsibile for profitability of around thirty staff, resourcing, project planning and estimating, interviewing candidates employees and annual staff reviews. Leading team of up to ten engineers working on a messaging framework for the first commercial Symbian smartphone R380 PDA smartphone using EPOC32 (ER5u). Overseeing design, development and testing phases of a key component in a strategic market product. Involves liasing with senior Ericsson management and developers both in the UK and Sweden, producing and allocating work packages and daily communication with key development staff. Design and development of graphical front end components used in the Symbian EPOC SDK, for use in Ericsson’s reference design, and application programs for a range of Ericsson mobile phones/PDAs using Symbian’s Eikon and EPOC32 environments. From September 1997 to February 2000 (2 years 6 months) Warrington, United KingdomSenior Software Consultant @ Part of the Hewlett Packard development team designing and maintaining their Adminflow data flow management software. Using C++ and CORBA technology on Unix-based platforms with interfaces to Oracle SQL databases and SMTP mail feeders. From February 1997 to September 1997 (8 months) Software Consultant - Contractor @ Design and development for MPKITZ - multi-serial port power relays, using RS232 and RS485 (specifically IEC870) serial communications. These relays were based on the Motorola 68360 processor, using OSE 68K multitasking operating system and Diab C compiler and debugging tools. Responsibilities including software design, development, testing and debugging as well as ability to design use and understand Yourdon design tools for writing and modifying project specifications. From September 1996 to February 1997 (6 months) StaffordTechnical Director and Co-Founder @ I set up and jointly owned IQuest to design and develop applications, initially for Greater Manchester Police, to interrogate and recover data on Sharp personal organisers. The main purpose was to overcome password protection mechanisms and recover data from corrupted memory cards, which could be used as police evidence to convict suspected criminals. The project also involved setting up my own sole trading company, documenting and marketing the product The original application has been partially re-written and expanded in Visual Basic and now supports Sharp, and some Casio and Psion series organisers. From September 1993 to October 1996 (3 years 2 months) Manchester, United KingdomSenior Software Engineer @ Team leader over several junior programmers, which involved assigning liaising with project manager and customer, allocating work schedules, supervising coding and assuring code quality standards. Due to the nature of projects and small development team, this role still included a large amount of application development, using real-time applications running over a proprietary network. Developed infrared monitoring software for tracking customers’ movements around a well known high street chain of shops. Software was used to determine most strategic positioning of product ranges and to identify potential bottlenecks in the flow of customers around the shop floor. This software is still in daily use in over 100 branches. Project involved feasibility study of project, Jackson software design and coding as well as onsite implementation and customer liaison. From February 1994 to September 1996 (2 years 8 months) Warrington, United KingdomLead Software Engineer (Portable Devices) @ Development of software applications and diagnostic utilities to aid field service/site engineers together with general PC-based applications to enhance marketability of new, and existing, Sharp products including hand held organiser, scanner diagnostic tools, industrial photocopier remote configuration, PC Connectivity software and printer emulators Design and development of a set of memory resident monitoring utilities for Sharp PC-3000 hand held PC to improve battery life of products. Improvements of up to 30% were achieved using combinations of heuristics and environmental considerations. Used as part of Sharp’s bid to British Airways (SpeedWing) for their on flight communication system with airline pilots. From February 1992 to February 1994 (2 years 1 month) Manchester,Senior Software Engineer @ Designed and developed first suite of assembler based applications for Sharp IQ-7000/8000 series organisers consisting of a number of traditional board games to promote possibilities of new products. Development of sales and marketing software for first pen-based tablet device, Sharp PT-9000 based on GEOS 2.0 Operating System (later to evolve into Symbian) From March 1990 to February 1992 (2 years) Manchester, United KingdomSoftware Engineer @ Provided training courses and liaison for third party software houses developing application for range of electronic organisers and handheld computers. Jointly developed PC connectivity software to provide basic serial data transfer between device on personal computer Responsible for daily front line support of end users and customers using Sharp business equipment products (PCs, scanner, printers etc.). Part of small software development team designing applications and utilities to enhance or support new products. From September 1988 to March 1990 (1 year 7 months) Manchester, United Kingdom

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Industrial Management and Economics @ Blekinge tekniska högskola, Karlskrona, Sweden From 2015 to 2016 Master's Degree, Business Information Systems @ Linnaeus University, Sweden From 2013 to 2015 BSc (Hons), Mathematics @ The Open University From 2003 to 2012 Undergraduate Diploma, Mathematical Modelling @ The Open University From 2004 to 2005 Undergraduate Certificate, Mathematics @ The Open University From 2004 to 2004 Masters Degree, Advanced Computing @ The Manchester Metropolitan University From 1994 to 1998 BSc (Hons), Computation @ UMIST From 1985 to 1988 UdemyUdemy Colin CSD is skilled in: Mobile Applications, Android, Mobile Devices, Agile Methodologies, Software Design, C++, Mobile Technology, Symbian, Objective-C, Software Project..., Embedded Software, C, Java, Embedded Systems, XML, Team Leadership, SMS, User Interface Design, Agile Project Management, PHP, Test Driven Development, UML, MySQL, Unix, BREW, Project Planning, Database Design, Software Development, Embedded C, DRM, Cryptography, MFC, NFC, Low Level Programming, COBOL, x86 Assembly, Messaging, ADO, ODBC, EMS, Connectivity, Technical Writing, Technical Architecture, Technical Documentation, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Protocol Development, Training & Development, Technical Management, Integration